From: zbang@sonic.net   
      
   On 5/14/2015 10:02 AM, Stephen Furley wrote:   
   >   Would the conductor have access to an emergency brake?  If   
   > so, then it's even more difficult to understand how two people could have   
   > not been aware that the train was travelling at such an excessive speed.   
      
   Yes, but in the first few minutes after leaving the station, the conductors   
   would be doing tickets and seat checks. They wouldn't be looking out the   
   windows to notice.   
      
   Trying to place this on a map- the train went off on the curve just past   
   Shore Tower? (Does that even exist anymore?)   
      
   z!   
      
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