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....

Webmaster's note: Since I go through the server logs regularly, I just thought I'd take this opportunity to point out that all of the comments in defense of the company seem to come from Jacksonville, while complaints come from everywhere that the company does business. You do the math.

Name: RRJim
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 June 2018

Never heard of getting time off with pay for a grade crossing incident
without fatalities must of started the past 8 years after I retired.
Ones with fatalities it was only 3 days. Been there. EAP did call to
ask if more time is needed, at least they did in my cases. I never took
more than the 3 days that's all it took to get back to work. You can be
sad for the loss of a life, then you question why would they put
themselves in that situation, last but most important screw them they
put us in harms way. That's the way I dealt with it, especially
suicides by train.

Name: Curious E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 June 2018 Crews I heard some talk today that the company is back to not paying the crews if they hit a vehicle and it isnt a fatality. You still can ' get some days off if it is emotionally disturbing but no pay unless they die. Thought they did away with that because of some court case. Also heard they threw the decision in the TM's laps now to decide if you get time. Is this true? Anyone heard anything about this. Are we back to the old way of only getting paid days off of they die?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 June 2018 Attention Citizens of the Eat Coast of Florida (Treasure Coast) A Whistleblower complaint has been filed on your behalf alledging the State of Florida is colluding with railroads, working in partnership rather than regulating the industry. The complaints are both Civil and Criminal being filed with the Florida State Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Name: screwedagain E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 June 2018 CSX Why cant you get it through your thick skull when you call trains that aren't on the line up it screws the hell out of the guy who is sitting at home and see's there are no trains scheduled for at least 6 hours. This shit has been going on for so long all it does is just shows my family and all our friends that we have to cancel plans with that your just inept unprofessional idiots who cant even keep tract of your trains or where they are running. How do you just pull a train out of your butt that is not on the crew screen or on the IVR system. Yeah our union agreement states in black and white you are supposed to make this information available to us including on the IVR for those who don't have a computer at home or it isn't working and if you don't you cant charge us with a miscall if we don't take the call and we have checked the line up. But we all know what a pain in the ass you are when we have to fight to have it removed because your just so inept you cant pull a rabbit out of a rabbit pen! Whats wrong with you people. How do you even make money???? Your just one joke after another every single day. Thank god you don't run our military. God save us all!

Name: Cool mo E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 June 2018 No Shit: if CSX was corporate people where charged money for STUPIDITY they would be fucking BANKRUPT

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 June 2018 Wontbendover AMEN BROTHER. You must have one massive nut sack. Maybe you can share some of that ball power with the other guys. You put the truth right out there! You forgot Wrong car wrong train and my favorite the rush job to knock down departing signal to make the stool pigeons in Jacksonville happy. Think you departed on time when your actually still sitting there for another 30 minutes. got to love that one especially when it goes to shit or a car kicks or tele takes a dump. Someone explain how a departed train is still sitting half way in the yard track an hour later!!!

Name: DD E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 June 2018 Experience shouldn't be measured how long a person has been doing something. I don't care if you started the railroad 20 years ago, there are plenty of guys out here with 20+ years that are crap compared to guys with less than 5. Just because you have been doing something longer doesn't mean you are better, period. Also there are a lot of guys with good seniority that stay on one job all the time because it is all they know. They can't work half the other jobs because they would be clueless. Frankly I think they are too scared to change their bids up and get on another job.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 23 June 2018 Condr with less than 1 year...lol You have not been around long enough to even know what a bull shit answer is.

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 June 2018 L&N Typical bullshit answer. The crews shouldn't catch shit! We don't walk the entire train looking for double stacks that may be too high. If we started doing that to all the stack trains they would nail us with train delays. That's not our responsibility to walk our entire train before departing our terminal or recrewing on the main line. That shit is supossed to be done before we get on board. It should be caught by the people who load the totes in the first place. I can see it now. Get on a relay tote train coming off a different division but insist on walking the whole train before we leave looking for a car that may be too high! HA!HA! The dispatcher would be the first one wanting to know what was taking us so long!

Name: Wontbendover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 June 2018 Dave Jesus man..you really stepped on your little tool this time. Maybe you meant to say the TO not PTC. It still doesn't matter. If a double stacker takes out a bridge it's because the idiots who put the tubs together didn't measure the height properly. The clearance bureau stipulates what's allowed on each line and if it exceeds its not anyone's fault but the idiots who loaded the totes and sent them out. PTC was developed to help prevent crews from running stop signals and missing slow orders, 707's etc. It doesn't run a train! It sure the hell doesn't prevent someone from taking out a bridge because a car exceeds the maximum height allowed. I think your post and the other idiots is just an attempt to change the subjects. The derailment in Princeton IN, the busted rusty knuckles, YM who won't answer the radios, TM who don't know their jobs, rude ass unethical dispatchers (who gives a shit if they're union) illegal class 1 brake test, Carman being harrassed to cut corners,covering up recrews and the list just goes on and on. The only thing they give a shit about is stock prices. Now let's get ready for the Nazi Dekra group to make moral even worse if that's possible. Hire a group who centers it whole theory around brainwashing the employee (intimidation) instead of fixing the root cause of the problem (shitty management) and you got a recipe for disaster. We aren't stupid! We're not robots. You treat us like a replaceable number, low class blue collar idiot who shouldnt take a frickin day off or go see a doctor without getting points and you get what you ask for! Management screws up and points the finger at everyone else to save their asses. We are the scapegoats every single day! Jesus man...get on board with what's really important!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 June 2018 Boy you're clueless about most of what you said. PTC doesn't "control" a train. It can't run a train. PTC will bring it to a stop if you're approaching a red signal and not slowing the train properly. It's not controlled remotely. It's monitored by satellites at certain points and it's location is traced using GPS. The program to blow for crossings is programmed already, and it's not even close to correct. Google better information next time you're going to pretend like you work here. Maybe while you're taking pictures of trains, you can research it while you wait??

Name: Dave E-mail: Nelson284@juno.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 22 June 2018 Re: L&N/ Really That was a bit confusing. Let me try again. Ripping out bridges in MD seems to be a process in which we cause accidents and force the people to pay for remedies. The PTC Is just one example of this. PTC REMOTELY controls a train. We need to increase profit by eleminating the Signal system currently in use. Right now someone shorts out the tracks, turning the Signal red it stops every train until maintenance finds the shunt. Train delays cost us a lot of revenue. We are eleminating this old Signal system in which we control train movement by shunting the tracks with the train in each block. About time! By using modern technology (the same as you use in your car) we can locate every train within 3ft of the leading train. This not only increases profit by eleminating Signal Blocks, delays and maintenance costs we really have no need for an engineer. Trains are to be programmed for each territory the same as blowing the horn exactly at each crossing. This is just a part of the $1 trillion allocated for transportation infrastructure. Wreck a few Amtraks and CRY the PTC would slow the train automatically in curves preventing derailments is just taking advantage of a bad situation in order to convince the public it's for their safety. OH! We must not forget the PTC would also prevent a terrorist atrack on the present Signal system.

Name: Gaylord E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 June 2018 Trainmaster David Benson is one dumb son of a bitch.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 22 June 2018 The clearance dept is responsible for high wides and high cubes shipments. Now, for the people that should have caught it in one way or another is the clearance dept, chief dispr, intermodal supervisor, and finally the crew. Now, in my option the responsibility lies completely on the clearance dept...

Name: Really??? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 June 2018 Csx corp..not! PTC has nothing to do with some idiot who sends double stacks out that don't meet clearance bureau guidlines for the territory. You don't raise bridge you send out single stacks and route your double stacks else where. If the stacks didn't clear someone in csx screwed up. Plain and simple. And it wasn't the crew!

Name: CSX E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 22 June 2018 Re: CSX beheads double stack. Is CSX too dumb to realize you must make heard room for double stacks? SURE they do! Problem IS how do you get the people to pay for increased clearances? Cause accidents and claim PTC will take care of it if the people pays for RR upgrades! We MUST eliminate the bridges in Cumberland in order to get Asian stuff through. You know, those people who has our jobs! After all WE were here first. CSX broke NO laws state or county but Federal Laws only regulated by RR partners the FRA. What say ye L&N?

Name: Fagle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 June 2018 Man they serious about mark offs round here!

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 22 June 2018 Re HR.. The Chief Train Dispatcher (CTD) is not a contract employee, they are management. The Assistant Chief (ACD) and the dispatcher are union employees, they are contract employees...

Name: Bohica E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 June 2018 Wonder who made this fuck up, sometimes its embarrassing to work here.http://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/csx-train-hits-bridges-in-cumberland/article_d244d6ee-7569-11e8-ad84-e7f3a43a46f2.html

Name: HA!HA E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Stay tuned for Monday! Like sand in an hour glass this is the days of our lives....will csx admit their mistake in Princeton or will they blame the crews? Will the cover up of re crews be exposed or will it continue as usual? Will rusty old knuckles be replaced or sent out as death traps to the crews and the public? Stay tuned for Mondays episode of corrupt and rusty rails to see just what happens and if the CEO runs for the hills or steps up to the plate! Voted best railroad soap opera of the year!

Name: Tired E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 June 2018 Wtf!!! Took a train to an outlying terminal and was told we were flipping back. To me that's an outlying post. It wasn't my home terminal. That new notice said we must contact crew management when working at outlying post. The crew caller said he didn't do dh tickets for flips home. What the hell is an outlying post then?? He said report it when i get back. Well it didn't work when we tried it. I had to call back and make them put one in. the wagon was 35 minutes getting there to. We put in our penalty claim for that one. Screw this stuff. What if you outlaw before you get back. There is no info about what you just did. should be FRA law you got some record of what your doing during your entire trip. Something stinks here!

Name: My rest E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Goober No way in hell would I wait for hours for a ride off the clock at afht. That would screw me out of my hours of rest and if I get overtime waiting that's their fault. Now we got orders to report all waiting time no matter what. All wait time is to be reported. Fra wants all limbo. Some idiots aren't following the notice that came out but In time they will get charged. Someone's trying to get a handle on this sitting on trains waiting for someone to get them off of them or get them a damn ride to the hotel. They even say we got to create our own dh ticket now when flipping back. They are putting everything they can on crews to downsize crew callers. If I outlaw while waiting for a ride so be it. They want to bitch about it then they can restart my rest when I get to hotel!

Name: Goober E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 June 2018 As an old rail from many years ago I find the below post so interesting. During my few limited years of railroading we always put off duty when the Engineer parked the power. The Conductor and Flagman always walked to the yard office and waited for the call from the Engineer. At times we waited for the city cab for hours on a busy evening. Guess it was better than waiting for the rooming house person to show up or walk. Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 June 2018 Well Crews are putting off before the van shows up to take them to lodging? We never put off till the ride was there to pick us up. If any TM made threats of calling the police threatening arrest for trespassing while waiting for a ride that CSX provides to go to lodging, I'd tell him do it. One hell of a lawsuit.

Name: Exvlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Csx Cats out of the bag. Your Princeton mess is going to cost you this time. They all know the problem was reported several times. Now, are the rumors true your taking the Evansville jobs away from the Nashville division and putting back on at Avon yd in Indy like it was years ago? More qualifying crews. More training. More time wasted. There was a reason they left avon in the first place. It's funny how things were running fine over there until HH came in and screwed with that division. Now it's all coming back to haunt you. Maybe the powers to be should call in some retired conrail managers instead of Dekra!

