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Re: Tom Payne-- Another "fly-by-night scheme"
Author: Earl Pitts
Date: 04-02-2008 - 20:36
FHL Wrote:
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> The issue of giving everyone else a black eye
> would be almost nothing,
No, it is a very important issue, especially for locomotive owners/operators that do not have their own trackage to run on. All it takes is for one group/person to cause problems on any particular railroad, and the game is over for everyone who wants to operate on that railroad. Or on any other railroad that finds out about it.
Trying to operate a locomotive that is chock full of federal defects (some of which were designed in and some of which came later as a result of ignorant and/or shoddy maintenance) and has very suspicious paperwork behind it is one way to make certain that not only that engine and that group won't turn anotehr wheel again, it also makes rialroad managements assume that "...they're all like that...they are all crazy and we don't need the risk and disruption."
In spite of that fact that nobody wants to talk about it, that is one of the reasons why small handful of locomotives and people are not running on big railroads. Some of these people and their engines are well known, others aren't. Few get a second chance. Fortunately, a few have gotten the second chance, but it came only after a lot of time had passed and much fence mending had been done. And almost always because a few of the worst troublemakers were booted out.
So yes, it IS a big deal.
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> The issue of giving everyone else a black eye
> would be almost nothing,
No, it is a very important issue, especially for locomotive owners/operators that do not have their own trackage to run on. All it takes is for one group/person to cause problems on any particular railroad, and the game is over for everyone who wants to operate on that railroad. Or on any other railroad that finds out about it.
Trying to operate a locomotive that is chock full of federal defects (some of which were designed in and some of which came later as a result of ignorant and/or shoddy maintenance) and has very suspicious paperwork behind it is one way to make certain that not only that engine and that group won't turn anotehr wheel again, it also makes rialroad managements assume that "...they're all like that...they are all crazy and we don't need the risk and disruption."
In spite of that fact that nobody wants to talk about it, that is one of the reasons why small handful of locomotives and people are not running on big railroads. Some of these people and their engines are well known, others aren't. Few get a second chance. Fortunately, a few have gotten the second chance, but it came only after a lot of time had passed and much fence mending had been done. And almost always because a few of the worst troublemakers were booted out.
So yes, it IS a big deal.
