Railroad engineers — or train drivers, as they are known to most of the world — are the focus of two of the articles in the latest installment of Trains.com’s occasional Recommended Reading feature.
First up, we have this article from UK newspaper The Telegraph on a driver for the Caledonian Sleeper, the London-to-Scotland passenger operation featured in the March issue of Trains Magazine (as well as in this Trains.com article). Thanks to reader Clifton Farrell for bringing this article to our attention.
CNN contributes our second article, on what it is like to drive high-speed trains on systems around the world, including the demands on the reaction times for those at the throttle.
Also worth sharing:
- Columbia, Mo. TV station KMIZ examines grade-crossing safety improvements by the Missouri Department of Transportation in the wake of the June 2022 collision and derailment near Mendon, Mo., that killed the driver of a truck and three passengers aboard the Southwest Chief [see “Three dead, many injured …,” Trains.com, June 27, 2022].
- Canadian newspaper the Financial Post offers an analysis of the problems that fed into the six-year-late opening of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown light rail line, and the lessons its authors say should be learned from the project.
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