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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I assume a signal maintainer is not responsible for track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And maybe signal maintainers are not expected to know anything about track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this one knew enough about track to surmise, “something did not look right about the track.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about a non-committal statement!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that what he actually reported, or is that a watered down rendition created by management for media consumption?</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;">I find no reporting of the time interval between the discovery of a track problem and the arrival of the coal train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The closest hint is that the problem was discovered in the morning and the train derailed in the afternoon.<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-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would say that U.P. has a big credibility problem on their hands with such a lackadaisical and untimely response to a reported problem that ultimately killed two people. </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-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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;">And this fatally slow response occurred on a day when the company was on alert for sun kinks, and therefore inspecting the tracks twice a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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