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Metro-North engineer sues over Bridgeport collision
Inside every Railroad Book of Operating Rules I’ve ever read is a variant of the following: “Safety is the first consideration in the performance of your duty. When in doubt the SAFE course MUST be taken” (Emphasis added. Apparently Metro-North Management never read this statement, usually called the “GENERAL NOTICE”.
Maybe now the Vice President-Operations can find a time between court appearances to look at it…
William Varnell,
Your quotation is precisely correct, and the meaning of it, I thought, more or less, was inclusively correct and then…
A colleague at the Engine Service Training Center, who sliced and finely diced all the rules for meaning, like the Genie who granted a million Bucks in the insurance company advert. said…
“When in doubt the safe course…”
Tell me if you, the crew members, are sure, or very confident that you or their course is the safest, even on the safe side barely of dangerous, can you, the crew member, be accused of violating "when in doubt the safe course…?
That you can justify and are able to, I’m “in doubt.” (from the rule)…?
Try to?