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While watching PBS' Nightly business news program, hosted by Susie Garab (whata' hotie) Couldn't help but comment on Jim Youngs' ( Ceo and President of UPRR) interview. Nice job Mr. Young, you were delightful and informative. The part about not expanding thru mergers and byouts surprised me though. I really thought that UP might be poturing
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Hiya all, Been busy tryin' to follow all these new rules and all. Even though I'm not gainfully employed by any railroad, I've still been tinkerin' with some techno stuff that I kinda' adopted back in '06 when I was still conductorin' and illegally runnin on the hogger side. This whole thing (one man cab) and the like was
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Hey BTTF, Been awhile, just droppin' by to say how do!.......enjoyin' your insight....keep it up guys.
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Okay, let's get input on PTC, the FRA is mandating the Carriers' install and adopt PTC by 2015, the questions are: Just how interoperable is PTC? At what point does anyone other than the FRA/DOT and the Carriers get to express it's view on adopting the training of it's employees/users, what qualifications will be necessary to implement
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Smokey, What's your take on the new HOS, and how do you think your years of service might interpret them?
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Why doesn't more transit agencies build to that freight and passenger track standard ,would it not help alleviate the need for constant and annual fed and state subsidizing?
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Jacksonville, Just a note here. Fact: According to the FRA studies RCO has increased nor reduced the number of death or injuries since its inception. So it's not necessarily the big ogre railroads that don't care.
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[quote user="fireeveryoneinjacksonville"] [quote user="BacktotheFuture"] I agree with James. In my years with the r.r., I have run across only a handful of the scheduled employees that either 1) have a true interest in management of what the company does without any prejudice, and 2) have the open-mindedness to be a manager. I've
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Mr. Mancuso, Yes, I'm in agreement with your insistent opinion, what hapened there could happen anywhere. And once again, it's not a matter of when hi-tech is coming to the railroads, but when? Just earlier today Boxer and Rockerfella, are pushing for grant funding for pass/freight railroad and PTC implimintation. And what we as professional
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Jack, You've misinterpreted what I said, never implied that you would have shorter trains because of smaller crews. What it amounts to is that shorter trains because they can run closer (tighter) proximities of each other, and because there are actually more places to stack them up as opposed to the availability of where to park a long train in