Metrolink Train Accident

I've been searching online for more information about the terrible accident which killed at least 25. I heard the driver of the Metrolink is dead, but none of the other train. Does anyone know what happened to them? I am surprised that there was only one person driving the Metrolink, you believe that there are two ... they do in airplanes. I do not know, I think Metrolink must take a critical look at itself, the train industry all reality. They need to update things and improve safety and emergency precautions in trains and tracks. Such a sad story, my heart is with the victims and their families.

You're right about the trajedy, and almost nobody ever thinks about the train crews, which is refreshing.
The use of personal communication devices while operating the controls of a locomotive has long been prohibited by our rules work.
I wonder why we are working with passenger trains only one person in the cabin while freight trains are generally reguired to have two people.
An engineer may be incapacitated for some reason (stroke, seizure, etc.) and the results were similar. There is a function of stopping the train, but it may take a minute or more to activate, a train can travel a long way this time.

Re: "One way car only 450 tonnes." Jeez, "means"? What is it "weighs"? And where did 450 tons come from? And I also found: "The freight train had two locomotives with a combined weight of more than 1 million tons, taking 17 cars. The Metrolink locomotive weighed about 250,000 tons." Ugh! Flag

No, he is not dead. The trains have only one engineer I know, weird. Keep in mind that he had nothing to do w / your ordinary train / Metrolink "precautions", the guy was his friend msging text. He had no idea when it struck the other train, it was just killed. I think they have all the precautions they need. If anything, they just need more common sense.

members and the other train there are 3 crew members
it was probably an engineer, then a firefighter or other brakeman) (engineer called active)
and driver

The train was the Union Pacific local Leesdale. He was an engineer, conductor, and brakeman. This is a five days a week local stretching between Van Neys and Oxnard. Although the three were injured (broken bones and deep trauma .. ect) none of the injuries were fatal. At that time, I think everyone is still in hospital.

The conductor and brakeman at home, but the engineer is still in the hospital since yesterday.

No, the UP conductor are not dead.

It would be nice if Metrolink can apply appropriate security measures, but there's really no money. The federal government does not support rail.

And I want to emphasize that even with this accident, train travel is statistically much safer than car travel.

There is still no evidence that the Metrolink train engineer was texting at the time of the accident. The NTSB is looking into its cell phone records, and they said he used his phone that day, but so far they do not know the exact time of text messages were sent and received. There is usually a time. I know I got text messages to friends who were sent to an hour earlier. If the network is busy, there could be a long delay. So for all we know, the engineer could send messages to the Chatsworth station when he was off the train, a break. You must be very careful to make assumptions until you know all the facts and evidence. Do not be fooled.