[lonewolf]

Been listening to the latest transport Canada press conference.
It's pretty clear that they and every railroad person out there like myself knows exactly what happened. Rule 112 was not followed.No or not enough handbrakes applied. it's as simple as that,unfortunatley.


This train only had one crew member,the engineer,and he did not put on any hand-brakes or not enough hand-brakes.
In my day we had 4 man crews and no way would you ever see an engineer cranking on hand-brakes.That was a job of the lower rank crew member.
The engineer and the company are in a lot of trouble here and lawsuits will be filed very shorty I'm sure.

What's going to come out hopefully from these proceedings is that trains are left all the time unmanned and running, doors have no locks. They are very soft targets. Anyone with knowledge , a brick to put on the dead mans pedal and a lever to slip into the throttle control can set a train down the track into god knows what.