Casey Jones you'd better, watch your speed...     "The railroad is a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week operation", many of us have been told, when requesting some extra 'rest' between jobs. Unfortunately, the people that make the railroad move, like all other people, do not operate "24 hours a day, 7 days a week".     Anyone who's worked around the clock has either seen, or experienced first-hand, the inevitable effects of sleep deprivation. Maybe it was you, maybe it was the jitney driver, maybe it was....     The real fun is when someone tries to explain to the crew-caller that they are too tired to go to work.

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Name: kyle
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Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 08 February 2012

Hi i am just wondering how many block-interlocking towers are still in
use in the usa,, i don,t to many? My personal thoughts-- these new
central disp centers suck, We all know that when we had the towers that
things ran very well & you got a answer on the radio right away, ha ha a
far cry from today, name me 1 time when a disp at one of these new
centers answered the radio in a min,, ha ha bet you can,t name more
than 5 times! Not only that but it seems every time the weather
conditions go bad, ie rain, snow, cold, the system goes hay wire,
traffic can,t be reversed, tol,s ect, ect, sure is keeping the signal
maintainers busy, its like those guys are out in the field now 24-7
trying to fix the problems and delying trains big time, on time
preformence, ha ha lmfao, cuz thats what the rr ,s said the new disp
systems would do and they were wrong but they will never admitt to
that, The entire central dispatch thing was done only for 1 reason-- to
get rid of jobs-ie the tower operators, i know cuz when i hired on we
had reg time table traines, they got rid of all that-ie called when
needed now and they could care rats ass now on how long it takes a
train to get over the road, all in the name of saving a few bucks, no
wonder we lost so many shippers to trucks, cuz the truckers deliver on
time, and the rr,s keep bitching that they have to cut costs, yea at
the expensie of losing a lot of busniess,,, if i ran a busniess like
the rr, i would be bankrupt in a month, its like they just don,t give a
shit, hell i known tm,s who went to companys served by the rr and they
told them to ship by other means if they could,, you don,t run a
company like that, but the rr sure does it that way, and who gets the
blame? of course its us workers who get the blame for thier stupid ways
of thinking when they lose money, i hired out a while back and i heard
it from my first day on the rr,, abolish jobs. i rest my perry mason
case.

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 February 2012 Just for conversation. Reading the local news today it seems that TVA has 10 power plants that they want to replace, convert,to natural gas. The plan is 2 now and the rest in the future. local short line RR was interviewed (P&L) stated 50% of their business was TVA coal. I may be wrong, cause this is just a guess, 50% coal is close to CSX operations, just a much larger scale. View This Article

Name: School Boy E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 January 2012 IF you don't like the company why work there? The good thing about this great country God Made, is that you are free to work anywhere and not forced to work here. So again I ask, why stay here? Why not leave? Oh that's right, you can't get a BETTER job else where. View This Article

Name: Conrail Twitty E-mail: Twittyman @yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 January 2012 T.D. on the Nashville Sub,,,,,,need I say anymore View This Article

Name: Corp Comm E-mail: Bye bye Brown Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Dear CSX Employees, I am pleased to announce the appointments of Oscar Munoz as executive vice president and chief operating officer and Fredrik Eliasson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Oscar and Fredrik are respected leaders, both inside and outside of our industry, and people I trust to help guide and energize the organization with the highest degree of success and integrity.  What means even more to me than their leadership and business skills is their passion for our company and its future. Oscar replaces David Brown, who is no longer with the company.  As stated in the press release, the company’s decision to make this change is unrelated to CSX’s financial condition, business performance or outlook, all of which remain strong.  We have a great operating team, and I am highly confident that they will achieve even greater levels of success in the future. Dean Piacente will succeed Fredrik as vice president of sales and marketing for the chemicals and fertilizer business, a position he held previously.  Dean is highly respected among this customer group and the transition will be seamless.  We will quickly identify a successor to Dean for his financial planning and analysis responsibilities. Also along with these new appointments, we are making a few additional organization realignments. Frank Lonegro and the Technology organization will be moved to Operations, reporting to Oscar.  This change will ensure that there is even more integration between Technology and Operations as we prepare our company to implement Positive Train Control and maintain all of the key systems necessary to run our railroad safely and efficiently. At the same time, Fran Chinnici and the Purchasing organization and Steve Crosby and the Real Property group will both report to Lisa Mancini in her role as chief administrative officer. We just completed a record financial year for CSX, and we believe that we are headed together for a strong 2012.  Please join me in building on the leadership changes announced today by continuing to deliver top-notch performance in the year ahead. Sincerely, Michael Ward View This Article

