Runaway: Stopping a Stolen Locomotive.

A train dispatcher must be ready for anything at any time. A good day, the most boring of days, can go bad in an instant. A bad day can go industrial strength ugly. As has been said about “Sully“ Sullenberger gliding to a landing in the Hudson and Al Haynes and his colleagues landing a badly damaged DC-10 in Sioux City IA in 1989, these are things you can’t practice for. All of such situations are unique and depend upon knowledge and instinct for resolution. This is one such day.