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I confess I laugh every time I see that clip, even though there's nothing funny about it. I think just about every Thomas meme that could be thought of has been applied to comments at one time or another...
But this is the same kind of complacency and assumption. The crew was cleared to pass the SPAD, and ASSumed that also meant that someone had attended to the associated derail. So they open the throttle, and off they go... and off they went! At Strasburg, they're used to spring switches for the runaround, so back they come, waving as they go. And MOW has thrown them an unexpected curve ball.
I'm still fuming at those two engine crew that caused the Cayce wreck. There is a special form, the SPAF, that has to be filled out every time a mainline switch is thrown open. Just to protect against this kind of mistake. They faked it, probably as a piece of routine bureaucracy, and good people died as a result. Mercifully, this time at Strasburg it was relatively low-speed and the pressure vessel didn't come open. Mercifully.
