Hey guys look, congrats you're 15 hours old and already have an SPO thread.

Now can you leave the school too?

 

Wow i had to see this to believe it. Micah, you met these kids? Where have i been?

 

See what to believe what? Who are you? hey i have your car....not, its an R not a GTi lol got awd? hah

 

im the guy with the black gti at RC with a front mount larger than your body.

youre right, i dont have an R, but thats ok, i have POWA and weight over you.

oh hey fuck off.

 

by the way buddy, you might want to get your bumper fixed, it was dragging on the ground when you drove down colorado st. earlier - looks real classy

 

I am in fact a dark side employee. However, I have seniority on the Virginia Division and I don't like the idea of giving away anyones job. On my territory the grade is so severe that we are actually adding a 6th unit to a 108 car coal train. This still requires a conventional pusher to do this. The train may come in DP as a hopper train but it leaves with a pusher man on the rear.

To answer ZeroCool and Heiss

The train are not remote controlled entirely. The head end of the train is still occupied by crew. The engineer controls two sets of Locomotives. One set on the head end( he is occupying this set), and one on the rear(this set is cotrolled remotely from the head end.) The power (locomotives) is ditrubuted throughout the consist of the train, head and rear, thus giving the name, Distruibuted Power train (DP).

 

Ahh cool.

So you guys are saying the downside is that they generally dont need as many men to run these things now? Part of the job has basically been outsourced to computers..?

 

humm, who are you and you can pm me if you don't want to say on a public forum.

Heiss they have had DP trains for a long time, its just recently the technology has made it possible to use it on more trains. On the Bluefield to Roanoke side, it doesn't make since to use because we only have one place that's necessary to push a train over the hill. Hence they have to have a person stationed there to get us up that hill.

And to answer another question, yes they do have locomotives with no one in the cab and a conductor on the ground moving the engine from a to b. That is whats taking jobs away from engineers in the yard (can only be used in the yard because they only go a set speed)

 

pm'd