Train Engineer Conductor
Locomotive crew people, doesn’t working close to the train whistle ever scare you or hurt your ears?
I don’t know how people like engineers and conductors can work that close to the noise of the train whistle. It sure scares the bejesus out of me when I am standing a couple yards away from the tracks, have to cover my ears.
Hearing protection helps but by no means eliminates the noise. I, along with the other old heads all have some hearing loss to one degree or another. For me it is most acute in the 8000 Hertz range of my left ear.
But I am also one that has battled buildup of ear wax continually. Don’t know if there is a medical name for that, but always being a problem it has also acted as a “natural” ear plug so my loss is negligible when compared to others.
Although a much higher percentage of locomotives are now equipped with air conditioning there is no guarantee that you’ll have one in your consist or that it will be operating properly. Ditto for the heat as well.
And Andy is correct. You can switch a unit ahead with working AC. But, next time you’re on a pig or other expediter, tell the dispatcher you want to stop and switch for a half hour or so, and see what happens…
But here again, there is no move afoot to improve conditions because the public at large has no idea how Spartan the conditions can be. But they need to know it is also a safety matter as well as addressing creature comforts.
The human brain functions best when the ambient temperature is 67 degrees. This was established by testing done over a period by UC Berkley researchers. So if you would like to have train and engine crews on their toes, alert and thinking clearly, once again the carriers will have to be forced to take action. UP has been posting net profits in excess of $400 MILLION per quarter for the last three quarters, with others in the $300 MILLION range with BNSF doing an amazing $800 MILLION last quarter of ’07. And that will buy a hell of a lot of air conditioning.
But the mandate will have to come via the Feds, and that won’t happen until people (constituants) contact their representatives and demand action. Many realize the absolutely necessary sacrfifices railroaders must make, but adding this type of bs on top of it is like having someone pissing on your leg while you’re changing their flat tire along the roadside trying to help them out…
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