stan2004 posted:Shifting gears. It seems like, say, once a year there's a report that a shut-down command engine silently sitting by itself on a powered siding or spur...suddenly and mysteriously starts up and, in some cases, takes off at full speed. My interpretation of the consensus conclusion is that some kind of power glitch or the like has reset the engine electronics - and it starts up in conventional since there was no watchdog (which has come and gone from the initial powering of that siding or spur).
So....in addition to the primary function of keeping a newly powered engine in command mode...is there a secondary benefit of keeping a newly reset engine in command mode?
Do see a "creeper" on the CL&W once in a while. Sometimes it has the same engine id as a different one in a different remote when the two get out of sycn on engine id numbers ..
