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It all boils down to what's available on the ready tracks. The yard calls the house for X amount of horsepower for a departing train, and the "roundhouse foreman" has the hostlers connect up a set of locomotives. Years ago, when the railroads had enough manpower, the units could be properly oriented for the best possible configuration. ie, have at least 2 forward facing units on each end in case of a dead unit. Nowadays, with the cutting of personell, it's fortunate to even have a set of units actually ready for a train when they are needed. Ask any yardmaster what his biggest headache is. 9 times outta' 10, it's going to be finding power to pull the train. It's not going to be "lack of crew", the crew has probably been sitting downstairs playing "euchre" for the past 3 hours, waiting to go.
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