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POOL CREWS [3 records]

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Record 1 2013-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rail Transport
  • Transport of Goods
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Empty equipment returning from terminal elevator unloads at Thunder Bay, the West Coast or Churchill, is moved to main classification yards at Calgary and Winnipeg(CP Rail) and Edmonton and Winnipeg(Canadian National). From there, trains of empties are directed to distribution yards in the quantities required by the Wheat Board shipping program to make up the various train runs that branch out from these yards. Each distribution yard serves several loading blocks.(...) Generally, the distribution points are where the train and engine crews are based. Depending on volume of traffic handled at these points, the number of crews vary from one to a sizable pool.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par rail
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Les wagons vides revenant des silos portuaires de Thunder Bay, de la côte Ouest et de Churchill, sont dirigés vers les principales gares de triage. [...] De là, des wagons vides sont acheminés vers les gares de répartition en nombre voulu pour répondre au programme de transport de la Commission du blé, pour former les différents convois qui doivent quitter ces gares. Chacune des gares de répartition dessert plusieurs subdivisions de transport. [...] En général, les gares de répartition sont les points d'attache des mécaniciens et du personnel du train. Compte tenu du trafic, le nombre des équipes peut varier d'une seule jusqu'à un chiffre imposant.

Spanish

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Record 3 1980-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
OBS

"... trainmen so displaced exercising their seniority into a pool of crews regularly assigned to operate a set of trains... ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
OBS

"...les agents de train ainsi délogés et qui font valoir leur ancienneté dans un groupement d'équipes régulièrement affectées à un ensemble de trains...".

Spanish

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