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I think that a new can of worm has just been opened Ed for people who do not work for the railroad`s do not realy understand on how we generate revenue to keep it running 1. being the cost of diesel fuel to run the locomotives 2. the cost of labor for the switch crew i.e. the engineer, foreman & helper it takes time to do the air break tests when car are pulled from the industry i.e. air flow or break pipe leakage in the absents of an air flow meter the AFM test is easy as long as the train is 60 cfm or below the break pipe leakage takes 3 minutes to do before doing any of these tests the train air system has to be fully charged to operating pressure as per the GCOR 80 psi for yard and 90 psi for road walk the set up of the breaks and take the walk it can take some times over an hour to a simple move of 8 cars out and 8 cars in there is no such thing as a fast move when ever the crew gets in a hurry things can go wrong. Rodney Beck Switchman/Foreman BNSF Chicago Division Galesburg Terminal
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