06-10-2009, 01:13 PM
Brakie Wrote:Puddlejumper wrote:Also if you have a 5-6 person crew you need that hack even just to pick up 4 boxcars 3 miles away. Not enough room in the cab for 5-6 people.
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On the contrary..I seen 5 men ride the cab of a SW7...2 was seated and 3 was standing.We left our train at the urban industrial branch yard(a whopping 3 track "overflow"yard) while we went up a 5 block branch to pick up 3 cars.
The most people I ever had in the cab was 5, on an Amtrak P40. The Amtrak crew, myself and a CSX engineer as a pilot crew, and a RFE. It was tight. But if I worked back in the caboose days I prolly would take my cabin with me if I had a 5 man crew. Sure you could all fit up there, but why? Especially if you have to shovel coal into the firebox with all those men up there.
Dave
-Dave