by HoggerKen
I am not going to attempt to include your quotes here because of the software glitches which occur with long posts.
It has been ascertained in this thread:
·The configuration of locomotives and their equipment, which do not lend easy to running backwards.
· You work for a carrier who has equipped their locomotives very differently than anything I have been on.
· When running backwards without proper equipment, you are restricted to 20 mph over any crossing. A majority of the fleet my employer has, and other foreign units are not equipped for long hood forward running. For example, the cameras are only mounted on the front of the locomotive, the intended path of travel. No ditch lights, etcetera.
· Not all railroad management, who allocate locomotives take into consideration the humans who have to operate them. Some do assign units by job characteristics and needs. For example, instead of one GP38-2 on a local, two GP15's or two switchers. If they (Management) cannot assure proper equipment to do the job, what good are they? And why should my body have to pay for that lack of planning?
· There is too much mixing of apples and oranges here.
Above all, a safe, healthy working environment is far and above the best reasoning for not running long hood forward for any distance or speed (outside of yard limits, and over restricted speed). Anything else is just excuses.
Goodness. When one reads, "vertical sheet steel", the first thing that pops into mind is something flimsy and hardly structural, as in the skin of a car door. The average Joe can discern between the types.
It has been ascertained in this thread:
·The configuration of locomotives and their equipment, which do not lend easy to running backwards.
· You work for a carrier who has equipped their locomotives very differently than anything I have been on.
· When running backwards without proper equipment, you are restricted to 20 mph over any crossing. A majority of the fleet my employer has, and other foreign units are not equipped for long hood forward running. For example, the cameras are only mounted on the front of the locomotive, the intended path of travel. No ditch lights, etcetera.
· Not all railroad management, who allocate locomotives take into consideration the humans who have to operate them. Some do assign units by job characteristics and needs. For example, instead of one GP38-2 on a local, two GP15's or two switchers. If they (Management) cannot assure proper equipment to do the job, what good are they? And why should my body have to pay for that lack of planning?
· There is too much mixing of apples and oranges here.
Above all, a safe, healthy working environment is far and above the best reasoning for not running long hood forward for any distance or speed (outside of yard limits, and over restricted speed). Anything else is just excuses.
Goodness. When one reads, "vertical sheet steel", the first thing that pops into mind is something flimsy and hardly structural, as in the skin of a car door. The average Joe can discern between the types.