From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 8/25/2014 3:33 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Monday, August 25, 2014 1:57:18 PM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>    A subway operator on the A line recently piloted an express train uptown   
   >>    - on a downtown track - for several minutes before coming to a stop,   
   >> according to sources.   
   >   
   > The issue wasn't so simple as the train operator was directed to operate   
   wrong rail (per the article).  The train apparently was running at   
   'restricted' speed, 10 mph, prepared to stop short of an obstruction, another   
   train, or broken rail, and it did.   
   >   
   > But I don't know why it didn't hit a red signal, or the opposing train hit a   
   red signal.   
   >   
      
    From what I understand, the downtown train was being held at the home   
   signal at West 4th St.  The uptown train would have eventually   
   encountered a stop signal at the West 4th St. interlocking.  I do not   
   think that there are signals governing movements against the current of   
   traffic in that area.   
      
   What I do not understand is why that motorman accepted that signal,   
   which must have been displaying yellow over yellow over yellow, at all   
   without double checking, and why he did not think that going up the   
   downtown local track was not unusual enough to warrant stopping the   
   movement.   
      
   It seems to me that there must be an issue with employee training as a   
   component of what happened here.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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