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UP says it is ready for 1 man crews
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Ok. <br /> <br />Put one man crew (Why are we using the word crew anyway? That's plural) on that train UP. <br /> <br />The very first busted coupler you see on that train 100 miles from anythingville is going to be the one that halts that division. <br /> <br />Or even that through train has to sit sometime at a red signal. <br /> <br />Perhaps that engineer goes to sleep while waiting for it to turn green again. Who is going to be the one to be sent to wake him or her up? <br /> <br />Or worse yet... some kind of freak accident that breaks the boot of the engineer and causes a injury that must be tended to right now. <br /> <br />Who is going to be found to be sent out to drive that train huh? <br /> <br />Answer these questions UP. If you think you have ways to solve these problems in a timely manner then you go ahead and put one man crews on them dar trains. <br /> <br />I strongly state my position that more than one person be assigned to a train. Any train. <br /> <br />If you can deploy 100 men on a MOW train for a week at a time replacing ties in my town, you can afford to deploy 2 or even 3 on your through trains. The cost of the crew's time driving your trains is but a drop in the revenue of that train load. <br /> <br />Is the railroad so hard up that they cannot afford the payroll? I dont think so.
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