Ocala Mike wrote:Got you loud and clear, UPRR Engineer. The signals rule, as they should.
I wasnt being rude eather buddy
, my post sounds bad when i read it also, there aint any other way to explain it with out being blunt.
MNRR_RTC wrote:
I wonder, in this case, if both trains were equipped with a cab signal system, could the accident been prevented?.........or the train would of dumped.
Cab signals arent fail safe eather, human error can and does still take place. If your still not paying attention to the lights, your hand acknowledges the signal but your brain doesnt. Theres some other situations also where the human factor makes cab signals useless.
Failure to acknoledge the cabs throws you into a penelty aplication, which sets the brakes on the cars ( opens a hole on the headend which allows the air in the train line to bleed out ). Cab signals, alerter, and the overspeed gives you that kind of a stop, an emergeny stop ( dumping it ) is some totally different. That comes from the air handle getting put there, the conductor using his lever, being rough with FREDDY, a dynamiter car, getting an air hose......ect ect