From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 12-Apr-15 22:14, jimmygeldburg@gmail.com wrote:
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> Yet many FRA systems manage to run trains just as long with crews
>> of 2, and the second crewmember is only "required" by FRA and union
>> rules;
>
> Which railroads?

Nearly all of them outside the Rust Belt, at least 14.

Amtrak LD is the main exception; they don't have traps on trains with
low floors, but they still have a crewman to place a step box at every
door (even where not needed), so it's roughly the same problem.

S

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