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Re: Very Plausible that He Just Made Mistake, and we may never know?
Author: OTN
Date: 06-14-2015 - 12:25
DCA Wrote:
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> 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.
Why would anybody protect someone they had to work with in train service that could put their life in jeapordy by their non rules compliance?
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> 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.
Why would anybody protect someone they had to work with in train service that could put their life in jeapordy by their non rules compliance?