Name: UP HOGGER E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Csx hoggers What the heck is this cell phone crap you guys got on csx. We heard crews at st.Louis talking about not being able to call the PTC,TO and mechanical on their phone's unless they are 25 feet away from the motors outside. How the hell are you supposed to do what you need in the cab if your outside? Guessing you got radio communication with PTC Help like we do. From what we heard you guys got a wack job running your railroad. That's not an FRA mandatory law. We can use our phone's for any of that as long as we are not moving and no ones on ground working. We can use ours to make a call in cab when stopped and no jobs are being performed. We can text and use internet in crew room as long as all our job duties are completed. Hell, we can use a camera and take pictures of safety hazards. Cant be in cell but can use stand alone. What's up with your CEO! If you got a problem with your power line of road and you got to go outside to fix something how the hell do you do that if your radio handset doesn't reach that far. WTF! You keep running in and out of the cab to talk on the radio? We thought we had some crazy rules but you guys got some crazy wack jobs up town! We need more people. If you don't have to many years invested I'd say run for it and come get on our team. Our stock and 401k will make you richer and sounds like you will have a more stable team to work with! And yms who don't answer radio for 25 minutes? That's just plain bad management!

Name: UP HOGGER E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Csx hoggers What the heck is this cell phone crap you guys got on csx. We heard crews at st.Louis talking about not being able to call the PTC,TO and mechanical on their phone's unless they are 25 feet away from the motors outside. How the hell are you supposed to do what you need in the cab if your outside? Guessing you got radio communication with PTC Help like we do. From what we heard you guys got a wack job running your railroad. That's not an FRA mandatory law. We can use our phone's for any of that as long as we are not moving and no ones on ground working. We can use ours to make a call in cab when stopped and no jobs are being performed. We can text and use internet in crew room as long as all our job duties are completed. Hell, we can use a camera and take pictures of safety hazards. Cant be in cell but can use stand alone. What's up with your CEO! If you got a problem with your power line of road and you got to go outside to fix something how the hell do you do that if your radio handset doesn't reach that far. WTF! You keep running in and out of the cab to talk on the radio? We thought we had some crazy rules but you guys got some crazy wack jobs up town! We need more people. If you don't have to many years invested I'd say run for it and come get on our team. Our stock and 401k will make you richer and sounds like you will have a more stable team to work with! And yms who don't answer radio for 25 minutes? That's just plain bad management!

Name: Well E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 BTW, he was like a 2 year conductor who never left the yard. He volunteered to go to trainmaster school. They gave him like 6 days training and sent him to us. If you want to reformat the way things are run, you need experience, or at least proper training! We just got another brand new guy with about the same experience. Who in the hell thought this would be a good idea?

Name: Well E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Intimidating verbal threats shouldn't be tolerated?????? That's what managers are trained to do!! That's the way they all act every single fucking day! Willard yardmaster have been put in charge of all of new castle's yards, yard jobs and locals, and they know nothing about how to run it, so their strategy is just ignore us until the crew takes the initiative to tell the yardmaster how they should do it. They have been ignoring us since the day that crooked old fuck took our yardmaster's away. It's been investigated, and some people have been fired, but they just replace them with another ex yardmaster with a bad attitude because they had their job taken out from under them last year. It's nearly impossible to get anything from them. They never have our profiles ready when we go on duty, and then the trainmaster threatens us because we're waiting for paperwork! It's like they found the dumbest people out of the whole company, and put them in charge of everything. Where are the professionals? Did they all quit?? If you tell the dispatcher you don't have paperwork, he just pretends you don't exist and puts your train id at the bottom of the pile and runs everyone around you. They know how dumb the trainmaster is, and they don't even bother trying to solve anything because they know he doesn't know how. They've had the division manager there and officers from Jacksonville to try and train this idiot, and they've gotten nowhere, and nothing is done about it.

Name: HR E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Well What the crew should have done was ask the dispatcher to get the DTO on the radio. The chief and dispatcher are union contract employees. They should have demanded that a CSX manager talk to them. If the dispatcher refused then ethics charges should be filed. The crew should have demanded the tapes be downloaded to show the amount of time the YM or TM did not respond. It sounds like the dispatcher made an intimidating verbal threat and that should not be tolerated. If this is an on going problem for crews coming into Willard then it needs to be investigated promptly. All crews need to document the exact time they try to make contact with the YM and when he/she responds. Keep a record. Once a pattern is established everyone needs to fax the information to the operations department.

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Crews. Be careful out there. It's just beginning. The derailment and busted up trains is going to get out of control. Pushing out trains with bad knuckles is going to get worse. Been told knuckles are being reported by block trucks and crews as 100% rusted and some crews finding them with cracks. Relay train got 3 knuckles with 3 different crews. TO was running it and still busted out knuckles. Trains are to long and heavy for bad knuckles and bad draw bar parts. Their pushing us to rush trains out and ignore the obvious. It's only going to get worse! It isn't train handling skills. It's bad knuckles and bad rail. Worst combination ever!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 June 2018 Well Crews are putting off before the van shows up to take them to lodging? We never put off till the ride was there to pick us up. If any TM made threats of calling the police threatening arrest for trespassing while waiting for a ride that CSX provides to go to lodging, I'd tell him do it. One hell of a lawsuit.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 Derka If you fail to acknowledge the harassment and intimidation by management then you will fail miserably.

Name: Steve E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 June 2018 Our video board out front of Osborn yard says J18 coming soon..., what the hell does that mean anybody know

Name: Well E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 The other day I overheard a crew pull into the new castle yard, their train had a set off so they couldn't do anything without instruction. They tried to call Willard yardmaster and got no answer, kept trying to get a reply and got nothing. This is an every day occurence, they have a bad attitude and treat new castle crews like they're a bother, they refuse to get us paperwork and take forever to answer the phone or the radio. Anyways, after them continuously calling for maybe 25 minutes, then the dispatcher comes on and threatens the crew and says they have to answer for the delay between arrival and starting the work that they haven't even been instructed to do yet!! This is normal and happens every day. The trainmaster there is extremely incompetent and doesn't help with the problems because he doesn't know how to do his job. He constantly tries to push people around and threatens people. He even told a crew that he would have them arrested for trespassing when they were waiting for the hotel van to arrive! These derailments are only the beginning. The managers in charge are pushy and don't know enough to safely run things.

Name: Safety??? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.courierpress.com/amp/709580002

Name: Safety??? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 June 2018 https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond-man-working-for-railroad-subcontractor-dies-in-workplace-accident/article_cc41f850-ff51-5f97-85db-b7df412cc72e.html

Name: Derailments E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 June 2018 In Quebec Canada they had the big wreck, no one really accountable American ceo of that rr that killed 47 people. He filed for bankruptcy and his live goes on. USA with laxed rr safety there will be a Quebec in USA somewhere on CSX line. When it does happen you just get a bunch of suits dance for the media cameras. Maybe the victims of a derailment might get some cash if the law firm does not hose victim families. Kick backs kick back. And the gong show goes on.

Name: Notshocked E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 June 2018 CSX How much is the mess at Princeton going to cost the investors. If someone would take the crews reports seriously this could have been prevented. A simple slow order could have done the trick. Jeeezzz... never fails to amaze us!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 June 2018 Csx cut so thin that their not doing the heat inspections like they use to.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 June 2018 Shut jax down....... Screw these idiots!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 June 2018 Sun Kink rail is the reason of the derailment in Princeton. sounds like they going to let it burn out. Crew Okay! That was the 2nd sun kink that crew reported. glad they okay.

Name: fra E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 June 2018 Railroaders The Indianapolis office has been shut down for some time. If you have a complaint to file for violations of federal law by an FRA agent or violations of ethics set forth by the USDOT as well as violations committed by any railroad supervisor you must contact the Region 4 office in Chicago. 1-800-724-5040 If you feel that you are not being taken seriously or you are not getting any of your calls or emails answered then you can call the Washington D.C. office at 202-493-6014

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 18 June 2018 FRA this, FRA that. Big business U.S. RRs don't fear that agency. Lame duck and company friendly. Threat of fine(s) and/or worse to a lowly employee is a big deal though.

Name: Inspection E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 18 June 2018 In Canada at cprail under Hh, we where given 30 seconds a side to inspect a train. 100 car train 100 minutes. They timed us and if you did not inspect train in that time frame they called you on it. That was test and inspect. Now if you missed something or something happened on the road. You where blamed for it and you went for statements. They had managers not trained to test and inspect. But they had the hogger do min brake application and pull the train by them. That was the test and inspect. Now what would of been interesting if there was a wreck they would have to put the names of managers that did this on paper work. In Canada transport Canada has no teeth with the big rr. They do what they want, transport Canada is useless.

Name: FRA WATCHDOG E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 June 2018 CARMAN Qualified mechanical inspector: 49 CFR 232.5 A qualified person who has received, as a part of training, qualification, and designation program required under 232.203 instructions and training that includes "hands on" experience under appropriate supervision or apprenticeship in one or more of the following: Troubleshooting, inspection, testing, maintenance or repair of the specific train brake components and systems for which the person is assigned responsibility. A trainmaster is not qualified to perform the Class 1 airbrake test and inspections required on the cars on any train that is being built in the original terminal. If this happens again you must call the FRA immediately. Complaining on this website is only helpful to the extent that people in the public read it and can make inquiries to the USDOT or the FRA office. You must report it. Just because an FRA inspector reads this site doesn't mean he is officially notified that there is a problem. You must make the call. As for walking only one side of the train during the pre inspection process that is illegal as hell. Tell your yard master to purchase a code of federal regulations and read 232.205. We have been hearing a lot of rumors about this for the last year about TM's out in the field rushing crews during the pick up of cars in line of road and have been watching but have yet to catch one in the act. Time is on your side. Follow the rules as written in your operating rules They are very clear how you will do a pre inspection of the cars. You must do an inspection of both sides of the cars to the best of your training BEFORE YOU CAN DO A ROLL BY INSPECTION! An inspector shall take a position on each side of the car sometime during the inspection process so as to be able to examine and observe the functioning of all moving parts of the brake system on each car in order to make the determination and inspection required by this section. 232.205 A ROLL BY INSPECTION OF THE BRAKE RELEASE AS PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPH (B)(8) IF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN INSPECTION OF THAT SIDE OF THE TRAIN FOR PURPOSES OF THIS REQUIREMENT! I don't know how to make it any more clear. You must inspect both sides of each car during your pre inspection before you can do a roll by release of the cars. If you have any supervisor harassing you or intimidating you to break these laws then you must report them. Its that simple. Do not sit there and allow this to continue. You can not complain and cry all the time because you see this happening and expect anything to get changed if you just walk away because you are scared of retaliation. If enough of you stick together and file complaints together they have no choice to address your claims. If you know of any FRA inspector who is turning his head or showing favoritism towards the carrier you can file a complaint with the USDOT. Any inspector who willingly allows the law to be broken should be removed from his position,

Name: ??? E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 June 2018 crews Where did the propane tank go up? Was is another car that wasn't inspected properly or they blaming the crew. Rerouting traffic away from the south in Nashville division due to derailment. Was that where it was

Name: Cool mo E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 June 2018 Yep. If your bitching about brake sticks and your to big to climb on the cars to tie handbrakes the a snack machine that takes credit cards is the last thing your fat ass needs lol why would you post that WOW

Name: Bystander E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 June 2018 Fra When you going to get out here and start taking control of the unsafe out of control managers. Just heard a ym tell a carman not to walk both sides of the cars on his class 1 airbrake test in the original terminal cause the train was late leaving and they needed it out now. Thank god he told the ym that was against fra brake law requirements and if he didn't believe so he could get out the FRA code 49 rule book and read it to him. Pissed the ym off. This shit just keeps getting better and better out here. Other poster was right. It's going to take someone dying out here before you get your arsses out here and clean house!!!!

