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Passenger Trains > Tehachapi detour locomotive crew?Date: 04/23/18 21:52 Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: lanewsman Will it be an engineer who normally works the coast route or a freight engineer familiar with the loop?
Date: 04/23/18 22:05 Re: Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: zchcsse Educated GUESS: Amtrak crew with UP freight pilots helping out the Amtrak crew.
-Tom Date: 04/23/18 22:08 Re: Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: chakk Sounds correct. And when I rode an earlier Tehachapi detour, there was also a pilot added at Merced who was qualified on the Altamont Pass route.
Date: 04/23/18 23:00 Re: Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: OTG lanewsman Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Will it be an engineer who normally works the > coast route or a freight engineer familiar with > the loop? The regular (Coast) Amtrak crew operates the train under the supervision/direction of freight crews ("pilots") familiar with the valley line. Date: 04/24/18 11:46 Re: Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: ble692 UP crews will be an engineer & conductor that normally work the respective territories. It takes 3 different UP crews to cover the run for each detouring Amtrak train:
1. LA - Bakersfield 2. Bakersfield - Lathrop 3. Lathrop - Oakland Amtrak will have their normal crews on board. I believe they change engineers at Merced and Bakersfield. Not sure on the conductors. Bakersfield only is my guess. Date: 04/25/18 14:46 Re: Tehachapi detour locomotive crew? Author: SanJoaquinEngr The pool freight crews that will be on the train will change at the three named points.
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