The dispatcher might not hear the entire transmission. That happened at Morristown a year ago. The dispr sent the police to the wrong spot. I'd heard the transmission on my scanner, and sent them to the right spot. Are kids still stoning trains? With these bigger windows on the latest Comits, I thought that was over. Philip Martin Train routes and signals here now run automatically via times and the computer, leaving the dispatcher more time to bullshit with the other dispatchers than listen to the radio. Are kids still stoning trains? Try stones, bricks, spikes, cement cider blocks, if they can pick it up or carry it, they will throw it at you or off an overhead bridge. The best I ever saw was the day the kids laid tie plates on the rail head and then hid in the weeds to watch, Hit that tie plate at 60mph, the plate went flying off into the weeds and cleared the kids head by about 6 inches. If they had been hit by the plate that THEY put on the rail, the RR would have been sued by their families and won big $$$$$$$$$$$$ from the RR even though plate at the right spot could have derailed my train. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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