Rule #1 -- Don't get hurt.     Safety is the first priority. Er, or is it the second, after money.... Or the third after getting the trains out....

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Name: Lucky
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 February 2019

In North America railroaders have more security than any other industry.
They can lay people off. But they can’t move the tracks to China
overseas or Mexico. There are so many companies that took tax money and
are setting up shop outside the USA. A carrier employee made 23 bucks an
hour in USA. A Mexican worker is paid 3 bucks an hour. And labour is
cheaper across the pond. I was layed off nine times in a 34 year rr
career and was able to retire. If your low man on seniority list save
some money for times you are layed off. The rr I worked at had 35000
employees in 1980. Today there are 12000 employees. Technology was the
game changer. You put up with lots of shit being a rr today to make a
living, but hang in there there is a reward called retirement where
most people will never see outside rr life. But most of all folks have
a rainy day nest egg and it is there when you need it. Been there done
that more than once.

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 February 2019 What’s the big news everyone is talking about? View This Article

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2019 SO WHAT TRUTH This isn't economics one class. WE DONT CARE. Brothers They are starting to double up trains again. Hauling 2 trains at once. Don't bother putting in claims because it aint going to work. You cant say your handling 2 different trains even though you know it. The freight will be classified as one train and the other will be abolished. When the weather gets warmer the long ass 3 mile trains will be back. TM's are talking about the new tele that can supposedly communicate at longer distances. PTC will show you were your train is. DP remote units replace the tele but it isn't fail safe. You just run 30 when all the shit hits the fan. Still talking about chopping Willard. Where will these guy move to. Brothers, you better start saving your money and get a moving plan in order unless you got 20 years seniority. You might be in the seat now but don't count on it. You might just end up pounding the rocks again. Hope this shit doesn't get bad but it looks like we are headed for a shake up! View This Article

Name: To truth E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 You talk about Wall Street greed, I assume you are a unionized employee, that takes part in the payroll deduction to buy CSX shares. You want bang for your buck. By taking part in this program you are a capitalist. I ask you then are you part of the problem or part of the solution ? View This Article

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 February 2019 The truth So what the hell is your point. Just how is all you wisdom going to help us in the field today or tomorrow. You didn't post one damn thing that has anything to do with this forum. We have to deal with the here and now. We have to deal with the everyday crap AT WORK! None of us can do a damn thing tomorrow about the crap you posted. We have families to feed and bills to pay today. We have a hard enough time coming to work and keeping ourselves out of investigation and fighting for our pay. You dude are on the wrong website. Go fight on some political website. I would like to know what happened to the company and the union agreement that all new testing devices are to be discussed and shown to the crews before they just start throwing them out there. And how in the hell can they put them below the rail and take them out with their hands. View This Article

Name: The Truth E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 09 February 2019 Wall Street is what is killing the Railroad at a time when it is needed most by putting maximum pressure on corporate to make short term profits over logical long term sustainability. I know we all look at times how it effects us personally in the now. But what is happening :Greed at a very evil level is ruining the whole country. And the Railroad being Butchered by " wall street" is going to effect a awful awful lot of other industries in the near future. So too the Power's to be and there lust for Money...Be happy for a short while why you get "yours" and the heck with the hard working common Man/Women and there Family's..There will be some harsh reaping for the sowing that is being done. View This Article

Name: Switch Tags E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2019 Consulting a lawyer about a switch tag... Let us know how that works out for you. View This Article

Name: The Truth E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 09 February 2019 More important than operating ratio' s is service innovation and "Happy Customers ".The problem with letting Wall Street be Your Master is that Wall Street thing's that all industries exist primarily to help wall street earn even higher rates of return and there is in fact no rate of return which wall street consdider to be enough. True to if they can make more money by Wrecking your buisness,then that is what they will do. View This Article

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2019 Alert! They put a switch tag like that folded so you couldn't really see the reflection. This is horseshit! They are taking pictures of crap after the crews leave and coming back with charges. This is more bull crap. This has been discussed before. They could easily lie and set a crew up. It's time to consult lawyers. Screw the unions. Word has it an fra guy was involved with taking pictures. This is getting deep out here. It's like a repeat of the old nazi southern Ingram days! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2019 APE Nature built China, Nature built Japan and Nature drove our trains to a Nature built Wal-Mart. Nature will keep these countries from taking us over while we sing Cum-ba-ya. Sounds Great if we could all just get along. Fact is, we are providing transportation of foreign made goods by train to our market place and are active in destroying our nation. It's hard for some We Have brain washed to see it any other way. View This Article

