Mountain grade railroading is always dicey. On most trips it's uneventful, but, when one little thing goes wrong, you can have coupler failures and derailments going upgrade, or a runaway going downgrade. Going downgrade, you're always about one minute away from having a runaway, if speed unexpectedly begins to increase. Weird things can happen. This train obviously got away from the crew, and, from the look of the terrain, there may not have been a good place to jump off. May God grant them eternal rest.
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