The physics of several thousand tons moving at speed can make some pretty wonky things happen. My personal opinion is that the deer did not get hit by the front of the train, more likely panicked and ran into the side of the train, or tried to jump over a flat car or something and got clipped with enough force to send it spinning, sans hind legs into the wires. Just barely visible in the pictures on the side of the deer that "is on top" looks like it is mangled. The fur looks like it is having a "bad fur day". I have heard that severe trauma can result in almost no blood being scattered. Is that true resqcap?
I also don't see any signs in the pictures of "modification", usually you can tell if the pictures have been fiddled with.
So personal opinion, is that the deer did indeed get whacked by a train.
I am not familiar with Canadian signal control practice, but the lines and poles have that "railroad" look.
As for the deer roast, I would bet a tv dinner or two on there being enough internal damage that it wasn't worth the bother. Even the vultures probably needed ketchup to get through that one.
Trainwire
edited my gramma
[This message has been edited by Trainwire (edited 02-22-2003).]
