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Since the subject of remote control tech has been brought up, i've been wondering, will a engine running in DPU be considered a remote control unit? I see similarities. The DPU box inside the lead loco could peresent the beltpack worn by conductors, and they are both remotely operated. What do you think?
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Technically I would say it is more like "wireless MU" (whereas MU is Multiple Unit). So actually there is only one locomotive made up of several units.Jeff
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go to Al Krugs website. 
Ah, the country's going down the tubes. What Tubes? I don't see any tubes.-George Carlion.
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Depends all on how the unions negotiated it with the railroad. I know that when Kansas City Southern first started using them that they negotiated to have the engineer of a distributed power train paid as if he were running only one train. This worked fine until the coupler broke one day and the road foreman had the engineer control the remote unit as a separate train and put the car on the siding. The union argued that once the train was broken and the engineer controlled the rear as a seperate train that he had run two trains that day. The union won that one. So it is one train and one days pay as long as it stays together!I don't know how Union Pacific paid the engineer a couple of years ago where the two sections were about 20 miles apart. This happened after someone shut the angle cocks and pulled the pin on the coupler. He had run at least 100 miles in that mode. Rear of the train was heavier and just could go as fast.
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