wabash…the territory out my way is alot of twists and truns… come around bends into interlockings as things like that… so line of sight as far as seeing a signal from a distace is an issue in some places…
do you have to call signals where your at?
csx engineer
The discussion was not about what caused a delay. The question was what does a delay (from any cause) cost and how could it be figured. As you stated, a delay is a delay is a delay and delays happen. Even if you are the only train on the entire railroad, no run seems to be without at least one delay. Time is money and each cost item has a time calculation built into it somewhere (even the cost of fuel), and the question asked was how that calculation worked into our subject - train delay.
kenno… it would still be minimal at best… if any crew goes on the law in the first place…thier was some major delay somewhere down the line…either at the originating yard…line of road… **** poor dispatching…the list can go on and on… but its still just a pimple on the butt of the railroad… the big costs are where trains derail and have mains blocked and have cars sideways and stacked 3 high…a train delayed for only an hour or so costs next to nothing in the long run…add up eveything you can think of…and 1 good derailment will blow that figur away …
csx engineer