An excellent forensic discussion:
Jon 
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Thanks Jon. That was very interesting.
Yes, fascinating. Thank you, Jon!
George
This came up in my feed yesterday; I watched, fascinated. Very well done.
Mitch
Wow..... bad judgement plus bad equipment is a terrible combination.
Peter
Watched it this morning. VERY interesting and fantastic simulation of the wreck using model trains and actual pictures. Except for the subject matter, should be one of the best railroad historic videos ever.
Walter
I'd like to hear more about the baffle-less tender. If you've been following the Mike's Metal Fab channel on YouTube where he's been cleaning the inside of a H10 tender, you can see the baffles and such. To have a K4s tender with the water freely sloshing from side to side just seems like a bad idea.
Jon
I just ordered the book.
Tom
Gordon Bond is the de-facto expert on this subject. He has studied the incident for years. I've seen his other presentations about it.
Wow.. I rode this RR many times between 1967 to 1975 from Red Bank into the City.. The engine was changed from diesel to electric in one of the Amboys(?) I understand it's all electric now.. I was in the Woodbridge NJNG unit, down the street from this tragedy.... 73 years ago today....................
@KOOLjock1 Jon, Thanks for sharing that. I'm always interested in railroad history, especially the PRR's.
Tom
Thanks for sharing. Interesting yet disturbing that notices had been given prior to the accident but ignored and the PRR chose not to signal the area.
The most significant ignored Notice was about the Tender's condition. Ultimately, that was a significant factor which made a potentially bad situation far worse.
The lack of uniform signaling on this shared use trackage turned out to be penny wise but "loss of lives and millions of dollars foolish" decision for the Pennsy ... certainly not a "Standard of the World" type decision.
The engineer "noted " the signal but followed the wrong rule book and was looking for the anticipated (but non-existent) CNJ signal. At worst, momentary lapse rail ownership, but with tragic consequences. I really sympathize for his plight.
a Fabulous Video
I watched, thanks for letting us know about it. Human tragedy aside, I was very impressed by the quality of the CGI software used to show images of the loco and train. Does anyone know whether this "Unreal" graphics engine is used in any of the commercially available train simulator games?
@Ted S posted:Does anyone know whether this "Unreal" graphics engine is used in any of the commercially available train simulator games?
The "Unreal Engine" is the software/developer environment, the actual model was produced by K&L Trainz and is indeed available! https://kltrainz.com/
FWIW, additional info like this is usually found in the notes/description of any particular YouTube video.
Jon, When my older daughter sent me a link to this video on Wednesday, I should have known someone on the Forum would also share it. Being an artist and married to a gamer, she is most interested in the graphic artwork that she said uses technology used in the gaming industry.
I normally do not like train wreck stories and photographs, but the extensively researched project, graphics, and models made this documentary very interesting. My daughter follows this YouTube channel and suggests I watch some other documentaries not train related.
