Regarding yesterday's deadly train wreck here in LA, the LA Times reports that the way that southbound commuter train was configured — a locomotive pushing passenger cars from the back, instead of pulling from the front — may have made matters worse. Not all engineers agree on this, however. This morning, I'm again working about 6 blocks away from the site. For 24 hours now, clusters of news and emergency relief helicopters have been hovering along a sort of invisible thread parallelling the railroad tracks. The sky is still buzzing with them.
Also, some local bloggers are now talking about the possibility of doing fundraising for crash victims via blogs.
Link to LA Times story
