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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dwil89 This is a good question...Why do host railroads use runthrough power... [/quote] With more and more emphasis being given to "on time" performance, one seeming advantage would be the time saved by merely walking a new crew onto an existing train, rather than having to physically swap out power units, as territories change. Maybe I'm being overly simplistic in that assumption, but it seems like I read something about that in Trains magazine, where UP was giving CSX "runthru" power for the transcon produce trains...
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