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[quote user="sgtbean1"][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?[/quote]Well, I'm not sure if that is true.In the EU, most trains - freight or passenger - only have the engineer in the cab. Freights normally don't even have a conductor. Yet very few accidents happen that can be traced back to grave human error preventable by adding an extra crew member. [/quote]Of course in the EU where the railroads have been subsidised by Socialist infrastructure programs I am willing to bet all locomotives and rail lines have some sort of Positive Train Seperation system already in place.  The railroads in North America had systems like this in the past, we called it ATS (Automatic Train Stop)  but as the fortunes of the railroad industry saged between 1950-1990 most of these safety systems were ripped out to cut maintenance costs.  It would cost a fortune and take years to re-install an up to date Positive Train Control system today, an extra pair of eyes on the otherhand could be placed in all passenger train cabs within a year and cost only a fraction of PTS technology.
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