From: ahk@chinet.com
John Albert wrote:
>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.
Damn. You're suggesting it could be sabotage.
>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.
As I've posted about Shermer Road, Glenview, Illinois, UP Milwauke sub,
several times, there was no NTSB investigation and the FRA took about
a year to release the report, which revealed nothing that the railroad's
own consultants hadn't told the public.
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