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Old 05-15-2015, 06:21 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Usually, locomotives have some sort of control called the "dead man", which basically means the train will stop if the engineer is not pressing x button or pedal or whatever. I really don't know much about non-Canadian railways (and I haven't read much about this particular accident), but if he had dozed off, that would probably have prevented it.
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