And in that above video.. everyone DID their job correctly. They were operating at restricted speed and were able to stop before hitting anything.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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It was dark territory and there were no signals to be observed only the manual switch stand target which displayed a red board indicating the switch was lined for the siding. Even under ideal conditions it's hard to discern the aspect displayed by a switch target until you're fairly close to it by which time it would be too late to make even an emergency stop from 36 mph. If the sun is in your eyes, foggy, raining or snowing hard You can forget the switch stand cause you aren't going to see it until you're almost at it. It's kind of a crap shoot but you just have to rely on everyone having done their job correctly.
Mark
From my computer,I cant tell what color the siginals at that switch were but it should have showed a red siginal for the siding, warning it was occuppied,RT?
WOW! Just WOW!!!
I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of horror that must have come over the crew as they realized what was about to happen.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=82c_1209926621
http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2006/hq200679v.pdf
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