[CBQ] Re: Chicago transfers

["Patrick P" <dblp1@yahoo.com>]

I know that a repeated concern by the US DOT and the NTSB for years and years 
has been the lack of standarization.  

The oldest example I can think of is the Accident Investigation of an IC/BRC 
collision at the Harvey Interlocking in Markham when the BRC crew had no way of 
communicating with the Harvey Switchtender or any other IC personnel (their 
radio was on a different frequency and the lineside phones were dead and had 
been for years), and they didn't have IC Special instructions or employee 
timetable.  The BRC crew mis-interpreted a very strange signal on the IC and 
ended up running a red board.

More recently the NTSB was aghast at the NS/Amtrak collision a couple years 
back when they considered the number of different sets of signal aspects that 
crews in the Chicago area had to understand..

Patrick Provart
Springfield IL



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