Name: Will get worse E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 June 2018 As the stock creeps up there will be more cuts, even if it is not warranted. In the minds of the brass in the ivory tower,they think they are on the right track and pat themselves on the back. So these managers will do anything to get the trains rolling. If they be inspected or not. They will falsified documentation. And lie when it is convenient for them to do so. So to be safe be prepared for anything. It will get a lot worse yet people I lived threw it with Hh for 4 years. The stress just about did me in.

Name: There goes another one E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 June 2018 Why are so many people quitting the railroad?I know a tm that quit csx don't understand why with the salary and benefits they have.im thinking about trying to get on but this makes me nervous to leave my day shift job

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 June 2018 Feathers Go screw yourself and your other manager. You don't like people posting the facts. Try and distract. Won't do you any good. The info being posted is more than FRA LAW violations. Its damn near criminal. I'm fact it is. Someone dies cause of these violations the families better be getting 7 figures.

Name: CYA E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 June 2018 All crews This company is the worst I've ever seen it. The new guys with less than 5 years have no clue. We thought it was bad when they took over conrail but that was just a walk in the park. I'm starting to believe everything those CN and CP boys have been saying. Ever since this HH character stepped in its gone to hell. Even conrail didn't allow the cutting corners and safety violations to the extent this outfit is doing. The FRA is either totally bought off to look away or they don't give at rats butt either anymore. Something bad is on it way. I just hope all you guys have your ducks in a row when it does because you know we're getting the blame first. Dekra is going to back tbem and file a bunch of bogus reports about us out in the field. MARK MY WORD THEY WILL!

Name: B Feathers E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 June 2018 Run trains and quit whining. Quit trying to fu@# the hand that feeds you. Do you mean we have to go to work and actually work?!?!? Grow the F up and stop being whining,snobbing,lazy,babies. Or JUST QUIT!

Name: Deez E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 June 2018 Hey Rules, lighten up Francis....Dont be such a cuckhold...You and Carman can go sword fight later this afternoon...Rules, just be thankful on this father's day, you were thiiiis close to being swallowed... Happy Fathers Day

Name: Carmen E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 June 2018 This is how much management want to bully the carman. We inspected and did 1 brake test. The train pulled apart nineteen hundred miles away. I don’t know how many crew changes, but they blamed the Carmen we went for statements and pulled out of service for thirty days. Any delays they try and blame some union employee. And we caught managers filling out paper work for trains that where never looked at because short of staff. Record everything you work on. Because they look for scape goats when they need to blame someone. This is what has become of the industry, no ethic or trust anymore.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 June 2018 Attention Deez...your the root cause of the problem. Go bury the rest of your waste of time in the sand. Carmen.....advice was on spot but make sure you tell the engineer over the radio the exact spot that you started your final inspection of the class 1 brake test. Have the engineer document the time and confirm that they are departing without a proper inspection. The FRA needs to be notified this is happening. Put them on notice. Rules follower... this has been discussed numerous times in the past. If the conductor is NOT A LICENSED ENGINEER AND CURRENT HE CAN NOT RUN THE TRAIN. The engineer has every right to stop and use the restroom if he needs too. If there is any dispatcher that suggest he "hold it" or wait until the next siding and the engineer can not he needs to notify them that he needs to stop now. If there is resistance or intimidating behavior exhibited by the dispatcher make a note of the time and place and the dispatcher on duty. You may need this if delay of train charges are filed against you.

Name: Rule follower E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 June 2018 I was wondering about another rule now that there are inward facing cameras. What is an engineer supposed to do about the call of nature while on the road with no red signal in sight. It used to be that the conductor would blow the horn and hit the alerter button for the duration. If something happened during that time and the conductor wasn't a licensed engineer, it would be bad news for the crew. I guess tone up the dispatcher and tell them you're stopping. With a nice heavy train, it would take you a while to get going again.

Name: To carman E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 June 2018 Carman they did the same to us when Hh was in charge. And if something happened they tried to hang the carman. My advice if they pull before your in position at headend. Write down the car number at the point you watched it out. And keep a record. Keep every move that you perform. They cut staff so deep that they take any short cuts management can. Safety is the last thing they care about

Name: Deez E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 June 2018 Carman... Sometimes it's best to not give a flip. Sounds like you could use a good gal from the Ol Stick it Inn.."Days Inn Chattanooga"..Do yourself a favor, and worry about getting paid to get laid. That's how we roll down here, while on held away, sport....

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 June 2018 Bend over/deez Stupid shit.. grow the f...do up For real safety can someone explain how a TM can take over the car inspectors job when he's trying to finish his class 1 test on the rollby on a train that is leaving the original terminal? One avon tm did the set and release and armed the Tele using the tower yard master to relay informstion with the engineer. How the hell did he arm the Tele. He isn't union or part of the crew. The Car inspector told him over radio a qualified mechanical inspector had to do the job and the dude had the balls to tell him he was doing it because the Carman was busy. This stupid shit is a violation for many reasons. Gonna file claims on the TM for this shit. We are short as hell cause of the cheap SOB in Jacksonville and now TM are doing our job. On top of that they are pulling long as hell trains out of yard to knock down signals to make it look like trains have departed before Carman ever gets to head and to watch rollby. We miss half the damb train. For now on we are going to document that we don't see half these trains and not going to be responsible for the first half. This outfit is turning into a safety hazard from hell and where is the FRA in all of this! These TM are crossing the lines big time and it's time to time slip them. Too scared to tell their super boss to get Carmen back or kiss their butts. Wonder what this dekra group has to say about this shit.

Name: Deez E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 June 2018 Ben Dover The Days Inn Rivergate , Chattanooga has some real skeezers floating around this weekend, due to Riverbend Festival. Pretty good deals to be found, but I guess I should have passed on spooning.

Name: Ben Dover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 June 2018 Hey Deez Nuts? You send the bitch packing when you’re finished with her that way you Don’t risk the chance you might have to chew your own arm off in the morning! DUH

Name: Snacks E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 June 2018 At the rr I work for we have vending machines in bunk house you can get raw eggs anything. We have normal stove and microwave ovens. Bad thing I load up my grip with junk food for trip home. And I’m hundred pounds over weight.

Name: Deez E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 June 2018 I woke up this morning in the away from home hotel, and realize that hooker stole my lunch.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 June 2018 Yep: Thanks very much for the morning chuckle.

Name: Ha.ha E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 June 2018 Stay away from snack machine. Maybe won't be so hard to climb on the cars.

Name: Yep E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 June 2018 I miss the brakestick...bullshit us big guys have to climb on these cars to tie a hand brake. Also what really pisses me off....all snack machines at work should have the credit card swiper...who carries around the much change these days..wtf!? We are going backwards!

Name: Loco meetoo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 June 2018 Yes I hear what you are saying. I could post cases of woman taking guy down. On the the railroad it happens. But you are naive,if you think it does not happen.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 June 2018 Meetoo Why you got to post stupid shit like that. Got nothing to do with sexual blah or harassment blah blah. Someone always had to turn things into bull. I never had one minute of trouble from any of the females I worked with because I respected them as equals. Same respect I give my wife and any other woman. They know the atmosphere when they get hired but shouldn't have to put up with it. I've seen some real losers out here and if they got in a mile of my daughter's I'd kick their asses. In this business if a woman has to complain then good chance the guy went way to far. Most of them handled everything in house. People just behave with some class there wouldn't be a problem.

Name: Lift E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 June 2018 My post on block lifts, I’m a carman just tried to help we might be on different page just tried to help.

Name: Meetoo E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 June 2018 Hey boys it a woman’s world, now with meetoo if you said or did anything to a woman ten years ago. She can still bring it up on you with no proof or evidence. Make a complaint to management or police. There is no investigation or due diligence down to defend yourself. In most cases now the female will just be believed and the men will suffer the consequences. This is on the news on a regular basis, in a sense having a camera in the cab of a locomotive, could save your ass if you are working with a female and she falsely accused you of something. Hopefully in the near future a man will be able to defend himself again in court etc. And just not have the word of a woman taken as true. If a woman has it in for you now days, your done.

Name: Done it E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 June 2018 Retired Not only have I changed air hoses but I changed that heavy little knuckle by myself too. Lol...I've even had to use a sledge hammer to remove a busted jammed knuckle. When I was hired they didn't do those strength test. In fact all they did was wheel a knuckle in and make everyone take turns picking it up and putting it back down on the cart. The instructors exact words were per the rules you aren't supposed to use excessive or brute force to do anything. Csx doesn't want any injuries. You get help. If your line of road hogger can come back or they can call block truck. DON'T GET HURT. They didn't even want us changing one in training. So why the big change now? Think they don't care if someone gets hurt now...lol..lol...strength test is probably just a legal cover their arss deal so if someone does get hurt they can say you must have done something wrong because you passed the strength test and should have been able to handle the work!

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 15 June 2018 Last post with the attachment is actually sad. Can remember when females 1st showed up out in the field, in the transportation dept., T&E service, - 1979. Over 35 yrs. later, can honestly state that never once did I hear of or see a woman change out a bad air hose or broken knuckle by herself. Lots of other things too that they were just not physically capable of doing without assistance/help. Then again, what the heck, many men were/are not capable either OR were/are plain lazy. Safety First

Name: Jan E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 June 2018 http://www.ttnews.com/articles/csx-agrees-pay-32-million-women-harmed-job-testing CSX loses another lawsuit, proving once again that discrimination is alive and well on this Southern Railroad

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 June 2018 Lift You are so confused.

Name: Lift E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 June 2018 Your air brake tests are AAR rules, goverment law. Not CSX rules. If CSX had it there way you would not be testing any cars takes time. For example when a train has been air test by the carman. And then train crew bleeds cars off to switch track for some reason, the cars that where bled off have to be retested. But this rule is always ignored, now the track is put back together after switching and the bleed rods are stuck open. But the train crew now thinks he has 100 percent brakes working on the train. Which is not the case! The only indication the hogger has is now it takes longer to charge and can’t get calibration. So if you leave town you have a lot of cars with no brakes because the bleed rod is open and cars can’t charge.

Name: Duh E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 June 2018 Lift Really. You got to charge the brakes to do any class one. That's how you do a set and release. What he wanted to know is what was he supposed to do if they were off air more than 4 hours. I think the post was meant to be sarcastic. The rule says AND not off air more than 4 hours. It should have said OR. If they already had a class one and are off air less than 4 they don't need another test. These FRA guys have been just plain stupid lately. Especially with the stupid splitting trains crap. Just because someone took half of an inbound train and put power on it after it came in with a class 1 and then gave it a new train symbol doesn't mean the cars need another class1. What does assigning that block to a new train symbol have to do with the fact the cars had a class 1. Not shit! What, now all the sudden those cars class 1 test isn't any good any more? The damb rule says you don't have to do another class 1 when you change motors or eot so who gives a shit if the cars go on a train with a new name. Just a bunch of horse shit.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 June 2018 Any other fat conductors like myself who miss the brakestick?

Name: Lift E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 June 2018 What it means is you have to charge the cars up and brake test them.

Name: Baffled E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 June 2018 FRA Please explain this shit to me... New rule 5203.3. Says before being added to a through train at an intermediate location, a solid block of cars must: 1. Receive a class 1 brake test, AND 2. Not be off air for more than your hours. Read the rule...it says AND not be off air more than 4 hours. So I go to pick up a block that I know has been off for 8 hours what am I supposed to do??? I didn't right this rule. CSX DID! So what next? I can't take the cars???

Name: Duh... E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 June 2018 Engineers Don't listen to these stupid instructors! Rule 409.2 and 411 are TWO SEPERATE RULES. 411 was never deleted or changed. When your leaving a train tied down PUT HAND BRAKES ON THE FRICKIN CARS. IF YOU JUST TIE THE MOTORS DOWN YOU NEED TO BE FIRED. READ THE FRICKIN RULES. TIE down the cars, test them then put the brakes on the motors. 411 is as black and white as it gets. Someone is trying to set the crews up with this new bullshit rumor that motors are eqivelent to cars!

