Iron horse....

[Anonymous]

How far do you travel per trip?  Is there a limit? Do you go cross country?  Ever been to BC?

Freight train trips are short. We go the length of a subdivision about 130 miles. We are allowed 3800 miles per month including bonus miles. Typically about 11 trips. Once i reach my mile limit I am off until the first day of the new month.

What is a railway subdivision iron horse jockey?

[Anonymous]

How far do you travel per trip?  Is there a limit? Do you go cross country?  Ever been to BC?

Freight train trips are short. We go the length of a subdivision about 130 miles. We are allowed 3800 miles per month including bonus miles. Typically about 11 trips. Once i reach my mile limit I am off until the first day of the new month.

What is a rallway subdivision iron horse jockey?

Just think of the start of each sub as a crew change point.

[Anonymous]

How far do you travel per trip?  Is there a limit? Do you go cross country?  Ever been to BC?

Freight train trips are short. We go the length of a subdivision about 130 miles. We are allowed 3800 miles per month including bonus miles. Typically about 11 trips. Once i reach my mile limit I am off until the first day of the new month.

What is a rallway subdivision iron horse jockey?

Just think of the start of each sub as a crew change point.

I think I understand iron horse jockey.

[Twenty Dollars]

How far do you travel per trip?  Is there a limit? Do you go cross country?  Ever been to BC?

Freight train trips are short. We go the length of a subdivision about 130 miles. We are allowed 3800 miles per month including bonus miles. Typically about 11 trips. Once i reach my mile limit I am off until the first day of the new month.

What is a rallway subdivision iron horse jockey?

Just think of the start of each sub as a crew change point.

I've no experience with trains. Rode the commuter train from Oakland to San Francisco a few times. Your job sounds interesting. Do you belong to a union?

[Anonymous]

How far do you travel per trip?  Is there a limit? Do you go cross country?  Ever been to BC?

Freight train trips are short. We go the length of a subdivision about 130 miles. We are allowed 3800 miles per month including bonus miles. Typically about 11 trips. Once i reach my mile limit I am off until the first day of the new month.

What is a rallway subdivision iron horse jockey?

Just think of the start of each sub as a crew change point.

I've no experience with trains. Rode the commuter train from Oakland to San Francisco a few times. Your job sounds interesting. Do you belong to a union?

Thank yoy Twenty Dollars. But, it is a lot of responsibility and there is no room for error. Freight trains that I work on are entirely different from passenger trains.



My union is Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Conductors and locomotive engineers used to have separate unions, but not now.

[Anonymous]

Are people you meet who do not work in your business curious about your job iron horse jockey?

[Anonymous]

Are people you meet who do not work in your business curious about your job iron horse jockey?

All the time. At fellowship luncheons when people talk to me my job is always part of the conversation.

[RW]

You're living the childhood dream!

[Anonymous]

You're living the childhood dream!

Yes, he is.

[Anonymous]

Hey Jock, have you ever been in a derailment? A CSX train derailed 14 cars and one car leaked sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda. It happened in Washington, DC near the Capitol building.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615

[Anonymous]

Hey Jock, have you ever been in a derailment? A CSX train derailed 14 cars and one car leaked sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda. It happened in Washington, DC near the Capitol building.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615

I have had cars jump the tracks while switching in yards yards and sidings. I have never lost cars on the mainline.



Never had any injuries or dangerous chemical spills either.

[Anonymous]

Hey Jock, have you ever been in a derailment? A CSX train derailed 14 cars and one car leaked sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda. It happened in Washington, DC near the Capitol building.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615

I have had cars jump the tracks while switching in yards yards and sidings. I have never lost cars on the mainline.



Never had any injuries or dangerous chemical spills either.

I guess that's why you still have a job.

[Anonymous]

Hey Jock, have you ever been in a derailment? A CSX train derailed 14 cars and one car leaked sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda. It happened in Washington, DC near the Capitol building.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36182615

I have had cars jump the tracks while switching in yards yards and sidings. I have never lost cars on the mainline.



Never had any injuries or dangerous chemical spills either.

How long are the trains and how fast do they travel?