Re: Does NR know about this?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

MarkBau1 wrote in message <19981114050813.16760.00000574@ng-fb1.aol.com>...
>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.
>
This is a ruling on US legislation. It has no bearing whatsoever in
Australia.


Barry Campbell