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Head-on collision on UP's Golden State Route
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">BaltACD,</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-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I understand what you are saying about the DPUs not responding as though they were in MU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was just thinking that since they transmit DPU signals from the head end to the DPUs, they could also send the head end event recorder data just for the purpose of backing it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this day and age, it seems kind of old fashioned to risk losing this ultra critical data in a wreck just because it is not backed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would think they would be able to save all the data at a remote site as soon as the data is created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like the controlling unit event recorder would have had the possibility of yielding information that would have led to several different possible conclusions about what the engineer was doing.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe backing up the event recorders in real time is something for the <em>Trains</em> Tech Column. </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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