palallin posted:Jeffrey Sessa posted:The next big push is taking people (engineers, conductors) out of the equation entirely.
Who's gonna walk the train and set the handbrakes if there is no crew?
Good point.
One idea I heard floated was a traveling “utility man” who would go to the train and change knuckles, replace hoses, see if anything was on the ground, etc.
How this is supposed to work in mountainous territory like British Columbia or the Rockies is beyond me. Maybe they’ll have a chopper on standby... 🙄
