Western Railroad Discussion > Coast Line activity - update please

Now that container ships are being diverted to Oakland from the south-land has anyone seen increased traffic repositioning platforms? If so have they been coming up the coast?

Thanks in advance

Haven't heard of one container train on the Coast Sub in sometime, don't think anything has changed.

The limiting factor on the Coast Line is that there is just one set of helpers at SLO.
Kinda limits how many trains you can run.

PHall Wrote:
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> The limiting factor on the Coast Line is that
> there is just one set of helpers at SLO.
> Kinda limits how many trains you can run.


Not reallly, as that is all the helpers that have been in SLO for the last 20 years or more. That one set can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week back and forth over the hill.


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SLOCONDR

SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> PHall Wrote:
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> > The limiting factor on the Coast Line is that
> > there is just one set of helpers at SLO.
> > Kinda limits how many trains you can run.
>
>
> Not reallly, as that is all the helpers that have
> been in SLO for the last 20 years or more. That
> one set can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week back
> and forth over the hill.
>
>
> V
>
> SLOCONDR

So how many crews are qualified for the Coast Line these days?

PHall Wrote:
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> SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> > PHall Wrote:
> >
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> > -----
> > > The limiting factor on the Coast Line is that
> > > there is just one set of helpers at SLO.
> > > Kinda limits how many trains you can run.
> >
> >
> > Not reallly, as that is all the helpers that
> have
> > been in SLO for the last 20 years or more. That
> > one set can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
> back
> > and forth over the hill.
> >
> >
> > V
> >
> > SLOCONDR
>
> So how many crews are qualified for the Coast Line
> these days?


There are quite a few crews terminaled out of SLO. Also, there are quite a few on reserve boards. As far as numbers go, I can't give you that info as I don't have it. The biggest problem the company would have is finding a crew to man the trains if an abundance of traffic were to happen, as they don't work but maybe 4 to 6 trips per month. After having that kind of time off, crews sorta get lost when things pick up because of detours and such. All engineers that work out of SLO of course are qualified on the helpers, main line pool work and local(s).

V

SLOCONDR



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/12 07:40 by SLOCONDR.