Name: Gerald Starnes E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2019 Way to go 310 to Yuma! Advocating physical assault against people with whom you disagree! Great ethics. You are a shining example to us all. View This Article

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2019 BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH JEEZZ YOU FRICKIN MORONS! Now for important info. There is a new switch tag testing device out that we have not been briefed on per the rules. FRA rules states that all testing devices were to be reviewed. This is a square tag that is white with red lettering and it fits below the rail. They are putting it as far back as 3 feet. It they remove it with their hand they will have to reach below the top of the rail. ILLEGAL AS HELL! You can not always see it with your flash light. Watch your ass!!!! View This Article

Name: F A Hayek E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2019 Some of you probably could use some basic education in economics. Here is a link to a half century old essay about pencils. It's so simple a child can understand. Read it and decide for yourself how evil you are being when hauling those TFOC. https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/ You could also spend some time at: https://mises.org View This Article

Name: Students E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2019 Most professional teachers in university are pushing communism. The hardcore socialists. Students are against free speech, anti capitalism to the max. They want the goverment to pay for there education, and every other det they incurred while in school. 60% of women are graduating with nonsense degrees like gender studies. Not the stem degrees. That is now racist and sexist if you expect scientific facts to be considered. And these teachers pushing the nonsense are making 300 grand a year and life time pensions that they pay nothing into. These are the new leaders folks, Democrats have brainwashed these people to open the boarders so you can work your ass off to feed the worlds , needy. And if ms13 kills your family, your tax dollars with rehabilitation him to prepare him for when he gets out of jail for a lifetime of welfare. Your tax dollars,at work. Who needs border walls to protect the people trump must be crazy to suggest such a thing. The money the tax payers would save not having to deal with illegals would pay for a wall 100 times over. All the Democrats live in protected gated communities. Union is suppose to vote Democrat left. But in the end it will cost you everything importing third world people. Immigration is good if done legally and people are vetted. Cheap labour and votes is all the dems care about. Protect your country and standard of life before it gets totally out of hand. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 February 2019 APE for less than 1year. AOC must be your girl. You sound just like her. You obviously sleept through anything related to economics in junior high school and you refuse to what is placed right in front of you. We all are just one cog in the giant machine that is mother natures way of efficiently bringing the worlds marketplace to your front door. And we help deliver Americas wonder to the rest of the world. It's called capitalism and no one loses. Oh, the closed stores you describe? They were the stores that sold buggy whips that no one needed anymore. They refused to adapt and followed the democrats who tried to buy their votes with promises of new, gov't owned buggy whip stores and there was no real market for them. There's just nothing like the blind who refuse to see. Capitalism!! It's mother natures way!! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2019 CSX The next time we're out shopping, pick up a product and see where the product came from. Then we should all pat ourselves on the back for getting almost everything from a foreign nation to our people. On your way home look for the businesses that are closed that WE ran out of business by making foreign transportation of goods possible. Now look for the homeless and poor who WE put out of work. Again that deserves a pat on the back while we blame some one else, Foote! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2019 CSX The railroads are destroying our nation! 1. We lost our jobs due to infair marketing. American companies couldn't compete with slave and child labor so they moved to foreign countries. 2. BUT how do you get this cheap crap back to American markets? EASY! TOFC and you guys will put TOFC to any American store. Forget about Foote, Russia and the Middle East, they are just distractions while railroads build a high speed infrastructure for transportation of goods with high tariffs. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2019 APE/ 310 to Yuma Your thoughts are correct unfortunately too late. Railroads and government have too much invested to allow employees to stop things. We have spent millions each year Brain Washing the people and employees. We've done a good job. Just watch this site. Say something bad about CSX and you immediately bash the poster! Want proof? The PTC and Remotes are foruners to eleminating your jobs by remote control train. View This Article

Name: 310 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 February 2019 If there ever was a time it is now !! To take some of these company arse kisser behind the shed.. " or bar " and give them a good ole fashion country ass whooping View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 08 February 2019 Here’s an idea, Let’s all stick together for once and get our Railroad back to the way it used to be. A lot of people bashed the Conrail guys but one thing is for sure they always stuck together. The main problem is you have too many suck asses and wanna be Kool aid drinkers out here. Then you have the guys that will say “ yes I’ll do whatever it takes to get the job done mentality and will break rules and backstab whoever they can. Let’s put all of our money in and just buy the damn railroad and Elect a new CEO!! View This Article