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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is interesting how much resistance there seems to be about crewless trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought change and progress were good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It almost sounds like denial of the inevitable like when they used to say that you could not run freight trains without cabooses.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would say that automated running is just as inevitable as cabooseless trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will come in stages though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With an open right of way, watching for intrusions will always be an issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So until spotting irregularities becomes automated, human eyes will have to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, they can do it from a stationary office just as well as they can from the locomotive cab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Switching too will be automated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole railroad plant is heading toward something like a giant vending machine.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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