Union Pacific Grade Crossing Collision in Pecos, Texas

Early reports were that the load was a “wind turbine base” on a hydraulic platform trailer – which if I understand correctly, should be capable of shifting vertically to clear obstructions if high-centered, albeit slowly and perhaps with external power needing to be hooked up to it.

The crossing number, if anyone wants to search for references to it, was 796254N.

The NTSB number for their report is RRD25FR005. Interestingly when you attempt to reach the docket site

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/forms/Searchdocket

you get a http 400 error; perhaps this is due to a high number of requests or accesses. The only early ‘resolution’ of conflicting details and speculation will be in the detail files in the docket.