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   From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca   
      
   Michael Finfer (finfer@optonline.net) said...   
   >   
   >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.   
      
   I agree that the motorman bears some of the fault. My comments were   
   directed at the media that reports such an incident as if the motorman   
   deliberately "drove" the train the wrong way on a track.   
      
      
   >There are a number of issues here that need to be addressed, including   
   >crew training, and discussions need to be had about situational awareness.   
      
   Very true.   
      
   --   
   Calvin Henry-Cotnam   
   "Unusual or extreme reactions to events caused by negligence   
    are imaginable, but not reasonably foreseeable"   
     - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, May 2008   
      
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