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both parties have tried to attack railroad retirement, this is nothing new folks. first algore now ryan, look it up. they the government will not stop until they get it,including alot more monies you think are" safe "in this world. dont be stupid we now have 5 trillion in new debt to pay f...

wishbone i went from working 9 years for a class 1 RR to my own business . you want to do the opposite? the RR is NOTHING like being self employeed, my advice stay away. to the cop who is retiring, the question is WHY? the RR is not a "second job" or "something to do" after retir...

freight traffic has started the year off 9.3 percent down from last year,the RR will reflect this fact in layoffs.

The woodland book is all color for the most part. (the HH-900 is in B&W but color shots do exist of them,go figure)it has fancy color page headers for the various classes,action photos and text mainly about delivery dates and routing. in the TRAIN MASTER section,it has almost a word for word acc...

the withers book is worth the price,try outer station project for a good deal. the withers book has countless pages on the RS-3's, nice big clear shots.

put in one application of your choice, then follow up with phone calls until you get in. simple as that. worked for me in the past

Book looks good,many CLEAR SHARP large roster shots,a few action photos of every first generation diesel on the RDG railroad by the numbers. overall a 7 out of 10, reason: short on text,long on photos. there are errors but no book is perfect,this one took alot of work to put together. so far the BES...

watch what you say on here folks,dont give away too much info ,that is not needed.

yeah,have a reliable car and be ready to rack up highway miles.........

its the 301 with the control stand removed by the reading before it went to alco.

neat find.

good luck on your NS job,
hope you get it. If not Conrail might be your ticket. i prolly worked with your engineer friend

i do not know any of those names listed,I heard the head of HR is from the old Conrail. is anyone from the old company left?

I don' think I would post here if its been 5 years and no Loco school. They will find you soon.........(been there ,didn't do that)just sayin'....lol

if a tourist line pays into RRB ,you get the credit. I know my local ones here in PA do........you are correct on the one start a month thing. at this point i need 24 months,ill go back someday

working out of Abrams in the 1990's as a brakeman,we only took corn syrup tankers out to devault,the job was called the "sweetners. We used to taxi to the cedar hollow job at coatsville to get the power which ran all the way down the line to the quarry. that was my favorite job to catch on the ...