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I asked a UP official about that and was told there hasnt been a final decision on detouring through FRC this year.

In the event that you are displaced due to a loss of a service you get a "bump". Since you are on a bump you automatically get paid to qualify on the new job that you bump to. Before I go any farther trust me when I say I m VERY familiar with this. I myself went through marking up on a bum...

i can tell you with 100% certainty that roomettes are permitted to have a sale of 3 people in them. a deluxe room is allowed 4 people. if i remember correctly a family room is billed for up to 6 people. i can think of a couple way to get around this. first i would try going to a depot and talking to...

lots of good info there. i see they are paying to qualify for conductors in sparks. must be desperate for people. Not so desperate anymore!!! Had one guy bid in and have an Engineer that can hold who will be going back on their Conductor rights. As soon as that Engineer marks up all the jobs will b...

No problem, my pleasure to be able to help. One last thing I forgot to put in my post. There used to be fueling stands at the east and west end of the platform at Sparks. The guys I worked with out of Salt Lake said when they fueled there back in the day there was an old head that fueled the power. ...

OK,here we go for all of you inquiring minds. First off Sparks got its name from Governor John Sparks. As for 5 and 6 and servicing etc. I took the last train 5 into Sparks and was there to say "Adios" (sans drumhead) to the last train 6 the following day. I would have to go back through m...

on a national basis, daily if not darn near it. some trains more than others. ive had times working as a trainman that it was almost every trip at certain times. it is actulally done fairly discretely. unless you really knew what you were looking at and saw the labeling on the box you wouldnt likely...

this just sounds to me like yet another bone headed move by amtrak. i would like to see how it will cost more money to get repacement parts for locomotives that the company has paid for and owns vs. purchasing new locomotives. they made this same blunder with the f-40's. once they were sold what did...

so i just got curious about this whole thing. so i decided to look up what it would cost to go from BWI to Boston on SWA vs. Amtrak. here is what i see. first off the original poster said his trip was originating out of the washington area. so lets just assume that means a 30 min drive on a good day...

3 pics here. they may help. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1918265,1919409#msg-1919409 some more. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1850463,1850666#msg-1850666 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1685037,1685102#msg-1685102 i hope these help. they were t...

there is the one that is not in service. the last all original metroliner car. it was given to the museum in strausburg pa. all original in that it had recieved no conversion, etc since it began service.

First off maybe your better off with plastic dining ware because really how often and well is the silverware cleaned on a train. That is coming from someone who loves trains and doesn't fly. Question though for Amtrak Engineers. Do passenger trains face the same challenges of a freight train does w...

a little off topic not being a railroad name but how about this for an acronym...... Because U Deserve What Every Individual Should Enjoy Regularly = BUDWEISER (so the lore goes) CSX as I was told when I hired on was supposed to be a form of an acronym. Chessie Seaboard and the X is supposed to repr...

from the book All ABoard Amtrak 1971-1991 by Mike Schafer, chapter 1/Countdown to Amtrak P.11 he wrote. "The first causualty of Railpax was not a train, but the name. On April 19,1971, thew Railpax name was dropped in favor of Amtrak, an acronym for AMerican TRAvel by tracK." As for why th...

I only hope everyone running a locotmoitve knows the signals and the rule book. But, I know this not to be true. I actually witnessed and Engineer in a class I was in fail their signal test twice!!! And, this was an area specific signal test. So the person was only being tested on signals that they ...