Eastern Railroad Discussion > Hunter's CSXT: "How tomorrow moves"

No helpers, no Road Foreman, no kiddin"

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Don't fret, he is loading up his oxygen bottles in the pick up truck
and is heading your way to help.

Has anyone actually observed the elimination of helpers or is this just rumor at this point? FWIW, I was rather amazed to watch helper less trains climbing Rogers and Kicking Horse Passes on CP several years ago, although a great many of them operate with DPUs.

"Hunter's Hulcher Culture"

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The source I saw saying the helper bit was last week and said implementation would not be starting until about no (something like July 20th or later)

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EHH = Easy to Hire Hulcher?

A DPU is a helper, just without a separate crew. In the long hauls of the west on many routes there are numerous up and down significant grades over great distances and it makes sense to use them. With just a few exceptions, most mainlines in the east just have one major obstacle....getting over the Appalachian Mountains. The grades are 11-20 miles long and manned helpers make more sense. The remaining undulations in the profile can be handled by today's modern mostly AC units.

So what happened in photo 2, a hard coupling?

I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for decades.

If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort would be more legitimate if photos of actual incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure are used, instead of random stock images of rail accidents. BSB

And the first photo could be caused by bad train handling. How does an engineer who mishandled his train become Hunters' fault?

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Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

BigSkyBlue Wrote:
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> I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a
> type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for
> decades.
>
> If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort
> would be more legitimate if photos of actual
> incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure
> are used, instead of random stock images of rail
> accidents. BSB

It just shows what a silly obsession bashing EHH has become.

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Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

BigSkyBlue Wrote:
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> I'm not a fan of EHH, but the second photo shows a
> type of boxcar that hasn't been in service for
> decades.
>
> If you are going to criticize EHH, the effort
> would be more legitimate if photos of actual
> incidents that have occurred during EHH's tenure
> are used, instead of random stock images of rail
> accidents. BSB

In the first photo, the auto rack with a car looking like a Ford is from the 70's. Earl...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/17 21:45 by SRSD45.