Posted on 12/10/2015 6:13:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A train filled with passengers that left a station south of Boston Thursday morning without an operator was being investigated as a case of operator error, officials said.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the runaway Red Line train took off from Braintree Station without its conductor at approximately 6 a.m. Thursday morning.
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Don't panic. ISIS is contained. Obuma said so.
Brick on the pedal?
I thought trains had the dead mans switch? Where as as soon as the Engineer leaves his seat the breaks are set and the throttle can not be advanced! Or that if the Engineer dies, passes out while at the helm the Engine automatically decreases the throttle and come to a stop!!!
Yep. There has to be an operator onboard for there to be operator error..!
In this day and age, I have to ask, what are the religious beliefs, of the operator who SHOULD have been at the controls? Maybe it has an explanation, but then again, maybe not.
The MTA gets locomotive breath;
“Old Charlie stole the handle ...
And he never returned, no he never returned.”
Sure, but the article says that the train was missing it's conductor. Maybe the engineer fell asleep in his seat. ????
A 28-year employee, apparently.
http://www.wmur.com/news/mbta-train-travels-several-stops-unmanned-in-massachusetts/36896006
“This train was tampered with, and it was tampered with by someone who knows what he was doing,” Baker said.
Baker later said that “inspection of the train determined that some of the controls had been manipulated.”
“It’s pretty clear that it was set in a forward motion, which is why it moved in the first place,” Baker said.
The incident began when the operator was unable to start the train Thursday morning due to a signal issue, Pollack said. The operator was cleared by the MBTA Operations Control Center to put the train into emergency bypass mode.
I think all the oil train derailments make far more compelling fodder for conspiracy theories.
Did anyone shout ‘Allahu Akbar’?
Quabbin 7
How can it be operator error if there was no operator? Was the error that they forgot to put a driver in the train before they turned it on?
I though it was an Am-track train. Sorry about that..
How can it be a run away train if the Engineer was on board running the Train.. Do you need a Conductor on a Subway train?
Casey Jones you better watch your speed!
this will go down the potty hole never to be heard about again similar to the happy pants see my stuff homosexual “engineer” who trashed the Philly train killing at least 8 people...
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