Name: Tiredofmorons E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 June 2018 Idiots who can't read... New operating rule 409.2 is a Change to SECUREMENT OF CARS ONLY!!!! just because it says unattended equipment doesn't mean it includes the motors. I worked with CO who said a TM told him that the hand brakes on the motors now count the same as if they were cars. That's a stinking UP railroad rule. if your stupid enough to just apply hand brakes on the motors and not the cars when you leave a train behind because you think 2-3 motors are enough to hold the train you deserve to be fired. Rule 411 securement of trains WAS NEVER ANNULED,CHANGED OR DELETED. The rule stands as is until it is deleted or changed. Read the frickin rule procedure. Quit listening to other people's gossip. The idiots you work with are your worst enemies. Just read your bulletins.read your rule book. Until a rule is changed IN WRITING IT STILL IS IN EFFECT! 409.2 and 411 are two separate rules!

Name: Standing power E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2018 Or maybe apply independent and go to notch 1???? Simple railroading....but you babies know everything.

Name: Standing test E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2018 Yes your right, two am crew tired conductor newbie, piston came out went in travel length he forgot or not up to speed with mechanical specs. It happens they count on crew before them, or shop staff making sure everything is good. Shit happens that could of been prevented, human error!!!!

Name: Power E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2018 Maybe that's why when you take charge of a lite loco you do a standing brake test. You guys are hilarious.

Name: Power E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2018 The best I seen was a rookie hogger went to tie on his train, his train was about half way down the track. He had the power throttled up conduct said 20 cars ten cars. You better start slowing down. The rookie hogger said brakes are applied. The conductor jumped off, the power hit the train. The trailing unit got buckled and the headend car was buckled. The hogger got hurt after slamming into the door. Same thing they found on power, brakes not effective due to piston travel and excess speed. The power hit so hard that it ripped open the fuel tank on the trailing unit. Hazmat was called to deal with the fuel spill. If hogger would of inspected power and at minimum controlled his speed it would of never happened. Murphy’s law if it can happen sometimes will.

Name: Power E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2018 In years past I remember a crew taking a consist off shop track. Two sd 40 and old elco The hogger went to stop so brakeman could line the gate. But the power never stopped they ran the switch. From the investigation hogger and shop staff employee where fired. On two of the loco motives the piston travel was adjusted out so far that they had minimum braking pressure. After that the shop staff stop sluffing off and did there job. And most hoggers did there walk around before taking power.

Name: Fact E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 June 2018 How does CSX know that this happened during the last trip? It could have accured during the calendar day inspection. This equipment isn't serviced regularly. Screw CSX. Name: Utility worker E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 30+ years Posted: 13 June 2018 If your piston travel is excessive we usually just tell the transportation officer and they will charge the prior engineer that used that engine and failed to write it up. It's funny how you gents turn your co workers in.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 June 2018 PYOA! If a locomotive defect is reported before departure but nothing is done about it then the only protection is writing it up. Utility Worker thinks that is turning in a co-worker who brought the train in or who last used the consist. If anyone fails to inspect the consist then it does fall on them as negligence. It's not new CSX has been doing it for decades. One of the first acts of CSX was closing down the roundhouses. Just about every terminal had one. I'm sure nothing has changed since I retired in 2010. CSX has defective locomotives in consists using them in trail.

Name: Utility worker E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 30+ years Posted: 13 June 2018 If your piston travel is excessive we usually just tell the transportation officer and they will charge the prior engineer that used that engine and failed to write it up. It's funny how you gents turn your co workers in.

Name: Discipline E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 June 2018 The company nit picks all these bs so called, safety violations. You never see a manager say your not taking that power until the brake piston travels are in limits,or the shitter is serviced or that cracked window is fixed etc. Write all those defects up on every train you get on. The first thing they will do is measure piston travels if you run a red board.There is so much stuff a guy can right up on defective equipment and make the company do there due diligence on repairing equipment if they are so concerned about safety. The time and money it takes to write up the small shit is just there stupid way to justify there jobs.

Name: Enough E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 June 2018 Smh You really need to work on your grammar. Just try proof reading some of your post. No one takes anyone serious that sounds like they didn't take a single English course in school. We get the point your trying to make but it just doesn't look good.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 June 2018 Csx pulled out of the boxcar pool greedy idiots this fottie and ackcmen should be in prison for lives lost family’s ruined and stealing from everyone at any RR they have been at there there the ones it follows them every where they go it’s been public by themselves to Wall Street they know how to rise the stock at the cost of lives intensional braking Union contracts and contracts of costumer I say put them in prison and in America the RRLA Canada has strikes over the same shit the pull the proof is there past PRISON but they have lawyers to drag it out and play the court system it’s stealing

Name: Grants E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 June 2018 Every year railroads across North America get millions of dollars for grants and programs from the federal goverment. If a railroad brakes a law and is fined it is peanuts. And it gives the public a sense of justice has been done. In the end the railroads are out nothing. There will always be corruption at the top and when they get busted they are smart enough to defer the blame to many below them. This has been going on for years and will for years to come. Goverment inspectors know how to speak out of both sides of there mouth. It’s all politics and money. When the union employees write a test or take a course for railroad operation. And you don’t follow the rules and regulations and you take a short cut in procedures and something goes wrong. You will be held accountable for not doing your due diligence. And they will hang you for it. The union employee will always be to blame for everything that happens in the eyes of the company.

Name: Whistle blower E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 June 2018 You are just the little guy trying to earn a living to support your family. And want to do the right thing. My advise is keep track of what you know is wrong doing. And when it affects you you have some prove. If you make a big deal out of it in the end nothing really happens to the company. Breaking federal law maybe but in governments eye they do it all the time. The goverment lies and covers up more stuff than you can imagine. All these protection laws in my view is a front for goverment employees to justify there phoney jobs and give the public false sense of security. Look after number one don’t put a target on your back. Tell the union what is going on and leave it at that.

Name: Bogus paper E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 June 2018 As a train inspector for 36 years,every train we inspected the law required the company to keep on file every train that was inspected for 90 days. Then we would throw the inspection sheets out after 90 days. When we where doing this we found our names on train sheets that said we inspected trains on shifts we never worked. The manager that was short staffed was putting inspectors names on train sheets when he was short staffed. So to find out who was doing this we had to recognize the managers writing. Once we found out the managers doing these bogus inspection sheets, we went to the union reported them and it went from there. But to my knowledge no manager was fired, and luckily no traffic n accident and no employees got hurt. All as management cares about is paper work and that they shine. Safety and work ethic with some companies is a thing of the past. All about$$$$$&$$$$$$

Name: smarter E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 June 2018 Cindy SO WHAT! Its still almost half of every other railroad. We have sense enough to invest in solid companies and not fly by night get lucky as they go industries. Anyone who is investing their future on the company and their stock are just plain idiots. I hope they have a widely diversified port folio! Not everyone is lucky to get daddies money handed to them!

Name: Cindy E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 June 2018 Stock is almost up to 70/share.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 June 2018 Extra board gaurentees are based on the jobs they protect. Higher mileage = higher rate.

Name: Ape is right E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 June 2018 I’ve seen managers over the years get kicked in the balls over and over again , but they always want to get kicked in the balls more. They are even loyal CUCKS some offered there wife’s up to higher management. The new thing with these managers now they will eat there own. They all try to out do each other to get noticed by the brass. And when they get fired they try and take down as many people as possible. You are crazy to trust any of them, if you are smart. They will use anyone to make themselves shine. They are the newest low of the low.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 June 2018 hey ape. all we ever get is you need to vote for this. you dont want the alternitive. this is as good as it gets. if you dont vote yes it will be worse.

Name: Old timer E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 June 2018 Ya your right about lots don’t care to make a stand I refused to take unsafe bad order equipment. Pulled out of service then young hot shot jumps on and goes. I looked like the shit disturber young buck breaks rules and gets hero biscuit. In old days guys that did that to other employee would be blackballed. Today no one cares there bills are more important than anyone else’s.

Name: Tired E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 June 2018 CSX has the lowest paid employees compared to our class 1 railroads.. Want to know why? Because of you, the employee. You settle with what you get. Why should the union fight for your rights when you don't care. You take it in the crapper and walk off complaining. Start fighting for your rights and watch the pay increase. Most of you don't have the backbone to do it. Just keep taken it in the rear and complaining. This is 100% truth..

Name: UP Lateral Motion Claims E-mail: info@upee.com Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 09 June 2018 UP Employees: We will provide another update on the increase in lateral motions claims as soon as the settlement claims are provided by key insiders and the like. In the mean time, document your locomotives with defects, and whether the defects where reported prior.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 June 2018 Steve Salyers bends John over and fists him but he doesn't feel anything.

Name: LOCO E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 June 2018 HOURLY RATE COMING SOON

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 June 2018 Steve Salyers is grooming John Rain for superintendent

Name: Pay E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2018 Why are you guessing collective agreement shows pay scale for CSX train personal. And then go from there!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 June 2018 csx gaurantee where i work is 3100.00 for 2 weeks. Bnsf gaurantee where my buddy works is 4500.00 for 2 weeks.

Name: To loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 June 2018 1400 a half guarantee? Where on the system pays that low.. or did u mean 1400 per week? If you meant 1400 per week the. There are several places on system that pay that... it's actually 1399.xx and some change. But csx pays that now. Engineer guarantee is even more.

Name: Rumours E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2018 The one thing I learnt in thirty five years on the railroad,is don’t believe the rumour mills. Guys would just throw stuff out there to see who would bite and how far the rumour would travel. We use to have a saying, if you don’t hear any rumours by 1800 start one. Some of the rumour made it right across the system before being discovered as BS.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 June 2018 i was told today by a conductor that quit csx recently to go work for bnsf that their gaurantee was 1400.00 a half more than my engineer gaurantee. Csx pay is well below other class 1 railroads.

Name: Company McLovin E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 June 2018 Sounds like your all fucked really..

Name: To rules E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 I retired last year,but now it is crazier on the railroad. Like you said idiots just want to get out of dodge without having done there due diligence. So if you have an incompetent lazy conductor . And something bad happens. Is CSX management going to try and blame the hogger to for not making sure the conductor has all his proper paperwork. Is it the hoggers responsibility to baby sit down he conductor ?

Name: Tiredofit E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 June 2018 Brothers.... BLOW THE WHISTLE....BLOW THE WHISTLE..BLOW THE WHISTLE....and I don't mean the one on the motor or under the desk! Screw camera rules. Take pics. Other railroads allow you to use cameras.they allow the use of personal phones without getting off equipment and walking 25 feet away. Just wait till someone has to get off in a damn blizzard to make an urgent call to their family and slips and falls. Or it's pouring down rain and lightning and 60 mph winds and they get hurt. Can't even call PTC, mechanical or TO help desk. CSX is nothing but a bunch of control freaks who want to intimidate and encourage rule violations and send out faulty equipment with obvious FRA violations. They created this atmosphere they can live with the consequence! BLOW THE WHISTLE!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 June 2018 Paperwork. The rules aren't laxed! Rules are very clear the conductor WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROPER PAPER WORK! The problem is the lazy asses who just want to rush out and get on the train and get rolling. Then you got TM's who have no balls and are scared of Foote and his henchmen who want their asses on a platter if a train doesn't get out on time. They won't stand together and tell him to go screw himself. So you get rushed and intimidated to get out. Idiots don't realize it all falls back on them because the rules are black and white who is responsible for getting the proper paperwork. It's all ok until something goes down then you got the babbling idiot conductor standing there trying to explain why he didn't follow the rules. American r ailroaders are lazy and self serving. They won't stick together. That's why year after year Csx and their union's bend them over and rape them. COLD HARD FACTS! Just sit by and whine and cry!

