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[quote user="CShaveRR"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> rdamon:</div> <div></div> "Union Pacific Vice President of Engineering David Connell told dozens of Glenview and Northbrook residents at an informal meeting Monday that the employee, a signalman, did not think it was of big enough concern to order the freight train to stop. Instead, the employee, who was not qualified to judge the safety of the track, called in an off-duty inspector, but the derailment occurred before the expert arrived." <div style="clear:both;"></div>   </blockquote> Nowhere does anyone say that a sun-kink was reported.  <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] That is a good point.  Nobody knows what the signal maintainer saw, or how he described what he saw when he reported it to the track inspector.  He might have reported a few loose spikes to the track inspector for all we know.  And at that time, there may have been no visible evidence of a sun kink.   <o:p></o:p> However, the report says the signal maintainer saw something that did not look right.  And he was concerned enough about it to call the track inspector, describe the problem to him, and tell him he “did not think it was of big enough concern to order the freight train to stop.”    <o:p></o:p> Clearly that indicates the “something that did not look right about the track” observed and reported by the signal maintainer was something that at least raised the question of whether or not the train should be ordered to stop before reaching that “something that did not look right about the track.”  <o:p></o:p> If the signal maintainer did not want to take on the responsibility of stopping the train because he lacked the expertise on track, I wonder why he would have volunteered that he did not think the problem was a big enough concern to stop the train.  Apparently the track inspector accepted that appraisal from the unqualified signal maintainer because he (the track inspector) never went out to check for himself prior to the arrival of the train that they had discussed stopping because of the track problem.
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