theconductor Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
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> > The time one spends at their home terminal
> depends
> > on how many out of town crews become rested and
> > the number of trains that are run. All "out of
> > town" crews would be used before "in town"
> crews,
> > and because of the variables, it's not possible
> to
> > say with certainty how the board would turn on
> any
> > given day.
> >
>
> That's what I was getting at. I see how that the
> home terminal crews would be off longer than the
> away from home crews. I just don't see how home
> terminal crews have more time off on double ended
> pools than those on single ended pools. There's a
> very good chance that I read too much into the
> previous post :)

OK. Say you're 6X's out at your home terminal of a double ended pool. Four crews from the other terminal come into your terminal. As soon as they're rested they go 1st through 4th out, and you and the five people above you drop bellow them accordingly. So in this scenario, you've now gone from being 6th out to 10th out. The railroad would still run the same number of train, but you'd be further down the list, thus you'd have more time at home.