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RR Carriers Bring One-Person Crews to the Table

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As many have already said it looks like one man crews will be implemented in the future. To what extent and how successful remains to be seen. With just a little over 35 years left to work, I see one man crews as a threat to my livelihood. I don't care who you are, or how much sleep you've had, it is my personal experience that trying to stay awake between 2am and 5am is very difficult. Just recently I was on a very small and light intermodal train that had two beasts on the head end (SD70ACe and an AC6600CW totalling 11,000 horses). Needless to say, maintaining trackspeed was not an issue. About 2/3 of the way through the trip I went to use the toilet for about a minute. I checked our speed, how close the next crossings were, the next signal, and if the engineer was awake. Everything was fine when I went down to the toilet. A minute to 90 seconds later I walk up to see us going well over speed! The engineer is asleep and he's still got the thing in throttle 8!!! I said "Wake up man, we're flying!!!" Anyways, this is a perfect example of why one man crews are not a good idea. People get tired, and on certain overpowered trains, things can go wrong very quickly. Just like Shrek I'm new and I'm wary of what will happen. I stay awake on all my trips for the sake of myself and the engineer. Two sets of eyes is always better than one, and sometimes when a split second decision is needed it's just better to have that second person there backing you up.
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