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Joe McGonigle, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's vice president of marketing, said that whatever the engineer did in regard to securing the train, he was not the last man to touch the train. McGonigle said that people from the fire department and an employee from the railroad’s engineering department were summoned to extinguish a small fire on the locomotive sometime after the engineer had secured the train and gone to bed.  It seems to me that a fire on the locomotive and people doing things in the course of extinguishing it pose lots of possibilities for inadvertently releasing the brakes.  Just for example, a fire on the locomotive of a flammable train might be a reason to cut the locomotive off of the train.  I get the impression that the MM&A knows a lot more about what happened than they are telling us. Their explanation sounds speculative, and yet one of their employees was at the scene when a fire was found and extinguished shortly before the train ran away.  Whey don't they ask that employee what happened?
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