Re: unmanned runaway
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 07-08-2013 - 17:16
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> My understanding of it is that one of the five
> units in the consist had had a fire that required
> fire department involvement, but that was while
> the engineer was still present and prior to the
> train being tied down, and long before it rolled
> away.
Have now been advised that the engineer was not present when the unit caught fire or when the firefighters were present, and that it was the firefighters who shut down the locomotive consist. Without the locomotives running, it would not be possible to keep the air brake train line charged.