350 becomes the same days 355, 352 becomes the next days 351, and 354 becomes the next days 353.GP30M4216 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 12:13 pmIn the past, I think 352 would turn to become 351 next morning and 354 would turn to become 353. Is there a difference in the consist that would require 354 to be 351? It’s possible due to the delay the 354 crew was out of time to wye the train upon arrival, but you wouldn’t think it would take 2+ hours to accomplish this morning. Just my surmizations!
If I understand correctly, if 354 is late enough to the point the crew can’t wye the locomotives, or require some sort of special move in Pontiac (setting out private cars for CN, setting out a bad order, etc), they’ll call a crew off the extra board to handle that.
I filmed a very similar situation that happened back in April, where 350 got in nearly an hour and a half late due to an ITCS failure on the leader. The executive/geometry cars were on the back (bet those guys weren’t thrilled), thus they were running with two units, luckily enough running elephant style so they didn’t have to wye the working locomotive. They had to wye the full train, swap the leaders so the bad unit was trailing, clean the train, then they could depart. That amounted up to about an hour and 45 minute long delay for 355 leaving Pontiac.
