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National Transportation Safety Board: Fatal 2009 Canadian National wreck ‘could have been averted’
The AC6000 distracted me. The 'screen displayed to degrees, minutes and seconds latitude/longitude as we went thru curves on the Cal-P along the Sacramento River. The “seconds” would change based on north-south or east-west changes.
Where’s HERE.
On another higher ladder rung: programmers, can this nation and affiliated, have a system which will transmit by encoded apps or e-mail or voice, whatever, to concerned emergency responders when a Haz-Mat train will be in (include the GPS route) their territory. When the territory’s cleared the message goes away.
The encoded message to the responders would include the position in the train of haz-mat cars, interaction of the haz-mats after burning. detonation, water pollution…?
The message comes in earliest and stays until the next jurisdiction from you is cleared by the train.
Accessible info by Web, smart-phone, Ipad for any responder at the scene…this is primitive Twenty-First Century possibilitiies?
What is best run?
So, what happens now? Can the board levy a big, fat fine that will make CN want to avoid screwups like this again? Or is this all just a paperwork exercise.?
Do you even realize what the information stream would be in a city such as Chicago? They would be inundated with needless information…when something DOES HAPPEN they would have the needed info in the hands of first responders right from the train crew. Thats what we are supposed to do.
CN will pay more than 30 million dollars to the woman killed in the Rockford derailment. The NTSB again called for a design change in tank cars. They took CN to the woodshed on this one and rightfully so.