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Every time this issue comes up I see the same cost versus safety arguments, but one thing I seroiusly hope someone can tell me is what the railroads plan to do when a one-man "crew" on a single track main breaks a knuckle a mile back in the train two or three hours from the nearest block truck. Are we just going to shut down the railroad for several hours? A knuckle weighs 72 pounds. Even if some super-human engineer is going to walk a mile in the ballast with a knuckle in his back pocket, how does he make the coupling and restore the air to the rear of the train? If you break a coupler, how does a one-man "crew" set out the car? <br /> Most of the class 1's are running pretty close to capacity now. Taking one man off every crew start will save a lot of money, but tying up the mains has got to be very costly. <br /> <br />
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