New Haven Joe posted:It would be helpful to me and perhaps to others with no connection to the railroad industry if posters would explain industry specific terms such as "deadheads", "consumer time", "seniority moves", and "long pools". NH Joe
Deadheads ,meaning a crew traveling by train or taxi from either home or away terminal NOT operating a train.
Senority moves means the position in rank ,oldest to youngest on a list of Engineers or Conductors ,and the oldest can displace a younger in rank not age employee. Example if the oldest on the list in a legal move according to contract ,has a position they desire that a junior employee holds he can bump or displace him.That qualifies as a senority move.
Long pools usually refer to a crew that covers typically what’s referred to as an interdivisional run.
Most short pools are 100 miles runs say Portsmouth,Ohio to Williamson,WV. And again from Williamson to Bluefield ,WV another 100 miles.
But a long pool or I.D. pool covers the 200 miles from Portsmouth to Bluefield.
Consumer time I haven’t heard that around here.
Some areas and railroads use different terms that explain the same thing like when a crew runs out of Federal legal work hours.
Around here we call it outlawing and other parts on the Pocahontas the crews call it doglawed.
