>One point I'd like to make.  The train was a runaway, why didn't they
simply
>shut the locomotives down on the uphill grade and use the 2 locos behind to
>brake it?
Too easy a solution.  If they did that what would they do for the rest of
the show?
      |
   /\ | /\                      Life is too important to be taken seriously
  {o\/o}
    \   /                                 Remove xyzzy in E-Mail
    oo                           (You're at the end of the road again)
     V