Re: Head lights & Rear end devices

tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:12:58 +1100

MarkBau1 wrote in message
<19980131065900.BAA17656@ladder03.news.aol.com>...

>
>Every 20 seconds or so the FRED sends a radio message to the head end
tellling
>it the brake pipe pressure at the read end as well as if the rear end
is moving
>and in what direction. Any time the air pressure changes or motion
changes the
>FRED willl send that info to the head, even if it just sent a normal 20
second
>report. The FRED will also tell the head end if the FRED battery is
getting
>low.
>

This is the sort of device the PTU want for DOO, but FreightCorp won't
pay for it, after all, it's not the managers who'll get killed.