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Two-man crews a featherbed?
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Well I've found the opposite on the large layout of a friend that I operate on. This would be for way freights that do switching along the route. Singles are OK on through trains and passenger trains. <br /> <br />There's just too much stuff to juggle on a switching run. We have wired throttles (will be converted to wireless in the near future), radio, train order with the switchlist, and an uncoupling tool ( a piece of rail). Finding a place to put all of this stuff is hard enough, but figuring out which car goes where, which one has to be picked up, operating the turnouts, make it way too busy. Two guys do it better - one guy runs the train, the other the radio, paperwork and uncoupling. When switching at areas with long sidings, it works faster if one fellow can operate the turnouts at the far end. <br /> <br />I think it mostly depends upon the type of layout you operate on. <br /> <br />Bob Boudreau
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