EDAY/AYED

ED8 was out of Deerfield with the 3401-3404 and 29 cars for the P&W. Turned at Gardner with 50 cars for Deerfield including 16 racks. Both units LHF west.

ED8 was out of Deerfield today with the 610-348 and 33 cars, 19 for the P&W.

ED9 done with their Gardner pick-up, going to Parkers for a recrew. 610-348 and 2/39 at 1142...

ED8 was out of Deerfield this morning with the 3400-PW 4005 and 23 cars.

As of 1230 they are working Gardner. Going to take the Deerfield's east with them.

ED9 8955-516 and 2/19 ready to depart Gardner at 1120.

EDAY/ED8 has been cancelled at least the last 2 days due to no power.

atholrail wrote:EDAY/ED8 has been cancelled at least the last 2 days due to no power.

So do the P&W-bound cars continue to sit at EDY or does EDPO take them to Gardner? Or does a passing 28N snag them?

Both.

AYED/ED9 today got cabbed to Lawrence to recrew DJJC - neither the C or E has ever switched the place. Assume they just want to get the train closer. I bet NS loves all the PAS crews being taken for PAR trains. They really are in Triage mode.

Over 40 cars for EDAY in the class yard at Deerfield. Train not made up though account no power. About 35 cars for Deerfield at Fitch.

Today's ED8/EDAY crew just taxied to the hotel from Deerfield. No train made up for them account no power.

Can't make this stuff up!

atholrail wrote:Today's ED8/EDAY crew just taxied to the hotel from Deerfield. No train made up for them account no power.

I feel like they'd be better off running EDAY/AYED with extra crews and just put more guys on the spare board.

BostonUrbEx wrote:

atholrail wrote:Today's ED8/EDAY crew just taxied to the hotel from Deerfield. No train made up for them account no power.

I feel like they'd be better off running EDAY/AYED with extra crews and just put more guys on the spare board.

How would that help the lack of available power?

It doesn't help the lack of power, but when they dont have enough power, they can simply not call a crew, rather than pay a scheduled crew for 8 hours to ride in a cab and sit in the hotel.

Does nothing to move traffic, power wise, but its just as easy to run a train if you have power, and cheaper if you dont.

The engineer on this side of EDAY told me he has taken his train once in an entire month. More often than not they sit in the trailer for hours on end only to be sent to rescue something or to the hotel. Calculate the cost of that and you'll quickly realize why this railroad can't afford Lube Oil.