Posted by Wayne-MrSlantR40 on Tue Jun 20 23:26:28 2000, in response to Re: B-Train Derailment @ DeKalb Ave., posted by Mark S. Feinman on Tue Jun 20 23:15:48 2000.
They say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, the train is 8-cars. Looks like the first three cars of the train derailed; it's an R68a.
The last of the injured have been removed by 11:15pm.
Mayor Guiliani gave a briefing but didn't shed a lot of light on things. Someone said the "E" word (explosion); in that spot that would be a shoe dropping, I would guess causing an arc