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Conductor, brakeman, or?
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Over this way on the CP all freight trains have a Conductor and an Engineer, 2 man crew. <br />Road Switchers have a Conductor an Engineer and a Brakeman, 3 man crew. <br />In the Yard you have a Yard Service Employee (Conductor) and a Yard Helper (Brakeman) no yard crews use engineers anymore because of belt pack, 2 man crew. <br /> <br />In some cases Freight Trains will run with a brakeman if there is a certain amount of work that will be done en route, this rarely happends as the railway doesn't want to run 3 man crews, so they always keep work en route to a minimum. <br /> <br />That's basically how it works these days. No Brakemen are actual brakeman, they are qualified conductors that don't have enough seniority to hold a regular conductors job. <br /> <br />It's down from the good old days when they ran 3 people on the head end (Engineer, Fireman, Head End Brakeman) and 2 in the caboose (Conductor, Tail End Brakemen).
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