Market doing well.

[GreenDuke]

Shithead I’m past the 20 year reunion mark anyhow

So you’re a middle age man and comport yourself in this fashion.
I kind of feel sorry for you.

 

[Marine03]

So you’re a middle age man and comport yourself in this fashion.
I kind of feel sorry for you.

Hey idiot, you still need a geography lesson on WV, and have you fixed your color blindness problem?

 

[GreenDuke]

Hey idiot, you still need a geography lesson on WV, and have you fixed your color blindness problem?

Thanks for confirming my previous post.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

I'm not looking to blame...just saying your boy was incorrect and they are coming back. heck, they even came back some under O before the Trump effect

Yet looking at the larger, longer picture he is correct. His word was "some". He never said "all". But for a lot of these small towns to be made whole again it would take "all". And in the grand scheme of things, Huntington and Charleston are small towns. Think about all the manufacturing jobs that have left there since, say, 1988. Think about the northern Panhandle. Those places are fvcked.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Train crews over the past 20 years have went from 4,3,2, and I’m some locations are down to 1. You can’t outrun technology

They should not be allowed to run with 1, IMO.

 

[Marine03]

They should not be allowed to run with 1, IMO.

Mostly yard switching crews with remote control locomotives

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Mostly yard switching crews with remote control locomotives

Yeah, yard is fine with RCO. RCO on a mainline making a pickup? That would not be a good idea. Is anyone now doing this?

 

[Marine03]

Yeah, yard is fine with RCO. RCO on a mainline making a pickup? That would not be a good idea. Is anyone now doing this?

Not yet but it’s in discussion

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Not yet but it’s in discussion

The first time a mainline RCO kills someone there will be a shitstorm.

 

[Marine03]

The first time a mainline RCO kills someone there will be a shitstorm.

It won’t be a mainline RCO it’ll be Engineer running alone

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

It won’t be a mainline RCO it’ll be Engineer running alone

Well what will happen if he has to do a pick up or set out by himself? He'll RCO the loco from outside. Don't kid yourself that the bean counters won't try to make that happen.

You need four eyes and two brains to prevent fvckups. Fvckups like not setting enough hand brakes and blowing up a town, like in Canada. Or someone missing, or falling asleep, and blowing a signal.

 

[Marine03]

Well what will happen if he has to do a pick up or set out by himself? He'll RCO the loco from outside. Don't kid yourself that the bean counters won't try to make that happen.

You need four eyes and two brains to prevent fvckups. Fvckups like not setting enough hand brakes and blowing up a town, like in Canada. Or someone missing, or falling asleep, and blowing a signal.

A utility man with a vehicle that covers drops and pick ups for about 200 miles round trip. This has been figured out for years it’s just a matter of the FRA signing off on it. When PTC is installed you’ll see it happen

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

A utility man with a vehicle that covers drops and pick ups for about 200 miles round trip.

Yeah, and eventually that will be cut too. I know how the big Class 1's work. $$$$$$$$ over everything else. I heard plenty of stories from Dad.

PTC will have failures. What doesn't?