This is an interesting story....
http://cbs2.com/local/Metrolink.Enginee ... 17045.html
Apparently the engineer of the passenger train sent a text message to teenage rail fans just prior to a deadly collision with a freight train.
Metrolink is now claiming the engineer ran a red signal.
The inference, all but explicitly stated, appears to be the engineer may have been sending a text message to rail fans *while* he ran the red signal, leading to the disaster.
I hope the circumstances are somewhat different than what is suggested here, but if not, its a real black eye to the hobby, albeit undeserved in the larger picture.
Tom
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