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How close are we to unmanned mainline freights?
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Rail Roads are the worst environment on earth <br /> <br />Even if the railroad companies spent the money to isolate themselves from the public ( hahaha) the automated freight or coal train would probably make it about 90 miles between system failures of some sort and the software engineer , the network engineer and the communications specialist would have to jump in the truck and go find the train, fix the problem if they can and then turn the train over to the dispatcher for another 90 miles. You would just repace the engineer and his assistant with some other person(s). On a railrad like the UP you would have trains backed up for 2000 miles. I remeber when they put electronic controls on the SD40-2 and the grief that caused road crews because they couldn't jam blocks in the realys to get them selves home. If they do automate a railraod they should go back and make the Black Mesa and Lake Powel work first since they only run one train at a time and after ten years of debugging they may get some class one to go for it. On automated transit trains the first thing they show the Observer is where the reset switch is.
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