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One of my friends on facebook was using his drone from 4 streets down and captured the entire accident; I can confirm it was sadly a photographer standing too close to the track and was struck by the locomotive. Definitely a sad situation all around and a reminder to be careful around the tracks
I shudder to think how much UP's insurance premiums are going to be after this. Maybe the last run for 844. The person I feel the most sorry for is 844's engineer.Doug
The drone footage is on YouTube...for now, anyway. I won't link to it here. You can clearly see what the problem is, and the impact is clearly fatal. It makes me wonder if people don't realize that the train itself overhangs the gauge by a considerable width.