Shit fuck piss cocksucker motherfucker !!! .......

Well PHUKK! Who handled that switch last? Why wasn't the engine crew attentive? What's a museum-run outfit do to an errant crew?

I guess they're all headed back to the museum on a charter bus.

I would think that they were suppose to lock out that switch?

That switch was always lined before.

I remember a crew on the Windy City side that ran a dwarf that was ALWAYS lined, I was told it had to with moving TOFC trains and everybody understood that was the way it was. Still, that crew was just as fired for the one it wasn't.

The Krink wrote:

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The steam engine had a blue tarp over the nose to hide the damage.

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                Underline Automatic Separator Line Method

 

People do that, tu.

FMB wrote:

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Cy Valley wrote:

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Well PHUKK! Who handled that switch last? Why wasn't the engine crew attentive? What's a museum-run outfit do to an errant crew?

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              and drug test anyone within a 5 mile radius..

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So, Calvin Quips:  HMFIC already leaving public hints of little to no punishment. Letter of Explination...

At some future time, I'll address what happened and what we have learned from it. At this time the only thing I will say is that two veteran employees, individuals who make invaluable contributions to our operation every day, made mistakes at the same place at almost the same time and it led to a very public accident. At SRC I lead our Confidential Close Call Reporting System Peer Review Team, where we analyze anonymous reports submitted by employees when things like this happen but they don't quite get to the point of impact. Let me say, they happen all the time and they happen at every railroad in the country, because railroads are run by humans and humans are fallible beings. My shop superintendent spent 27 years of his career with Union Pacific as a locomotive terminal and power distribution manager and he said that what happened to us happens every day on the UP. The point of the PRT is to determine the root cause of these near misses and how to prevent them. Leading this team and going through this process has taught me a few things that I will carry with me for the balance of my career. First, almost no accident or incident can be distilled down to a single cause. Contributing factors can number over a dozen in a single accident. Second, people who are inherently careless don't care about the threat of disciplinary action. They just don't care. In this case you have individuals who are going to beat themselves up more than we ever can for their mistakes and piling on the derision and punishment is not going to make it any less likely that the next guy is going to not make the same mistake. Of course, we will enact the penalties we have to according to the regulations and will cooperate 100% with the FRA, but we won't throw our people out when there is nothing to be gained and all the value they provide to be lost. We will look at our training, our practices, and anything else that made it more difficult than in needs to be for our employees to do their jobs and we will make changes to make things better.