Hitting the brakes hard while entering the curve may have been deliberate and premeditated to add to the speed forces in wrecking the train.
I hadn’t thought about that, but you’re right about the results of braking at high speed. Besides, it dropped the speed by only four miles an hour, to 102.
What was this engineer doing???????? He’s a crafty ole boy to say he “can’t remember”. Hillary would love this guy. “My head is JELL-O”. (*Rush Limbaugh program lyrics.)
In my opinion the engineer was attempting suicide and decided to take others to hell with him. However, it unfortunately did not kill him.