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[quote user="zugmann"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] [quote user="zugmann"]  We can armchair quarterback this thing all day... but unless any of us were there - our guesses hold no merit.  [/quote] I am not guessing what happened.  But I can readily determine that none of explanations of what happened that I have heard seem plausible.  Was this incident blamed on the engineer?  If so, what rules were violated? [/quote]   Well, then you are guessing at the plausability at the explanation given.  Second-guessing, if you will.  You say the engineer should have heard the engines throttle up.  But I've seen many engineers deaf as a post.    Anyone ever see a link to a FRA report?   [/quote] I am just saying that for me the explanation is not plausible.  However, if the official explanation disclosed that the engineer was deaf, then it may be plausible, depending on the rest of the facts.  Maybe the FRA report contains an explanation that I would find thoroughly plausible.  One thing I would like to know is whether the locomotive was stopped before the engineer got off of it.  If it was stopped, and the engineer inadvertently opened the thottle to notch #8 as he got out of his seat, I would think the locomotive would have begun moving before the engineer hit the ground.  That certainly should have alerted him that something was wrong.  It seems implausible that the engineer could have gotten so far away from the locomotive before it began to move that the locomotive was able to gain so much speed that the engineer could not have gotten back on.
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