So that would mitigate the shock of the crash.
So what would be our tin foil scenario. Crashes the train then takes a cyanide pill?
the locomotive does not contain the traditional “dead man’s switch” inside the cabin, but instead has other equipment in place to provide automatic breaking if an engineer is deemed to be unresponsive. He said this includes automatic alarms that go off if there is no action by the engineer. If the engineer does not respond to the alarms, the brakes are automatically triggered.
I believe the alarm goes off every minute or so. He could have had a heart attack just he entered the train yard and in 2 minutes disaster just before the emergency braking would trigger.