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[sanvtoman]

 This may have been posted before so excuse me if this is old news. But i just watched the program about the gang in Jersey that stole CR radios out of an engine and talked to dispatchers to find out train consists. It is amazing that people got that far as to steal off moving trains. Good thing they were busted.

[oskar]

Yes, it was. Conrail didn't due much to stop them. When they were caught they were kept somewhere and then released in 24-96 hours after they were caught. After the merger they started getting into NS trains. If I remember correctly if they were caught they were going to be in jail for years.

 

Kevin

[route_rock]

Wow that makes no sense that the DS would give that out over the radio. But oh well I guess lol stranger things have happened.

[CSXrules4eva]

Wow that makes no sense that the DS would give that out over the radio. But oh well I guess lol stranger things have happened.

 

I agree w/ you in that respect. I guess back in that day the Dispatchers really didn't know any better. I don't think there were any "raido rules" in regards to train movement back then. I also think that you could get away w/ " informal talk" on the radio. Now days in order to communicate and get trains over the road you have to follow the rules the railroad puts out in the Operations book as to how to speak over the raido to engineers, conductors, dispatchers, ect... or vise versa. At least that is what CSX has done. I think the main reason why the railroad has done this is because of all the accidents they have had due to miss communication or miss interperting information given.