Yea the whole point of my comment is that they're not going to spend it all willy nilly like public safety does on multi thousand dollar portables. Anybody that knows corporate knows the nickle and dimeing that goes on regarding expenses for employee equipment, they'd rather not if they could. If we did, every RR employee would be sporting Moto APXs
No... You've gotten it all wrong...
The railroad industry chose over a decade ago that P25 was not their digital radio emission... So, no... Every RR employee would *NOT* be sporting APX's... However, almost every RR employee has been sporting commercial NXDN portables for about 15 years and locomotives have had clean cab radios capable of NXDN for about ten years.
And, having worked for a Class 1 for ten years, I can attest that they do indeed spend money all willy nilly. Public Safety has multi thousand dollar portables because they have "mission critical" communication needs... The railroad does not. If a radio fails, the train just operates on signals or stops. Corporate "nickle and dimeing" isn't realized on the railroad. They'll make a mistake that costs as much as a statewide P25 trunked radio network and not even bat an eye.
