true.
He (the engineer) only SENT a short two line text message.
BUT that message was a reply to some message previously: They were having an extended conversation. THESE MESSAGES (both inbound, read, and outbound were what was distracting the engineer as he approached the other train.
“BUT that message was a reply to some message previously: They were having an extended conversation. THESE MESSAGES (both inbound, read, and outbound were what was distracting the engineer as he approached the other train.”
Baloney.
The ‘red light’ is a series of red lights, and once on the siding, stay red until the other train passes.
The only way to get onto the siding, is that the track ‘switches’. The engineer doesn’t control these switches.
Since these two trains were on the same track, that means someone or something switched over the track and turned the lights green. There is no other way a train gets from a siding and back onto the main track.
There ain’t no steering wheel in a train.