Tuesday accident

[NW Mailing List]

On board video looking out the front window should quickly clarify what 
indication the signal was displaying to the crew.

Ron Davis

On 7/18/2015 7:48 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Nate
>
> The signals here in Buford were installed since the first of the year 
> and NS has been having issues with then since then. To my knowledge, 
> the incident I spoke of was the first where a crew ran a signal.
>
> Issues with field logic and compatability with the dispatching system 
> would not surprise me.
>
> Russ
>
>
> Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Date: 17/07/2015 16:21 (GMT-05:00)
> To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Subject: Re: Tuesday accident
>
> Sounds to me like the field logic is flawed. The main computer system 
> can mess up all it wants but the field logic is supposed to have fail 
> safes to keep these things from happening. That being said though, if 
> there is a signal that has field logic that is screwed up bad things 
> happen. As i mentioned in another email that is a signal in the area 
> that has had a history of 'false clears' so it would not surprise me 
> if that was the case in Tuesday's incident.
>
> Nate
>
> On 7/17/2015 06:02, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
>> I know 2 dispatchers who have worked for the NS as dispatchers for 
>> years who both took early retirements just because there were so many 
>> computer issues! It is not working right now and hasn't been for 
>> several years. Another dispatcher I don't know personally also 
>> retired early when it started taking the better part of an hour to 
>> write a track warrant! NS better get a handle on this or something 
>> bad really bad is going to happen!
>> Ray Russell Sr.
>> In a message dated 7/17/2015 7:07:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> writes:
>>
>>     intermediate signal at Sugar Hill, GA (Piedmont Div. ~MP602) at
>>     track speed and called the signal clear
>>
>>
>>
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