I wish the news would spend time to get the facts straight. I have a hard time believing that of the 44 people on the train 44 of them were injured.

UPDATE 6:28PM: On Thursday night, the NTSB held a press conference to detail its investigation into Thursday's train derailment in Washington County.

NTSB member Mark Rosekind said the excursion train, consisting of one locomotive and 4 cars, stalled for unknown reasons on the track. The maximum speed for the portion of track this occurred on was 35mph.

The rescue train struck stalled train head on. Rosekind said there was no fire, no fuel leak during the accident.

The investigation will look at several pieces of information, including front facing video recorders on both trains and communication over radios. They will also be setting up interviews with the crews involved in the train collision.

Rosekind said he expects investigators to be on scene for 5 to seven days, collecting and documenting evidence.

There will be a press conference to update the investigation Friday.

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has launched a go-team to examine Thursday's freight and passenger train collision. The investigation is in the beginning stages and is expected to last a couple of days.

The accident happened when a passenger train carrying around 50 people was awaiting help after sliding on the tracks. The train sent to help was not able to stop before reaching the passenger cars and the two trains collided. Dozens were injured.

Railroad investigator Jim Southworth is leading the team as investigator-in-charge. Board Member Mark R. Rosekind is accompanying the team and will serve as the principal spokesman during the on-scene phase of the investigation.

That means when the collision happened it occured with enough force to crush the vestibule against the collision bulkhead and LIFT THE WHOLE COACH enough that the leaf springs fell out of the trucks and the couplers no longer engaged. Plus the force was enough to buck the whole consist backwards something that looks like 20 or so yards from the photos.

If you're milling around on a standing train that suddenly bucks around with that kinda force you're gonna get banged around no matter where you are on the train.

In this instance thats actually not too far fetched. Take a look at the photos provided in the link in diningcartim's original post. The leaf springs from the trucks of that blue heavyweight coach are laying on the ground in a pile next to the excursion engine that was pulling it. This would suggest that this was the original position of the coach when the train stalled.

That means when the collision happened it occured with enough force to crush the vestibule against the collision bulkhead and LIFT THE WHOLE COACH enough that the leaf springs fell out of the trucks and the couplers no longer engaged. Plus the force was enough to buck the whole consist backwards something that looks like 20 or so yards from the photos.

If you're milling around on a standing train that suddenly bucks around with that kinda force you're gonna get banged around no matter where you are on the train.