Thank you so much for cutting the break out!

Thank you NTSB for all that you do. While investigations like this may seem simple and straight out of the book, it is very interesting to see how one aspect connects to another aspect, and how no one individual is solely responsible for the entirety of this accident. There has been many oversights in many departments, and hopefully after the finalized report, the situations which lead to this will have been mitigated.

Somebody who uses so much alcohol that they might test that high hours after an accident which happens hours after they even come on duty, might not be able to sustain sobriety in preparation for a test. In that case a scheduled test could a) possibly catch some issues and b) provide incentive to force people who have a problem to self-report and get treatment. I know in my own case toward the end of my drinking I couldn't stay sober for 3 days much less 30 days.

Can you tell CSX to let out 911 1776 3194 that is in storage right now?

@Henry5623

3 жыл бұрын

@Dead Horse I'll try to keep this from becoming a novel in length to read, but a little heads up from someone whose actually in the rail industry here. Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) has nothing to do with being the vane of foamers bitterness or an excuse to line investors pockets. It's not even a new operational mode to the industry. It's been around unofficially since clear back in the 60's and 70's. It's nothing more then doing more with less. The rail industries survival is built upon maximizing efficiencies. Doubly so with unstable local and global economies and a global pandemic only adding to list of things that must be taken into consideration when trying to keep not just the rail industry alive and well, but all forms of public and national transportation viable during these hard times. Over the last couple decades the rail industry has been hit hard with average traffic levels dropping on a consistent annual basis. Consequently with Class-1's our motive power reserves have been under increasingly less and less demand. The industry does what it does best when times are hard; aka, it starts to trim losses and optimize expenses. Older power is dropped from the roster or in some cases it subsequently being rebuilt and repurposed to extend it's operational life at a cheaper cost then continuing to dump hundreds of millions into new roster orders while newer existing units on the roster are often times the first to be stored. Why? It's simple. Newer platforms are less proven and consequently have greater operational risk to keeping them active on the system when the financial security of the industry is in question. Older platforms, especially those that have went through a few rebuild cycles, are often times the most reliable units on the roster as each rebuild cycle allows for platform flaws to be revised and the units rebuilt to a higher operational standard. Hence why newer units are often stored during traffic lows. So despite the endless accusations and assumptions made by the foamers out there we do in fact know what we are doing and consequently do what we do for a reason. Irregardless of all of that we don't decide the state of the economy nor do we control national and global trade deals, pandemics, and economic rises and falls. We simply do our best to adapt to the ever changing world around us. We aren't in this industry to make foamers happy since appeasing you doesn't pay our bills. We are here for financial survival and to aid national and global consumerism. To throw tantrums and insinuate that we seek joy in pissing off foamers ignores the reality that we are forced to adapt to circumstances that aren't always in our control and just because foamers might not agree with our decisions, the fact of the matter is that we ultimately know more about what's going on in this industry then any of you do and consequently we do what we have to do to adapt and survive so your day to day consumerism filled life is as unhampered as possible. The bottom line being as changes happen within the national and global economy, our operational modes will change with them. Most of the units with heritage paint schemes are newer units which as I explained above aren't wise to operate during financially uncertain times and fancy paint schemes don't make units more reliable or bring in more revenue then preexisting units. I do realize stated Hopefully that cools some of the spicy opinions out there about why we do what we do and puts things into perspective. - Almost 20 years working for UP. Scary as that is to think about...

@jaysmith1408

3 жыл бұрын

Henry. Absolutely brilliant.

@johnpeters3389

3 жыл бұрын

NTSB As always your professional is awesome. Thank you all for your hard work.

@tristanexists1806

Жыл бұрын

The hell?

@tristanexists1806

Жыл бұрын

They can't do that thats the railroads responsibility NTSB investigates and make safety recommendations