What does it mean for train crews to spend consecutive nights away from home?

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Engineman 2000

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I read that freight train crews who go on long distant trips spend consecutive nights away from home and does that mean that they can spend a week or 2 away from home. I thought that freight train crews couldn't travel anymore than 200 to 300 miles before having to go back to their home terminals. I think that 300 miles is the longest away from home terminal that you can have. Unless after you get to your away from home terminal and go to another which is about another 12 hours away and will they ever change the rules one day to allow crews to go across the country, because if freighter captains and truck drivers are away from home for a couple of weeks or months, so can a freight train crew.
 
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