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Canna Happy posted:Anyone here taken the operations management test for up? I feel like this furlough might be longer than I can handle. Yes, its just basic personality/all accidents are preventable/can you understand basic logic bullshit tests. I don't know if management would be the route to go though. I mean, they just poo poo canned around 1000 or so.
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Canna Happy posted:Anyone here taken the operations management test for up? I feel like this furlough might be longer than I can handle. no, but they're probably all the same sat type questions personality questions(team player, not afraid to make decisions, self motivated; that sort of thing)
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Oct 14, 2015 21:37
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Yes, its just basic personality/all accidents are preventable/can you understand basic logic bullshit tests. I don't know if management would be the route to go though. I mean, they just poo poo canned around 1000 or so. I was looking at yardmaster positions (I keep seeing them pop up on the job website), not myo/mto. I've got 9 years in, but I can't even hold the awrr board at the moment.
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Oct 14, 2015 22:41
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Canna Happy posted:I was looking at yardmaster positions (I keep seeing them pop up on the job website), not myo/mto. I've got 9 years in, but I can't even hold the awrr board at the moment. are these internal only?
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Oct 15, 2015 00:06
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:are these internal only? Yes.
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Oct 15, 2015 00:27
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Canna Happy posted:Yes. why wouldnt you be hammering away at these? base pay for yardmasters is typically better than most conductor/foreman jobs, ot is unlimited since you aren't bound by hours of service and you're home every night.
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Oct 15, 2015 00:32
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:why wouldnt you be hammering away at these? base pay for yardmasters is typically better than most conductor/foreman jobs, ot is unlimited since you aren't bound by hours of service and you're home every night. It's a pretty decent sized pay cut actually, but considering I haven't worked a full year since...2011 (?), its not really a pay cut. My road job is home every night also. No afht.
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Oct 15, 2015 00:40
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McDeth posted:Locomotive Insanity: Russia Edition That's somewhere in the Balkans like Croatia, I believe.
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Canna Happy posted:It's a pretty decent sized pay cut actually, but considering I haven't worked a full year since...2011 (?), its not really a pay cut. My road job is home every night also. No afht. maintain your conductor seniority
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Oct 15, 2015 01:47
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Yeah yardmaster is a good gig. And you retain Trainmen's seniority. I've looked into it myself, just waiting for a couple old guys to go. I'm pretty much a shoe in at my yard, seeing how run the smaller yard by myself. Edit: I just can't do management for this place. They treat them like poo poo, when I heard conference calls, the middle management pretty much are the biggest condescending assholes on the phone and berate the MTO/MYO every time. I am shocked. 11 years and you can't hold. I know coal country is pretty thin, but not that thin. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 04:13
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Yeah yardmaster is a good gig. Only 9 years, but yeah, almost to the point where its a bit ridiculous in my opinion. We're down ~50 pools/extra board slots to match and most of the helper jobs (just at my terminal) compared to when I hired out, and the old guys seem to never pull the pin. I didn't think you got to keep your seniority date? Because the way I read it, the yardmaster is an agreement position so when you accept the job, you relinquish your rights due to craft transfer. Its not like going to a non agreement management type job.
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Oct 15, 2015 04:54
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Nope, you keep your rights as a conductor. We have several guys that have done it. Hell one guy just bowed out a month ago and is now running trains like usual. You're former cnw territory right?
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i think that, as long as you continue paying your dues as a conductor, you will retain your seniority.
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CSX isn't wasting any time getting the hell out of the ex-Clinchfield line, are they?
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Boomer The Cannon posted:CSX isn't wasting any time getting the hell out of the ex-Clinchfield line, are they? Coal is dead/dying, and they are freaking the gently caress out. I'm not sure how bad its going to get, but if you work in coal country/main line coal business, its time to get out, because its not going to get any better any time soon. They could go after new business, but that would require them to provide timely service, something they have yet to understand.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Coal is dead/dying, and they are freaking the gently caress out. I'm not sure how bad its going to get, but if you work in coal country/main line coal business, its time to get out, because its not going to get any better any time soon. 1800 furloughed. just got an email from cindy w/ how to answer some questions. one of them is, predictably, how to answer if managers are getting canned and how to answer if any of the e-team are taking paycuts.
