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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the meeting, U.P. signal maintainer observed “something that did not look right on the track” and reported it to the company track inspector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that new information in this story?</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-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I assume that means that the sun kink was visible to some extent before the train even arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would think that there was adequate time to communicate and confirm the problem before a train derailed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, it was not said</span> how much time elapsed between the signal maintainer seeing the problem, and the arrival of the train. Was it a matter of a few minutes or was it some hours?</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I were at the meeting, I would have asked what the thing that “did not look right” looked like.</span></span></p> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If the "something that does not look right on the track" looked like a misalignment, and it being 100 degrees with a slow order in effect for the possibility of sun kinks; I would think the discovery by any employee should have been a major red flag issue. </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;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">If that is all there is to the story, it seems like the problem was not handled correctly unless the there was simply no time to stop the train because the problem was discovered too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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