broritto89 t1_jeehci3 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:57 PM

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Shouldn’t we work on just getting our normal trains to be maintenanced regularly so we don’t keep getting derailments?

MarginCalled1 t1_jegzoof wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:14 PM

In my previous life I was an FRA certified Conductor and Engineer for Union Pacific. If FritzyBoy does anything it will be to remove the conductor and leave just the engineer and hope PTC doesn't wreck on every grade it comes across, that or ripping the train apart.

They were already trying to do that shit while I was with them and then they decided to go with this 'precision railroading' stuff and removed something like 16,000 rules, allowed train crews to shove without announced protection and a bunch of other shit.

I called all the train wrecks back in 2016 when they started whining about profits and stripping rules. Nothing that has happened is surprising to those of us that have worked in the industry. It's pure greed