I know that on a shortline, or small regional railroad the answer is pretty basic. On a Class One railroad (or Amtrak for that matter), when the engineer shows up for work, does he usually know the conductor assigned to the same train for that run?
Sure, it’s a slow day - I can dabble a little in something I don’t know anything about.
Since you work in a division and if you have worked there a number of years, chances are you would know most of the men in a crew. Back when they had 5 people on a crew, the old engineer knew them all, unless they were new hires. Probably hasn’t changed much over the years, especially since the crews are smaller. He even knew a few of the “section” men and roundhouse workers!
Mookie
Mookie’s correct. All will work out of the same senority district and they all will likely know each other. The only probable exception would be, as Mook says, the new hires and then those that may be filling a vacancy while they hold their seniority on another district.
Currently it is common for a terminal to send workers elsewhere if the second terminal is short of help. Here in NLR we normally send people to Houston, Texas, and Livonia, Louisiana. But currently WE are short so people from Kansas City are here now. [:0]
What others say is true, except when you get a fairly new employee or (rarely), an employee from another terminal, as happens once in awhile at the away-from-home terminal on one of the places I frequent.