Retired train operator: ‘The system can let you down’

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When Larry P. Mitchell heard about the Metro crash last month, the recently retired train operator thought of the operator who was killed when she ran into a stopped train.

“To see all that coming at you at that speed. She must have been horrified,” he told The Examiner. “I know exactly how she felt.”

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