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Madam DA Mook and all, it is a violation of the Federal Hours of Service Act for any train or engineman to exceed 12 hours on duty. If the emgineer wants to be a good guy and pull the locos up to clear the circuit, and a Fed inspector is watching, he can be fined up to $10,000; not the Company, but the engineer out of his own pocket! If the dispatcher orders the crew to pull up to clear in violation, the dispatcher can be fined up to yada yada. Hence, none of these guys are going to stick their necks out. Some years back, an engineer was called to work a baseball special after the game. He warned the boss he wouldn't make it, and he didn't. He outlawed halfway to his destination, and the train full of hot, tired ball fans sat there until a relief engineer was called out. That made the news, too. The engineer later received a letter from a Company VP exonerating him. I once was outlawing on a westbound. We were in the middle of nowhere, and I told the trainman that my watch showed we still had 3 minutes to work. We then pulled up to clear an important crossing in town where we walked up and bought a breakfast while waiting for the taxi. No, I didn't block the road. Probably, the guy in Pottstown should have stopped short of the road and waited there, notifying the DS he had no time. But I don't expect he is in any great trouble. And Mook...I'm not "ornery". Usually.
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