Google Maps and GPS systems would not be adequate in detailing the forces that come into play. Hands on training, both day and night, is best way for engineers to learn the route. In this case it appears short cuts in training occurred. Not sure why the author of this article would think it “strange.” Most of us like short cuts.
Sure it’s best. But my point is that in an age of GPS it’s inconceivable that a train’s engineer would get “lost.”
GPS really makes location easy as pie these days.
I was watching a Netflix show the other day. Entirely fiction. Someone was kidnapped and buried alive. In the box she’s buried in she reaches her smartphone and calls the police. But she doesn’t know where she is. Has she ever heard of Google Maps?