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[quote user="marknewton"][quote user="SRen"]Why hasn't anyone pointed out the fact that having passenger train engineers working alone in a locomotive cab is a recipe for disaster?  I know from personal experience that having a second person in a locomotive cab can prevent accidents, as a frieght train conductor I have intervened on several occasions to prevent an engineer from making a mistake.  [/quote] And I know from personal experience that having others in the cab can be more of a hindrance than a help. I was working a train once with three driver trainees and an instructor up the front with me, and we all missed a particular signal... So I don't think that one-man operation is automatically a recipe for disaster, each situation needs to be considered on its merits. Our suburban and interurban EMUs are all equipped with deadman and task-based vigilance control, so for us having a second person in the cab would offer no real benefit. Cheers, Mark.[/quote]Hey Mark,So you mean to tell me that you have never had an experience where someone riding with you didn't point out or remind you about something that you may have missed.  I am willing to bet you have had such things happen to you but the occasions were so minor that you have forgoten all about them.  Remember everyone, the history books are full of major tragedies that could have been avoided had one single factor been changed.  Had a second man been in that cab I doubt he would have kept silent while the train was aproaching a stop signal without at the very least making some sort of comment.
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