SD70Dude jeffhergert samfp1943 Announcement by Rio Tinto Mining Corp. in Australia. See Article linked @ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-train-australia/ Not to forget that just a short time back BHP Billiton's Coal Train Operations suffered pair of train derailments. First was a loaded runaway, discussed on this forum in its own Thread @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/273026.aspx [BHP blames engineer for runaway] The second derailment was much less than the first, derailing only some thirty empty cars. It would seem that RioTinto, is with the introduction of their autonomous robot train; to be trying to head off a similar problem that faced BHP? Without a driver, who will they blame when their autonomous robot train has a serious boo-boo? Jeff That's the nice thing about Trip Optimizer. When it gets a knuckle you don't get blamed. Unfortunately the Conductor doesn't get off so easily...
jeffhergert samfp1943 Announcement by Rio Tinto Mining Corp. in Australia. See Article linked @ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-train-australia/ Not to forget that just a short time back BHP Billiton's Coal Train Operations suffered pair of train derailments. First was a loaded runaway, discussed on this forum in its own Thread @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/273026.aspx [BHP blames engineer for runaway] The second derailment was much less than the first, derailing only some thirty empty cars. It would seem that RioTinto, is with the introduction of their autonomous robot train; to be trying to head off a similar problem that faced BHP? Without a driver, who will they blame when their autonomous robot train has a serious boo-boo? Jeff
samfp1943 Announcement by Rio Tinto Mining Corp. in Australia. See Article linked @ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-train-australia/ Not to forget that just a short time back BHP Billiton's Coal Train Operations suffered pair of train derailments. First was a loaded runaway, discussed on this forum in its own Thread @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/273026.aspx [BHP blames engineer for runaway] The second derailment was much less than the first, derailing only some thirty empty cars. It would seem that RioTinto, is with the introduction of their autonomous robot train; to be trying to head off a similar problem that faced BHP?
Announcement by Rio Tinto Mining Corp. in Australia. See Article linked @
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-train-australia/
Not to forget that just a short time back BHP Billiton's Coal Train Operations suffered pair of train derailments. First was a loaded runaway, discussed on this forum in its own Thread @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/273026.aspx
[BHP blames engineer for runaway] The second derailment was much less than the first, derailing only some thirty empty cars.
It would seem that RioTinto, is with the introduction of their autonomous robot train; to be trying to head off a similar problem that faced BHP?
Without a driver, who will they blame when their autonomous robot train has a serious boo-boo?
Jeff
That's the nice thing about Trip Optimizer. When it gets a knuckle you don't get blamed.
Unfortunately the Conductor doesn't get off so easily...
Same thing with LEADER. Got a knuckle 80 cars deep on a 135 car 2 x 1 DP coal train. The manager that did the download said he didn't think you could break a DP coal train in two. The energy management systems can. It was ruled to be a "Mechanical Failure".
It was a good thing they sent a manager out right away instead of waiting to download later. I couldn't hear the conductor's radio at all. I needed the manager to relay the conductor's commands to put us back together. I stopped following the LEADER for the rest of the trip.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
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