re: Another train derailment

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Do you guys use trip optimizer?

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If equipped, we have to use it 90% of the time.

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Also, didn't the Palistine train get caught by a detector and they were told to keep moving to next station to set out car or inspect?

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During the PSR phase, NS decided it took too long for a crew to stop & inspect for every defect message so their solution was to have people monitor the information from an office building & if the defect hit several detectors then they would inform the crew. The person working the "wayside desk" the night if E Palestine testified that, because of PSR cuts to manpower, he worked 12 hr shifts by himself from home with no breaks. One man for the entire system. IIRC he was tending to two other crews so he wasn't able to inform the E Palestine crew before they derailed.

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All that being said, these long trains are no good,

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Agreed. Just bc you can doesnt mean you should.