Since this happened ~100 km from where I live, I know pretty much what happened.
There was an engine fire in the head locomotives @ 11:25pm est that friday night, this happened where they park the train for the shift change. The firefighters turned off the engine, releasing the air from the air compressor. They park the train at the start of a big steep hill, more steep than any railroad should be at. The MMA engineers then restarted the engine, but with no air in the compressors, the train started going down the hill with no brakes to stop it.
There was no protestors or anything. I've been hearing about this for the past 3 days in the news. Still 7 confirmed deaths and 40 missing people.
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