Mike Powell wrote to Sam Wilson Subject: Re: Hoboken Terminal NJ   
      
    MP> Yeah, the engineer survived. What makes me wonder about it   
    MP> being a push would be whether or not some failure between the cab   
    MP> and the loco might have caused the engineer's instructions not to   
    MP> reach the loco. I am not real knowledgeable on how those operations   
    MP> work, so maybe they are fail-safe.   
      
   Something that the data recorders will tell.   
      
      
    MP> Also, I think having the loco on the back means that there was   
    MP> only the engineer in the cab, while the conductor may have been in   
    MP> the loco. Having the loco on the front would mean two sets of eyes   
    MP> seeing the same things.   
      
   The second person in the cab would be a "fireman" which railroads eliminated   
   many years ago when steam ended.  Steam engines stil have firemen they stoke   
   the fire or shovel coal.   
      
   The engineer "drives" the train.  The conductor who is the head person in   
   charge of the train is in the pasenger cars.  On freight trains the conductor   
   would be in the engine.   
      
    -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-   
      
   Byebye for now.   
      
   Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 03-Oct-2016 at 10:20.   
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   .!. Fairbanks Morse eats Alco for breakfast.   
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