Evidently, it's more than crews that need rest, or else there were not enough rested crews to keep the POED photographed by David Hutchinson on 09-14 ( http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=203363 ) moving very far west on that day. As I was driving into Shirley on 09-15-2012, D-3 took a train report from a reconstituted POED, and after a few minutes' wait, the same power, NewBlue 517, OldPaint 510, and PreexistingHeritage/SoleSurvivingSmurf 511, hauled 68 east of the Shirley platform at 0908, the same time that the 40.2 talker came on, giving a no defects at 0912. The lead -- apparently drywall -- loads in the photo had been left behind. There was an echo of the power about 20 deep with individual NewBlue, OldPaint, and Smurf boxes tied together in that order.
When D-3 got the tonnage/dangerous report, he told the crew that the recrew point had been moved from Gardner to Wachusett, but a now-scratchy series of transmissions revealed that even that might be tricky. Something on one or more units kept on tripping, and even after a successful reset, track speed could not be maintained, so however much rest the power had gotten evidently wasn't enough.
I stopped listened at 1000, and there wasn't any apparent resolution by then.
When D-3 got the tonnage/dangerous report, he told the crew that the recrew point had been moved from Gardner to Wachusett, but a now-scratchy series of transmissions revealed that even that might be tricky. Something on one or more units kept on tripping, and even after a successful reset, track speed could not be maintained, so however much rest the power had gotten evidently wasn't enough.
I stopped listened at 1000, and there wasn't any apparent resolution by then.
"A gray crossover is definitely not company transportation."
