DEADHEAD"Employee riding on a pass; any nonpaying passenger. Also fireman's derisive term for head brakeman who rides engine cab. Also a locomotive being hauled "dead" on a train
DECK"Front part of engine cab. Also catwalk on roofs of boxcars ...
Deadhead
A car or train, usually passenger, moving empty; a passenger traveling on a pass. Empty freight cars are referred to as empties.
Decal ...
Deadhead
To move in a train, not to support its operation, but to be properly positioned for later work. Can apply to railroad employees as well as equipment.
Decapod ...
Deadhead
1. Paid crew moving on trains, without performing service, from one terminal to another at railroad's convenience
2. Any railroad employee traveling on a pass
3. Locomotive hauled by another ...
Deadhead
(1) An empty car, or (2) a passenger (or off-duty crew member) riding free on a pass; or (3) a locomotive traveling without cars.
Departure Yard ...
Deadhead
1. Fireman's term for brakeman.
2. Employee riding on company pass or on company business.
3. Train and/or engine crew moved without performing service, from one terminal to another at railroad convenience and for which they are paid.
Deadhead - An empty car; a passenger riding on a pass; a locomotive traveling without cars.
A split shift had you working a train into Chicago in the morning, deadheading back on the 8:37am train back to Shops Yard to tie up. You would then catch the 2:25pm train Back into Chicago and work an evening rush train back to Shops and tie up.
One, double a portion of the first train over into Boody yard and take both crews off the trains and taxi them to Bulls Gap, TN which would ultimately result in at least two more crews being "deadheaded" back from Bulls Gap to Carbo; plus with Boody, ...
Not enough crews are available to protect scheduled out bounds and any deadheads/dogcatch events.
Crib
Caboose.
 See also: Point, Track, Car, Locomotive, Crew
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