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From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca

Wayne Hines (w.d.hines.unspammed@ns.sympatico.nospam.ca) said...
>
>The locomotive/independent brakes should have been off to test whether
>the applied handbrakes would hold the train.

The MMA railroad should have had a rule and procedure in place to that
effect. They didn't even have a rule requiring the minimum number of
handbrakes as recommended by Transport Canada. The locomotive engineer
set the number of handbrakes that the MMA's rules told him to set and
no further test procedure was to follow.

The point is, no disaster is ever attributable to one or two things. It
takes several failures in combination.

--
Calvin Henry-Cotnam
"Unusual or extreme reactions to events caused by negligence
 are imaginable, but not reasonably foreseeable"
  - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, May 2008

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