Yes, if I'm correct you are seeing the dynamic control on the left (forward for acceleration, reverse for dynamic braking) and the air brakes on the right - the big left handle is the train brake (sends the change down the brake line to the cars as well) and the smaller right handle is the locomotive-only brake (often used to get slow down the loco first so the coupler slack will get taken up and prevent bumping the passengers around or damaging equipment). The little LCD display shows some calculations to help the engineer make good braking decisions.
Above the dynamic control on the left you see a small rotary lever - if I'm not mistaken this is the reverser, which simply selects between forward, neutral, and reverse. As a fun fact, this lever pops out and is used as the "key" for the train. For safety reasons, the engineer removes it when they leave the cab so that it's difficult to get it out of neutral.
The big red button left of the dynamic control is the alerter acknowledge. This is the dead-man protection on locomotives and I suspect may factor into the conclusion on this investigation. When an alarm sounds, the operator has to press that button. The alarm becomes very jarring so it might have brought a confused or unconscious operator back to attention.
Above the dynamic control on the left you see a small rotary lever - if I'm not mistaken this is the reverser, which simply selects between forward, neutral, and reverse. As a fun fact, this lever pops out and is used as the "key" for the train. For safety reasons, the engineer removes it when they leave the cab so that it's difficult to get it out of neutral.
The big red button left of the dynamic control is the alerter acknowledge. This is the dead-man protection on locomotives and I suspect may factor into the conclusion on this investigation. When an alarm sounds, the operator has to press that button. The alarm becomes very jarring so it might have brought a confused or unconscious operator back to attention.