In article ,
David Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:39:08 +0000 someone who may be Clive Coleman
wrote this:-

I suspect the shape of the leading power car to have something to do
with gathering up the car instead of just shunting it to the side.

As has been said before, the shape of the nose of the power car is
simply fibreglass. Behind that fibreglass is essentially what one
would find on the front of a locomotive, though without the buffers.


It does seem that most of the car wreckage was tossed aside very close to
the point of impact on the crossing. But I guess that something (the
engine perhaps ?) must have caught underneath and derailed the leading
wheelset.

David