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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 to make the engineer mad by going off at the stupidest times. ( like while doing a switching move .) its use is for stopping the train if the engineer goes to sleep ,dies, falls out the window saving the conductor. [/quote] The official purpose of an alerter is to act as a safety device to prevent the Engineer from falling asleep or dozing of and not paying attention, thus it's name "Alerter". Unofficially, as Wabash correctly points out they are often a useless pain in the ***. They are supposed to reset automatically when you use the brakes(independent, automatic or dynamic) or the throttle. Often they don't. Also, there is a manual reset "whisker" that is on the control stand so you can hit that and reset. LC
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