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[quote user="DMUinCT"]<p> Most Commuter Trains (and Amtrak) in the US have just one man in the Cab, the Engineer. As Boston uses the same sub-contractor to run there trains, I would think Metrolink would work the same way (correct me if I'm wrong). </p><p> The Conductor is back in the Passenger Cars with Assistance Conductors (formally called Trainmen) for every 2 or 3 cars. In most cases, Engineers belong to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Conductors to the United Transportaion Union.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I've ridden one train (MBTA train from Fitchburg to Boston North Station) which had, to my knowledge, only 3 passengers: me and two friends of mine. Pretty much all the crew (engineer and two conductors/assistant conductors were riding in the (leading) cab car. There may have been more assistants in the remainder of the train, but I'm not sure, as one of the crew members in the cab car went out to the vestuable to talk to a passenger on the platform.</p><p>That wouldn't be true on a train with more passengers, like the one in LA, obviously. I don't know about when the loco is leading either. </p>
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