Passenger Trains > Metro-North collision at Grand Central yesterday

Locomotive collides with passenger train at Grand Central
By Rebecca Harshbarger
December 17, 2014 | 9:33pm

> A locomotive at the safety-challenged Metro-North railroad went
> through a red light this morning and swiped a train with passengers
> on it at Grand Central, sources said.
>
> No one was hurt because the locomotive was going under 10 mph when
> the collision happened at 11:30 a.m., officials said.
>
> The train reversed itself back to Grand Central, except for two cars
> which were detached from the train for the investigation. About
> twenty passengers in those cars walked up to the other four cars...

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Locomotive collides with passenger train at Grand Central



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/14 09:06 by GenePoon.

It seems like alot of experienced railroaders have retired from that operation.....with rookies replacing them? What's up with all their accidents???

coach Wrote:
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> It seems like a lot of experienced railroaders have
> retired from that operation.....with rookies
> replacing them? What's up with all their
> accidents???


On the "Farewell to the FL9" excursion, many Metro-North managers whom I know came along.
They formed the nucleus of the leadership team that took Metro-North through its
period of rapid growth and built a smooth-running, efficient, safe railroad.

Every single one of them has now retired. One of the last told me that it was like
"Will the last one out turn off the lights?" Many of their replacements came from the
ranks of bureaucrats and administrators, not railroaders.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> Every single one of them has now retired. One of
> the last told me that it was like
> "Will the last one out turn off the lights?" Many
> of their replacements came from the
> ranks of bureaucrats and administrators, not
> railroaders.

But on the other side of the dime, why would a good railroader give up her or his seniority, good money, etc to be a manager?

You lose the union representation, no hours of service, you can get the s### kicked out of you by a moron one level above you who has political etc connections.

I've worked in a number of places over the years, and the quality of management is a pretty good indicator of the kind of place it turns out to be.