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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]However, having said that, I don’t see how sleep could be ruled out by the timing of the final alerter and throttle resets.[/quote] Bucyrus, I do think the short amount of time between actions requiring the engineer be awake and passing the red signal does needs to be addressed.  And yet the NTSP is silent on the issue.   John[/quote] John, The report addresses these issues on page 1-5. In reading the report closely, I see that there was no failure of the striking train to comply with signals approaching the struck train.  The only failure of the striking train was the failure to stop short of the struck train which was made visible by its end-of-train device.    At the time of the last recorded activity of the engineer of the striking train, the struck train was not yet in view of the striking train.  It was 1 minute 11 seconds from the last recorded activity of the engineer of the striking train to the point where the struck train came into view of the striking train. Therefore, if the engineer of the striking train collided with the train ahead because he was asleep, he had 1 minute 11 seconds to fall asleep.
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