From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

"Sancho Panza"  wrote in message
news:tixev.431904$l83.333962@fx28.iad...
> On 5/19/2014 12:08 AM, Glen Labah wrote:
>> In article
>> <1150810053422162717.604051dpeltier-my-deja.com@news.aioe.org>,
>>    wrote:
>>
>>> "conklin"  wrote:
>>>> Is the geo car ever put on the end of these 100+car oil trains?  If
>>>> not,
>>>> why
>>>> not?
>>>
>>> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is
>>> not
>>> safe for occupied passenger cars, and b.) they want to test as many
>>> miles
>>> per shift as they can, so they want to operate on priority trains. As I
>>> said, the usual practice is to run them as stand-alone trains.
>>
>>
>> There is also c.) If it is a track geometry car at the end of a 100+ car
>> oil train, it will discover any critical safety issues with the track
>> after the train has already derailed and exploded.
>>
> Wouldn't the geometry car also be able to detect incipient problems?

And of course it is next train which would benefit from the resulting go
slow order.  Based on what Glen writes above, the geometry car itself could
never be used because the car itself would not benefit from what it
detected.  These boys are just writing to waste everyone's time.

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