Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >The whole idea of "watching the screen instead of
> looking out the window" is a little overblown.
> It's new, we're all trying to get used to what
> we're looking at.
>
> Apparently you've never been in an engine where
> the guy (or guy-ess) driving paid more attention
> to the radio than the gang about to be run over. I
> used to take the radio away from these types of
> individuals, and there are enough of them out
> there to be worrisome.

I don't want to discount what you went through, because I wasn't there. However, if you were on a train that was about to run through a gang, the failure most certainly didn't occur solely because someone wasn't looking out the window.

Again, I refer you to my fog (low visibilty) analogy.

Unless operating under restricted speed, one could run an entire subdivision without windows with working PTC.