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[QUOTE]Originally posted by delvyrails: [QB] As noted earlier, these severe accidents always are attributed to a number of causes. If any was not present, the accident would not have happened. Chief among them in my opinion is the habit of expediting freight trains over passenger trains. You'd expect this to be routine on Union Pacific, but not at Chatsworth where a passenger carrier, Metrolink, owns and dispatches the line. If that eastward UP freight had been safety in the hole at the next siding west of the impact site, this acccident would not have happened. It's grievously interesting to note that if the commuter train HAD stopped short of the red signal, getting the freight train into the siding there at Chatsworth would have consumed enough time to set the commuter train several minitues behind schedule. So neither doing the safest course nor keeping its trains running on time seems particularly to have been important for Metrolink in this case. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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