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Re: Train was going 80MPH in 30MPH zone |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Thu Dec 21 13:08:39 2017, in response to Re: Train was going 80MPH in 30MPH zone, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Dec 20 17:39:16 2017. The delays with PTC are absolutely outrageous and the railroads have blood on their hands. First Spuyten Duyvil, then Philadelphia, and now Nisqually. The railroads should have had PTC 20 years ago. Amtrak has been running a PTC system on the Shore Line since 1999, and they should have installed it from New Rochelle to Washington, DC at the same time, since they own those tracks, but of course other lines are out of their control.The federal government should have been more strict with the deadline, and after these crashes. They should have immediately required that all passenger trains running without PTC have an engineer AND a fireman on them, and that they call all signals out verbally like the Japanese do. This would increase safety while the railroads are dicking around not getting PTC installed, and it would light a fire under their butts to get it installed. Heck, trains should NEVER have been allowed to operate without a fireman in the first place until PTC was installed. If they had forced firemen on all trains since the 1960's or 1970's when they were discontinued, the railroads would have installed PTC in the 1990's at the latest, possibly earlier if it was technically viable then! |
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