Since the moment Superman first flew to Bialya, every move and action from all of the Justice League has felt like that of a train whose brakes have gone out.

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Railway officials are also puzzled by the driver and his assistant's apparent lack of reaction - they do not appear to have tried to jump off the train or apply brakes.

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Just 20 seconds elapsed between the time the first train came to rest and the moment it was struck by the westbound train, whose engineer had deployed emergency brakes to slow the train.

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If a careless driver jumps a red light, the brakes come on and the train halts.

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The brakes, as near as I could tell, would stop a train: Dazzling 15-inch-plus ceramic discs beam through the wheel spokes.

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The driver of the train, which collided with wagons carrying cement, was quickly blamed, but broken brakes and a weak engine were also at fault.

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They'll look at the brakes and performance of the trains, the condition of the tracks, crew performance and train signal information, among other things.

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