sane one Wrote:
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> Some guy at TO posted his two week's observation
> of the pitiful operations of the UP Valley/Black
> Butte Subs. He noted that UP doesn't run a lot of
> trains. Four ups and four downs. Some of those ups
> get split at Dunsmuir and others around Lakehead.
> A helper crew brings the rear half of the train up
> to Black Butte or even up to Grass Lake depending
> on tonnage.
>
> THE COMMON THEME WAS THAT UP RAN DIFFERENTLY EVERY
> DAY THAT HE WATCHED TRAINS.
>
> I suppose the OP who made a ridiculous post about
> seeing an ASS man before going out to watch trains
> set a series of stupid responses.
>
> The traffic manager response was spot on. UP runs
> trains that are too long that don't fit into 8000
> ft passing tracks that Espee used to gauge their
> ops. 10,000ft trains don't work well between
> Dunsmuir and Black Butte. UP has wasted more crews
> trying to make PSR 15,000ft trains work, but won't
> save face and abandon its stupid policies.

Hey a sane answer about Dunsmuir traffic. Thanks. Some of us still appreciate AP when the subject is about trains. I don't subscribe to TO so I was not in the loop about the butt jokes. I remember the sidings at Small and Mt. Shasta city both too short and pulled out. If 15,000 ft trains have become the new standard UP will probably have hundreds of sidings too short . Much longer trains seems to equate to far fewer trains. Won't longer fewer trains eliminate the need for many sidings and passing tracks?