Name: Branchline E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 Once these lines are sold and then we have to pick up cars from them, I can images the cars to be picked up will not have been tested or inspected or could even be bad order. Will be interesting picking up other fly by night rr cars!

Name: Re-max E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 Hello gentalmens, here are our plans for bigger profits in 2018, keep up the good work, we r selling the spider web network, soon it will be a linear railroad just like cp is, remember when u all said PSR wont work because of the layout of the network, well thanks for the tips we appreciate it.https://seekingalpha.com/news/3362153-csx-take-bids-six-rail-segments

Name: Quebec E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 Quebec disaster would not of happened if the volenteer fire department would not of shut the power down. Then a section Forman gave the ok on everything. So the people messing with the train was blind leading the blind. The hogger offered to go back to his train to take care of things. But was told no to go to bed. But they still tried to hang him anyways. They said two more hand brakes on the train would of made a difference I say not. The hogger was found not guilty as he should of never been charged in the first place. And transport Canada letting them run with one man crew. But just remember they will always try and hang the little guy. Scape goats what they look for in these type of accidents.

Name: Quebec E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 It was a fly by night American company more of a branch line,that caused accident one man crew

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 Dear Paperwork, Have you already forgotten about Lac Megantic??? That was in Canada right???

Name: Paperwork E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2018 Why do you conductors take a train with out proper paperwork. I see this seems to be the norm on csx. I work for rr in Canada I don’t move a train and am not expected to move until I have proper paper work. There are times I even get the crew cab and drive my train if I think it is not right. And a lot of my trains go into interchange from Canada to USA. If I don’t have all the proper paper work. The train will not get into USA. I’m amazed the conductor being in charge of the train does not get proper paper work. If there is a derailment and you don’t have paper work. The shit would hit the fan in Canada anyways. Can’t believe how laxed the rules are in USA.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 June 2018 Justhosed We had the same problem. Had train with windmill parts. Different kind of parts. It was restricted as unit train. What good does it do to put out a bulletin that clearly stated exactly what cars constitute a unit train. Didn't see windmill parts on it. Previous crew didn't have that crap on their paperwork. Just another day on the csx circus train ride!

Name: Justhosed E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 June 2018 Crews Stupid shit is already starting. Our train had absolutely nothing in the paper work including in the the engineers tonnage graph that stated our train was 50. Not a damn thing. Even TM didn't see anything. Got to home terminal and handed off on main line. Outbound crew had flagged as 50 and the commodity classified wrong. So we run 60 and they got to run 50. I knew this stupid crap would happen. Exactly what everyone in the terminal has been predicting. For now on its straight up 50 on every train. There still is NO BULLETIN OUT STATING WE HAVE OUR ASSES COVERED IF CSX WORK ORDER DEPARTMENT SCREWS THE INFO UP! My LC said run 50 until system bulletin is released protecting the crews from being blamed for their crap! This just getting old on this railroad. Will it ever stop!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 06 June 2018 FRA this, FRA that. Go back a while & read the posts from the former FRA inspector. Bullied, even threatened by csx terminal people in Toledo & wasn't backed by superiors. But boy if a poor individual makes a mistake..... Before 1988/89 -- just the RR got fined for violations. Look it up US DOT, FRA = lame ass pro-company. Sad.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 June 2018 If any railroads rules are more restricting than the FRA then the FRA goes by those rules on their property. It happened to me before I retired. CSX came out with a rule the clearance point in a track was in the clear plus one car length. The night before a yardmaster instructed me to keep the cut of cars & locomotives where they were in the clear but not plus one car length. He stated he'll get another crew to take the cut. That never happened and the FRA was on property the next morning. I got 5 days in the street seeing the YM didn't back us up.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 June 2018 You are right 10 mph for pull by. But with all fra rules the railway company can modify the rule if it does not undermind fra rules. Like numbers of hand brakes fra might say 10 but the company wants 20 on. That’s what I was always told. Extra protection is companies decision.

Name: Inspectors E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 June 2018 What I have done in the past when I see some one wondering in the yard especially if they don’t have ppe on. I call the railway police and say there is a trespasser or possible terrorist on the property. They learnt fast to inform employees of these people being around. I learnt to play there game by following company policies and rules. They don’t like it when it is applied to them.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 June 2018 Csx... I got less than 5 years under my belt as engineer and I know more than your instructors teaching your classes. They need to open the rules book and read it! How hard is that to do before they take the job on. Engineers....read the difference between doing a standing locomotive brake test and a locomotive handbrake test. One required throttling out and one DOES NOT. Do not listen to instructors. You DO NOT THROTTLE TO #1 in a handbrake test! CYA and be ready for The dekra hit squad!

Name: Inspect E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 June 2018 Rollby Roll by inspections are 10 mph. Check your FRA laws. Second. ..FRA ALERT!! It's been reported that FRA inspectors are in the yards and hiding. They are boarding equipment after crews have left and finding failures to charge employees with. There was a bulletin out that CSX management could not do this. The crew must be present when doing observation testing and be there when charges were being accessed. We are checking on the protocal for FRA inspectors. Their word against the crew members is not acceptable. If we find they are breaking protocol we will file complaints with the USDOT! This is a tactic the carrier was guilty of pulling and many were charged without justifiable proof. We will let you know what we find out!

Name: Managers E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 June 2018 Company managers will not hesitate to discipline an employee for any safety infraction, but when a tm or manager tries to intimidate employees to use unsafe equipment or leave a terminal without proper documention. Report them at once record the conversation in note pad etc. They have to be held accountable and there are whistle blower laws to protect you. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. These type of managers should be fired and they xcorted off the property for not following company policies regarding safety.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 June 2018 It all fear and intimidation safety no Union rep involved with there safety team fuck them a

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 June 2018 Show CSX that safety is number one. Put safety hazard reports in on everything you feel could be a hazard. Everything from bio hazard from uncleaned toilets and chemicals not changed to a chipped window in the cab. Report it all!

Name: Power E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 June 2018 Also for safety do that walk around on the power, check the piston travel and make sure brake shoes are not condemned. I also turn in if power is leaking oil onto the ground. There are lots of things an employee can bad order equipment for, and down right refuse to take the power.

Name: Pull by E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 June 2018 On pull by inspections or any pull by out of yard, do not exceed five mph. This is also in the rule book that gets ignored. The carman should slow you down if they are doing a pull by. It is in there aar book.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 June 2018 Safety first do not move a train till all paper work is in order , braketest and inspections paper work. Confirm any dangerous loads are on train. Make sure there is not a reefer running next to dangerous etc. Due your due diligence check Be safe for employees public and equipment. If it delays the train it does not matter, if you are doing your job right all these issues have to be addressed before moving your train. And hopefully safety will be number one. Delaying trains is the last thing the company should be worried about. The TM should ask every trainman if they have done there checks and not to move the train until you have been satisfied everything is safe to travel. Foote should embrace safety and not worry so much about dwell times.

Name: seen it E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 June 2018 Dekra Bring it on! That suggestion would be welcomed from CSX. Don't forget they tossed DuPont out the door when they told them that they had a ridiculous amount of safety rules and need to get ride of half of them. Besides, we are all tired of being run into the ground because of man power shortages. It will be nice to slow down and take our time to make sure we follow every rule in the book. Cut about 2-3 hours out of our day rushing to make dwell and departure times look good. Time for a slow down anyway.

Name: Dekra E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 June 2018 We were asked if it was possible to increase the size of the "Rulebook" We responded, "Hell yes". challenge accepted. New and useless rules coming to a rulebook near you. Have a Nice Day Bitches.

Name: Coal E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 Well the green no emissions from Tesla electric car. Is going to need to have the batteries charged. So they are putting charging stations all over North America. So to get the electricity to charge these cars. They are going to have to burn thousands of tons of coal to meet this new demand. So maybe there is something with coal industry picking up again. C Heck out this on you tube, this green electric car is so hipacritacle but the car produces no exhaught. Now that’s politics.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 June 2018 Confused... more people than spots ( guys to placed and can’t hold ).. yet the extraboards are always exhausted.my phone rings every night for roster runs. .am I missing something ?

Name: Make America Great Again E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 June 2018 Yeah but Trump is trying to save the coal industry and if successful CSX will have to hire a lot of new people so there's that.

Name: Nafta E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 If nafta deal gets a scrapt and tarrifs on everything there will be a lot less interchange traffic. Which will affect transportation industry in North America. Predicted lots of jobs will be gone. Time will tell how it is going to pan out.

Name: Goverment inspectors E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 There is no reason to report any defects or wrong doing by the rr. The goverment inspectors is just a front so the public think they are protected by the big bad industry. A lot of these inspectors are railroad guys hand picked. They are in bed with the company and will never do anything to hurt the company. Maybe a few stupid fines to show they have done nothing t here job. They just put in time to get to that nice goverment pention. Don’t kid yourself if you think they will ever beat the company up. They will always protect there phoney bs jobs. Nice expense account. Stay in nicest hotels steak and lobster etc. Live is good if your one of them.

Name: Loco insp E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 A lot of time when power is do for datal inspection they get a fast look over. Card gets signed and dated. It is that simple spiff it off like everything else.

Name: Datal E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 Don’t worry about that stuff pal, like I said company does not care and managers make more money than you to, call the shots. When things fail just call up manager to make more stupid calls. The rails the sooner it starts to show morons are running the show. Kick back and wait for management to find solutions don’t help them.

Name: powerhouse E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 June 2018 FRA Their at it again. How can they take an engine out on the line of road from another train that has been past its 184 day for over a week and use it as a leader on another train just because that crew lost theirs? Called us begging for another motor and we didn't have any for them. This isn't an emergency. This is piss pour power planning. Maybe they should have kept some of those engines they sold off the last 2 months as back up for cases just like this. This is becoming a regular problem and a major joke. When are you going to step in and start stalking these managers who make these orders just like they stalk their crews!!!!!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 June 2018 who gives a shit about cp rail?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 June 2018 The union safety committee was cut a long time ago.

Name: Brake stick E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2018 Anyone know if there is still any truth to Willard opening hump back up? This flat switching is as unsafe as it gets. Try cutting cars while jumping over old power switches on West bound hump. Someone's gonna get hurt

Name: Safety committe E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 June 2018 I think when these outside safety auditors come in. The union safety committe should be with them to monitor what they find and the union safety committee point out all the safety concerns of the employees.

Name: Truth E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 June 2018 Crews Dekra is coming in as a smoke and mirror tactic. It's just a way to try and fool the public into thinking they are taking further actions to prevent more accidents. We all know it won't work. Intimmidation never does. The train accidents are not always the crews fault. Accidents caused because of improperly lined switches are not caused by someone ignoring the rules. Fatigue causes 99% of these type of incidents. Losing ones concentration due to lack of sleep or being rushed for time by management can usually be to blame. Working 12-14 hour days on a train or sitting outlawed all night causes major stress and mental fatigue. Look at csx history. Any time something major happens they always come up with a scheme to look like they are taking corrective action and it always involves some form of crew correction instead of management correction. Calling in Dekra is just another public appeasment tactic. Only an idiot could not figure out their motives.

