CBC Story On Train Crew Fatigue: Via versus CN / CP Operations

[xcnken-/[e-mail] [Canadian-Passenger-Rail]]

Not wanting to generate an off topic subject here main line passenger operations for this CBC News investigation received very little mention.


Also left out of the story is that RSC devices on any present day locomotives set off alert / alarm warnings. ( that cannot be defeated ) Which increase in frequency beyond 60 seconds or so at speeds above 65 mph. Ask any Via engineer. He 's on that RSC reset button continually !


The story gives the impression that almost nothing keeps a train crew awake. Be it passenger or not.


At Via assumptions on the part of a train crew were largely behind some of the accidents that have happened unfortunately.


That's why I think some form of PTC is needed to make things a whole lot safer. Or as a back up.


K. Wadden Pointe Claire Qc

[Tom Box [e-mail] [Canadian-Passenger-Rail]]

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Not wanting to generate an off topic subject here main line
passenger operations for this CBC News investigation received
very little mention.

In this clip, from 06:45 to 07:50, the CBC reporter explains
that fatigue is a bigger problem for freight crews because
passenger crews work on schedules and know when they will be
reporting for work, while freight crews are constantly on call.
A little later however, they have a recording of a CPR engineer
being called in to work on a Milton line GO train when he's had
very little sleep, so there is a passenger-train angle to this
story.
<http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2547225113>

Tom Box
tbox at ncf dot ca
Port Hope, ON, Canada


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