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The latest news perspective of the U.P. changing the timeline is curious.  The implication is that the company is “changing their story,” which is often held up as a sign of guilt.    <o:p></o:p> Apparently the original “timeline” was that the track was to be inspected twice on 7/4 by the inspectors directly responsible for it. And perhaps the “timeline” would have had one of those inspections already taken place before the train arrived at 1:30 PM.  And perhaps, the track problem had already become apparent by the time of that first inspection, so it would have been properly discovered, and the train notified to stop short of the danger.  Or perhaps both inspections would have occurred after 1:30 PM, so it would not have prevented the disaster.   <o:p></o:p> But so what?  Whatever the original “timeline” was, what is the significance of it being changed?  It is beside the point.   <o:p></o:p> Regardless of when inspections were scheduled, the 600-pound gorilla in the room is the fact that U.P. did discover the dangerous problem hours before the train arrived.  And this discovery allowed more than enough time for U.P. to take action on the problem and prevent the train disaster that occurred at 1:30 PM.  However, U.P. failed to act on the problem and prevent the disaster, so the disaster did occur at 1:30 PM.  <o:p></o:p> And what makes this all the more ironic is that the company was aware of the abnormally hot weather, and its associated risk of sun kinks, and their ability to derail trains.  And in response to this peril, the company had placed people on alert to make an extra effort to detect possible development of sun kinks before they could cause a disaster.  And yet when a sun kink was actually discovered and reported, no action was taken.  <o:p></o:p> The U.P. spokesman glosses over this negligence by telling us that the signal maintainer did exactly what he was supposed to do, as if that were the issue.  And apparently, the newspaper does not even see the 600-pound gorilla.
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