From: j.albert@snet.net   
      
   On 7/11/14 11:34 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Apparently it's the political decision to prosecute the three men for   
   criminal   
   > wrongdoing.   
   > You said a while back that you had a theory, that the brake cylinders   
   > lost too much air pressure too quickly to be explained by the   
   > engine shutoff.   
      
   Actually, I believe that somehow, the train brakes   
   (automatic air brake) got put "to release" by movement of   
   the automatic brake valve. After the air reservoirs on the   
   engines "leaked down" to the point where there wasn't   
   sufficient pressure in the brake cylinders of the locomotive   
   consist to restrain the train (in addition to what hand   
   brakes had been applied), the train began to move.   
      
   The questions remain -- who moved the air brake handle, and why?   
      
   But again, this doesn't "fit the narrative" that the   
   authorities (prosecutors) want to use to prosecute the   
   employees. So -- at least for now, there is no "report", so   
   that this information can be kept surpressed.   
      
   The investigators saw why the train moved within a short   
   time after examining the printouts from the event recorders.   
   I'm convinced of this fact.   
      
   They realize that the facts may serve to exonerate the   
   engineer, not convict him.   
      
   Thus -- they can't release the facts.   
      
   Again -- when in the history of railroad disasters has it   
   taken more than a year for investigators to publish the   
   report of their findings?   
      
   They're hiding something.   
      
   That's my take.   
      
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