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Ed, the RCL also has an alerter. There is a high pitched tone and a button that has to be pushed periodically to keep the engine from setting the brakes. I am not sure if the inactive box has to pu***he reset or not but it is a possibility. I think it also makes an emergency application instead of a penalty service reduction. There was one incident in the yard with the remote making a shove on a big train with 30 cars of air in the head end. The operator on the locomotive didn't hear the high pitched sound from his box because of the engine noise. The remote put itself in emergency tearing a knuckle out and kicking the remainder of the train (without air)and the operator riding the end toward the lead and a departing train. Lucky for them they stopped a few cars from the end of the track.
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