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Not that CSX is "dysfunctional" or anything...

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD For a train to be moved (yes, light engines constitute a train) there must be someplace available to move it to. While someone just viewing a train sitting at a signal, and seeing the track segment ahead of if as being 'empty', the next 100 miles of sidings and other track facilities may be occupied with other trains (that one can't see, unless you are dispatching the territory) and thus the train has no place to go at the point in time that you are viewing it. The art of dispatching is not just lining up a signal for a train.....it is the art of knowing which trains to line signals for so as to satisfy the priorities of the operating plan and the Hours of Service realities of the trains being operated within the physical realities of the trains and the territory being dispatched. [/quote] I didn't mention this was at Piqua yard did I?....it was.. [/quote] Even yard have capacity constraints and manpower conditions that prevent movements that would otherwise seem obvious, but aren't. [/quote] I know what you're saying, but it still seems odd to me that there would be 5 crews all running light engines and waiting in the same spot...... Surely there must have been more to it than that? Are there that many locals around this area? [/quote] It's rare that I see a "working" CSX freight in the area, while I'll admit I have no itinerary or schedule for CSX, I only see maybe one or two a week, not that I look for them, but then I don't look because there's not much to see. . Wild guess, maybe some of these had NS crews waiting for triple crown trains to be made up? This was right on the skirt of the Triple crown yard. Maybe the fact that they were CSX loco's sitting in a CSX yard was a misnomer? [/quote] I suppose that is a possibility, you can never tell anymore what railroad is running the trains by looking at the power. Really could have been anything now that I think about it like that.
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