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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffhergert Some UP engines have crew alerters and some don't. Have been on some where the alerter had been removed and on some where the railroad had added alerters (one time on an engine that had one added, the sanders came on when the engineer blew the horn). I remember reading somewhere of a study done where drowsy engineers acknowledged the alerter as fast, or faster than if they were fully alert. [/quote] I don't think there is one CP or Cn engine WITHOUT a crew Alertor. That changed after the big derailment in Western Canada where a CN freigth colided head on with a VIA rail only because The Engineer of the Cn train put his cooler on the Dead mans pedal, went to the washroom where he died. kind of pulled an "Elvis presley" special. The sad part was the CN train had 3 locomotives, the other two behind the head end locomotive had Crew Alert devices, Yes the head end had dead mans pedal So if i'm not mistaken theats when the governement stepped in and said Crew alter devices for everyone and everyhting. The derailment was in 1986.
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