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[quote user="Euclid"]An emergency application may likewise have been inadequate to prevent the derailment, but why did this engineer choose the second best braking response? I think I know the answer, but I want to hear with others think.[/quote] In the short available time it must have been an instinctive reaction, a terrible misjudgement. I don't know if his explanation is right or made up. Perhaps the unfamiliarity with the Charger played a role. If he really believed in the service brake application he might have thought the Charger's disk brake would make the difference. For the first time he had a locomotive disk brakes on an also disk brake equipped Talgo train, but didn't have any experience with it. But it is just speculation. And that might stay unsolved as it depends on the engineers word. Regards, Volker
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