GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[Anastasia]

Jeez, someone get those lovely people at TTR / Metrolinx / Wherever some better cameras and monitors. I think my old Nokia captures better video than that...

They at least need to clean the lens! Watching that video makes me feel like I need to get my eyes checked.

 

[Metroscapes]

Just got my hands on a video of Monday's derailment, check this out;

https://imgur.com/a/EDphPHH

Couldn't quite tell for sure because of the vid quality but it doesn't appear that any of the coaches derailed prior to when the rear truck of the last coach impacted the switch. But the loco could very well have already been on the ground before it appears in the video and if so just goes to show how far a train can go even when derailed at slow speed. Crazy to see the entire coach launched up several feet in the air like that as well. MX's strongly emphasized that the train derailed at a "slow" speed, but that impact was still somewhat violent.

I think you're on to something with the loco being derailed. Again, quality is crap and it's difficult to distinguish from normal sway, but it seems the locomotive is already derailed, and the misalignment between it and the last coach makes it "pop" violently as it hits the switch. That's just my take on a potato video though.

 

[Jonny5]

They at least need to clean the lens! Watching that video makes me feel like I need to get my eyes checked.

I think the low quality is in part that it's clearly someone took a video on a phone of the original video, then then took a separate video of that video on a second device, which I assume was to erase identification purposes.
Like it's a video of a video of a video.

 

[max]

MX's strongly emphasized that the train derailed at a "slow" speed, but that impact was still somewhat violent.

The video moves so you don't always see it, but watch in the top left and you'll see it shows a 2x playback speed. That may be making what we are seeing appear more violent than the actual experience.