Re: New on Jan 4 NTSB update re: Amtrak 501-Not Much New?
Author: B6b
Date: 01-09-2018 - 19:58
Joe M. Wrote:
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> I did some quick sleuthing of my own, the speed
> board at ~2 miles north just past CP Dupont seems
> woefully inadequate. (See Google Map view here -
> roughly at the intersection of Wilmington Dr and
> the east driveway for the State Farm Insurance
> campus in Dupont, WA.)
>
> Would it really have hurt them to put in
> searchlight approach signal? The tiny speed board
> seems penny-wise and a pound foolish.
Something that has worked for decades is foolish?
OK, just hire another crewman to stand behind the
engineer, call the sign, then whack him over the
head if he doesn't do anything. Oh, and then hire
another one to keep an eye on THAT one.
Obviously, 99% of you people have never been aboard
a moving locomotive.