Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
Author: DCA
Date: 06-14-2015 - 08:36
As a young, but not "green" brakeman, I worked with one (and only one that was a problem) sleepy engineer who sometimes would quickly fall asleep during trips in the post-midnight hours. I would stand up, reach over to the horn cord, and blow 14L at deserted crossings. He would wake up briefly as the airhorn sounded above the F7 cab, but then go back to sleep. This usually lasted only a relatively few minutes and as we approached a town/interlockings, etc. I'd make sure he was fully awake and was reacting appropriately.
So I (and other brakemen I knew) probably prevented big problems. I never turned him in nor, apparently, did others. He would have been a disaster waiting to happen if he had been the only person in that cab.
NTSB: Engineer not texting, talking when Amtrak 188 derailed
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R.I. |
06-10-2015 - 18:24 |
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06-10-2015 - 18:52 |
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06-10-2015 - 21:01 |
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06-10-2015 - 21:12 |
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06-10-2015 - 21:24 |
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Dr Zarkoff |
06-10-2015 - 21:51 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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BOB2 |
06-11-2015 - 10:42 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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Max Wyss |
06-11-2015 - 13:44 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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Dr Zarkoff |
06-11-2015 - 16:13 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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06-11-2015 - 17:17 |
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Dr Zarkoff |
06-11-2015 - 17:55 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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Dr Zarkoff |
06-11-2015 - 17:59 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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06-12-2015 - 13:27 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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06-12-2015 - 17:46 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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Ed Workman |
06-14-2015 - 08:05 |
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DCA |
06-14-2015 - 08:36 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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06-14-2015 - 12:25 |
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06-15-2015 - 12:04 |
Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
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06-15-2015 - 13:15 |
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