|
|
| Re: Railroad Workers United: Freight trains in excess of one mile in length too risky for 2-man crews (1446782) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Railroad Workers United: Freight trains in excess of one mile in length too risky for 2-man crews |
|
|
Posted by orange blossom special on Thu Aug 17 13:41:45 2017, in response to Railroad Workers United: Freight trains in excess of one mile in length too risky for 2-man crews, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 17 01:32:53 2017. Inference from article. Short trains are better. Should they be 1 car or 5 cars tops?"There is currently no federal regulation limiting the number of cars in a train or number of crew needed." Federal regulations come from: "The only thing that regulated how many cars were in a train were union contracts." Do we need a federal bureaucrat copying union contracts? What is easier to change, that union contract, or the edict from Washington? "But when oil boomed in the Midwest, the industry shifted to much longer trains to get oil to markets faster." Made Obama's backer rich. Helped that he didn't want oil pipelines to ease that flow and spent the money on oil pipelines in Kenya instead. Screwed up the Canadian wheat markets too with the oil tankers, in other words, should've never had this issue. " and make sure the car numbers and cargo correctly matched what was on the manifest," Don't the trains get made by those super-centers where it's all automated? |
|
|
|