Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> SP1996, best check into all this before you go any
> further. A pool is a group/list of people, one
> for engineers, one for conductors that determines
> the sequence of you being called for a job/turn/
> other. There are long pools, usually high
> seniority for trains which can travel as much as
> 400
> miles, short pools for other assignments and as
> mentioned when you run out of people you go to
> the
> extra board which is a pool all upon itself. The
> extra board is usually people who don't have
> enough seniority to hold a regular pool job. Now,
> take Roseville for instance. You can go to Reno/
> Sparks, Redding, the Bay area, Fresno/Bakersfield,
> Stockton or several other places. Anything
> other than Roseville for most pools is an "away"
> terminal. Yes, some away terminals have their own
> power and crews but those guys have pretty much
> all been around for a while and have "bid" into
> those jobs as they come available based on their
> seniority. If you hire on to the UP and they take
> you they can request you show up for work pretty
> much at any hub. They do try to place you in your
> normal locale but if you want to work you're going
> where they place you. You mention watching
> crew changes, places like Elko NV are double away
> terminals and have both Salt Lake and Sparks
> crews staying over. You can see the same thing
> happen at Fresno and Bakersfield.


Just a couple small corrections, but the pool going north from Roseville runs to Dunsmuir, not Redding. Also, while Bakersfield is the away from home terminal for the Roseville pool, it is the home terminal for all other pools that touch it, those being Fresno/Yermo and West Colton/LA.