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Re: IJ Article on "Major Gaps" in SMART Service
Author: Snips
Date: 05-19-2017 - 19:12
Sorry bud, wrong again but thanks for trying. Not a UP trained dispatcher and the schedule had nothing to do with freight trains. In your post you complained about a 9 minute layover for a brake test or lunch break. Your assumption was incorrect, the layover is spent waiting for another SMART train.
Erik H. Wrote:
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> Snips Wrote:
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> > Spoken like a true bus driver. Sour grapes much?
> I
> > guess the train crews never have "conditions
> > outside of their conrol." Like a schedule with
> 9
> > minutes for a mandatory fra brake test. Lest we
> > also forget, this is a single track rr and that
> > time might also be spent waiting for an
> opposing
> > train...Also, there are no "bus drivers working
> > for the same transit agency." SMART doesn't
> have
> > any buses.
>
> You should check out WES a bit up north.
> Basically same kind of operation.
>
> > "that time might also be spent waiting for an
> opposing train"
>
> Or, a good dispatcher would hold the freight train
> beyond the commuter rail limits, and run the
> freight train behind the commuter
> train...but...maybe the "sour grapes" comes from
> the Union Pacific trained dispatcher.
Erik H. Wrote:
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> Snips Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Spoken like a true bus driver. Sour grapes much?
> I
> > guess the train crews never have "conditions
> > outside of their conrol." Like a schedule with
> 9
> > minutes for a mandatory fra brake test. Lest we
> > also forget, this is a single track rr and that
> > time might also be spent waiting for an
> opposing
> > train...Also, there are no "bus drivers working
> > for the same transit agency." SMART doesn't
> have
> > any buses.
>
> You should check out WES a bit up north.
> Basically same kind of operation.
>
> > "that time might also be spent waiting for an
> opposing train"
>
> Or, a good dispatcher would hold the freight train
> beyond the commuter rail limits, and run the
> freight train behind the commuter
> train...but...maybe the "sour grapes" comes from
> the Union Pacific trained dispatcher.
