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Originally Posted by Jacks
I was thinking the same thing at the time, I imagine they used some creative license since there is no way they would know in advance where the car would land and the odds of it ending up perfect are pretty high. Even if the train would have stopped sooner the car would have been in different location.
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Yah, but Jesse used that measuring device to mark out a precise distance from the crossing and got excited when it finally read a certain distance. Didn't make sense at the time and it makes even less sense to me now.
Edit: Read another perspective on a different forum.
Jesse was measuring the distance from the crossing required for the train to stop, not where the methlyamine car would be.
The crew had long enough hoses to deal with the car being at various places in the train of cars. Cars carrying hazardous materials like methlyamine have to be a minimum distance from the engine so you can sort of rule out a good stretch of cars towards the front of the train.