today while going through a town in kansas i saw a train with 2 bnsf engines 3 csx engines and 2 ns engines pulling a coal train with all OGEX coal hoppers
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I still am alittle bit confused why some trains have different locomotive companys. Is the engine leading the company that is pulling, Example:
1 BNSF
3 CSX
1 Union Pacific
Would it mean that the BNSF is the company pulling the train since it’s in the front?
Not always…lease power can be seen on many lines that look to be out of their natural enviroment…on “who leads” I would assume that the engine with the nicest cab would get up front duty. Just a guess there, but in KS I’d put money on BNSF as the “home road.”
nice, I have seen it 3 times twice in Tucson 1 in Augusta
- UP,CSX,NS,UP
- UP,CSX,NS,UP
- CSX,BNSF,NS
kevin
I’ve seen quiet a bit of BNSF power running through Blair lately which is a real treat of once in a while,Thank God.
Id like to SEE more.
You can never really tell what RR the train is by looking at the power nowadays.
It’s all mixed up!
at least when we had “lots” of Class 1’s we had all those varied schemes…now we have three going round and round and round and round…
Don’t let them fool you, we only have 1 big railroad, they just pretend to be independent.
Yup and soon all their locos will be a shade of armor yellow!!
All the Class I’s have power shareing agreements in place account of the various run-through operations that take place between the companies to minimize terminal delays.
Power is shared based on a ‘Horsepower Hour’ calculation that can be calculated from the Interchange Times on the equipment between the propertys. At various points in time during the year, one company may be Debiting Horsepower Hours and at another point during the year there may be a Credit balance in Horsepower Hours vs. the other carriers. At some designated point in time the Debit/Credit balance is weighed and money may actually change hands between the carriers. The carrirer on whose property the engine resides when routine maintenance is required, performs the maintenance and bills the owner.
Thanks to computers all the cross carrier accounts are handled electronically, with a specific officer in each company assigned the responsibility of monitoring the accounts and taking appropriate actions as befits the needs of his property.
It really wouldn’t suprise me if it was true…[:D]
[(-D]…That’s very funny.
In your dreams…It will NEVER happen.
In this particular case in Florida, the railroad and train was CSX, but the locomotive power was entirely BNSF a C44-9W, SD40-2,and a patch job SD40-2 in Santa Fe paint.