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The cummuter train management blames it's engineer who is conviniently dead. Why did he fail to stop? Did the signaling system fail to tell him to stop? Was he exausted from being forced to work too many hours? Why is management in such a hurry to blame him?
Another point, it seem to me the media seems to be even more incompitant than the dead engineer is claimed to be. Why is the engineer of the passenger train dead and no one on the frieght was even hurt? The news story claims the loco was pulling the passenger train and was pushed back into the lead passenger car. I guess they are too stupid / ignorant to ask the questions I am. I am betting they are wrong and the loco was pushing the passenger train. The freight loco went through the lead car killing the engineer.
We shall see.
What we believe happened, barring any new information from the NTSB, is we believe that our engineer failed to stop ... and that was the cause of the accident.
I'm not sure of this, but did it happen within the siding/passing loop area, between the turnouts/points/switches? (Edit: I'm asking for a reason)They collided head on.
Mitchey said:It turns out the commuter train passed a red light, that the driver missed, because he was texting on his phone.
It turns out the commuter train passed a red light, that the driver missed, because he was texting on his phone.
Mitchey's post is what I mean about speculating (somewhat)
Mitchey, it is alleged that he MAY have been texting on his mobile phone, not that he was. As I stated before Metrolink (at lastest report) deny he was texting.
"Deny" sounds a lot like he had to be texting. Engineers aren't supposed to run red signals without strict permission from the dispatcher. The only way the engineer could have run a red signal is if he was distracted by something, and I don't think anything in the locomotive would be that distracting enough to turn attention from signal monitoring. Not to mention the fact engineers are supposed to be looking at signals. This accident was through negligence, primarily because for a red signal to be ignored, an engineer has to be looking anywhere other than the direction of the signal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are devices in locomotives that do monitor signals and usually stop the train. There are also the other warning systems as well, so how else could he have run the red signal?