2006-09-08 10:29:09 · 9 answers · asked by PTA 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
Ya and 15" sub's too
2006-09-08 10:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by shiga_what 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the Hogger said, trains and conductors have radios. Used to be, there were guys communicating to the engineer by waving their hands at the engineer, who would talk back to them by tooting the whistle in certain patterns, but those days are gone. Dispatchers would send instructions to a train by telegraph to a station, and the stationmaster would then write the instructions on a bit of paper and pass it to the moving train. Moving trains would have flags mounted on them to signify what they were doing.
A conductor's walkie-talkie can talk for about 2 miles, and the engine radio is good for about 10 miles. The dispatcher has multiple antennas and relays, and can talk to anyone for hundreds of miles.
These days, modern conductors may have a small touch-screen computer terminal the size of an Etch-a-Sketch, which communicates by a cell-phone modem to the clerk's computers at the corporate HQ, so that the company knows exactly where a train is and what it's doing.
2006-09-08 22:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Electro-Fogey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radio communication is nothing new. They began to be used in the early fifties by most class one railroads, primarily as a way to communicate between engines and caboose. Contact with dispatcher came a couple of decades later, when technology allowed. Even then, radio communication was rarely used as a means to get authority from the dispatcher for track occupancy, or running orders. Contact with the dispatcher, particularly in CTC, was made through landline.
It was not until the early 70s that "hand sets" began to be used as a means of communication with "on the ground trainmen" during switching operations, air tests, etc.
These days radio communications are indispensable.
2006-09-08 17:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-08 17:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by L3-knightw1zard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think so,some even have tvs on them! XD
2006-09-08 17:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by neo_pet56003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,and some even have tv`s too
2006-09-08 17:34:10 · answer #6 · answered by krusty_blue_spaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have several means of communications
2006-09-08 17:31:29 · answer #7 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. cb
2006-09-08 17:30:05 · answer #8 · answered by Al Bundy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes,ya and yohaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
2006-09-08 21:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by cristiano 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