http://www.cbc.ca/news/cn-hiding-derailment-falsifying-stats-employees-allege-1.2224634
There is something to be said for “whistleblowers”, whenever and wherever they pop up life gets more interesting.
Since cooking the books e.g. fewer derailments and shorter processing times will contribute to the “valuation”, it could be quite tempting.
It’s almost like “we don’t have a problem” and “our product is excellent”.
HJ,
Yep. I’ve seen it happen on the BNSF as well. 
The kicker is the number of derailments that are associated with Remote Control Locomotives. Surprisingly the number of RCL jobs that have had derailments/incidents is much lower than engineer jobs, but yet RCL jobs are the always having problems going on the ground…Hum I wonder why that would be?
You think that’s all?
When the B&O ordered their monster “Allegheny” 2-6-6-6 locos, the most powerful in the world, they specified a maximum weight. Lima found they were significantly overweight, but when the B&O bigwigs came to sign off on the loco at the Lima plant, they were wined and dined, and when the Chief Engineer was taken to the scales, they (Lima) faked the weight and the B&O took delivery. I think they were about 10% over.
This all came out when an ex-B&O engineer went to work for the Virginian RR and wanted to order some identical locos. Lima wrote in the actual weight in the contract, and the ex-B&O guy spotted it.
Hmmmm, I guess it’s like most other industries. The motto is : “Have you caught me lying to you before?”
I promised Bob that I would be good… (http://www.freerails.com/images/emoticons/banghead_125.gif)(http://www.freerails.com/images/emoticons/ducttape.gif)
Wise, Steve, after all you don’t want Bob to bust you down to a rating (or whatever that is in the USN).
Alan,
You need to have a closer look at Steve’s smilies, especially the second one. (http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/phpBB2/images/smiles/ani_wink.gif)(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/phpBB2/images/smiles/bom.gif)
Baldwin, and probably other builders, were very secretive about weighing their locos. According to the book, “The Locomotives That Baldwin Built”, the railroads wanted it that way because they paid their crews according to the weight class of the locomotive.
Actually the reason this caught my eye is the fact that fudged statistics regarding derailments throw the published stats from the Transportation Safety Board out of wack. How long they dwell at any given location is of less interest to the general public, but certainly “interesting” to the shippers and receivers.
