This is for Houston Ed

[Mookie]

Thank you - just what I wanted to know.

Send us some of that extra rain - it was 100 here yesterday and so humid you couldn't fall over! No rain, tho!

Jen

[edblysard]

Three, engineer, switchman foreman, and switchman helper.
Engineer runs the motor, I am the foreman, so I get to make the decision, fade the heat when its wrong, and pull pins. The helper gets to run all over the yard, handleing switches from track 33 thru track 48, thats 16 switches he throws, about 50 or 60 times a hour for about 8 hours every day. I probaly throw about 40 switches in a shift.
Rank has its privileges.
We both ride cuts of cars into the tracks to set bumpers, and couple up tracks, who ever is closer to the work takes care of it.
Once we are through switching out the inbounds, we build the out bounds for the local industries. We double over the tracks we switched into, block out the "spot" cars in the order the train will work the industries, and swing the whole shooting match over to the C yard, which is where our "road" crew will pick up the train. We spot them for ground air, and turn the carmen lose on them.
Rain is pretty much done, so I did stay dry.[8D]
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[edblysard]

Three, engineer, switchman foreman, and switchman helper.
Engineer runs the motor, I am the foreman, so I get to make the decision, fade the heat when its wrong, and pull pins. The helper gets to run all over the yard, handleing switches from track 33 thru track 48, thats 16 switches he throws, about 50 or 60 times a hour for about 8 hours every day. I probaly throw about 40 switches in a shift.
Rank has its privileges.
We both ride cuts of cars into the tracks to set bumpers, and couple up tracks, who ever is closer to the work takes care of it.
Once we are through switching out the inbounds, we build the out bounds for the local industries. We double over the tracks we switched into, block out the "spot" cars in the order the train will work the industries, and swing the whole shooting match over to the C yard, which is where our "road" crew will pick up the train. We spot them for ground air, and turn the carmen lose on them.
Rain is pretty much done, so I did stay dry.[8D]
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[Mookie]

Refresh my memory - how many people do you have on your crew and their job titles.

[8D] Stay Dry

Jen

[Mookie]

Refresh my memory - how many people do you have on your crew and their job titles.

[8D] Stay Dry

Jen