Attendees: Mike Kipps (d), Keith Pritchard, Dick Munnikhuysen (o), Ken Montero, Dan Moore (whym), Rick Lull (tpym) and Charles Curley (whaym).

February 21, 2015 - A snow storm northwest of us caused four of the eight attendees to cancel the day before the session. Luckily I was able to replace three of them. This session had quite a bit going on with a CEO move, a work extra and a MOW extra. Being one attendee short, and probably needing a larger than normal crew, I considered annulling the upper level passenger trains (20/21 & 30/31) and the mail express. But didn't. Probably should have. For the most part the new CV settings on the engines performed fine. I may have to up the top speed for the decapods and the consolidation than is assigned to the Broadway Turn. The Broadway Turn stopped in the helix just before exiting. Too little power might have caused this. Dan Moore had White Hall yard and he said the E&P was just like CSX, you build a train, call for a crew and it never moves. Since we were very short of crews I at one time was running three trains at once, the work extra, the Kipper and the CEO. I also ended up running the two Hood Turns. I have never run this many trains in one session. We pulled the White Hall assistant yardmaster Charles out of White Hall and put him on mainline duty. We released Keith from the 110/Thorny Point extra to other mainline duties and gave the Thorny Point extra to the Thorny Point yardmaster, Rick. And of course the passenger trains got over two hours late and caused an already overloaded dispatcher to have to write even more orders. We did get most of the trains run even though we had an exhausted crew at the end of the session.