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Re: A Little Perspective Of Things.....Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Dec 4 01:25:33 2013, in response to A Little Perspective Of Things.....Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle, posted by Train Man Paul : Metro-North's Best Conductor FOR ALL 3 LINES!!! on Tue Dec 3 17:10:18 2013. Well said. However, there is one thing no one on this board (or in the media) has mentioned yet. I've been wondering about it. Metro-North, earlier this year, made considerable increases in the number of revenue trains it runs, even on weekends. To the best of my knowledge, these additional trains were put on the various schedules without a corresponding increase in personnel or equipment. That is to say, MNRR hasn't made any big new purchases of rolling stock (other than the CDOT M-8 class). Are the crews working longer hours?I wonder if this factor had any impact on the train wreck, perhaps placing more pressure on train crews to arrive on time, so equipment arriving at a terminal can make another trip, on a tighter schedule than before. Shorter turnaround windows might have caused the engineer to operate his train a bit faster, and, possibly being tired, and having allegedly "zoned out", reached the point of no recovery before his attempt to put the train in the hole could have any effect. Just something I was pondering...thoughts? |
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