@palallin posted:If I had to choose between CrewTalk and absolute silence, I would take absolute silence.
Perhaps I should note that I don't like CrewTalk
One of these days you'll have to tell us how you really feel.
@Madockawando posted:I’m curious… for those of you who “hate” crew talk. Why do you hate it?
Is is because of what they say or is it crew talk in general?
I don't "hate" it, however it does bother me because it is not at all prototypical. I worked in railroading for many years and never heard anything on the radio that sounds even remotely like the stilted and awkward conversations you hear from these locomotives.
This could have been an opportunity for the model industry to do a little teaching by making Crew Talk sound like the real world, using proper railroad terminology. But that didn't happen. They just forged ahead without any research into what the real world sounds like, and we are left with the comical nonsense that passes for Crew Talk.
