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<P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">[quote user="Railway Man"]Whatever the dispatcher tells an engineman about an impending meet can only be regarded by the engineman as "for information only." It does not supersede signal indication. If the engineman is told by a dispatcher "expect a meet at Able," and the engineman reaches the leaving signal at Able and it displays an aspect more favorable than stop, the engineman takes the signal. [/quote]</P> <P mce_keep="true">[quote user="Railway Man"]I'm perplexed by portions of the on-going discussion that appear to my admittedly jaundiced eyes to be searching for loopholes in the rules or excuses for failing to observe a signal aspect indicating stop. There are none.[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thanks for that information about the verbal instructions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With regard to the ongoing discussion, my only objective over the last couple pages was just to pin down one single point.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is whether or not the engineer would be completely vindicated from blame for the crash if the last signal were green.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, finally, based your information, along with information given by others in several of the last posts, I conclude that the answer to the question is yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> However, </SPAN>I see no way he could be vindicated if the final signal were red.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The reason that I was exploring this point is that news coverage regarding witnesses saying the light was green seems to imply that Sanchez’s guilt or innocence pivots only on the color of the final signal, which witnesses dispute.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If, however, Sanchez had violated a series of signals, violated the delayed-in-block rule, and violated a rule about ignoring verbal information about the meet, (all of which has been asserted) then the aspect of the final signal would not be pivotal, and the testimony of the witnesses would not be as crucial as the news coverage implies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>The discussion about whether Sanchez saw a red light as green comes from that question being asked by NTSB board member Kitty Higgins in the article linked to the first post.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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