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Old Jul 23, 2011 | 11:18 am
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Originally Posted by jiejie
This is one of things I was afraid of with the recent spate of power failures. A properly functioning system should have had functional signals for slowdowns and stops for all the trains along the track regardless of high or low speed type. Getting to the root of why that second train was continuing to barrel along is as important as finding why the first one lost power.
Why the second train didn't stop seems more important.

Human Error? i.e. Chatsworth 2008:Metrolink Train Engineer sending text messages while on duty.
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