Name: Xvlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 June 2018 Csxdekrasucks We've been through this before. When head Hunter Ingram came in and started the harrassment and intimidation. Union members stuck together and filed the forms given out for excessive discipline and intimidation. When the hit list names of employees got out the FRA got involved as well. When the southern training manual for supervisors was leaked shit hit the fan. The manual was proof of the stalk and fire mentality that CSX was using to get failure numbers and send a message. WARD denied knowing anything. Covered his arss. Crews had enough. Followed every rule to the book. Checked every slip, TRIP and fall. They werent a bunch of wussy"s. They shopped equipment and turned in all hazardous safety concerns. Dekra can come in and give it their best but they cross the line and pull the crap we've seen before I got all faith we will stand out ground again. Our safety issues are not bad. We have no injuries that amount to anything in our terminal. Our damage to equipment isn't squat. Their after something else. Dekra is not needed in our terminal. They don't like anyone reporting their faulty equipment or calling the FRA or Osha. People have been standing their ground and the only recourse they have is to come in and start the damn harrassment and intimidation tactics. Again, there is no need for Dekra. They want to play games I say BRING IT ON!

Name: Owners E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 June 2018 The man with the gold in most cases make the rules. A ceo like creel is not running cp for the best interest of shareholders and the company. All the revenue lost when employees go on strike then back to work in 48 hours. Would cover all the union demands. But a guy like creel can’t put his ego aside, and settle a contract with employees. Cp could give contract that would make employees content but won’t. And the members will never forget the way they where treated by Hh and creel.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 June 2018 cond < than a year It's not your contract so details don't have to become public. CP LE & trainmen still don't have to ratify it. Right now it's another cooling off period while waiting on the vote. They're lucky to have someone running the country that didn't interfere. He made it clear he wouldn't. Trump would have you back to work before picket lines were even set up. He closed his Atlantic City casino because the 1000 union employees wanted a decent contract.

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 31 May 2018 What you do is bury CSX with safety hazard reports. By law they all have to be addressed. Make sure they have lots of stations with available safety hazard report forms. Then CSX will try to deter employees from putting hazard reports in.

Name: CSXsucksDekra E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2018 CSX has hired Dekra Inc to undertake a safety assessment. Dekra inc prides themselves as being a pioneer of Behavior Based Safety aka “blame the worker”. One of the keys to these programs is defining “culture” of observing employees’ unsafe acts and subsequently modifying their behavior. This is done instead of recognizing the underlying causes of those acts and modifying the worksite to make it safer. This practice makes it much easier to shift responsibility to the workers instead of management’s mandate to provide a safe workplace. These programs also increase the amount of fear and intimidation on the job. Workers are hesitant to report an injury or illness for fear of being harassed as an unsafe worker or being disciplined for an unsafe act. CSX managers are cock suckers

Name: Strike E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 31 May 2018 I retired last year from cp. It was like a consitration camp working with Hh as ceo. The bulling firings etc. Now Minnie me Hh creel is at the helm. If he gives the union a contract he has to back off from all the bullshit ways he treats employees. Creel throws out a few more crumbs and union has to take it to membership. When cp is sincere they will put a far offer on the table, and stop all the nonsense. But by doing so creel will be forced to treat people different. Since there is no contract creel holds all the power and he knows it. For his ego and status as ceo it is important to him, not having to give up any control. With a new contract he is limited how much he can abuse employees. The member will vote no again on offer. Then they will serve strike notice, shut down company again which hurts company bottom line. The company could give a good offer but, that would be giving in and make creel the bully look weak. Creel is not acting in best interest of the company and share holders.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 31 May 2018 Strike over at CP You guys got fucked by your union. Why would you go back after only hours of a walk out? You guys had CP by the nuts and let go. Details of the agreement are being withheld pending ratification. This is typical ble bullshit to. Why the hell is information being held? I so sick of the union not telling us what the hell is offered.

Name: Caring E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 31 May 2018 After working for Hh I use to care about equipment. Now if they tell me take equipment and run it like we expect you to. I throw common sense out the window and follow instructions. When equipment fails I just report it and play the dummy and let the experts figure it out. No stress on my part still get paid. And I’m being a model employee following there instructions. And I do not try to correct any of my bosses even if I’m right. Do as you told, if the company does not care why would you.

Name: hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2018 Ape Who gives a crap about that stupid shit. What you better worry about is learning to deal with the old pieces of crap they are using out on the line of road on long pools because they are running out of power. They don't have a damn thing in the new rules book about running old sd40-2 with short time ratings. The old rule book in 2010 had info in it but the new book doesn't have squat. I had to fight with a dispatcher about having to stop and cool down my traction motors because we were underpowered and had the motors tacked out in 1500 amps on the hill in 8 notch just to pull. He didn't understand a thing about it. I know the continuous minimum speed and available times for the motors because I worked with them for years. They don't understand an engineer needs this info. We are still using these old junkers. They might be ok on some short local but using them on long haul freight pools with heavy load is stupid as shit. If you don't have the old rules book you will have to google the units and find it yourself. I had another engineer tell me he had the same issue but he was just a pup. He called the mechanical desk and the guy on the phone had no idea what the hell he was talking about. He put him on hold until he found an old head mechanic there and got him on the phone. He was able to help him out. Just more crap this outfit doesn't get and the problems they are creating with this power shortage. Thing is, there isn't a thing they can do to an engineer that burns one up and has no info on how to run them. Your not required to carry the old rules books. The new ones supersede the old ones. Let them replace burned up traction motors. maybe they'll get rid of the old rust buckets!

Name: nopatsy E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 May 2018 Engineers...HEADS UP!!! Went to the rules class about 3 weeks ago and the guy they sent from who knows where told us to start looking on our tonnage graphs for the restrictions on equipment that restrict it to 50 mph or less. I saw it a few times since then. I asked him at the time if there was going to be a bulletin out informing of this change and that the info on it would govern the speed of our train. He said he didn't know if they would put one out or not. So I asked him what is going to cover our butts if the work order department screws up and misses a car or we got wrong car wrong train crap and get busted with a 50 mph car when we thought we could do 60. He started some crap about observing our trains and looking for restricted cars in our trains. We all started laughing, Asked him if he even knew how it worked in our yard. We don't see our trains most of the time. Just the head 6 as required. We don't get our trains ready. The car man is the only one who sees the whole train when he watches the roll by. He couldn't answer that. We told him if we don't see a bulletin out stating that this change was made to or tonnage graphs and we could count on using that info to govern our speed we were running 50. Plain and simple. YOUR GOING TO LOVE THIS ONE!!!! He told us to go to rule 112.4 and read line 4. Do you know what is says...... Hold on to your hats... It says....The ranking crew member, which we all know is supposed to be the conductor, is responsible for ensuring PROPER DOCUMENTATION FOR THE TRAIN IS OBTAINED AND IS ACCURATE! He threw it right in the conductors lap! So I said, ok since Im just the engineer and not the ranking employee then I can just take my tonnage graph and go get on my power and the conductor can eat shit if there is a problem with the cars. That pissed the shit out of a conductor in the class. The instructor finally admitted that it was not done properly the way they started it and if we felt unsure about anything just stick to 50mph until there is something in writing. So this is what your dealing with. If Jacksonville screws up or the YM has a wrong car in the train or an extra your going to eat dirt as long as that rule 112,4 is in the book and there is not a bulletin out instructing crews to use the info provided in the restricted car handling area of the tonnage graph! Well, the conductor can eat dirt because he is supposed to make sure its right per the rules! Sucks to be the conductor right now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 May 2018 Loco, Re: engine brakes. I've never seen one that wouldn't load. Not one. Just leave it in throttle for 10 seconds or so and they'll load. Of course I haven't run every single engine in the fleet so there's that I guess. Of course, when they reduce the fleet to 15 or 20 engines it'll be easier to prove.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2018 Tying down.. Conrail had old rule of 5% and 10% rules on hand brakes depending on the amount of cars you had. CSX came in and changed that around. In the last 20 years they've bounced around. It's always been power had to be tied down with train. The newest rules states you must have at least one brake and an adequate amount to hold with your one minute brake test. People keep forgetting their timetable special instructions over ride rules when their is a conflict. If your timetable states you will apply 5% between point A and point B then that's what you do. Timetable special instructions are just that...special instructions for your area. Follow them. If they conflict with new rules that's not your problem. They trump rules.

Name: Fireman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 May 2018 Brakestick Don't take it personally. The arrogance of upper management in CSX is just laughable. It has been that way ever since they took on Tony Ingram. I encountered many that way. I found if you made a comment in ear shot of them that insulted the company they would be right up on you like stink on horse poop. It's unprofessional as hell to be a supervisor and ignore employees in your presence just because your a blue collar and they are wearing white. If they only knew the connections that I had and the ability to have their arsses on a silver platter! They weren't worth it. Most are fired or moved on to other railroads. I knew they wouldn't last. Don't waste your time with them. Just deal with your immediate supervisor the best you can. If that becomes a problem then dig up some dirt. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. It's the only game they know. They don't understand respect has to be earned.

Name: SafetyModel E-mail: Safety@csx.com Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 May 2018 https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/30/1514217/0/en/CSX-Names-James-Schwichtenberg-Chief-Safety-Officer.html Way to go CSX, another failure from the CN. I used to work closely with the CSX Safety Dept and found many of them to be committed and working in the best interests of all. Nearly all of them were let go, moved to other departments and two left CSX to work as VP Safety at other railroads. So instead of promoting any of them, you hire a former track man, bureaucrat and degree holder from a mail order college. And your safety numbers have declined every since. At some point, Wall Street has to wake up and see the circus that is CSX. Geriatic leadership team only there to cash out, incompetent VPs under them (Sorfleet, Swafford, Boychuk) and flat revenue while the rest of the industry is bursting at the seams. Wake up investors.

Name: Brake stick E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2018 You know that it is very sad that you can't even walk into crew rooms and talk with managers on certain issues. Chris Guenthur was in moncrief the other day and my conductor and I walked in there and said hello and he wouldnt even acknowledge our presence. You often wonder why crews are shitty? This is why. Very sad

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2018 Ape. Wrong! Not all of them will. They will set off a wheel slip alarm and not load. I have personally had some that won't and talked to mechanical about it. The whole point is to keep idiots from running around with the hand brakes on. You obviously have not encountered an electronic air brake motor that has the feature.

Name: Strike over E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 May 2018 Strike is over offered four year tentative agreement they vote again on it. If rejected strike again. Just the company fucking with union. If they where for real they would get a deal signed and sealed

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 May 2018 With cp on strike now would be the time for csx employees to strike an really slow operations down for all the bs csx has been pulling an show csx who really runs the show time to rise up people.

Name: Tying down train E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 May 2018 To tie train down they said ten percent on railcard handbrakes had to be applied plus power. Then they changed it to adequate amount of cars plus power.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 May 2018 Big joke, You're incorrect. Every single engine out there will, in fact, load with a handbrake on. Try it, you'll see.

Name: Rules tests E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 May 2018 It does not matter what rr you work for in North America. My 36 years on the railway they get you in a classroom fast track a person threw the course, in most case are open book tests. Give you a certificate and you are on your way. What I find is after you take a course and screw up they on the statement they want you to be able to remember the rule word for word. Most can’t and you nailed to the cross for violation of company rule. Over the years I have acquired several certificates. But when you apply the rule or procedures the management thinks you are fucking them around. They don’t want you to go threw all the steps as the manual says to do. They say it takes to much time. But when something goes wrong the first thing they ask in an investigation is did you follow all the steps and rules. That had never changed all the years I worked on the rr. And still is the same way to day.

