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Re: Nisqually Junction question-It's your jovg to control the train, not the trains job to control you....
Author: Railbaron
Date: 05-27-2019 - 08:38
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Oly, Railbaron,
>
> Do you notice a pattern here? That those real
> rails who spent careers safely running trains (and
> not letting the train "run" them) seem to make a
> lot less excuses for this guy... And, those who
> who've never worked for a RR, seem to want to find
> all kinds of other lame excuses for his failure...
I completely agree. It is a shame so many people have taken the attitude that whatever happens it's somebody else's fault.
As a note, there was a quote attributed to the engineer that he had planned to slow down 1-mile from that curve, indicating he knew about it. More interestingly is that 1-mile from the point of derailment is the yard where they interchange into Fort Lewis, which would be a hard to miss landmark.
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> Oly, Railbaron,
>
> Do you notice a pattern here? That those real
> rails who spent careers safely running trains (and
> not letting the train "run" them) seem to make a
> lot less excuses for this guy... And, those who
> who've never worked for a RR, seem to want to find
> all kinds of other lame excuses for his failure...
I completely agree. It is a shame so many people have taken the attitude that whatever happens it's somebody else's fault.
As a note, there was a quote attributed to the engineer that he had planned to slow down 1-mile from that curve, indicating he knew about it. More interestingly is that 1-mile from the point of derailment is the yard where they interchange into Fort Lewis, which would be a hard to miss landmark.
