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> > > > I see inward facing cameras are again being
> > > > recommended. That whole mess could have
> been
> > > > avoided had the crew been doing their job.
> > >
> > > I assume that you are referring to the
> accident
> > > investigation report.
> > >
> > > So, what exactly can you point to, that makes
> > you
> > > feel that the RR crew didn't do their jobs?
> >
> > One report stated that the crew asked
> permission
> > to stop and inspect the train and were told not
> > to. The whole vent and burn fiasco resulted in
> > "what we have here is a failure to
> communicate".
> > The chemical company that manufactured the
> > chemical did not think an explosion was likely
> and
> > recommended they not vent and burn the tankcars
> > that released the very toxic plume. Somehow
> this
> > was not communicated to the fire commander
> until
> > after they proceeded to set fire and blow the
> cars
> > up.
>
> The emergency response training levels on what to
> do in these situations clearly seems to have left
> a lot to be desired, if that's the "crew" he is
> referring to.
>
> The rail train "crew" didn't seem to do anything
> wrong, and may have tried to do something right,
> that might well have prevented this.
>
> But a billion-dollar accident didn't really hurt
> quarterly profits that much, which is all that
> apparently matters to the "crew" that was running
> the railroad for the stockholders.

I was referring to the train crew that asked the dispatcher to stop and inspect the train. I'm not sure if that happened or not . I did'nt read the entire accident report.It used to be when in doubt take the safest course of action.( Stop and inspect) It seems in todays railroading you make a call and someone five hundred miles away at a switchboard instructs you what to do. Had the train crew stopped and found nothing dispatchers might be very unhappy with that decision.