Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
[quote user="zugmann"] From Bucyrus' post: "At the hearing, the National Transportation Safety Board inspector asked what I though could be done to have prevented this accident and what could help to avoid a similar one in the future," Amtrak engineer Ron Kaminkow wrote in the e-mail."  [Zugmann's response below to the above] My personal opinion is that question should not have been asked.  The guy is a railroad engineer - not a highway engineer.  And the correct answer is "I do not know".  Never pretend to be an expert.   <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Zugmann,<o:p></o:p> You say that if they asked the engineer how to fix the problem, the correct answer should have been “I don’t know.”  If he had an opinion, why should he have not offered it?  You say, “Never pretend to be an expert.”  Are you concluding that the engineer was pretending to be an expert?  Are you saying that the hearing procedure was duped into believing that the engineer was an expert?<o:p></o:p> And how do you know what the engineer’s credentials are?  He offered an opinion.  There will be plenty of other experts to refute it if it is not credible.  And besides, you don’t have to be an expert to report that there have been many other close calls at that crossing including one nine months ago where the same train nearly hit a truck that skidded up to the crossing, knocked down the signal mast, but stopped short of the train.  <o:p></o:p> I think the engineer’s revelation about the close calls at that particular crossing is a real eye-opener; especially so, considering that I have been told more than once, that there can’t be a problem because if there were really a problem with the crossing, there would be a history of incidents indicating the problem.
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag