Witnesses to the hearing will be representatives from: Metrolink, Union Pacific, the Federal Railroad Administration, California Public Utilities Commission, Connex Railroad (the company that employed the engineer and that contracted with Metrolink), United Transportation Union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and Wabtec Corporation.

What? They're not going to interview representatives from Massachusetts Electric? Isn't that the lowest-bidder company that maintains the signaling system along the Ventura Subdivision? Weren't there some rumors floating around that the batteries at CP Topanga were waaaay beyond their "shelf life" and were in dire need of replacement?

I guess that also means they've pretty much dismissed the idea of a "false clear" indication of the signal at CP Topanga -- and a dismissal of the claims by several witnesses (including the train's conductor) that the signal was green.

Oh, that's right. "False clears" NEVER have occurred on Metrolink. Those things just don't happen.

Or have they?

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Thank God for the Freedom of Information Act. Without it, the above document(s) probably would have been filed away in a box in some warehouse, never to see the light of day. It's a sure thing that the people who surrendered this information didn't do so out of the goodness of their heart. It took the Freedom of Information Act.