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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by wabash1</i> <br /><br />I was under the impression that all trains operating in passenger service and all freight operation on lines that operate where passenger service is run has to have the cab signaling system.[/quote] <br />While cab signals exist on some Metra lines, they are not installed on the former Rock Island, nor is there freight service between LaSalle Street station and the area where the derailment occured. <br /> <br />A local newspaper thought they were scooping everyone when they did a big article on how cab signals "might" of prevented this wreck, but if the engineer had his head allegedly up his you-know-what, all the technology in the world coudn't save the train.
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