I saw on the Up online expediter video ,they say it took conductor 45 minutes to walk 69 cars. How can that be true?
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Maybe we can get by another 24 hours for inspections and airbrake test on line??
That fatality is on the FRA..They have allowed the company to stop train inspections
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is investigating a recent fatal accident when a train operating on the mainline struck a piece of angle iron protruding from a freight car on the adjacent main track. Based on FRA’s preliminary results from its ongoing investigation, the piece of angle iron appears to have been part of the freight car (not lading, but a repair to the carbody side top cord of a scrap metal gondola car) that was starting to dislodge from the carbody. It appears that the piece of angle iron was in this state when the car was pulled from the customer, moved to a yard, and then added to a different train on the main track. The angle iron, which was protruding into the foul of the adjacent track, pierced a locomotive cab window and fatally injured a member of the crew.
The purpose of this Safety Bulletin, which is informal in nature, is to provide almost-immediate awareness to the industry that an accident or incident occurred resulting in a fatality or significant damage to property or the environment. Its purpose is to also provide the industry key information with which to brief or (re)train employees. As FRA completes its investigation, it may take additional actions with respect to this incident/accident.
Specifically, in this Safety Bulletin, FRA requests that railroads review this Safety Bulletin with its employees to increase awareness of this hazardous condition that led to a fatal injury. FRA also reminds train crew members that when at locations where a person designated under § 215.11 is not on duty for the purpose of inspecting freight cars (such as in customer facilities), prior to pulling any cars and only when it is safe to do so, to perform a proper visual inspection of freight cars for any protruding objects that may foul an adjacent track from a railcar, and if observing such a condition to immediately report it.
Narration has many errors in it . 1 scene shows him leaving crew office in Omaha.
Well at least as an expeditor, he drove the 170 miles from his home terminal in North Platte to the break in two in Gering NE in only 29 minutes.
How the he-l did it take 45 minutes to walk 69 cars? Was he crawling?
45 mins in great walking conditions and perfect weather. They’re so full of it. So one person does it so now it’s going to be there go to. Go figure. The company just get worse by the day like that PTC cr-p that’s been around for 40 plus years. But it’s all new they say so they can get rid of more people. I feel so sorry for all the new hires thinking they will have a job in the next year. Most of them haven’t even been out of training and already talking about laying them off.
It’s called walking by the cars but not looking at them except maybe the air hose connection and couplers.
To safely and properly inspect that many cars depending on terrain could take that long.
The keywords being "properly" and "safely" which doesn't usually equate to profits hence UP wants to leave a single man in control of 3 mile, 15,000 ton trains.
The rules are written in blood and so are the profits.