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[quote user="vsmith"]<div>This is sounds like a stupid idea, a really stupid idea, and it all falls apart with one event. Does a one man crew have to stop the whole train to use the toilet, or will "Depends" be issued as standard equipment?</div> <div> </div> <div>OK that sounds silly but its absolutely serious, a one man crew CANNOT even get up and relieve himself with no one to temporarily take control, dont all locos still have a deadmans control to stop the loco if its not activated at the proper interval, what do they do with that? get rid of it so the engineer can move around the cab?</div> <div> </div>[/quote]<br> I hope that someone will jump up and correct me if I'm wrong, [angel]  but I seem to recall from prior discussion here that it is against the rules for a conductor, or other non engineer qualified,  employee to operate the train at any time, without the direct supervision of a qualified engineer standing direcctly over them.<br> <br> Seems like when I was arguing the inevitability of one man crews, Zardoz I think it was "straightened me out" that under such a situation with even a 2 man crew, the engineer has to notify dispatch and bring the train to a stop if he absolutely must use the restroom.<br> <br> Zardoz?<br> <br> <br>
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