"There was a shower of sparks and the cars were derailing."
Four cars derailed, two rolling on their side and ending up 20 yards from the line.
The second and third cars had derailed, though all the cars remained connected.
The sixth car did not completely derail from the track, rather settling in a leaning position on its right side.
The first three cars derailed when the break in the rail forced their wheels off the track.
The 75-foot-long car was so badly damaged that officials initially thought three different cars had derailed.
The first three cars of the train also derailed but remained upright.
The first service was delayed by 45 minutes when the car derailed on its maiden trip.
Two other cars from the same train derailed and landed on top of an unoccupied commercial building.
It was then he saw that the sixth car had derailed.