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Everyone is missing the obvious in the Metrolink wreck.
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<br /><br /><p>In responding to a prior post I would like to add that having a second pair of eyes in the cab is exactly what is need in commuter train service. Since these trains run on tight scheduals that run in a predictable manner each day, engineers run the risk of getting into the <em><strong>mind set </strong></em>that they will get the same signal aspets at the same locations every day. I suspect that the Metrolink engineer assumed he had a light at that Control Point because he almost never got held there by the dispatcher in the past. Had a second person been in that cab to call attention to the unusual signal aspect the accident would never have happend. </p>
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