Kosin store backup car camera

I kept hearing sirens, so I grabbed the camera and went to the corner of 47th and Princeton. It was bedlam. People's Gas had been replacing gas lines in the neighborhood, so when I heard the sirens, I thought "gas leak and explosion", and nearly got ready to evacuate my house. As it turned out, an Amtrak train, the "Pere Marquette" out of Grand Rapids, MI, had plowed into the rear of a Norfolk Southern freight train near 52nd and Shields, a half-mile southwest of where I was standing. You'll see firetrucks, supervisors' vehicles, a helicopter, and an ambulance who speeds in the opposite direction from the crash before realizing his mistake. Watch the backpedaling in the next few weeks, as various mopes try to save their asses explaining why an Amtrak train was on the same track as a freight, and why, at the time of the crash, all five Amtrak crew were crowded into the locomotive cab, which is designed to hold two. The latest as of December 6: the engineer who was operating the Amtrak locomotive had three months experience. That's like having a 16-year old drive I-95 through northern New Jersey and New York. In rush hour. Passenger injuries aside, this was a videomaker's dream, but I had to get back and finish a magazine project on deadline. Rats!