Brian Johnson writes in a message to Dick Rose
 BJ> On the AMTRAK to that area I kept hearing a lot of automated 
 BJ> stuff on the ATSF road channel (160.650 MHz.) like track conditions 
 BJ> and temperature. What was that automated stuff about?
It's automated reporting to the train crews.  Quite common.
 
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