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Jerry442

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22. TY. Very informative. nt

Reply to MicaelS (Reply #21)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 09:26 PM

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Runaway Quebec Train's Owner Battled Safety Issues [View all] cali Jul 2013 OP

Let us police ourselves, they said. It will be safe, they said. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2013 #1

And then Aerows Jul 2013 #12

And I bet he has his company organized in such a way exboyfil Jul 2013 #2

The rising use of only one person operating and on these trains is a shockingly bad practice cali Jul 2013 #3

This could have all been avoided if B2G Jul 2013 #4

not enough is known yet. and honestly cali Jul 2013 #5

I understand all of that, but B2G Jul 2013 #6

maybe. I still think we don't know enough cali Jul 2013 #7

Absolutely. When you operate so a single-point failure can cause a massive tragedy... Jerry442 Jul 2013 #9

+1000 B2G Jul 2013 #11

At first glance this all looks unbelievably stupid. thucythucy Jul 2013 #13

nothing is yet established, but there's a whole lot of stupid apparently. cali Jul 2013 #14

The fire department didn't leave the train unattended pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #15

But didn't the MMA then leave the train unattended? thucythucy Jul 2013 #16

Really. Are we supposed to believe the MMA people watched the train roll silently away... Jerry442 Jul 2013 #17

I believe that the train began to roll after the MMA people left FarCenter Jul 2013 #18

The chief of the Nantes Fire Dept. (that put out the earlier locomotive fire) is worried pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #8

I don't think so, there's more to this story. MicaelS Jul 2013 #19

A technical question: Jerry442 Jul 2013 #20

Correct, a derail would have done that. MicaelS Jul 2013 #21

TY. Very informative. nt Jerry442 Jul 2013 #22

Disaster should prompt state to examine rail regs bluedigger Jul 2013 #10

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