post 3 is a video about it. This guy makes great train videos.
NS has their nationwide dispatchers at a facility south of Atlanta. I would strongly suspect the person has no idea the train is slowing do to the incline but is thinking the train is slowing on purpose......hence the direction.
While this was shot before my son started working for NS, he has been on the curve a number of times and knows the engineers on the call. Yeah, he has been stuck on the curve once.
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