@Number 90 posted:When I was a new official, I naively furnished a derailment closeout on a rickety industrial spur as "Spread Rail". My phone rang, and the Superintendent's first word was not "hello." The greeting, if you would call it that, began with, "Mister, I just got your closeout." And that was the nice part of the phone call.
I was involved one time in an aircraft crash investigation since it was a fuel system that I was the project engineer on. The resulting accident investigation took four years and resulted in tons of changes to aircraft fuel systems industry wide.
I have no doubt that a big train accident can have a similar lengthy process, lots of subtle factors can enter into an accident. There is almost never a single factor in an accident, it's almost always a chain of events that lead up to the incident.
