by LB
Does the LIRR still print timetables for employees or have they migrated to a tablet based system that draws from a central database?
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Kelly&Kelly wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:26 pm Several years ago, the FRA was completely opposed to any type of electronic documentation. I don't know if that has changed. I do know the LIRR is spending a fortune on fabricating the stainless folding tablet tables for the old MUs.spending a fortune? it will look like something made in 8th grade shop class.an opinion based on my previous 35 years of employment
workextra wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 10:52 pmThere was some abuse in the beginning of the cell phone era, coupled with yes then no in it's usage, but it has taken hold. But those lessons do remain with some, and others may recall when we didn't need it and got by fine without it. Same thing with the C-Card, it took a few key retirements before it was ditched in favor of Rule 241 done verbally. But my timetable is grown to monstrous proportions since the C-Card era, and I'm lucky I don't have to carry the Amtrak book or a THEM manual. I dread having to swap out pages from the first 100 pages of the timetable as I have to take it apart and pull out a chunk in order to hit that, as opposed to simply unsnapping the rings and swapping out pages. I don't know how the C&E who have to carry all of that crap deal with that every time a new GN comes out.
LIRRs refusing to test this now is more a personal matter by decision makers than anything else.
There’s likely several folks left who want to keep it old school for a reason.
Does anyone here know why?
northpit wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:38 pmIts really only 80 M3s. They're all done already. It wasn't so much for any electronic tablet, but for the fact that the ACSES ADU being where Engineers have put their timetable since the M1.Kelly&Kelly wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:26 pm Several years ago, the FRA was completely opposed to any type of electronic documentation. I don't know if that has changed. I do know the LIRR is spending a fortune on fabricating the stainless folding tablet tables for the old MUs.spending a fortune? it will look like something made in 8th grade shop class.an opinion based on my previous 35 years of employment