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I don’t see the so-called change of story as placing any suspicion on U.P., if that is what the Tribune intended to imply.  And U.P. does seem to have gone the extra mile to reach out and provide explanations for the tragedy.  I am surprised at how much information they released even when it was still speculation on their part.   <o:p></o:p> I am really amazed that they offered and held a public meeting for the affected residents.  But, then I am disappointed at how little of substance was developed in that meeting.  I don’t know if the substance was lacking, or if it was there, but not understood or reported by the media.   <o:p></o:p> Actually, I see two stories here.  One is the way U.P. is responding and the other is the way the Chicago Tribune is reporting on it.   <o:p></o:p> My only issue with the U.P. coverage is their seeming dismissal of the possibility that anyone was at fault in the details of the signal maintainer discovering a track anomaly that he could not evaluate, and his consequent transferal of that discovery to an inspector who was qualified to evaluate the problem; and then the failure of that inspector to act on the problem.   <o:p></o:p> How in the world U.P. could have held a public meeting without it resulting in any meaningful probing for answers about this reporting-and-failure-to-act detail is just beyond my comprehension.     <o:p></o:p> All we have gotten on this detail is U.P. blowing smoke about how it was handled in the perfectly normal and proper manner.  This explanation could not be more obviously disingenuous.   <o:p></o:p> Spokesman, Davis said that it was handled just like it would have been had the signal maintainer discovered a truck high-centered (stuck) on a grade crossing.  Davis said that the signal maintainer would have reported it to the proper authorities in the company, and they would have stopped all trains approaching the crossing.  Really?  The 7/4 derailment was handled just like that?  <o:p></o:p> And equally astounding is the fact that the Chicago Tribune apparently accepts that bogus analogy without any question.  And yet they turn around and focus on the “changing of the timeline” detail as though that were an incriminating issue.
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