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Re: Train was going 80MPH in 30MPH zone |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Dec 22 07:59:28 2017, in response to Re: Train was going 80MPH in 30MPH zone, posted by jimmymc25 on Fri Dec 22 02:48:01 2017. The deadman feature did not work all that well. I have seen LIRR engineers us a pencil to lock the controller down.It is easy to fall asleep and still keep your hand firmly on the control. It detects a DEAD man not a drowsy man. I sleep with my teddy bear. I tuck him under my arm and there he stays all night long no matter how much a toss and turn. If I in my sleep can keep hold of my teddy bear all night long while I am asleep, how hard is it to hold down the dead mans feature when you are drowsey. BNSF had a T-Bone collision where one train ran into the side of another, as his track merged with another. He ran several restricting and stop signals. His conductor was asleep and apparently he was too, although he kept resetting the alerter as he went along. A REAL ALERTER should display a three digit number and the engineer should have to enter that number to appease the alerter. This requires a higher brain function and will assure greater alertivity. LION's solution would be to automate the train and do away with the crew entirely. If I can do it on my HO railroad, how hard would it be for a realroad to do it given GPS and every thing else including PTC. ROAR |
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