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- From: rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura)
- Subject: Re: Incident on Boston (MBTA) Commuter Rail
- In-Reply-To: pierson@cimcad.enet.dec.com's message of 20 DEC 92 10:16:20
- Message-ID: <RMURA.92Dec21094207@world.std.com>
- Sender: rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura)
- Organization: The World
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- <38075@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Dec20.152616.15170@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:42:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.152616.15170@ryn.mro4.dec.com> pierson@cimcad.enet.dec.com (Dave Pierson) writes:
- >
- > Coupla things.
- > 1) Signal are commonly placed "in advance" of any point of actual
- > conflict. To slide by the signal is not necessarily a matter of
- > imminent danger, tho not something to be encouraged, certainly.
-
- These signals are very close to the two crossovers. When we went
- through the signal (whether red or not), we went over two switches,
- one on each crossover.
-
- Another thing that led me to believe we might have gone through
- a red signal is that after backing up and waiting, the train _did_
- cross over to the other track while we had gone "straight" the
- first time.
-
- --
- - Ron Mura, Boston, Massachusetts rmura@world.std.com
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