Name: RUKidding E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 January 2012 To LE 30+: You mention that you are "pro union", yet the facts you cite in your diatribe on the current state of unions is a little off the mark, as are your comments on who is to blame for the current state of affairs. First, union officers who make $300K a year? really, I suggest you look at the DOL website and search for your respective unions LM reports where the salaries of those union leaders is a matter of public record for all to see. I also doubt you'll see any salaries in the range you suggest. As to our current contracts and situation, it can be argued that the UTU placed us in that position, or on the path of going the PEB route, but the fact remains, that the unions within PEB243 were told by the people in the congress that if the issue actually came to them, they'dve shoved into us even more, quite possibly wrecking the RLA and RRB in the process of "helping us". This should be cause for concern because it shows where the real issue lies, that being the congress we elect of office doesn't represent us, they represent those special interests who supply the most dollar wise. Now who might that be? Surely not the unions who essentially operate on a shoestring money wise. Hell we get grief from our repective memberships for a $1.00/month increase in dues while the bozos in congress take 10 times that from us without so much as a whimper from those same folks who gripe at the $1.00 increase. Most union members don't care about what goes on between contracts, either within their union, or the congress. They only look at things from that brief time and say to their union "what are you going to do for me?" Nevermind that in between when that union member should have been caring and paying attention the whole time, congress cuts the rug out from under the union by being beholden to the Carrier who supplies those congressmen with the $$ for re-election. And we wonder why we're in the proverbial pickle? That union that you seem to despise is in actuality protecting you rights and helping to keep your standards of living at par or better than the nation as a whole, all while you happily go to work in between contracts and pay no mind to what gos on. The whole time protecting you from forces that would love to strip that which you have away from you. If they could do it all at once they would. They can't because of some of things the union brought to you (i.e. RLA, mediation, workers rights laws just to name a few). We all need to wake up and see where the process has gone wrong and start doing something about it instead of standing in the shadows, and then bitching about the very folks who do our battles for us 365/24/7 . View This Article

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Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 January 2012 Evan Sounds like sour grapes. With over 70% voting in favor of ratification the majority rules. I figured seeing you cried about it on every thread I'd do the same. lol View This Article

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2012 The national was ratified. This proves the carrier can and will do whatever it wants. Healthcare isn't what it was just wait till next contract. We will even give up a little more. The time I retire the carrier wont contribute nothing. Utu, Ble, Csx FUCK YOU View This Article

Name: PO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 January 2012 GET the vacations in.. Jim, get off your fat ass and put the vacations in.. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2011 Thanks for the reply. Just found out Oiler's and the car dept used them. I know from experience some were used in wash rooms, and some were carried in the nose of passenger locomotives, and used for flagging on dark territories. Some were used by clerks/operators to flag stop passenger trains (known as flag stops). Anyway I thought someone may have knowledge of other uses. The RR sure bought a bunch of them. GOOFY View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2011 Meant switch tender.... View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2011 Probably a switch thenders lantern... View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 December 2011 Just want to throw this out to the folks, for fun Adlake Kero dated 1947 clear globe lantern. ICRR What were these used for, If you know? This was not a caboose light or marker, simply a hand held Kerosene lantern. View This Article

Name: Billy E E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.. View This Article

Name: brown1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Your bonus will be sent by the 24th Dec. Merry Christmas View This Article

Name: ward1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas We're shutting down Thursday the 22nd at 2359. Everyone enjoy your family and friends. Don't worry about rushing back to work. We will start dh on the 2nd of Jan.2012. thanks for a great year View This Article

Name: Aaron Cross E-mail: cindermydawg@gmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 December 2011 I think you guys should make a Facebook page mimicking this site. Now days if you want things changed you need a petition to do it. Its the next best thing to a strike and actually losing your job. Facebook now days boosts companies' reputation with the "LIKE" button, or it can destroy them or even make it better for their employees.. all it needs to do is spread like a disease over facebook, regarding the lack of pay, compensation, and general "fuck you work anyway" attitude CSX has for its employees, and once the bad publicity spreads enough CSX will have a hard enough time finding buisness from companies wanting to use their rail cars for transport for fear of a strike or bad morale the employees who transport their goods hold for CSX. im gonna tell you a story, I learned this in a leadership course in the NAVY. its called "The 10 monkeys Story" regarding how to change things. There are 2 monkeys in a cell. the cell has a banana hanging from the ceiling and a fire hose pointing inside the cell.. both monkeys tried reaching for the banana and got blasted by the fire hose every time they attempted for it. after a week another monkey was placed into the cell... the new monkey went right for the banana and the other 2 monkeys beat the shit out of him.. 1 and then 2 and then 3 more monkeys were added to the cell and each time the new monkey went for the banana the other monkeys beat the shit out of him.. and pretty soon this happened still when there were ten monkeys in the cell.. they would just beat the shit out of whatever monkey wanted to go for the banana not realizing the fire hose was already taken away. point of the story is, the fire hose is one guy, one guy who set rules or procedure maybe 10 years ago, and everyone back then followed it, and after awhile that one guy (fire hose) left and everyone else just kept implementing and beating the shit out of everyone else because thats just how its always been.. Just because things were that way once, doesnt mean it cannot be changed or someone else can make changes.. for example, A boss(the fire hose) got sick of one person in particular sitting down when there was no work to be done, so he set a rule that even if its -0 degrees outside when theres nothing to be done you will stand outside in the cold untill something comes up. well it goes on like that for awhile 1 year goes by and that old boss (the fire hose) is gone, and people are still standing around outside waiting for work to do, even the other bosses inforce it not even knowing the original reason for it.. and then it never changes.. you will always be standing out side freezing your ass off unless you question why it came to be like that or do something about it. Im sorry for the long statement, but I really feel for you CSX employees makin 40k for a job you should be making 50-60k doing. and what is worse is that for the low money you do make, you are treated so shitty and get screwed over so much. <<<Not an Employee>> so I can speak my mind since the employees who think complimenting CSX on this site will earn them brownie points or extra money in the future are too stupid to realize it wont. View This Article

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 December 2011 I just voted NO. View This Article

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Name: cya E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 RRJ, What are you putting in that morning coffee? We all read a lot of dumb shit from you. View This Article

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2011 Educational site rrj must have fell off his rocker again. I've red some silly post on here from him, but that one takes the cake. Old man it's time to put the pc down and feed the squirrels.. View This Article