From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 11:12:28 AM UTC-4, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:   
   > In article <06afb18d-29a7-4c7a-a058-993d56f14a2c@googlegroups.com>,   
   > Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >The news was somewhat lost in the wake of the minor derailment of a D   
   > >train north of 125th St., which shut down A, B, C, and D service   
   > >throughout the city.   
   >   
   > I assume you're joking about "minor" and just mistaken about "D" -- it   
   > was an A train, and it was (and still is) quite the mess.   
   >   
   > I _adored_ Swingin' Joe Lhota's first public response to the crash, which   
   > was to:   
   >   
   > A) Blame the passengers   
   > B) Reveal his own ignorance of the system's functioning and equipment   
   >   
   > Within a few hours they'd revised the claim that a passenger caused the   
   > crash by pulling the e-brake cord to the perhaps more sustainable claim   
   > that at some point either before or after the derailment, the train went   
   > into emergency (as they do, any time there's any compromise of the brake   
   > pipe).   
   >   
   > They also seem to have done their best to bury Swingin' Joe's statement   
   > that the train might have been "old equipment where passengers can pull   
   > the emergency brake" or "new equipment where they can't"; since after all,   
   > it would be kind of embarassing if the shiny vaunted new MTA chairman,   
   > who already supposedly ran the system for several years, didn't know that   
   > the very newest equipment on the line that derailed was built in 1978, right?   
      
   The current account is that the minor derailment was caused by replacement rail   
   stored along the trackway but not properly secured.   
      
   The derailment was minor. Its effects were not.   
      
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