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What most of us here in UP land seem to think is that the goal is to cut employees! One train, one operator. Setouts? Strap on your remote box, link up and do the setout. With the exception of locals and switching the railroads can reduce manning costs by 50%. Quite attractive. Our own UTU says "No union has ever stopped technology". And I suspect they are correct. As for safety, it is said the data show the vast majority of errors/faults are human, and that a computer run train with one employee monitoring is safer. I hate to say this, but I belive we will see this on most class 1s in 5 years. One train-one trainman.
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