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I keep hearing the same "safety" and "economics" arguments batted back and forth, but I still don't understand the carriers' answer to a one-man "crew" on a single track main with a broken knuckle a mile deep and the nearest block truck two or three hours away. Are we just going to shut down the railroad for a few hours? Seriously, I'm not taking one side or the other, but I have never heard this issue addressed in these arguments. A knuckle weighs 72 pounds and no one is going to carry it a mile on level ground in the daylight, let alone at trackside in the dark. Even if the engineer is Superman, how does he make the joint and recouple the air after he replaces the knuckle?
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