Re: The "Spirit of California" and Hours of Service/Crew change point
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 05-26-2017 - 12:00
Dragoman Wrote:
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> The Spirit of California was a short-lived
> overnight train operated between Los Angeles, the
> San Francisco Bay Area (San Jose/Oakland), and
> Sacramento in the early 1980s. Its scheduled
> running time was between 12:45 and 13 hours each
> way.
>
> My question: with 12-hour HOS rules, how was this
> handled? Did the crews change in Oakland?
Yes.
> If an
> Oakland crew took the train up from Oakland to
> Sacramento in the morning, would they get a hotel
> room for the day and then bring it back to Oakland
> that evening?
Yes.