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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by ValleyX</i> <br /><br />Well, Gates, it's kind of like the whistle posts, those walkways have been essentially the same since the switcher-type locomotives were first built, nigh onto fifty years now. Sometimes, you do what you have to do to get across the road. I have personally known two individuals that did fall off, one landed in a snowbank and I'm not sure what the other landed in but both lived to tell the tale and both railroaded again. <br /> <br />Waltersrails, getting other engines isn't always an option and you don't get to make that decision, anyway. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I hope you don't misinterpret my intent here. <br /> <br />Although I am an advocate of working safely, My personal feelings are that often the "safety lobby" goes way overboard in prescribing safe work practices. <br /> <br />I see nothing wrong with moving from loco to loco, as far as my personal feelings go. <br /> <br />but at the same time, it would not have shocked me to hear that the Liability conscious RR's would have an official rule against anything that exposed them to too much liability. <br /> <br />Especially with the attitude I've perceived NS to have. That hiring session I went to last spring coincided just a day or two after some wreck they had down south. And the guy leading the session offered the observation that HE KNEW that once the investigation was complete, it would be determined that the cause was because ~somebody~ didn't follow the rules. <br /> <br />Which, seemed rather arrogant, considering the guy knew no more than he read in the paper (his own admission) and no fact finding had yet been done....yet he's gonna stand there and say that it COULDN"T be the RR's fault. <br /> <br />No no, the RR must have forseen this possibility and had a rule ready to prevent it,...and clearly it must be the employee's fault for having failed to follow those rules etc etc. <br /> <br />So. the moving between locos scenario wouldn't surprise me to learn that the RR has in place a cocoon of rules written such that if anything goes wrong, it clearly isn't their fault. <br /> <br />Such as a requirement that the train be stopped, even though practical time constraints might be such that no one would dare delay the train by doing so. <br /> <br />Becoming one of those rules you are expected to break, until something goes wrong. Then it is your goose that will be cooked.
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