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[quote user="locoi1sa"]  This is the official ICC report on the accident. <A title=http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?browse&rn=3649%22 href="http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?browse&rn=3649%22">http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?browse&rn=3649%22</A>    Pete [/quote] Pete,   Thanks for posting that link to the wreck report.  In reading it, I am surprised at the points it raises that seem to conflict with and/or raise questions about the story as told in Trains Sept. 1998 issue.  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> For instance, in reading that story, I had concluded that the fireman thought that the engineer was telling him that the switch was mistakenly lined into the siding, and the engineer wanted him to line it for the mainline.  However, the wreck report says that the fireman said that he thought the engineer wanted him to line it into the siding, so that is what he did.  There is a tremendous difference.   <o:p></o:p> If the fireman believed that the engineer was telling him to line the switch into the siding, I cannot understand how the fireman could have believed that because lining it for the siding would obviously not make any sense.  This explanation is in total conflict with the explanation that the fireman panicked, not knowing whether or not the switch was correctly lined for the main.    This information contained in the wreck report strikes me as being incredibly odd.  Apparently this is only the testimony of the fireman since it is not specifically corroborated by the official conclusion of cause in the wreck report, although that official conclusion would allow the fireman’s explanation for his actions.
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