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In all of thousands of posts that we had about the tragedy at Lac-Mégantic, I don't recall anyone saying that the train had the automatic brakes in release, with the independent brakes for the locomotives being the only air brakes applied.

Does anyone remember otherwise?

ts1457 Wrote:
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> In all of thousands of posts that we had about the
> tragedy at Lac-Mégantic, I don't recall anyone
> saying that the train had the automatic brakes in
> release, with the independent brakes for the
> locomotives being the only air brakes applied.
>
> Does anyone remember otherwise?

Here you go:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,3123880,3124216#msg-3124216

This was the MMA procedure.

Ray

Ray_Murphy Wrote:
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> ts1457 Wrote:
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> > In all of thousands of posts that we had about the
> > tragedy at Lac-Mégantic, I don't recall anyone
> > saying that the train had the automatic brakes in
> > release, with the independent brakes for the
> > locomotives being the only air brakes applied.
> >
> > Does anyone remember otherwise?
>
> Here you go:
>
> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,
> 3123880,3124216#msg-3124216
>
> This was the MMA procedure.
>
> Ray

Thanks Ray. I missed the release brakes part.

Looks like you called it correctly. Wasn't a hell of a lot holding that train and the independent leaking off just tipped the balance.