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Originally Posted by Wes Tausend
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One of the complaints I have at work is the constant increasing official train radio chatter regarding official instructions and authorities. This has escalated beyond reason since many "improved" safety procedures have required ever more wordy instructions, repeats and repeats of the repeats in a somewhat fruitless effort to insure no misunderstanding could possibly occur in train movement. 
I consider this a far worse distraction than a cell phone (which is illegal to use while moving) because it is like 100's of phone calls an hour. On top of that, they answer themselves like an answering machine, most of which are a wrong number at inopportune times. Yet I am compelled to carefully listen to each until I fully realize I can disregard it. 
Waaahh. Waaahh. 
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Wes,UP is double tracking the Sunset Route.Right now we have 6 gangs working in a 30 mile stretch of track.Add in two dispatchers,Power desk and the yardmaster(it's close enough to Tucson to hear the tower).Then on top of that,you have the idiot Maintenance-in-the-way types who treat the radio like it's their personel cell phone.
*(&$^(&&$(#@(~~~~!!!!