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[quote user="BaltACD"][quote user="1435mm"]One-man crews are feasible, practical, and inevitable, for most of the road jobs in North America.  If it's safety you want to improve, ask Congress to change its instructions to the FRA and start permitting U.S. railroads to implement the systems that are on-the-shelf and available today that positively enforce authority violations and excess speed.  Those systems do more to improve safety than any number of extra employees in the cab.  (Ironically, those systems -- which are engineered and manufactured in the U.S. -- are being installed in developing-world countries where the FRA has no jurisdiction.) S. Hadid [/quote] Be my guest to be that One Man 'crew' on a 9000+ foot train that is in emergency in the middle of a cold rainy night in a hostile enviornment. [/quote] I've been in worse, but that's not the point.  You and I aren't the point.  The point is that if someone wants better safety, there's better ways to do it than insist on two men in the cab and resist installation of authority-violation systems that already exist, and already work.  And the economics are creating immense pressure that we aren't going to stop. S. Hadid
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