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Started by RW, April 17, 2016, 12:18:56 PM

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Anonymous

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "RW"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

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Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "RW"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

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "Fashionista"
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "RW"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

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "Fashionista"
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "RW"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

Quote from: "Twenty Dollars"
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "Fashionista"
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "RW"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

Quote from: "Fashionista"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!
Beware of Gaslighters!

Anonymous

Quote from: "RW"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

Quote from: "Herman"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

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "Herman"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

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Quote from: "Herman"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?