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The brakemen of the late 1800s resisted the introduction of the air brake because it made their job less manly.  Switchmen resisted the link and pin coupler safety paddles for the same reason.  I am not advocating a need for changing anything.  Hand brakes are the perfect technology if people use them properly.  What I am talking about has nothing to do with just another train wreck.  The industry is not going to have the luxury of arguing that their system is already perfect.  The incident in Quebec has started its own runaway train of public opinion.  Change is going to be demanded whether it is needed or not.  A perceptive industry will recognize the marketing that will be needed just to survive this onslaught public and regulatory scrutiny that is rolling their way.    But I suspect the naysayers are probably right that there will be so much resistance in such a big system of entrenched ways of doing things that they will not be able to comply with the new mandates.  Just giving up the oil business will be much easier than changing their way of doing things.
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