If I was that engineer, I would be on suicide watch. How can you leave a train like that without doing everything by the book?
Honestly, how can you leave a train like that unattended at all? It’s a fundamental failure to ever leave a train unattended.
The movie ‘Unstoppable’ with Denzel Washington, runaway train
that single engineer/train driver didnt set correctly and walked away from train. Same scenario!
Lordy, as long as the parent company can deflect liability in the press!
Hell, it’s what the US does ... why not?
I saw the brake issue theorized from early on. It was my understanding that there was going to be a crew change because the first crew had worked their maximum hours. It would have been their job to properly tie the train down.
I remember watching a news report from a while ago where they noted that a lot of engineers are tired on the job as well.
Locomotives don’t have dead man’s switches any more?
Maybe he’s lying.
That clown will say anything to keep the heat away from corporate headquarters. The investigators need to look real close at the maintenance records, or perhaps really look close at the concept of having only one person on a mile-long train. What penny pincher at corporate thought that one up? Why not turn off the engine and chock the wheels if you gotta go take a crap or take a nap. Whatever happened to stay on your post until relieved? You could tell the guy was lying cause he kept looking left.
Do trains have spring brakes on the pneumatic brakes? On trucks they have a spring in the brake pots that takes roughly 60 psi to overcome to release the brake. This sounds like they just pulled the handvalve down. When they shut the engine down air must have bled off allowing the brakes to release.
These trains should not be left unattended period. Especially with a cargo like that.
Great so your rail-line kills 30 some people and you’re going to pin it on an employee, ruin his life, probably gonna go to prison for the rest of his life.
Way to run a company 101.