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To the crew, it would be music to their ears. ;)
BTW, as someone else mentioned, they are used for sleeping/living quarters for the Track gangs. There must be some real work going on, on the CNO&TP.
You do not have to have a T&T on the UP. Usually they would call up the Omaha Dsp to let them know of how many moves they will do and request a signal indication if needed.
There is one job that will go up the tracks about a couple miles to a warehouse to drop-off or pick-up cars. They call the...
CRANDIC's Job 2 pulls 59 loaded coal cars toward town from the Union Pacific Fairfax Connection. The coal cars will go to the Alliant Energy Coal-Burning Generating Station on the SE-side of Cedar Rapids, IA. April 6, 2011.
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