Maybe changes are warranted to an extent. That is called evolving. The upper mggt does not care about their employees. The wreckage from the fatalities that occurred at Granite Wy in October is still sitting along the tracks. Why?? They pick up and place aircraft accidents and place it in warehouses to continue their investigations. Why leave this sitting there and let the reminders of the Carnage and failed PTC system hang over all the employees daily. Pretty sad. Numerous crews heard that conversation that day on the radio between the crew and HDC as it was occurring and the company allowed the crews to continue their trips to the AFHT that is 300 miles away. Where is the safety and courage to care in that!!! RIP B and J!!
Oh and should I remind ya that this wasn't any failure on the crews fault that day, so I am hearing. What is at fault is the pressure of taking tonnage with pushing the envelope of TPA and and fooling the employees that are not familiar with PTC and the public into thinking PTC is a safety measure to avoid rear end collisions. It is nothing more than the quest to reduce employees and move to 1 man crews and eventually unmanned trains. And the incidents and accidents will continue to rise with there unnecessary work events due to the PSR plan. Profits go up but at a cost of safety. The UP is a whole different animal from the lil railroad that Vena was from. Nobody has mentioned how the plan is working in Ogden and the melt down that is occurring but according to the #'s that are but out on the homepage, all is going great. What a joke!!!