From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 8/26/2014 8:35 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:40:47 PM UTC-4, Calvin Henry-Cotnam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Or is there somehting else I am missing?   
   >   
   > According to another article, the train was directed to the track by   
   dispatchers.   
   >   
   > But as you said, the facts have been blurred by incompetent media, since, as   
   you said, a errant train like that would've been tripped by a red signal.   
   >   
      
   A signal can be displayed for that move, but it would have been yellow   
   over yellow over yellow.  I would think that that should be a clue for   
   the motorman to speak to the dispatcher before accepting such a signal,   
   and I wonder why finding that he was wrong railing up the other local   
   track on a four track main line would not have caused him to immediately   
   stop the movement rather than continuing to the next station, regardless   
   of whether or not he heard the radio calls.   
      
   There are a number of issues here that need to be addressed, including   
   crew training, and discussions need to be had about situational awareness.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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