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Termyn8or -> RE: NTSB investigation of Metrolink crash in LA area (9/15/2008 9:25:24 AM)
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They are hemming and hawing. The engineer should have seen at least two yellow signals before the red. He also should have been aware of the situation. He should have expected to have to stop. While a passenger train's schedule may vary a bit, the freight train's does not. Much.
How is it the engineer had not been apprised of the situation, that there would be a delay ? Have we gotten so advanced we can't do anything right ?
In 2002 I did something rare, I bought someone a gift. It was his eighteenth birthday and looking for something appropriate I settled on a Walther railroad watch. It was manufactured the same year the house in which his Father was born, was built. It was almost exactly 100 years old. Doing a bit of checking, I found out why they took great pains to make these watches accurate. An error could kill people. There were no lights.
Now we have computers and all this technology, and it is possible that because of cellphones people died. Yes, we sure have come a long way haven't we ? A hundred years ago they figured out how to deal with the problem, and with all this marvelous technology de jure, they can't.
About sums it up I think, how about you ?
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