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Hi tim, I'm on a road job but we also make up the southbound. I've also been on road jobs where you make you're own train, it depends on the jobs purpose. Whatever the boss feels will work best I guess. It's a pretty fluid environment. <br />I've never seen anyone refuse to take a train because they didn't like the way it was marshaled (sp?) If it is a hasmat issue than you would have to correct it but to take the time to shuffle MTs and loads wouldn't be very cost efective, nether would two trains for the same destination. <br />When I was a fairly green brakeman I was on a road job and our 90 car train was made up by a yard crew via the yard office. Along our route we had to pick up 5 loaded lumber flats but our MTs for set off were about 30 cars back. Well the head brakeman (we had those then) didn't like the way THAT train was made up so he stormed into the yard office and wanted them moved up on head pin. The yard master didn't want us tying up the yard with that but would pay us "intermideit switching" (we had that then also)or some such thing to make the switch at a siding enroute. The headbrakeman was pretty proud of himself because he had no intention of making the switch and we were going to do the lumber hangin' on to 30 cars. Not THAT big a deal but the shorter the better. After setting up the lumber warf he told the engineer to "go ahead" but the pin got hung up. "HOLD IT, HOLD IT!!" By the time things stoped he had been rolled between the car and cement warf. He lost 2 feet of his large intestine on that one. Would a shorter train have prevented this? It might not have hurt. Slofr8.
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