Here's an interesting item I saw online this morning. Could be a whole new source of CrewTalk or Railsounds or what have you..."Help, I'm trapped in a passenger train!!"
http://www.aol.com/article/201...6220/?ncid=webmail12
- Mike
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smart girl, says found her way to the conductors cabin and found a two way radio. I guess the next best option would be to climb into the cab of the loco and sound the horn a few times...
OMG!
Peter
That's some common sense she's got there. Wandering around a rail yard in the middle of the night would be dangerous.
Nathan
That happened to Jane Curtin, in Paris, in an old "Kate and Allie" episode!
Who will be the first to offer a coach with snoring sounds? They come on only when the coach is spotted deep in a yard with all lights off.
Oh goodie, a chance to rag on Bruce, a Caltrain Conductor who works part time at the Santa Clara Train Shop.
When I read that heading, I thought, "Wonder whose basement that was in?"
School bus drivers have to be sure that everyone is off before leaving for the night. Aren't conductors supposed to do the same thing?
Art
School bus drivers have to be sure that everyone is off before leaving for the night.
In theory! But not always
There have been a couple of instances with schoolbuses in this area....one woman
driver driving sloshed, another leaving a handicapped kid (who maybe wasn't able to
complain) on a bus at the end of the afternoon run.
On further research, the "Conductor's Cabin" was really the cab. Chyme in anytime Jim... "Journalism is...."
Jon 
Originally Posted by KOOLjock1:
On further research, the "Conductor's Cabin" was really the cab. Chyme in anytime Jim... "Journalism is...."
Jon
I find plenty of reasons to be critical of reporters, but not being train nerds has never been one of them. 
Aren't those radios usually returned to their chargers in the crew quarters? 
That was certainly our procedure at our railroad museum - you checked it out and also returned it to its charger for the next crew member's use.
Cute girl. Probably not a rocket scientist, but that's ok. I must admit I once fell asleep on the Chicago Northwestern commuter out of Chicago and was woke up by the conductor at the end of the line about ten stops past my planned drop off point in Arlington Heights. I think I had to take another train back, but the details are a little sketchy about that right now. Glad she's ok.
Just heard a blind lady on local (Chicago) talk radio relate the same story. The conductor would usually alert her and make she was in the right car when would come back to take tickets. This one night, he didn't, her car was locked down and she had to call 911 to get out.
