That's interesting. I'm not sure that all dispatchers offices receive readouts from detectors. I question this because I've been there when a crew did not hear the detector talking (it did) and called the dispatcher. As much as the dispatcher wanted to move traffic he had no idea what the readout said. If dispatchers can do this on your railroad then you are right--on your railroad. I'll ask the next dispatcher I talk to about our line but I've never heard of that here.

No need for the snarky comment. At least not on my end.




theconductor Wrote:
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> ex-BN Wrote:
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> > Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> > > I've talked before about my favorite,
> detector
> > is
> > > down, crew passes, calls it in and the DS
> tells
> > > them to resume track speed-buhzinga!!
> >
> >
> > So. . .
> >
> > Train has a hotbox. They get the maintainer to
> > turn off the detector transmitter. DS says
> > highball. Crew highballs. Radio fails on
> > locomotive (or is turned down etc.) Train
> derails
> > spilling HazMat all over town.
> >
> > Brilliant test.
>
> If the locomotive radio fails, then it wouldn't
> matter if the transmitter is turned off or not
> right? The dispatcher gets a readout for the
> detector regardless of whether or not a manager
> has turned off the wayside broadcast.
>
> Your attempt at an argument failed.