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Gregg posted:

One of the most advanced features of the new Genesis Series locomotives was the integrated function control – on-board microcomputers that monitor braking, engine speed and other data fed to them by the locomotive. The cab of the P-42 includes an efficiently organized engineer’s desk with monitors. Locomotive engineer Jerry Meyer, shown here, operates P-42 No. 145 along the route of the Pennsylvanian [New York-Philadelphia-Pittsburgh) in May 2016. Meyer joined Amtrak in 1980, serving as a tower operator and a conductor before qualifying as a locomotive engineer in 1997. I'm curious about this pic... Can the engineman actually  reach over and put his head out the window in case of hand signals?   Is there another seat? 

Hand signals? There are no longer used, especially by Amtrak. That's what radios are for. Besides, the new younger folks are not even taught "hand signals" and generally have no clue what they are.

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