Leo and others
This is a defiant safety problem also as with all the traffic often a gate
gets broken off and the dispatcher needs a flagman at the crossing. With
the reduced crews to SAVE money we have no flagman and so loose the speed
and service is lost
sjh
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From: <qutlx1@a...>
To: <Brhslist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Last Bastion of 3 man crews
> Its former Q territory so I guess its an applicable subject for this list.
> The east End dinkies are the last stronghold of the 3 man train crew(the
> fireman has been gone for several yrs unfortunately). Now with the summer
> vacation in full swing the dinkies are running more shorthanded than
usual.
> So Mgmt is "stealing" a crew member from a later depating train to help on
> earlier trains so that there's at least a Conductor and one Brkmn on each
> train. With the heavy use of 10 ride passes that each need to be punched
for
> each trip and the corresponding decline in monthly passes(rider vacations
and
> work at home options) it takes longer to get thru a car. Some revenue
> probably goes uncollected but then one salary is saved.Hard to say who
wins
> the battle. Makes me wonder how long the third man will last? One rumor
says
> when Dave (Supt Sub services retires) so goes the 3rd man.
> Gee,I'm feeling really old as I remember a minimum of 5 crew mwmbers on
each
> dinky and sometimes as high as 7 no make that eight!
> Leo
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