October 1, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
MOBILE, Ala. — Tal Fowler, an eight-year locomotive engineer, says unmanned locomotives slowly rolling along the waterfront present a constant danger to downtown Mobile, the Mobile Register reported. But CSX Corp. officials said Fowler and other members of a...
September 23, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
BATON ROUGE, La. — Even though it won’t be legally binding, Mayor Pro Tempore Lorri Burgess got a Metro Council committee Wednesday to endorse a resolution banning remote-controlled locomotives from Baton Rouge railroads, the Baton Rouge Advocate reported....
September 23, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
CLEVELAND — Don Glass dons his Lionel train cap, flips a toggle to sound a bell, and twists a lever to set a nearby locomotive in motion. No, this isn’t some toy train setup in a basement. It’s the real thing – a 125-ton, unmanned locomotive....
September 6, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
SAN JOSE — Like a life-sized model railroad, Union Pacific has begun shuttling remote-control trains — including those carrying hazardous waste — around its San Jose and Oakland rail yards and the Caltrain main line, according to the Hayward (Calif.)...
September 3, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
EVERETT, Wash. — As a switching locomotive rolls slowly toward a line of railcars on the waterfront tracks here, something’s missing from the driver’s seat, according to the Everett Daily Herald. The engineer. Instead, the railroad worker controlling...
August 27, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
COLUMBUS, Ohio –State Senator Bob Hagan (D-Youngstown) today called the use of remote control locomotive devices “unsafe and unproven.” The statement comes in light of a recent trend among railroad companies to use remote control devices to operate...
August 27, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
WARREN, Ohio — A state senator doesn’t want railroad locomotives operated on public routes in Ohio without those locomotives being staffed by qualified engineers, reports the Warren Tribune-Chronical. That state Sen. Robert F. Hagan, D-Youngstown, is a...
August 26, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
WARREN, Ohio — Some railroad workers say they are concerned about trains’ running with no one at the switch, according to the Youngstown Vindicator. Within the last several weeks, CSX Transportation Inc. began moving trains in a yard at the WCI steel plant...
August 12, 2002 | Accident, Headlines, Remote Control
ATLANTA — Five railcars derailed at CSX Transportation’s Tilford switching yard in Atlanta after a remote-controlled locomotive ran into a train being assembled by workers using another remote-controlled engine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. It...
August 9, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
ST. LOUIS — Imagine moving a huge locomotive through a rail yard via remote control, without an engineer in the cab, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It’s a prospect that railroads say will save them money, that unions fear will be unsafe and cost...
