Fracked Gas "Bomb Trains" - Steve Horn Discusses The Latest Developments

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2. What can go wrong

It’s not just the crews, dispatch plays into stressful situations.

Every engineer and conductor knows the famous saying by dispatch “ You Moving ?” Or track limit is fifty miles per hour why are you only doing thirty five. We don’t know we are in notch eight!

After a hand off by another crew of a different RR the whole train feels like something is wrong. Doesn’t break right, too hard to pull, wrong engine configuration.

EOT goes out.

Dynamics don’t work, engine stalls. Or notch four is like it doesn’t exist. The DPU bumps real hard sometimes enough to bust a knuckle.

One of the best is when alarms go off at random on the engine, it’s more fun when it’s a new motor. Or the rest room has not been serviced to make you nausea. Lights on the panel blink on and off. The radio cut in and out whenever it feels like because it has never been calibrated. Or there is so many form B and slow orders the speed limit is useless.

My favorite is a grain manifest but we really have ethanol, welcome to the Union Pacific.