From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 12-Apr-15 22:14, jimmygeldburg@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
   >> Yet many FRA systems manage to run trains just as long with crews   
   >> of 2, and the second crewmember is only "required" by FRA and union   
   >> rules;   
   >   
   > Which railroads?   
      
   Nearly all of them outside the Rust Belt, at least 14.   
      
   Amtrak LD is the main exception; they don't have traps on trains with   
   low floors, but they still have a crewman to place a step box at every   
   door (even where not needed), so it's roughly the same problem.   
      
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