Re: FreightCorp Radios

["Paul" <boss@opera.iinet.net.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>  8< snip
>The SRA Train Radio System or whatever it is now called is / was / always
will
>be a total disaster.


I have trouble understanding how, nearly 29 years after we put a man on the
moon, we haven't sorted basic stuff like this out. I mean really, this is
1998!  The technolgy needed isn't even particularly new. Out here in the
remote west it's still copper wires, and telephones attached to poles, ala
steamdays. They talk here about upgrading to CTC, when this day and age we
shouldn't even have signals. It should all be in the cab, along with a
telephone to simply pick up and talk to a controller.
I'm sure Maurie could come up with a system in less than a week, which is
better than anything in Australia today.

My 2c worth, that's better...
Paul P.