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bigedd, your are incorrect. It is the remotes! The procedures that are followed when remotes are used cause switches to be run through. There ere times when movements are unprotected in the name of productivity. There are times when one switchman waits at a joint and the 2nd switchman pulls over the switch, lines the switch, then sends the movement to the 1st switchman. Who protected the movement as they pulled over the switch? There are times when the operators do not pitch and catch because it is inconvenient. This happens especially when tracks are coupled. One operator sits on the engine and the 2nd goes back to couple the track. Movements are made back and forth without communication between the switchmen. There are times that things the Remote Control Locomotive does cause an accident even though that was the way it was designed to operate. When shoving a large cut of cars if radio contact is lost the RCL dumps the air. That is what it is suppose to do. Unfortunately the RCL has no way of knowing if it even has cars let alone the sophistication to handle stopping a large cut of cars properly. The result might be as little as a broken knuckle or drawbar. But it has happened that the switchman on the end has been injured by the slack action.
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