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Today's Star-Telegram reports that this area has had 23 Deaths due to heat so far during this record-breaking summer. Most of the dead were people living in apartments with in-operative air conditioning units.
It is about time that the railroad industry awoke to the fact that it gets a lot hotter inside one of our iron boxes than it does inside a wood or concrete apartment.
The iron boxes I refer to are the locomotive cabs. The only difference I see between them and the boxes they used to put felons in who disobeyed the rules in some Hell-hole prison, is that the guards were required to slide a dirty bowl of thin gruel and a cup of cold weak coffee under the door twice a day.
Come on Railroad Industry, FRA and Congress. The railroads started air conditioning passenger trains before I was born, 64 years ago. It would be nice if cab air conditioning finally became mandatory before I retire.
Cy Martin is a locomotive engineer at Centennial Yard in Fort Worth, Texas.
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