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Re: New on Jan 4 NTSB update re: Amtrak 501-Not Much New?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 01-09-2018 - 17:41
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Not much here that's new. Speed sign(s) were
> still there.........
>
> No word at all on if they were in dynamic braking
> or what throttle position they were in,
> approaching a 30 mph. restriction, on a long
> stretch of down grade approaching the speed
> restriction.....?
>
> How long of a period does the inward facing camera
> record? Did they call out the speed board with
> someone else in the cab, or report it by radio to
> the conductor?
>
> I know that some will think that calling speed
> restrictions and signals is kind of silly when
> you're alone in the cab (it can be,
> but....)...and, as I've repeatedly heard the
> engineer calling restricting signals with the
> conductor, by radio, on LOSSAN, some folks
> apparently still do it?
>
> What are the current rules on that, has that
> changed that much with one man in the cabs?
>
> As I note, not much new here.......less questions
> "answered", relative to the information and data
> that they must have gathered by now, from the
> on-board systems.
>
> I can't wait to see the front facing camera
> view.........
What's been added is the information about the crewmembers in the cab.
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> Not much here that's new. Speed sign(s) were
> still there.........
>
> No word at all on if they were in dynamic braking
> or what throttle position they were in,
> approaching a 30 mph. restriction, on a long
> stretch of down grade approaching the speed
> restriction.....?
>
> How long of a period does the inward facing camera
> record? Did they call out the speed board with
> someone else in the cab, or report it by radio to
> the conductor?
>
> I know that some will think that calling speed
> restrictions and signals is kind of silly when
> you're alone in the cab (it can be,
> but....)...and, as I've repeatedly heard the
> engineer calling restricting signals with the
> conductor, by radio, on LOSSAN, some folks
> apparently still do it?
>
> What are the current rules on that, has that
> changed that much with one man in the cabs?
>
> As I note, not much new here.......less questions
> "answered", relative to the information and data
> that they must have gathered by now, from the
> on-board systems.
>
> I can't wait to see the front facing camera
> view.........
What's been added is the information about the crewmembers in the cab.
