[Scan-DC] No comms between CSX and Amtrak?

[Jordan Hayes]

> Isn't this the point of having common channels?

It's an oddly-framed story.  Here's the key:

>> ... the conductors apparently mistakenly stepped, without proper 
>> protections in place, from the two CSX-owned tracks closest to a 
>> Metro rail yard into the path of trains on one of the two parallel 
>> Amtrak-owned tracks closer to New York Avenue.

I'm sure we'll never know for sure why it happened, but if they stepped 
onto Amtrak tracks, they probably didn't do it on purpose.  And if they 
didn't do it on purpose, they would have had no need to tell Amtrak that 
they were on their tracks.  Which they certainly could have done in any 
number of ways.  So it's not a lack of a radio that led to this tragedy.

The real question is: why is this a newspaper story about radios?

/jordan