Asking "will these trains actually work on our infrastructure?" is a pretty obvious question to ask, not requiring any great in-depth engineering education or i

Asking "will these trains actually work on our infrastructure?" is a pretty obvious question to ask, not requiring any great in-depth engineering education or insight. This is also the sort of question a chief engineer can just delegate to an underling to research. It's of course easy for me to say that in hindsight, but you really do need to be beyond clueless to never even consider it. I just did high school, don't know much about trains, and I'm reasonably sure I would checked. I might have been found out in some other way, but not through this. Seems more of a good old-fashioned corruption case. And oh yes, by the way, he also faked his PhD.