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[quote user="edblysard"] As the engineer gets up from his seat he bumped the throttle with his hip, he did not realize this, exits the cab and goes to line the switch, at which point the locomotive begins to move, he tried to mount up but failed, (he was a pretty good sized fellow). [/quote] I had sort or heard the details of how that runaway happened, but it left some lingering questions.  I could see how the engineer could have bumped the throttle as he got up to exit the unit.  But why was he not immediately alerted to the error upon hearing the engine rev up to throttle notch #4?  I know there is a little lag time between the throttle movement and the engine response, but still, the engineer could have hardly even gotten out of the cab before the engine revved up.   I guess the reverser was left in the power position because, with the throttle in idle, the engineer saw no reason to place the reverser in neutral.  But, considering the sound of the engine revving up when it should not have been, I don’t get how the engineer could have not suspected that something was amiss.
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