SACRAMENTO —

It’s been nine days since Sacramento Regional Transit had a runaway train, and they are just now talking about what happened.

They justify the delay in reporting by saying they had to figure out what happened. Apparently, RT had problems figuring out what their technician was talking about, too.

The technician was trying to run down an electrical problem with the train, according to RT’s findings, released Friday. He had disabled a pedal that must be held down by an operator in order to make the train move.

It’s call a dead man’s switch. According to RT’s Mark Lonergan, the technician had wedged it down with a screw driver.

The train reached a top speed of  43 miles-per-hour and traveled about a mile and a half before some of its wheel left the track caused it to loose power.

That thing on top of these cars, that’s called a pantograph. That was broken, so the train had no energy to move.

But it passed through stations and and three traffic intersections before that happened.

Automatic gates came down in each case, but RT never called 911