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Tim, crews can be switched from one train to another, but they would get another day's pay for whatever service they were changed to. As an example, a work train is sitting in a siding and is not expected to move because of maintenance of way delay such as a critical track machine broken down. The work train crew has been on duty four hours. Now consider a through freight is approaching with only one hour left before the hours of service catches them and they are about two hours from their terminal. It is permissable to stop that train and restart the work train crew in order to relieve the through train crew. It was always my experience that this was not something of which to make a habit. The work train would have to stay put until another crew could be found for it. If the work train crew had not been there, the through freight would have to stop at the end of 12 hours on duty to be relieved. This would have meant transporting a new crew to that location, usually by contract taxi. I think we've been this route before. On NS, there is a localized paycode that allows a crew that is relieved on the line of road because of the hours of service to remain at an overtime rate until the relieving crew reaches the yard limits of the terminal. Not a bad deal! They could be home sleeping, watching tv or whatever at OT rates. Fortunatley this paycode only applies to one district and only to a few employees. Ahhhh, T&E payroll, now there's a system to test your sanity! Regards and have a safe day, gdc
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