Ouch! Looks like she really took a hit. Nice shot and description of the incident!
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Interesting photo and story JR, and thank God no one was hurt. Can anyone tell me what PTC equipment is and what it does?
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PTC is "Positive Train Control" and its purpose is to avoid the very situation that is depicted in this picture, the Oct 2011 issue of Trains Magazine has a complete article on PTC.
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Did crew fatique cause this? Asleep at the throttle will lead to a rear-ender.
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| Posted by Gary on October 8, 2011 | |
We'l have to await the outcome of the investigation I guess but there are a number of things that can cause a collision, signal failure being another. Does PTC prevent a train from passing a red? We have 'TPWS' in the UK which will 'over ride' the engineers actions if he passes an advanced signal to fast and approaches a red to fast and the train will come to a stop hopefully before a collision. A great result no one was killed on this accasion, testimony to the build of those units!
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Looks like the engineer had to make his/her exit at the rear of 4258!! Good picture and discription of what happened. 4258 looks a little lost with no track any where in sight!
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| Posted by JR Leal on December 30, 2011 | |
The cause was failure to comply with restricting signal.
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Query/incrpt.aspx
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