Exactly. Because there's not a federal law against recording in a locomotive, just company policy, it's not against the law to do it.
Also understand that it takes money to get permission...
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My son has a commercially produced DVD about the Santa Fe line over Raton Pass on the Colorado-New Mexico border. A portion of the DVD featured Amtrak's Southwest Chief going over the pass. It was shot over several days and included cab sequences of the engineer in action.
One quick shot showed the top of the control consul, which looked like a counter or desk top with several items scattered on it. Something in the clutter caught my eye so I backed up the DVD, paused it, and studied the screen with closer scrutiny. Sitting amid the clutter was a Penthouse or Hustler magazine.
Bill nothing surprises me anymore. I work doing the PTC installs at the Denver Burnham shop. The first thing we do is remove every panel, door, and hatch in order to route the wires needed for the upgrade. I've pulled out condom wrappers, porno mags, cartons of cigarettes, whiskey bottles, you name it.
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Boy, the Whiskey Bottle would sure get a guy fired fast. Not saying I don't believe you, I know better than that. I am saying that's a risky game.
As for the magazines, trains can spend a lot of time waiting. The crew needs something to do while they wait. Now the usual company policy is that only official railroad publications can be read. Timetables, rulebooks and the like. But it's possible that some of the more experienced guys have memorized the rulebook, so they break the rules and read unofficial publications. The choice of reading material varies from crewmember to crewmember. Hunting and fishing magazines are popular, as are car magazines and lots of other subjects. Some publications may not be suitable for family viewing.
Exactly. The FRA rule prohibits CREWMEMBERS from operating electronic devices while operating the train (with a few exceptions). Think of it as the no texting while driving rule for trains.
Got enough money to throw at the problem? If so, you can do this and be perfectly legal.
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My son has a commercially produced DVD about the Santa Fe line over Raton Pass on the Colorado-New Mexico border. A portion of the DVD featured Amtrak's Southwest Chief going over the pass. It was shot over several days and included cab sequences of the engineer in action.
One quick shot showed the top of the control consul, which looked like a counter or desk top with several items scattered on it. Something in the clutter caught my eye so I backed up the DVD, paused it, and studied the screen with closer scrutiny. Sitting amid the clutter was a Penthouse or Hustler magazine.
Bill nothing surprises me anymore. I work doing the PTC installs at the Denver Burnham shop. The first thing we do is remove every panel, door, and hatch in order to route the wires needed for the upgrade. I've pulled out condom wrappers, porno mags, cartons of cigarettes, whiskey bottles, you name it.
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Boy, the Whiskey Bottle would sure get a guy fired fast. Not saying I don't believe you, I know better than that. I am saying that's a risky game.
As for the magazines, trains can spend a lot of time waiting. The crew needs something to do while they wait. Now the usual company policy is that only official railroad publications can be read. Timetables, rulebooks and the like. But it's possible that some of the more experienced guys have memorized the rulebook, so they break the rules and read unofficial publications. The choice of reading material varies from crewmember to crewmember. Hunting and fishing magazines are popular, as are car magazines and lots of other subjects. Some publications may not be suitable for family viewing.
Haha..."Unstoppable." Worst depiction of railroading I've ever seen. It is, however, very loosely based on the CSX incident that happened near Toledo about 10 years ago.
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I was getting ready to push for the channel button on the remote when the engineer tripped and then everybody laughed at him. The button was halfway down when the throttle "automatically jumped to full". That was all I could take. Then after a while I just thought I would see how they were doing. That is when the seal blew on the hopper car. I am not sure which part of covered can blow out and get a constant flow of grain. Who writes that tripe?
The truth to the movie begins and ends with the fat guy jumping out of the unit in the yard.
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Man I had no clue that could ACTUALLY happen. I thought that was just Hollywood!
Question though.... How come he put the brakes on AND put the throttle into notch 8?
How come he didn't just put the throttle to idle?
Short and simple version. He thought he'd put the train into dynamic braking. When you do that, what was the throttle now controls how much brake is applied. So he thought he was giving it full dynamic brakes, instead he gave it full throttle. Up until that time, I suspect that you would have many folks tell you that sort of runaway train simply wasn't possible. But it was, and it did happen.
As with pretty much anything Hollywood, it then got exaggerated to a huge degree.
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