All but one of the Silver Meteor's 17 cars derailed, he said, while only a single flatbed car from the 53-car freight train left the tracks.
Debris and rails were ripped off the flatbed cars and shoved downstream as if shot from a cannon.
Others rode along the west side of the river on the observation train, which had canopies over open bleachers on flatbed cars.
We also saw the drill yard, which looked like a freight yard full of flatbed cars missing their wheels.
They drive it or carry it on a flatbed car, and I park it by the rail yard wherever we are performing.
He put his head down and charged after a flatbed car as if he was carrying a football toward the end zone.
The flatbed car was loaded with two pickup trucks of unknown origin powered by an electrical motor.
From two cars back came bumping sounds as men and lugars wasted no time hauling heavy farm machinery off a flatbed car.
Sliced in half lengthwise to fit through railroad tunnels, it was shipped to New York on a flatbed car.
You can also stand on an uncovered flatbed car, feeling the breeze waft by.