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[ComptonAssJohn]

You can definitely see in the cut scene right after the truck impacts the locomotive, the train wheels come off the track. Then chaos.

[Euchre]

If you do watch carefully, the locomotive doesn't slow down at all from the impact with the truck, nor does the train go immediately off the rails. In the cut scene that follows you can see sparks coming from under the first of the wheels on the one carrier, indicating it's got something jammed underneath. It's not any apparent brake lock, because none of the other wheels are in a locked state.

There have been sabotages to cause derailments that used devices not much larger than a truck brake caliper. If some of the debris from a whole truck managed to get jammed underneath one of the wheel carriages, it certainly could be enough to derail a train. Unlike your example Nighthawk, the truck had it's own velocity toward the train in the same line to help jam things underneath, instead of a sidelong impact into what I'm going to guess was a stationary vehicle. If it wasn't stationary, and was traveling perpendicular to the train that would help it not end up under the train.

A side note: one of the objects visible in the cut scene of the side of the train appears to be a vacuum brake booster. Wonder if they even offered that in those trucks?

[crackdownjr]

If the thing in the train could bust out, why did it wait until the train crashed? Seems like it could have busted out & jumped out while the train was moving. I mean it has to be capable of surviving a jump like that. Unless it was being held in some sort of cage that broke during the crash. Idk just me thinking out loud, not that any of this matters.

[Eleven72]

[Saiyan King]

I keep racking my brain over the hidden pictures. what does a lion have to do with all this? and whatever the other pics are. trying to associate it with everythiing to come up with a connection, but no luck yet. i love and at the same time hate mind games like this. makes my brain hurt lol

On the topic of why the truck hit the train, im with the school of thought that it wasnt an attack but rather a sucide by the driver of the truck. i mean unless were dealing with islamic extremists i dont think anyone would kill themselves for a cause like that. i feel it was some guy at the end of his rope., drank a bottle of whiskey, got in his truck and waited for a train, drove onto the track and adios muchacho. unfortunately it happened to be a train carrying an otherworldly creature. the whole thing is happenstance. It was just chance that it was that train and set off a chain reaction of events., but wasnt intended to do so

[Eleven72]

[Saiyan King]

[Eleven72]

[Saiyan King]

Well, alrighty then. i had been gone for a couple of days with no internet access. the last i knew , it was being taken seriously. so my bad, i thought it was legit. thats what i get for being gone from everything for a few days. thanks for pointing that out to me, keeps me from having to figure out something for nothing.

[Eleven72]

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[Nickydo]

It seems to me (looking at the trailer for like the 50th time!) that the man in the truck isn't simply trying to commit suicide, he's driving with too much urgency. I think he KNOWS what's on that train and he is desperately trying to do anything to stop it from reaching it's destination and the only way he can do it is to go head on and hope that the train derails. He's trying to destroy the creature before it gets where it's supposed to be going because if it DOES get there all hell is going to break loose (To put it mildly).

My question would be, where is the train heading to make this man go to such drastic measures to take his own life. Perhaps he has some involvement in the project, a scientist maybe who helped create it, or was a part in the discovery.

What do you think? sound reasonable?

[GeniferB]

[ComptonAssJohn]

I agree with the above poster. This is a suicide, but not an unrelated circumstance.

The driver is certainly intentional in turning his truck down the tracks and shows substantial urgency in getting there and crashing into the thing.
He must've known when the train would be there or else has been following it. We know that the truck is from OH, so I'm not sure how long he could've been following it. Probably not all the way from Groom Lake.
My guess is that he (/she, but probably he) is somehow related to the operation and want's to/is being compelled to throw a wrench in the works.

[Nickydo]

In the HD trailer it's definitely a man, and he looks like he is desperately trying to stop that train