Thanks guys. I have printed out both of your suggestions and will give it a go the next time the situation arises.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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AK - Like Adrianspeeder said, you can just copy and paste from whatever you want. Some people make the quoted portions italic.
If you want to attribute the quote, you can use the quote tag, the format of which you can see if you select Quote on a reply. All you have to do is change the name. Tags use the square brackets, I'll use the other brackets to demonstrate:
{quote user="whatshisname"}whatever he said{/quote}.
Note that tags come in matched pairs, with the closing tag having a slash.
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AgentKid I wish you could quote from multiple posters, but since I can't,
I wish you could quote from multiple posters, but since I can't,
Quote like you normally would, copy, go back to the thread...
AgentKid Bruce
Quote the next post you want, and just paste what you copied before at the top.
Adrianspeeder
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I wish you could quote from multiple posters, but since I can't, I will just say that both "Z" and "Balt" are right.
On CP, sequential numbers often indicate outbound and return trips by the same crews and locomotives. Not necessarily loads and returning empties.
Way back in the day, it also included combines and cabooses on mixed trains. Going through old ETT's, it is fascinating/astounding to see the vast areas covered by one crew. It is amazing how far crews went before the RR strike of 1955, when crews used to be on the road for six days a week. After that strike, everything had to be rearranged so that no crew was away from home for more than four days and three nights at a time. The resulting cost increase was the beginning of the end for mixed train service, which ended on the prairies during the 1965-67 time frame.
Just because trains have consecutive numbers, or even if they are so called-counterparts doesn't mean they have to do the same work, only in reverse.
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Connections - or the lack thereof!
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Well, as Robert LeMassena once said, "Remember, it may not make sense to you, but it makes sense to SOMEBODY!"
Now this puzzles me more than I thought it would. Canadian Pacific 282, which consists of autoracks and intermodal, passes by Bensenvile without dropping crew or cars, and makes its way to Bedford Park, where CSX owns the intermodal ramp. 281, the westbound counterpart of 282, has no intermodal, and exits Bensenville to A5, where it makes way north on the C&MThe third and final brother train, number 280, has a manifest style train, and takes the UP New Line to Bensenville. I guess this really gives a good definition of "To Each their own"
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