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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (19067)	2/12/2019 4:23:26 PM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 37415

No,, the original crew could not make their normal change off point because they were close to having their 12 hours in. Their normal change off point might have been Field or maybe Golden BC. ...West of where they did change off,, stupidly on a 2.2 % grade. This change off point is determined by the management and the crew an hour or two before their 12 hours is in ,,they know by their time on duty and the speed limits and terrain ahead that they can not make their original change off point. Arrangements are made to call a relieving crew to meet the original train crew at that particular point where there is a road crossing,,ideally ,,(switch crews ,,engine and taxi ),,and the relieving crew would carry on to the next terminal. The engineer of the original crew put the train in emergency to hold it on the 2.2 % grade. It appears that there was a delay of a few hours till the relieving crew got there,, change off was made, the relieving crew boarded and the train took off. If the original crew were not on hours they could have easily handled the terrain as they do it all the time,,a fully charged train line from grinding up the steep grades having excellent braking on the down grades ,,assisted by dynamic braking. This whole senseless tragedy could have been avoided had management taken a major lesson from Lac Megantic and arranged a sane crew trade off ,,on more level ground or a siding (Wapta Lake) rather than working a crew to their final hour and unfortunately,, the relieving crews final minutes. nationalpost.com