Name: Big joke E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 May 2018 CSX RULES DEPARTMENT for God's same will you stop sending idiots out to give rules classes who obviously have not bothered to read the rules or current changes. What you need to do is give them a rules class first. Weed out the one's who don't understand or just don't care enough to read. I just had a newer engineer question my hand brake test procedures on light motors because he was just told in rules class that we follow the old procedure of knotching out and putting the motors under load. That rule changed almost 2 years ago. If you young engineer don't know why it's because for several years the loco's have been designed with a safety feature that does not allow the loco's to load when the hand brake is applied. All newer electronic motors are being built with it. Puts a stop to running around with the hand brake still on and burning up brake shoes. They were downloading random guys and busting them for not putting the motors under load to test for movement and were too stupid to realize it couldn't be done because the motors wouldn't load. Some will give you a wheel slip alarm too. Just read your rules. Don't count on these guys to cover your arss when you do something stupid they say is ok and it's not in writing. They got short term memory when you say they told you what your supposed to do and something goes wrong!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2018 Retired FRA Inspector We watched the world change for us when Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers when they went on strike over fatigue & manpower shortages. They were also under the Railway Labor Act. The other issue was Reagans Trickle Down Economic policy which is still going on. Contracts became battlegrounds when corporations started taking away benefits from the employees. Gone was healthcare replaced with voluntary out of pocket group policies and pensions replaced with voluntary 401K's. I give credit to rail unions for maintaining our benefits.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 May 2018 Steve Salyers is just a good bullshitter and an incompetent manager. Gotta love how everyone tells them how bad the walking conditions are and how we need rock in the bowl where we kick cars 24/7 but instead they grade and put perfect walking ballast around the entrance and in the A yard where they drive buggies.

Name: Runners E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 May 2018 Safety first only if it does not interfere with production. Just run like your told when you mess up we just replace you. Next!

Name: Controlled Chaos E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 May 2018 Steve Salyers, your hands bare the blood of the latest derailment. You have known for a while how those guys operate and you just let them "do their thing". You allow the most unsafe crew in the yard to put everyone else in harm's way. Luckily, this time no one was hurt. What about next time? Is saving the job of a few worth risking the lives of many?

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 May 2018 I never had much respect for the majority of railroad managers. And during my time at FRA I knew a lot of them. Many were just plain assholes.

Name: Managers E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 May 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0W977ifqY

Name: Retired FRA inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 May 2018 RRJim, When Reagan was elected, he appointed an FRA administrator who told us not to write violation reports against railroads. Dubya did the same thing. The only time unions really had a seat at the FRA table was during the Clinton Administration. Other than for those eight years, unions had to demand to be heard by FRA, as the agency slowly slipped into the pockets of railroad management.

Name: Strike cprail E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 May 2018 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4679584 Strike coming Tuesday !

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2018 It's all about politics. When union members vote in Republicans they're voting against their own best interest. We were Blue Collar Union Democrats we knew under them we had a chance at a better contract. History showed us it. When Republicans are in control corporations can do just about anything. The conservative faction of SCOTUS by a 5-4 vote just ruled last week against public unions, most likely private unions are next. They pretty much took away their rights to collective bargaining. Rail unions have been under constraints with the Railway Labor Act with not having the right to strike at will. Railroads have been trying to bust the unions the past 30 years since Reagan was president. That trend hasn't let up. Republicans have mostly controlled Congress since 1994 except for a few years when there was a split Congress. Like I first mentioned it's all political.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 May 2018 To sue the RR for loss of life ,intensional braking union agreements .and intimidation for FMLA ,,is nothing we need the guys that run this place at the highest level They have law firms to hide be hind and leve the dirty work to lower level employees and by fireying them means they mean business but next up to get fired while we keep doing what we’re doing and getting away with it ,,while they get all the money and run it’s there MO here they brag about it to Wall Street,, this is all my opion

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 May 2018 It is a dog and pony show with safety the government and the unions for RR ceo and investers we all know it why the government don’t is a joke rember Csx has control over the recorded lines so the TM being nice on a phone or in person you can’t see the intimidating buts it’s there violating a union contract every we’re fottie do little and his investers go Tells you there is no good faith which is against the RLA

Name: FmlaInterfernce E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 May 2018 FMLA Interference that's what all of this is and it is illegal. CSX will put out some bullshit about availability improving due to fmla not being as badly abused but its because they have intimidated employees to not use it. CSX and their managers will be paying out a lot of money to those that were wrongfully pulled out. The thing is CSX doesn't care to pay hefty fines and lawsuits. They have plenty of cash to throw around if their objective is met. Same with contracting out Dekra it's all a dog and pony show and everyone knows it.

Name: Asmha E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 May 2018 Well if people with asthma have an inhaler when breathing gets laboured. But when you have an attach you can’t get oxygen to the heart and in some cases it is all over if you don’t get to medical attention sap. Hopefully your co worker has support of family and friends when he is at work. There are lots of railroaders in same boat!!!!

Name: Bill E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 May 2018 a Co-worker of mine worked today. He has fmla for his wife, we was pulled out of service over Christmas and was too scared to lay off for fear of termination. His wife and children need him due to His wife being admitted to the hospital. She has chronic asthma. I hope CSx get their asses sued

Name: See it E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 May 2018 The way I see it all these safety bullies etc. It is just propaganda that the company wants the outside world to see. Foote and his backers know they have a small window of time to exploit all the value they can get out of CSX. When they figure out there is no more money left in the pot other than revenue. They will pack there horses and get out of dodge. One day you will go to work and it will be announced that Foote moved on. Then the new guy will come in and take over the mess.

Name: Retired Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 27 May 2018 For the railroads and all businesses safety has always been about money. The bottom line. Fewer injuries and derailments mean lower expense. The new regime virtually ignored safety in favor of productivity. I know a lot of you didn't like some of the now defunct rules but they did lower your risk. Stopping to get on an off helps prevent getting hurt and of long term abuse of neck,back,hip,knee,ankle and feet. Safety stops prevent engineers from being thrown out of the seat from a hard coupling. Now with CSX facing federal scrutiny and dozens of injury and wrongful death lawsuits watch some of these rules return. Too late for some.

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 May 2018 Safety That issue has been known and practiced in this industry for as many years as the safety programs have started. You are 100% correct. It is just a safety net for them to use in court when someone files an injury law suit. Not only do they use the record against the employee if they have anything negative in it, but they use all others as well. They will show the courts that it is an on going problem and they are unable to stop it. The more failures they are able to show within their workforce the better. This information has been posted on this site for years. Nothing has changed. The question here is why have they called in Dekra. It has nothing to do with reducing the amount of safety failures or safety issues on the property. They want the failures. They need the failures. Only thing they have to use as an excuse that an employee was injured. The company needs something from Dekra. Most likely the accredited title that come with the backing. If you were around many years ago then you would remember the famous E.H Harriman ward that was given out to the railroad with the most outstanding safety achievements. The NS blew CSX out of the water for years. They couldn't stand it! Drove them crazy. The bad thing was it created a working atmosphere of intimidation and harassment and it eventually became known across all railroads as the "HARASSMENT" award and was done away with. Only thing it was good for was a pat on the back and drawing in investors. There is no doubt that CSX can use accreditation from Dekra to apply for grants and influence the States that are involved in safety regulations and monitoring csx railroads with the FRA. Someone posted on here that you should not talk to anyone from Dekra if they approach you. That would be a stupid thing to do. In fact, if they do approach you I would not only talk to them but I would ask them what is the purpose of their being there and question them about their company background. I would ask them what they are looking for and if you happen to be standing next to equipment of other issues of interest to them that needs addressing I would be more than willing to point it out and discuss it in detail. You may mention to them to keep your name out of their reports if you feel that there may be retaliation down the line for speaking up. They may or may not agree to do so but its better to bring things to their attention while they are there then complain after they are gone. Just make sure you don't blow things out of proportion or stretch the truth. Be factual and only report what you know for sure or is obviously right in front of their faces.

Name: dekra E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 May 2018 Wow now we got german dekra csx has officially gone full nazi on us

Name: StrongBrutha E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 May 2018 Hey CA puke, shove your scab CP job up your ass and go post someplace else.

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 May 2018 When a person gets injured, all these rules for you to follow is insurance that it was you not the company that failed. So when you sue they can show in some way you breached a safety rule and company policy. It is all about liability. And it is more the company lawyers that push for these rules so they have an easier time showing it could of been prevented, if employee would of followed the rules.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 May 2018 Dekra and Footra can get on my Dickra. Out.

Name: WHAT??? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 May 2018 LC What the hell would they call Dekra for? I just googled them and I don't see the relevance of their main business having anything to do with T&E crews dirrectly. Just what the hell would they be looking for? If they want to use them it is only to grab a certification from them. Its just another way to put a notch on their belts as a safe and reliable company. The only benefit of this would be to plaster it all over the employee gateway and pat themselves on the back. It might help attract a few more backers who are afraid of the history that HH created with his numerous injuries and failure to maintain equipment and now it is sitting in Foote's lap. I don't think they get any government grants for this certification but I may be wrong. This is just another business tactic that they are counting on to attract more support. We all know how smoke and mirrors are used to fool the public into thinking they are buying into a safe and reliable company. If Dekra is as credible as they claim they will see through all of the bull just as the previous poster pointed out about DuPont!

Name: XVL E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 May 2018 LC If you were around many years ago you might remember when CSX brought DuPont in and asked them to do the same thing. They were running around the property for several weeks. They told CSX straight out that they were "safety ruling" their employees to death and had way too many rules that were just plain unnecessary. They didn't like what they were told and asked them to leave. Thanks for your help but no thanks. I know this for a fact. I was privy to one of the conversations. They called in one of the best rated companies in the country for safety and slammed the door in their faces because they didn't like their answers. Just wonder what they will do if the same thing goes down with their new witch hunt group!

Name: LC E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 May 2018 This is all about firing T&E and nothing else. Csx doesn't give a damn about safety. If Dekra approaches you for any info don't help those bitches help csx fire us. Following an initial three-month assessment beginning in June, the DEKRA team will develop findings and recommendations. Should you be contacted during the course of the assessment, please give your full support and cooperation to the DEKRA team. FUCK DEKRA and FUCK CSX

Name: Poll E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 May 2018 Here's a poll question for all csx employees. What yards/lines of road do you all think NS will buy, hearing some things about the possibility of it happening, let us know if your yard seems to be getting a lot of attention i.e. new trees new ties, improved ballast, just general beautification.

Name: target E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 May 2018 Listening. I know exactly what you are talking about. I was one of those targets they had on their list that got out and shit hit the fan. What these stupid idiots don't understand is there is always a manager out there that doesn't agree with the companies ethics and will let the cat out of the bag or let everyone know what is going on. There was a bulletin put out last year that stated NO SUPERVISOR was to give any observation failures after the employee left the scene. They had to be present and address the employee. There were a bunch of head hunters who needed their failure count up and was going out and checking equipment and saying it wasn't secured with handbrakes. They all claimed they had witnesses but it was just another supervisor. I wish I had kept a copy of the bulletin. I think it was actually in the notices. I would put a million copies of it all over the system! They were told to never fail any employee with having a direct one on one with them at the scene of the CRIME when it supposedly happened. One smart arss supervisor stood right in front of me and made a comment that he failed someone and the guy was having a fit that the charge was bogus but it didn't matter because it was the guys word against him and we all know who they are going to side with. I just wanted to punch his punk arss right in the mouth. I hope this crap isn't starting again because if it does its going to be dog eat dog. Catch one supervisor breaking a rule and Im blowing up the ethics hot line and taking a pic if I got too!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 May 2018 https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=51119 Don't miss out get your named added. Also sue every manager who had a hand in this outrage.

