WASHINGTON — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific have reached an interim agreement that settles their Chicago interchange dispute while the railroads await a formal Surface Transportation Board decision on the matter. CP informed the board …
So; a cab hop back to home terminal for both then?
If CN delivers to Bensonville, there would be a light engine return and ditto for CP delivering to Clearing. Did you mean a taxi or a light engine = cab?
If you deliver a cut with engines - the engines have to get back home somehow! Unless each carrier can devise a method to return the other’s power with the cut; in which case a taxi would get the crew back home.
i was referring to the engines returning light - sometimes referred to as a “cab hop”.
CP has a daily train(#288) to BRC’s Clearing Yd. from St.Paul Yd. Most likely the CN block will be on this train now and the Bensenville block will be shifted to another train. The CP power that brings #288 to Clearing Yd. stays there and the next day a CP crew and train (#287) originates there and brings the power back to St. Paul.
Thanks.
That was short for “caboose hop”. You remember cabooses, don’t you?
Well; back in my neck of the woods they were called cabin cars but; yes, I do remember and, frankly, miss them.
I have also heard of light power moves being referred to as cab hops since the crew rides in the cab of the locomotive. I reckon to avoid confusion I should have simply said light power move and left it at that.
Yes, Carl, I do as I was born in 35 and ALL freight trains had them. Pennsy called them cabin cars and they (and locos) had trainphones in them (before radios) when I worked for the PRR in the fifties. I was more familiar with the phrase “light engine move” and cabs were called for crew transport, hence my quest for clarification.
Electroliner:
I‘d be 99.99% sure Carl’s comment was targeted at me. I think you are off the hook; as it were.
However, those that are 30 and younger would know very little of cabooses.