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Date: 01/20/20 09:50
Two Man Crews
Author: texchief1

I know it won't help the railroads financially, but why do they not have 2 engineers instead of and engineer and a conductor?  The low man on the seniority has to fix the broken knuckles.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX

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Date: 01/20/20 09:55
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: 1019X

Because the engineer and conductors belong to different unions. I am sure the Class 1s would rather have a single craft to deal with.

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Date: 01/20/20 10:16
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: fbe

MRL does have 2 promoted engineers in the cab. They split the trip into halves or quarters. The engineer not running does the ground work at that time regardless of seniority. All members are BLET.

This does work well.

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Date: 01/20/20 10:45
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: Drknow

Who sez the conductor has less “seniority”. I work with plenty of trainmen that have more time in than I do.

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Date: 01/20/20 11:02
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: callum_out

There are plenty of hi seni conductors who prefer not to run.

Out

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Date: 01/20/20 18:48
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: BarstowRiff

Green Bay and Western, before it was disolved, had two engineers on each train, with one acting as conductor .

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Date: 01/20/20 22:29
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: SCAX3401

Drknow Wrote:
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> Who sez the conductor has less “seniority”. I
> work with plenty of trainmen that have more time
> in than I do.

I am confused.  Unless a comment was deleted, no one has mentioned conductors specifically having less seniority than an engineer.

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Date: 01/21/20 09:20
Re: Two Man Crews
Author: toledopatch

BNSF6400 Wrote:
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> I am confused.  Unless a comment was deleted, no
> one has mentioned conductors specifically having
> less seniority than an engineer.

I think the people saying that are misunderstanding this part of the initial statement to mean the current state of affairs:

"The low man on the seniority has to fix the broken knuckles."

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