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Well Tim, I can't answer you on that one... actually I find it really interesting reading the differences between freight operating hierarchy and passenger. Where I work we must have the most screwed up hierarchy! <br /> <br />At VIA, top dog is the engineer. But we always have two hoggers in the head end called an In Charge Locomotive Engineer (ICLE) and an Operating Locomotive Engineer (OLE), but don't you dare call them that - they won't answer you. Next down the totem pole after the engineers, I guess, would be the Yard master, which is really more a borrowed term, by the sounds of it. The yardmaster is responsible for the movement of the trains in the yard or of a large station, like union. But they're usally people who have their rule, but were unsuccessful at become engineers. Next at VIA (and yes we're WIERD alright, but it suprising works quite well) is the service manager, and then the service attendants. The whole on-board crew plays a much bigger role in the safety in an emergency, sort of modeled after flight crews in a way...difference? We're nice and safe on the ground!!!!
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