User blog comment:AK151/"Sacrifice" Analysis/@comment-5041507-20141104144802/@comment-4010415-20141105035357

I'm pretty sure the White Fang members were intended to survive the train's trip into Vale, considering it was a pretty heavy duty train and they had a bunch of Paladins loaded onto it. Someone was meant to pilot those Paladins, after all.

The wall was probably going to be broken by the time they started the plan. The train was going to burst through the ground to the surface, the White Fang was going to pilot those Paladins out of the hole through the train, etc etc.

However, her plan did not go anywhere near the way she intended for it to. It happened too early. Team RWBY and Oobleck knocked all the White Fang members off the train, leaving nobody to pilot the Paladins, and they knocked Roman out.