Does NR know about this?

[markbau1@aol.comnospam (MarkBau1)]

NR employees may be interested to know that a US appeals court upheld a
Wisconsin's court ruling that all trains must have two persons. 

A bit of background. After Wisconsin Central tried to run one person trains the
unions went to court and the Wisconsin legislature ended up ruling that all
trains in Wisconsin MUST have two persons. WC, UP, BNSF and other railroads
appealed this law to the US federal appeals court. Guess what? the US federal
appeals court upheld the Wisconsin ruling.

This bit of knowledge/precedent may be handy when NR start trying to implement
one man crews.

I'll post some links to this ruling if anyone is interested but a good start is
at TRAINS magazine which has the full scoop.

Mark.


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