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Re: SMART/UTU misstep on one person crews?
Author: Agent 99
Date: 07-31-2014 - 20:15
One person on board a train could work in places with good access - but as anyone who has worked for a railroad will know when things go wrong they will go wrong at the worst possible time (on a jammed up railroad with little or no "wiggle" room) and at the worst possible location (little, poor or no access). How much territory will a "master" conductor have to cover? If he can drive alongside the train in a vehicle why can't he be onboard?
Will railroads be so short sighted as to put only one person on a train, jamb as many cars on it as they *think* they can and then send it out into the wild blue yonder and expect nothing to go wrong? How many massive system tie ups will it take to justify having a second person onboard? What about the pending FRA rulemaking on crew size? And again, how is it "safer" to have two people onboard an oil train and not a coal train?
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Will railroads be so short sighted as to put only one person on a train, jamb as many cars on it as they *think* they can and then send it out into the wild blue yonder and expect nothing to go wrong? How many massive system tie ups will it take to justify having a second person onboard? What about the pending FRA rulemaking on crew size? And again, how is it "safer" to have two people onboard an oil train and not a coal train?
99 out
