Who's Driving This Thing?

[Eboy87]

Ok, a question for you esteemed trainzers.

About a year ago, I was on Amtrak between Chicago and St. Louis, 303 for those interested. About halfway between Springfield and Carlinville, our locomotive died. By died I mean it would move 20 feet before the traction motors would cut out (ground fault?), then another after the computer was reset, then another 20 feet. UP sent a pair of SD70's up from Carlinville to tow us to St. Louis. My first question is this; which engineer is at the controls, 303's or UP's? Unfortunately my scanner died, so I never got to hear whoever was radioing from the head end.

 

[Gandalf0444]

I would put my money on the UP crew... If the Amtrak engineer killed his locomotive I don't think UP would trust him with there locomotives..:hehe:

 

[jkinzel]

I would put money on the UP crew.

 

[Alex99al]

I would place my money on the Union Pacific crew, also.

 

[pommie]

Only a guess, but I would say the UP engineer drove under the supervision of the Amtrak engineer, the reason I say this is that Amtrak will be responsible for the train therefor must be in charge of it for insurance purposes.

Cheers David

 

[Eboy87]

That's what I was thinking too, Pommie. Adding to that, the UP engineer is now operating a four car (five with a dead P42) passenger train versus a 110 car intermodal. He actually did quite well considering.