On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 8:13:29 PM UTC-4, googlemyass wrote:
On 6/12/2017 12:45 PM, wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 1:25:35 PM UTC-4, Richard Persing wrote:
On 6/9/2017 4:45 PM, Steve from Colorado wrote:
I was doing some fishing up near the townsite of Toland off the
Burlington Northern railroad near the Moffat Tunnel and noticed their
are no humans controlling the locomotives waiting on the siding while
some train coming the other direction gets the right of way. I guess
some Silicon VAlley startup has figured away to put all railroad
engineers out of work, losing their pensions and livelihood to robots.. I
wonder if they're is going to be an uprising as good paying jobs get
eliminated by automation and Amazon.

No, there will be no uprising.

There are no robotic freight trains in the United States. There are a few light-rail passenger lines, especially monorails and subways that have no other traffic intersections, that are autonomous.

As for "losing pensions," not that either.

I think we're getting a look at the way attitudes are shaped among the people who became Trump voters. Facts have nothing to do with it; it's all attitude, conspiracy theories, and empty accusations.

There's a switch yard in Council Bluffs where the U.P. sets up freight
trains to go either East or West. It's called The Jay as that's the way
the intersection is shaped. They use unmanned engines there all the
time. These engine cross numerous Council Bluffs streets all the time.
When I saw it I couldn't believe they were unmanned so I watched them
(more than one engine) do their work for about a half hour. Sometimes I
saw a switchman stand at the switch, other times I didn't see one, but
I'm sure he was there, as someone had to couple-decouple.

Steve

I don't know the story there, Steve, but FRA regulations currently require a one-man crew as a minimum, and has a list of exceptions that require a two-man crew. According to the industry, the major carriers all use two-man crews (larger for switching situations). The industry is lobbying for autonomous trains and there were big hearings last year, but nothing has come of it yet.

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Ed Huntress