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Oct 16, 2015 04:33
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:1800 furloughed. just got an email from cindy w/ how to answer some questions. one of them is, predictably, how to answer if managers are getting canned and how to answer if any of the e-team are taking paycuts. I know the UP is canning managers as well, I think the current number stands around 1000. There's 2900 furloughed system wide, and not sure how high that number is going to get. Plus we had a huge drop in frac sand business, so that's not helping at all. All the rest of the traffic has been steady. Its not pretty, that's for sure.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:I know the UP is canning managers as well, I think the current number stands around 1000. There's 2900 furloughed system wide, and not sure how high that number is going to get. Plus we had a huge drop in frac sand business, so that's not helping at all. All the rest of the traffic has been steady. rough times intermodal is, thank god, the only bright spot for csx. tremendous pressure to cut cost w/out impact to service though.
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Oct 17, 2015 00:32
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I know we are down quite a few units but nothing terrible. There's only so much that can be cut before you start impacting service. They are doing a terrible job, very knee jerk reactions.
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Oct 17, 2015 03:57
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"I swear he swerved right in front of me!" - Van driver, probably
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Oct 20, 2015 06:16
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This is pretty impressive, might have been posted before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzQtnz2GuE Pretty quick track work to do that move.
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Oct 22, 2015 15:47
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That's pretty impressive. I knew of tram operators would use temporary track for tricks like this: But never seen it done with heavier types of rail for shorter durations.
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Oct 22, 2015 16:24
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Truck driver ignored the lights, nobody is hurt seriously, but the track got messed up pretty badly
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Oct 23, 2015 12:09
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"I'm so happy they started jump starting the car on the tracks instead of pushing it to a safer spot first." http://imgur.com/gallery/YkFarZQ
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Wilford Cutlery posted:"I'm so happy they started jump starting the car on the tracks instead of pushing it to a safer spot first." http://imgur.com/gallery/YkFarZQ Would have been better off to use the jumper cables on the track, and set off the block signaling or whatever, if it was really stuck on there somehow.
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bennyfactor posted:Would have been better off to use the jumper cables on the track, and set off the block signaling or whatever, if it was really stuck on there somehow. This is the smartest dumbest idea I've ever heard! Low-boy trailers and car haulers should keep a set on board for such instances... NoWake fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Wilford Cutlery posted:"I'm so happy they started jump starting the car on the tracks instead of pushing it to a safer spot first." http://imgur.com/gallery/YkFarZQ I'll take "Insurance fraud" for $1,000 thanks, Alex. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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NoWake posted:This is the smartest dumbest idea I've ever heard! Low-boy trailers and car haulers should keep a set on board for such instances... Relative who is a rural fire chief in a town on the Norfolk Southern mainline figured this one out. Trucks leaving one of the grain elevators in his town turn the wrong way, ignore a "no trucks" sign, and high center on the tracks a couple times a year.
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McDeth posted:Locomotive Insanity: Russia Edition New Russian Tier 4 low emissions locomotive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0N58_dUuY http://www.fox4news.com/news/38277654-story
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B4Ctom1 posted:New Russian Tier 4 low emissions locomotive Wow, the new rubber tire-electric locomotives are looking good!
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CNN I'd already trying to leap to how much baby killing, toxic republicans have been spilled.
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Wilford Cutlery posted:"I'm so happy they started jump starting the car on the tracks instead of pushing it to a safer spot first." http://imgur.com/gallery/YkFarZQ Has anyone started where exactly this happened yet? The Texas registration sticker and the appearance of the area makes me think it's in Watauga.
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Tex Avery posted:Has anyone started where exactly this happened yet? The Texas registration sticker and the appearance of the area makes me think it's in Watauga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw44Zx0jP6s
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Tex Avery posted:Has anyone started where exactly this happened yet? The Texas registration sticker and the appearance of the area makes me think it's in Watauga. because people are ignorant of trains or physics
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That's right in front of the station inn, a railfan B&B. I've been there a couple times. It's lucky as hell those cars all stayed on the tracks but that's going to be a major headache for NS. That line sees about 80 trains a day. Edit: Didn't see the date on that, that was last year. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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