February 23, 2020 07:39AM
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Hi Maury,
Could you send me your list of "miss alot of blatant details." offline at
drgw0579@comcast.net ? I am currently on the FoCTS Projects Committee and one of my roles is to document standard practices. If we are screwing up that badly, then we need to address the details and the processes that got us there.
But I want to caution you that often we have to deal with comprises of performing historical restoration on an operating railroad in the 21st century. I am aware of at least one instance, where we completed a project perfectly, only to be told that it didn't meet current regulations. It turned out to be a misunderstanding, but it had already been "fixed". And sometimes we plan and execute a project with the best understanding we have at the time, only to have new information be uncovered at a future date. When that happens we usually do intend to remedy the problem, but often that can't happen right away.
We're not perfect and nobody else here is either. But we need to strive for that perfection. In my day job, I develop products that go through a rigorous review before we can release to manufacturing. Occasionally we get something flagged, that it isn't correct. But when we look at the situation, we find there was a misunderstanding of what the feature was supposed to be, and we needed to document better what we intended.
Bill Kepner
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