Who is on which job, which trains are still out, and what the rule book actually says, in one place, kept current as the day changes.
Accounts are by admin invitation only. Install it on your phone once you have one.
Illustration. Job codes, trains and times are invented; no real crew names or board data are shown.
What it does
A crew day changes by the phone call. T&E Crews is built around the way it actually changes: fills, hold-downs, mark-offs, late trains, and the paperwork that comes in every morning.
Every job and both crafts in one view: assignments, hold-downs and mark-offs, with the extra board beside them. An open seat reads as open, and the board says why a seat is empty instead of guessing who is in it.
A train running late stays on the board until it actually arrives, not until its printed arrival time. When there is no live data, the board shows the schedule rather than inventing one.
Ask about today's board and it answers from the board. Ask about a rule and it answers from the reference library, with a citation, and says so when the library does not hold the answer.
Photograph or upload the Daily Crew Report or the Crew Calling sheet and the board updates from it. Names are checked against the roster, and anything that does not match is flagged for a person to settle.
Each account has a role, and the role decides what it can see and change. The checks run on the server, so a hidden button is never the only thing standing between a viewer and a write.
Who it is for
The people who make the board true before the first sign-on.
One current picture of crews and trains, day and night.
Access
Crew data is not public, so accounts are not either. If your railroad runs T&E Crews, an admin sends you an invitation; the link sets your own password and works once.
Roles
One email, one link, for your address. A resent invitation replaces the old link.
Accepting the invitation creates your account. What it can see and change is set by its role, and only an admin changes that.
At app.railroadcrews.com, from any browser, or from the home screen once installed.
For crew who already have an account. Installing puts T&E Crews on your home screen, full screen, with the same sign-in. It grants no access of its own, and there is no app store listing.
Open T&E Crews and your browser offers to install it. Tap Install when it asks.
Open T&E Crews to installThe installed app always loads the board from the server. Signing out leaves no board data stored on the phone.
Built by a locomotive engineer who works the board it runs. The details are the ones that matter on the job.
Railroad Crews was built by a working locomotive engineer and is in daily use for commuter railroad operations in South Florida. It grew out of the friction of the job: a board that changes by phone call, a last train that runs late past midnight, and a rule question that needs the book, not an opinion.
For interested railroads
Tell us which railroad you are with and what your crew day looks like. The reply comes from the person who built it.
Looking for an account? This form is not for access. Ask your admin for an invitation.