To the train-fans, and some rails who should know better, a second man, would have been available to tie the damn train down, before the one man running it, died on the law.............leaving the train, just sitting there, not properly secured.

I spoke to a reporter covering this, and one significant question, remains: if the engine was shut down (inadvertently, or on purpose by the firemen), the brake pressure should have bled off of the train line, from a full set, then the train should have gone into full emergency, and taken hours for each car cylinder to leak down, and release on there own? Soo..... was the train bled off? Or was there some other "dumb" involved like possible releasing and "bottling" the air on the cut?

While there are numerous violations of existing rules that may have contributed to this tragedy, they still don't present a clear conclusive cause.