who has slipped the track - the train or skidmark?

[vaskidmark]

http://tinyurl.com/bbocnp3

Pause the video at around the 12-second mark.  (Seriously, you are not going to see anything about the couple having sex near the tracks, including not seeing how close to the tracks they might have been.)

Now that you have the video rewound and have paused it at the 12-second mark - look at the wheels on the far side.  Notice where the wheel flanges are in relation to the track.  Then look down the line on the near side, checking the wheel flanges.

Am I the only one thinking that the whole train has slipped the track?

stay safe.

[Regolith]

http://tinyurl.com/bbocnp3

Pause the video at around the 12-second mark.  (Seriously, you are not going to see anything about the couple having sex near the tracks, including not seeing how close to the tracks they might have been.)

Now that you have the video rewound and have paused it at the 12-second mark - look at the wheels on the far side.  Notice where the wheel flanges are in relation to the track.  Then look down the line on the near side, checking the wheel flanges.

Am I the only one thinking that the whole train has slipped the track?

stay safe.

Could there be a third rail - a power or switching rail - in between? I'd think the near-side wheels wouldn't still be as perfectly on the rail as they are if the far side ones had slipped.

[Perd Hapley]

Or does it have a third rail in between for narrow gauge?

[Hawkmoon]

Looks to me like the offside wheels are riding on the flanges rather than the flats.

Don't see anything that looks like a third rail.

[RoadKingLarry]

Probably a stock photo taken at a work yard or salvage yard. Notice  the rust track on one of the wheels inthe back ground, that takes a little bit of time to form so likely not the train in the story.

[BobR]

It could also be sitting at a switch point. With the low angle of the shot, it is too hard to tell.



* Aftrer looking closer, I am pretty sure that it is sitting on a switch point. Even the wheels on the right side of the train look like they are off of the track a little along the left hand side of the picture.


bob

[K Frame]

If the train's wheels are on track on the one side, it's kind of hard, if not impossible, for them to be off the track on the other side, unless the track itself has slipped.

[Fly320s]

In the video, on the right side of the frame at the bottom of the far rail, it appears that there is an extra area of steel that is not present further to the left of the frame.  That piece looks like the switching area in BobR's photo.

[Perd Hapley]

Probably a stock photo taken at a work yard or salvage yard. Notice  the rust track on one of the wheels inthe back ground, that takes a little bit of time to form so likely not the train in the story.

But is it the train that almost ran over Marty McFly?