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[quote user="wabash1"]Now you keep bringing signals into this, there is hundreads of miles of rail that is still dark territory, no signals and these guys run 49 mph and as fast as 60 in places there could be a switch lined wrong a car rolled out of industry vandals park a bull dozer on tracks, any number of things and if its a clear night it wont make any differance if i am about to hit a bull dozer i rather it be foggy as i dont want to see what im hitting,it wont matter how fast you want us to go we are just as efficient in fog as we are on a clear day, ( or at least i am) [/quote]       So, just to get this straight:  You are saying that, in dark territory where no signals exist, engineers may run 60 mph in zero-visibility fog, with track authority alone.  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> It is interesting that every time the subject of automating train operation comes up on this forum, everybody says that would be impossible because human eyeballs riding the locomotive are necessary for safe operation.  And then, oddly enough, it is all about the worry of hitting cars at grade crossings.  We are told that the trial lawyers would have a field day trying a case where a train hit a car with no engineer on board watching ahead. <o:p></o:p> And now we are telling those same trial lawyers that engineers run 60 mph over grade crossings in fog so thick they can’t see past the windshield. <o:p></o:p>
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