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Paul, All of that information kind of came out in a sequence.  As you probably know, on Sunday, there was a lot of news about the engineer securing the train for the night and then checking into the hotel.  Next thing you know, the train ran away.  So the focus was on the engineer because he was the last man to deal with the train that ran away. It must have been at least a day later, or even Tuesday when the news revealed that, between the point where the engineer left the train and the train ran away, the locomotive caught fire and twelve fire fighters and one person from the railroad showed up and put the fire out.  I thought; you have got to be kidding!  I was stunned to learn of that incredible detail that seemed to have been added almost as an afterthought to the story of the wreck. The news said that someone saw the fire and called the fire department.    I don’t recall verbatim but I think they said that it was somebody living near the railroad track and the idling locomotive that saw the fire and called the fire department.  I don’t think they gave the person’s name.  It might have somebody at the hotel, but I don’t know the proximity of the hotel to the train.  That news came out right with the news that there had been a fire. It was about yesterday when more news came out about the taxicab picking up the engineer to take him to the hotel.  The cab driver asked the engineer why the engine was making so much smoke, and noticed that oil droplets were landing on the taxicab.  The cab driver indicated that he believed the oil was coming from the smoke.  When he inquired about the smoke, the engineer dismissed it and said something to the effect that he had followed the proper procedures.  Then it was just minutes after that point when the fire was discovered.  As I understand, however, it was not the cab driver or the engineer that discovered the fire.  I might be able to find the link to this final phase of news about the oily smoke.  I think I have seen every bit of news on this wreck since it happened on Sunday.
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