Interesting that MMA also used remote equipment mounted in vans like this to keep power flexible instead of modern smaller remote equipment mounted in the locomotive cab
@@Jjj-uu1sc i'll give you that... but all these long years later it's no conciliation considering as of right now, remote control locomotive ops is now common practice
@@25mfd Not anywhere on the forner WC it's not, except Gladstone yard job. I worked for WC/CN in Wisconsin for years and never trained on it or saw it in use. BLET Engineers have the contractual rights for operating RCO, unlike on most railroads where UTU/Smart does. 2 or 3 man conventional switch crews are much faster and safer at switching cars, but HQ just wants to get rid of people and entire crafts at any cost because "it looks good on paper." Brian Buchanan being an ex-Marketing man at WC/CN won't tell you the other side of the story, only the management version he was indoctrinated into for decades.
@@Jjj-uu1sc yea i worked for the CNW/UP so our remote control garbage went to UTU... i hired on 1993... our remote control junk started around early 2000s... but i resigned in 2004 so i never worked with it... *and you are 100% CORRECT when you mentioned 2 or 3 man conventional switch crews are much faster and safer at switching cars* ... but it's interesting that AFTER the 1972 national agreement, which allowed the use of hand held radios by trainmen, that the carriers as a whole started implementing CREW CONSIST AGREEMENTS... the CNW started theirs in 1973... back then it was an ongoing effort to get rid of the second brakemen/helper... and unfortunately, they are STILL coming after the remaining few HUMAN work positions... my ultimate fear is that they will not stop until there is only UNMANNED ROBOT LOCOMOTIVES like they have in australia
It is a good idea but what about when the diesel engine has got a default on the trotel, are when something is gous rongin, when the diesel engine burns.
How did Wisconsin Central turn out as a company railroad? January 20, 2001, the company merged with Canadian National (CN) for a Cool $800 million, but Wisconsin also had a $400 million debt taken on by CN. The whole merger was completed in October 2001. There were more mergers. Eaglegards to railroad fans...
It didn't work out or last long out of Mellen terminal. By the time they got me qualified to Ashland, White Pine and Prentice in 1998, it was already gone and not used. Why are you posting under a fake alias with sunglassss on in some videos, Brian Buchanan. 😊😂
