In a message to KEN FREEMAN dated 06-09-97 ED WILSON wrote:
 EW> I'd
 EW> love to listen to a hot box detector when a steam enging goes by.
 When the SP (o.b.m.) used to allow the 4449 to run on the main
 line in California, they would have a signal maintainer disable
 the hotbox detectors before the engine arrived.  Turned out that
 the rulebook did not authorize the dispatcher to allow the crew
 to disregard a hotbox detector which was set off by a train, and
 the crew would have had to stop the train and make an inspection.
 The DS did have the authority to authorize the train to disregard
 a detector which was out-of-service.
 It was a full employment act for signal maintainer overtime,
 because they had to leapfrog each other to keep up with the
 train.
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