Tuesday accident

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Sounds to me like the field logic is flawed. The main computer system 
can mess up all it wants but the field logic is supposed to have fail 
safes to keep these things from happening. That being said though, if 
there is a signal that has field logic that is screwed up bad things 
happen. As i mentioned in another email that is a signal in the area 
that has had a history of 'false clears' so it would not surprise me if 
that was the case in Tuesday's incident.

Nate

On 7/17/2015 06:02, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> I know 2 dispatchers who have worked for the NS as dispatchers for 
> years who both took early retirements just because there were so many 
> computer issues! It is not working right now and hasn't been for 
> several years. Another dispatcher I don't know personally also retired 
> early when it started taking the better part of an hour to write a 
> track warrant! NS better get a handle on this or something bad really 
> bad is going to happen!
> Ray Russell Sr.
> In a message dated 7/17/2015 7:07:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
>     intermediate signal at Sugar Hill, GA (Piedmont Div. ~MP602) at
>     track speed and called the signal clear
>
>
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Nathan Simmons
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