On May 15, 2001, a gray, overcast afternoon, Sergeant Tom Gwinn of the Ohio State Highway Patrol stands in the grass beside a railroad crossing in rural northwestern Ohio, his 12-gauge shotgun at the ...
CSX 8888 also had an alerter system, a kind of “dead man’s switch” that requires periodic acknowledgment from the engineer, indicating that, yes, someone is awake at the controls. If no response comes ...