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Horsepower Hour Restrictions
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:43 pm
by David Collins
Not sure if anyone remembers when CSX 3194 (Law Enforcement) went onto the UP for about a week, went down to Mexico and then went back to CSX. I've heard rumors that someone got in trouble at the power desk for sending 3194 because it's a railroad's (that is NOT Union Pacific's) special unit honoring law enforcement, I'm taking that statement with SEVERAL grains of salt, but is there a way a railroad can place a restriction on certain locomotives so they can't be handed off to other railroads to be interchanged for Horsepower Hours?
Re: Horsepower Hour Restrictions
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:16 pm
by Saturnalia
Yeah a railroad can do whatever it wants with its locomotives, and sometimes special restrictions can be put in place for a specific unit, such as direction to route towards a shop if a routine inspection is coming due.
In this particular case I have no idea, but it’s possible.
A horsepower hour is a horsepower hour, doesn’t really matter what gets sent. The 3194 is just like any other 4400hp engine for that.
Re: Horsepower Hour Restrictions
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:54 pm
by Ypsi
About 99% of railroaders care more about the seat they sit in and the air conditioning then the paint on the locomotive. Likely whoever sent it didn’t even realize that is was “special paint”
Re: Horsepower Hour Restrictions
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:32 pm
by PatAzo
David Collins wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:43 pm
but is there a way a railroad can place a restriction on certain locomotives so they can't be handed off to other railroads to be interchanged for Horsepower Hours?
You add a rule to the thousands already in place that if everyone followed all of them very little would move. Successful managers know what corners can be cut. Safety no. Send a "special" unit to the UP for a week and some VP or GM will wet the bed. In the end who cares.