A week or so ago an eastbound intermodal derailed in a washaway 12 miles into its run across the Trans Australain railway east of Kalgoorlie in Wetern Australia.
This was not the most spectacular derailment but behind the two locomtives is a coach where off duty crews ride considering the derailment was at 70 about miles per hour and a container landed on the west end of the coach it didn’t suffer that severe damage.
A photo of the coach and other photos of this derailment are at:
I thought that, too, when I saw those photos. I think it was Railway Man who recently described the US passenger car specs as requiring them to be essentially the equivalent of a bank vault or safe on railroad wheels. These photos show why. Meanwhile, the containers blew apart all over the place, as the photos also show - that’s amazing, too.
Something I should have advised when I first opened this thread.
None of the three man crew on this train, two in the locomotive and one in the coach suffered serious injury only minor cuts and extensive bruising being allowed to go home after treatment at hospital.