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I personally think that remote control operations are a farse from management on csx. they told all of us engineers that we are being replaced by the rc for cost savings on the crew. what do they do then they spend money to put a brakeman in the engineers place. now you have two barely unqualified people operating the train. i came into syracuse one night with a train and on the east end puller job in dewitt yard was a conductor with 7 mos.experience and one with 6 mos as a brakeman. those two combined breaking down a 63 car cut while here i am running over a hundred car freight. the first thought that came to my mind was that the combined experience of those two being on the railroad was the same amount of time it took me to become a licensed engineer. it scared the **** out of me. i know the one man was that was killed in dewitt in feb. of 2003. he was a good safe worker. one death with someone using remote control is one two many
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