>The news reports (there has been plenty of discussion on the right bank of the   
   >Atlantic) say the fatality was a woman on the concourse struck by debris, so   
   >having a loco on the front might have made things worse because it would have   
   >gone further into the station building.   
      
   Yeah, the engineer survived.  What makes me wonder about it being a push   
   would be whether or not some failure between the cab and the loco might have   
   caused the engineer's instructions not to reach the loco.  I am not real   
   knowledgeable on how those operations work, so maybe they are fail-safe.   
      
   Also, I think having the loco on the back means that there was only the   
   engineer in the cab, while the conductor may have been in the loco.  Having   
   the loco on the front would mean two sets of eyes seeing the same things.   
      
   Mike   
      
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