LA commuter train wreck

~MS~ · 09-13-2008, 04:04 PM

Actually she did a smart thing stepping up and releasing that information before it got leaked. Hubby worked for Union Pacific for 30 years, the number of people who know what went wrong within hours is enough to have the potential for leaks and even more speculation. Signals are activated by the trains making the connection on that specific part of the track. computers let dispatch know where every train on the track is and tells the trains who has to pull over and wait for an oncoming train. One of the first things that happened in the discovery process was they had signal maintainers out there checking all the signals to make sure they were in proper operational status matching what the computer registered. The fact that it was human error was apparent in short order. My heart goes out to all the victims but I find it ironic that not one mention of the lost of the freight crew has been made in any report I've read, 3 crew were aboard that engine and I'm 99.9 percent sure all 3 perished.

09-13-2008, 04:04 PM	#7
~MS~ One Happy little Missy! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 658	Actually she did a smart thing stepping up and releasing that information before it got leaked. Hubby worked for Union Pacific for 30 years, the number of people who know what went wrong within hours is enough to have the potential for leaks and even more speculation. Signals are activated by the trains making the connection on that specific part of the track. computers let dispatch know where every train on the track is and tells the trains who has to pull over and wait for an oncoming train. One of the first things that happened in the discovery process was they had signal maintainers out there checking all the signals to make sure they were in proper operational status matching what the computer registered. The fact that it was human error was apparent in short order. My heart goes out to all the victims but I find it ironic that not one mention of the lost of the freight crew has been made in any report I've read, 3 crew were aboard that engine and I'm 99.9 percent sure all 3 perished. __________________ "Sometimes Miracles Hide"
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