BOB2 Wrote:
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> Were they involving un-manned robo engines, or
> were they controlling robo-engines with there
> pack, and not paying attention to situational
> awareness?

Mostly Number Three, I reckon.

In UP's Council Bluffs incident, the employee stepped off a light engine that was moving along a switching lead and fouled the adjacent main track with his body and was struck by an approaching train.

In UP's Herington incident, the employee was controlling a six-car shove to a hook with his train on a main track when he fouled the adjacent main track with his body and was stuck by an approaching train.

In BNSF's Holbrook incident, the employee was releasing handbrakes after recrewing a westbound train. An approaching eastbound train noticed the stopped westbound and called it on the radio to announce its presence. The employee acknowledged the transmission on the radio. When the eastbound got close, the engineer of the westbound called the employee on the radio to tell him that the eastbound was right there. He acknowledged it. The driver of the crew van that had dropped him off noticed the employee was walking in the foul of the eastbound track and began frantically blowing the van's horn in an attempt to alert him, but was unsuccessful, and the employee was struck by the eastbound at 30 MPH. It was the fourth fatality on BNSF in 60 days.