On 2/5/10 9:22 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
It's like the railroads still having firemen on diesel engines 20
years after steamers disappeared.
I expect this to be more for public safety purposes: making sure the
engineer stays awake or that someone's there to manage if the engineer
croaks...a 2-mile long runaway freight train going 70 MPH is a scary
frikkin' thing.
It was a union thing.
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