Steam & Excursion > 844 July 23, 2016

Assuming  (assume--that makes an ass out of you and me)  that 844 will seek to leave Cheyenne on the way to Denver and back July 23, 2016---anyone have a definite guess as to the time she might try to leave the Cheyenne yard?

She wouldn't leave the 23rd as that's the day of the Frontier Days trip. She would likely leave the 21st and
maybe sometime in the morning.

 

In the past it's typically been a 10:00 departure.
~wko

That's a bad track record!

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"The train's on time, but it's yesterday's train"

Could be that was as quick as the would let him depart unless you know otherwise. He can only do what dispatch lets him.
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> In the past it's typically been a 10:00 departure.
> I don't wish to turn this thread negative (isn't
> that what the other one's for! haha, just
> kidding), but ed doesn't have the best track
> record of departing on time. One eastbound trip
> had an advertised 8:00 departure and finally came
> around the curve at Archer, less than 5 miles away
> from their starting point, at 9:05. Heck, I even
> think the 2014 Frontier Days train, the big one
> that has to be to Cheyenne on time, departed
> Denver over 20 minutes late.
> ~wko

BAB Wrote:
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> Could be that was as quick as the would let him
> depart unless you know otherwise. He can only do
> what dispatch lets him.
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True. Since he doesn't "get along" with other managers throughout the UP, and has "stuck" some Dispatchers in the past, I'm sure the Dispatchers "get even" whenever they can.

HotWater Wrote:
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> BAB Wrote:
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> > Could be that was as quick as the would let him
> > depart unless you know otherwise. He can only
> do
> > what dispatch lets him.
> >
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>
>
> True. Since he doesn't "get along" with other
> managers throughout the UP, and has "stuck" some
> Dispatchers in the past, I'm sure the Dispatchers
> "get even" whenever they can.

Which going back to BAB's comment, would then still make that DL's fault.

Where do you get the idea he does not get along with the other managers in the company? When I worked with him, he was always a get it over the road kind of guy.

RRMike Wrote:
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> Where do you get the idea he does not get along
> with the other managers in the company? When I
> worked with him, he was always a get it over the
> road kind of guy.

Maybe when he was a regular Engineer out of the Denver Pool, but after he became Manager of the steam shop in May 2010, he started to burn bridges everyplace he went starting in 2011.

The train has always gone south on the Thursday before the Frontier days run with the guests of the government affairs people. That would be the 21st and the 23rd will be the Frointier Days roundtrip train out of Denver. Then they come back to Cheyenne on Sunday which is the 24th with a variable departure time in Denver.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY