I see stuff like this and wonder how the car got on the tracks in the first place that far from a railroad crossing. Maybe someone blindly following their GPS at night? Seems like a waste of a good and rather expensive car.
Unfortunately, we live in the Idiocracy timeline. I mean we already got zillions of people wearing Crocs like in the movie.
Guess plastic fuel tanks don’t hold their integrity sliding on the top of the rail.
Some years ago CSX was doing some work at Fort Drum, NY. As a result, a number of the crossings around the marshalling yard were blocked. One brilliant soldier apparently thought his compact pickup had enough ground clearance and went cross country. Between the built-up roadbed and the (surprise) inadequate ground clearance of the truck, he got hung up.
I didn’t stick around to see what transpired (he didn’t get hit - the train was not moving at the time), but I heard the engineer proclaim over the radio “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
I had three head on and one rear end collision with automobiles trying to drive on railroad tracks.
Mark Vinski
When you said “good car” I pictured a Zephyr or Super Chief Pullman getting scrapped 
I’m coo coo for choo choo stuff.
That is why we give our local 2nd graders an Operation Lifesaver briefing every April so they won’t grow up to be stupid.
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It might be completely against policy but if I were that engineer I would have reversed about 40 or 50 feet to keep the fire from spreading to the cab car. Of course he was probably already in emergency so that might have taken a while, by then the MU cabling was already starting to melt and short.
Regards, Ed