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?
“Lost” may be overstating it. It is not the location that mattered, but the tightness of the curve. An aerial view is deceiving. I’ve driven through mountains with a GPS in 3D mode, and the device does not do justice to the sharpness of the curves. If these engineers had only run the route a couple times at night, it stands to reason they may have been taken by surprise. But the speed limit signs and daylight conditions make things questionable, to be sure.
The last time I was buried alive Google Maps was still in its infancy.
Physics is not on your side if you are buried alive. Not much dirt on top of your box or whatever and the high frequency cell phone signal will not get in or out. A few years back, we had a banker kidnapped and buried in a box. They used a garden hose to provide air. Does not work. They found him not long after having expired from lack of oxygen.