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You love 179 sooooo much! I will get joyce to hook you up with that one every day ;) Now supposedly we are or could be part of a purchase of Siemens power. So far i am not impressed with what they are showing me. The only good thing about the old EMD's is the quick pickup at take off. That and the b...

I dont see it ever happening on the J. CN has turned that line to a grade A fluster cluck. The one they want to run through Chicago Heights on the C&EI line would be interesting. But here is the problem,this agency is a government agency. We dont do anything fast ( except run) when it comes to p...

The ones Metra is focusing on now ( rumor mill here) is a connection from the Rock past South Chicago and down old C&EI lines to somewhere like Crete I guess. Follow that with the Southwest to connect in at Englewood with the Rock, the "Star line" and you have projects coming out the w...

I blame the "Angry Bird"

Batting them out for kicking out a lot of cars at a good clip, Scorching the ballast= fast running. Beans ( how did we all forget goin to beans??)Skin em back! I was told on the commuter railroad I work for now " Gotta get past the next junction in about 10 minutes, better start spilling their ...

Had the Old pocket, new pocket in Galesburg.Oly's Pocket was where an old head named Oly would go hide and snooze. City track, Stock yard track. the Rat track. Hmmm Others I have heard, scale track Obvious reason there.Dirt track,inbound ( no out bound though so you go out the in) table track ( no t...

My carrier is push pull. We have the delayed in block on certain lines. Ours is prepared to stop not exceeding 40 mph till next signal is visible. But on the line I operate we have locations where we dont have to follow said rule as we have cab signals. GCOR also has a if you drop below 10 mph that ...

Good luck! I have been waiting on them to figure it out here for a few years. Oh well I like commuters.....really I do

Train master jobs are the toughest IMHO. You have no union protection and you are the bottom of that hill that excrement rolls down. But the good news is, if you do everything right and can hack the BS you can move up.I have a friend who was a TM at CN who is now a Super at CP. Still a lot of BS and...

You are always safe, you understand 24/7 call is tough, but you are willing to do it.You are interested in railroading because of the mechanical aspect ( dont come off as a foamer ) and you dont know everything Just be yourself and honest and everything should go well.

12 th street intermodal yard and coach storage.Metra didnt need it so they dumped it. The engineer that ran the engine said it was a PITA as he had to lay down and run it ( so as not to see him in the cab) took a ton of takes. Lot of the old Rock guys here remember the making of that movie and laugh...

Died? Some ex up engineer broke the crankshaft! I swear some of the guys we get now....But anyway. If only people knew about the bubble gum and baling wire fixes that happen daily.They might take their cars.

1300 series just started showing up. The cars at Roundout are stored there so they dont get tagged. More went that way last week, not sure how many or when.

Tom your doing good by going through the RRB. Try Ancestry.com for some more info. Most historical societies have no info on former employees. So try to get any info you can and use the RRB. Also check out ebay. Look for union records and anything from the IC in that time frame. I have the minutes a...

The RFE makes the decision. You may have too many lay offs, misuse of FMLA? BLET does NOT hold the contract for LETP. That is a UTU contract held over from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Sorry but I have to agree with the UTU being a bunch of crooks anymore. Have seen too many guys getting b...