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He had a plan. He said in the NTSB interview that he deemed the 2-mile speed warning too far away from the curve to start braking. From the interview transcript page 44 (pdf-page): Q. Whatever you want to -- however you want to describe it for me. A. Well, I remember in the 79 area, I remember preparing for the curve. I remember coming up to the crossing at 15.5. It's the last crossing. We blow for that one. And then I was preparing for the curve. And I was counting mileposts. I had a plan, planning on, you know, setting about 12, 13 pounds about a mile before the curve. And I had picked out the control point that I think was labeled 18.96 but it's really 18.8 or something like that. And so I was counting mileposts. Went by 16. Went by 17. I hadn't seen 18, and we went by a signal and I was looking for this big white sign that was -- I think it said CP 18.96, but it was a big white sign. I was looking for it. I was looking for a label. And I hadn't seen milepost 18 and I saw the signal and I -- I didn't see it, and I looked down and I saw the next signal and I said, okay, that next signal must be it. So I kept going. And just before getting to that signal, I saw the 30-mile-an-hour sign for the curve. And I went full service and blended. I anticipated that the train -- or the brakes would grab and it would bring the train down in time to safely go around the curve. I figured it was going to be uncomfortable, I might spill some coffee. The brakes didn't do anything. I didn't feel the brakes grab, nothing. And then the track went that way and we went that way. Regards, Volker
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