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[quote user="daveklepper"] Let us be fair.   Organized or unorganized or disorganized labor isn't the issue. What I condlue is that MM&A lacked a Safety-First Culture.   That shortcuts that would not have been tolerated on any Class I and almost all other regionals and short lines were tolerated on MM&A. A late report on the Tortous Tattler, which I read as recommended by Fred Frailey, states that: Another MM&A oil train was found parked on a main line elsewhere, unattended, and with only the locamotive handbrakes applied an zero handbrakes on the tankcars themselves.   Three units, six handbrakes! Unltimately it is management.  As far as I am concerned, finding the second train proves it to me. [/quote] You say that organized labor [versus management] is not the issue, and then you immediately conclude that managaement is at fault for the unsecured, second oil train.  All we know about the second oil train is that no handbrakes were set on the tank cars when it was inspected several days after the runaway of the first oil train.  We do not know that handbrakes were not set on the second train when it tied up.  We do know that the second train was accessible to the general public because a video was posted that showed apparently unauthorized people tampering with the locomotive.  And regardless of what happened with the second oil train, it proves nothing about the first oil train.
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