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You have to wonder about the number of crashes that happened in the last you months with RCOs, especially considering the low number of these locomotives actually in operation. Management always says, well it could have happened with an engineer on board. The truth is switching procedures have changed with the use of RCOs. When an engineer was running the locomotive a switchman would often stay at a switch and let the movenent pass him to set a cut of cars over and send them back to the other switchman. This was fine the engineer protected the movement. Now with managements blessing switchmen still set 10 or 15 cars over in this manner with no one out in front. I'm not talking about into a RCO no protect zone or down a clear track, I am talking about pulling up a lead filled with switches. Is it any wonder that when they look one or two football field lengths up the lead that a misaligned switch is missed and a crash occurs. Why do they have managements blessing? It is not hard to see that getting as much work done with no engineer is extremely hard at best, so any shortcuts are condoned in the name of productivity.
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