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Head-on collision on UP's Golden State Route
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If they can transmit signals to operate the DPU, I would assume that they backup the leading event recorder to the DPU by transmitting its data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there would be far less chance of losing the event recorder data in a head end wreck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, if the lead event recorder data is all backed up on the DPU, they would know all control function changes that the engineer made up to the point of impact, including resetting the alerter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If they know all of that, why are they telling us that the lead event recorders were destroyed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what if they were destroyed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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