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Is there enough room there for a meaningful siding? Would need about 10k feet. The CC has a crossing, which complicates things
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johnpbarlow wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 11:13 am So now that Worcester-Ayer trip times should be halved to 1.5 hrs give or take, are there any operational changes pending? Eg, single Selkirk-Ayer CSX crew?Not yet. Selkirk crews aren't qualified on the WML east of Burncoat yet, and ex-ST crews are definitely not qualified beyond west New Bond.
NHV 669 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:13 pm It literally is that easy.... it all depends what a crew can generally cover in 12 hours in their qualified territory based on things like track speed. If you can raise the MAS on a specific stretch and not have dozens of speedos, you're certainly extending the amount of mileage an average crew can cover between their home terminal, and wherever they're taking rest.This is a bit off topic but there's more to it than that. At the moment it's usually a CSX yard crew bringing M426 from CP45 on the B&A in Worcester and leaving the train at Burncoat for a qualified ex-ST crew. It's not an HoS issue. Others are in better position to comment on the qualification process, but it's not as easy as 'jump on and go'. You have to know all the TT rules and all physical characteristics. Not all the ex-ST employees are qualified system wide - a Rigby based crew might have an engineer qualified to Deerfield but a conductor only good to Gardner, for example.
Crews probably aren't going farther than New Bond due to hitting their hours limits, what exactly is strange about that?