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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered The recent thread on Casey Jones got me to thinking about a modern diesel engineer in something of the same situation. Here you are, having just run a red signal on one of the few railroads left in the world where you CAN run a red signal without God knows what noises sounding in your ears... and up ahead, there's the willow wisp flash of a FRED on the tail end of a local switching run. You're doing 70 miles an hour... you know the train ain't a gonna stop... what do you do after your emergency brake application and a rediscovered faith in miracles from God? Most collision accounts I've read seem to indicate that the engineers and conductors in locomotives nowadays will "hit the floor". I can understand the reluctance of some to avoid the big jump and add substantitive amounts of your DNA to our mythical railroad's finely kept maintenance of way... which leads me to my question: Are diesel locomotives more crashworthy than steam locomotives? Thanks in advance! Erik [/quote] Whoa there. You can run a red board lots of places. Alarms to the DS are generally at interlockings and not even every interlocking or control point has them (don't ask me how I know that...lol). Second, how many freights these days can travel 70mph? None that I know of... Yes, hitting the floor is a time honored tradition, especially if you plan on staying instead of jumping. It also keeps you away from flying glass on impact. Being behind the control stand also offers some protection. LC
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