"“I found a vantage point in some bushes far enough away to avoid interfering with the investigation while offering a partial view of the second train, which had come to rest about 2,000 feet from the wreck I photographed the day before,” he says.

But on the route back, O’Reilly says he “stumbled through some bushes” and found himself on the edge of a stream in which there was a hulking piece of metal. “At first I thought it was just junk — it was not cordoned off like the rest of the wreckage — but I quickly put things together in my mind,” O’Reilly says."

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"“I found a vantage point in some bushes far enough away to avoid interfering with the investigation while offering a partial view of the second train, which had come to rest about 2,000 feet from the wreck I photographed the day before,” he says.

But on the route back, O’Reilly says he “stumbled through some bushes” and found himself on the edge of a stream in which there was a hulking piece of metal. “At first I thought it was just junk — it was not cordoned off like the rest of the wreckage — but I quickly put things together in my mind,” O’Reilly says."