Name: About last poster E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 May 2018 He is absolutely right, at cp under Hh and creel managers where fired for not getting failed audits. We where told each supervisor had to do 160 audits per month. And people they did not like where the people they gave failed audits to. Another thing the company was doing was giving people failed audits, but not giving the employee a copy of the audit, they just put the failed audit on employees record. The union looked into this practice and found it was rampant across the whole system. By doing this it made it much easier to fire an employee. Employees where told to look at there employment record and record audits in there file that where bogus. And the union tried to get failed audits removed from employees file. If I was you I would go to HR and request to review your file every six months to see if you are a victim of there false audits on your file. Remember desperate people do desperate things to cover there ass when breaking the law. Nothing is to low for this crowd at head office. They want to make themselves shine, at other people’s expense. They are the low of the lowest, for greed and self gratification. Foote has Hh handbook !!!!!

Name: Listening E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 May 2018 SAFETY ALERT! DO NOT LET THE CANCELLATION OF SYSTEM NOTICE 103 FOOL YOU!!!! It was only cancelled because they knew that there was no way the supervisors were going to be able to meet the requirements set forth. Word is, from a very reliable source, that the head hunting for failures was put back on the table and subtle threats were made. This happened under the Tony Ingram reign of terror and any old head can tell you what went down and how the unions did step in and take on the company for excessive discipline charges. In the notice it was ordered that every supervisor in T&E had to observe/test 15 separate employees per month for the quarter. That is 45 employees for every single supervisor. They were told If a failure is not found then they are not doing their jobs correctly. This is just a tactic to reduce the work force as Foote has threatened without looking like the villains by cutting more jobs and putting more people out on the street. May also be expecting more lawsuits for injuries from faulty equipment and improperly maintained tracks. An employee with failures on their history never looks good in court when suing for an injury. Looks like someone is getting ready for round 2 of the old ballgame! .

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 THanx for letting vent CSX SUX

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 Oh by the way footie In a$& not a part time job do a stat on what we work without VACTION time personal leve demand days TE employees and hrs after my 10 hrs rest is up waiting for all call and see what you get just cause we’re waitng for a call don’t me shit

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 Sorry can’t forget about you Ackmen you all in this too it’s all you and your pups “MO”it’s all in my opion but it’s the truth Imop it le on TM the hard working boots on the ground but it a fact and I can back it up with thoundas UNION brothers from all RR you been at let’s go to CONGRESS I say

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 You all are right if you play by the rules they head hunt you and haress you intimidate you till they get you they “told “ a paper in Jacksonville there hiring a safety firm paid by who them IT IS POiNT blank they ewing fag harrsion and his punks footie run a rr by fear an intimidation like the 1800,s and completely abuse the time it takes for the claimes straight out right disrespect for the RR act to be in affect they should be held accountable just like stumph ceo of Wells Fargo with cross selling they know it’s gonig on look at all that happens at the CN -CP - it follows them so for them too play dumb is no excuse

Name: Safety and cuts E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 May 2018 What Foote is doing is trying to put all the responsibility of safety on the individual. With all the cuts they know a person is run ragged and tired etc. Foote knows what it means to run the people like this. They did it at cn and cp. and under Hh cn cp had the highest rate of fatalities in a short period of time. But with these greedy ceo’s They just think when someone dies they are taking one for the team and it is part of doing business. Just look at fatalities for the time Hh was ceo. The stats don’t lie, and yes you have to be responsible for yourself. But when your pushed past you meal brake, stressed out worrying about getting fired lack of sleep. You are an accident waiting to happen. On top of that they want you to run with bad order equipment. I lived threw this with Hh at cp. Foote knows the dangers of cutting staff so deep he is just trying to cover his ass.

Name: Ben Dover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 https://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx_transportation/news/Report-CSX-to-beef-up-safety-resources--54718 1.11 injuries per 200,000 man hours. 3rd amongst class one railroads, but up from .97 per 200,000 man hours in the 1st quarter 2017. Gee I wonder what happened after the 1st quarter 2017? Only a true dumb ass couldn't figure that out! I'm sure a newly appointed safety czar will fix that proplem. Lets fire a few more people and scare them into being safe. Unbelievable. Look into the eyes of this Foote person. Like the ghost of Hunter Harrison. Pure Evil!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 May 2018 They want safety BUT if you don't get the train out fast enough, YOU will be charged with delay of train!

Name: Mr. Obvious E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 23 May 2018 Foote wants “fresh eyes” on safety, and said his top concern was that “someone’s going to get killed.”.....people already have died fuck face

Name: Car count E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 May 2018 It will be interesting next quarterly report, how many cars shipped next report compared to this time last year . If car count is down again it just show CSX is in trouble created by Foote and gang.

Name: Londducdong E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 May 2018 6200 more job cuts in 2018. And safety is going to be priority 1. It's all about getting every employee with a foot out the door. all the transfers in the system notices. CSX is struggling with road crews. They offer shit to transfers. It should be double pay. This place sucks ass.

Name: Recruit E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 May 2018 If I take one of these temp. Or full time jobs. And I have to leave my family and relocate. What living expenses are provided. Because if I took a full time position I’m not moving my family till I have completed my probation period and then look at if I will be employed full time and not laid off have the time. Be more specific please. It would cost me money if I had to pay for two residents!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 May 2018 Hey Watch dog! I am recruiting for a Class 1 railway for temp or full time conductors and engineers for the Mid West. That is the pay rate for them. pmr@powerrail.ca

Name: Cuts mechanical E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 May 2018 In the good old days a locomotive would get completely rebuilt after ten years or a million miles. Now they don’t do this they lease new locomotives comes with warranty and service tech. Most rr doing this, that is why they can cut so many mechanical staff. And they are able to close big maintance shops. Save on taxes overhead you name it. I have seen big shops get the wrecking ball because of it.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 May 2018 If the government holds up on there end the rr labour act will hold are contract and this hedge fund will leve cause it will show or be delt with in 3yrs and footie and ackmen chips in my option should be held to pay up personally just like Wells Fargo ,,they know they have tome till it catch’s up to them then run like chupa with no accountability for there actions

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 May 2018 To all on here I feel for you but I like calling the investors out but they don’t care either they love to make there money and run ..shit on the people treat people like shit that feed there families and work hard to make this work and have there liven on rr for Csx we care more than they do it’s the federal government that is letting us down not the union at this point they do not violate are agreement but the rr labor act we have years invested And family’s invested ...all they have money...it comes and goes

Name: Future E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 May 2018 Hh was the best con artist he walked away with a train load of money. Foote has the title but gets the table scraps. When things get to much he will just leave CSX. There will be an anoucement life goes on. And the new guy will have to fix everything at CSX or who ever buys it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 May 2018 HQ Look at BNSF and how they run a real railroad. Highest revenue and shipments reported since 2006. PSR is a sham..

Name: Jobs canada E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 May 2018 If your the fishing hunting type, and like nature Canada has it all. Canada is a big country we only have 35 million people here. You just need a work visa and you could get a railway job here in a heart beat.

Name: Jobs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 May 2018 When Hh cut at cn and cp they can’t find enough people now. They are hiring like crazy but that takes time. And lots don’t even get student trips in before they quit. They have called retired guys back a few come but don’t stay long. What is happening in Canada Will happen at CSX. Foote. Needs to cut jobs to get operating ratio numbers. But at the same time the whole company suffers. Once the shares don’t stay bullish then something will happen. It’s all about the share holders not the growth of CSX.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 May 2018 “HR” what company do you work for “call ethics “there is no code of “ethics” at this one in my opinion it’s paper propaganda for them to show they care”it sure doesn’t apply from mangers to boots on the ground but does from boots on the ground to company,who runs a pays for that department probably Csx call them and find you butt on the street a week or two later for some nonsense rule violation that’s there only for head hunting employees not for safety

Name: Power rail googled E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 May 2018 http://powerrail.ca/careers/

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 May 2018 “Update” the was funny but scary truth

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 May 2018 pmr@powerrail This is the second time you have posted your offer. How about a little more in depth detail. Second, it may not be a coincidence but the rate of 43 just happens to be one that was thrown around out here as one of the offers to csx employees if they took the hourly rate buy out. Now, you wouldn't happen to be a mole paid to put feelers out there and see how many csx men you can get to take the bait and contact you would you? Did Foote put you up to it to see how many would agree to it if he put it back on the table. Maybe you are a recruiter who is being paid to bring in qualified and pre trained trainmen to another company. You are going to half to do better than what you have posted when it comes to information. Put something can be checked and proven as legit.

Name: Foote E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 May 2018 Take note Foote railroaders getting picked up by other carriers. How do you explain that to share holders when there is not enough staff to run CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 May 2018 If anyone is looking for temp work as a engineer or conductor please let me know. $43 per hour and paid housing. It's for a Class 1. pmr@powerrail.ca

Name: UPDATE E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 May 2018 Investors Since your never in the field it's time for your udate for the quarter. Not much has changed. As you know Stocks are up and down. Trains are still outlawing and leaving terminals late. Power is still short and repairs are behind because of staff cuts. Wrong car/wrong train going strong. Work orders printed backwards alive and well. Improper recertification procedures are still in effect. Issuing system bulletins and cancelling them in less than 24 hrs. Still guaranteeing job security for reissues. Failure to proofread alive and well. New tm's coming on strong. Intimidation and bullying going just as planned. violation of the union agreements still going strong and making an impact on moral and union busting. Derailment across the system as expected with shoddy repairs and cutting corners. Fuel conservancy program is still inadequate. Underpowered trains for tonage is doubling use. Travel times are increasing. Trip optimizer program is not being utilized correctly. Will keep you up to date. As of now things continue to run smoothly. Same as the last quarter.

Name: xlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 May 2018 Billystevens Your absolutely right. Those camera claims will not get paid and if they do they will only pay .25 on the dollar and wont remove them. But they wont pay a dime. It is not against the law to have cameras on the company equipment to protect them. It is no different than having them in store or out front on the street. Crews are not watched when they are in the bathroom and they do not need to dress or undress in front of them. Thousands of dollars are spent each year fixing the vandalism on the engines. this includes the graffiti and the damage done to equipment inside. They have every right to use the cameras to protect their property. Making sure your off your phones is a federal order. This is how they chose to do it. IT WONT GET PAID!

Name: Blahblahblah E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 May 2018 Only the men that move trains are expected to work on major holidays. The worse T&E logs in more hours on call than those dickheads work. Protecting the phone and laying at the hotel is a full time fucking job. Only segment of workers that abuse weekends are our union reps. Foote said there was not a problem with worker availability, but rather a segment of employees who consistently take weekends and holidays off. "We have plenty of employees, but we can't have 25 percent of our workforce take holidays off," said Foote, noting that holidays are peak seasons for railroads. "We can't run a railroad with part-time employees."

Name: No crews E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 May 2018 The board of directors must be so happy how foot cut so many staff to get the operating ratio down. And the money he is saving on crews letting all those loads sit in some yard and siding. What railroad needs to generate revenue anyways. Not CSX they just sell assets that they won’t need for six month or so. Foote the lawyer sure knows how to spin it

Name: billyStevens E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 May 2018 Brakeman I hear you loud and clear. Our union is a joke. We have a Dr. union steward where I'm at and he's one short loud mouth sale out. Both unions have men laid off union business all the fucking time. I'm not sure how that bullshit is justified. Today the utu has 4 off and the ble has 2. The Dr. is laid off daily vacation surprisingly but he never has to use paid days because he's always off union and has a job with Sat and Sunday off. About all I've gotten out of the ble this year for 110bucks/ month was email saying to put in camera claims. LMFAO. As if that shit will get paid.

Name: About time E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 May 2018 About Ike if you feel the company is violating the collective agreement, did you submit a grievance. That is the only way you can try and get change, and hold the company accountable. If you do nothing that’s what you will get in return.

Name: HR E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 May 2018 T&E If any supervisors "throws away" anything they feel is not approved in your crew room and you paid for it, not only should you file ethics charges but you should be reimbursed by the company for the cost. If you did not keep receipts then you can find the value of the item or one of similar make and model to submit claim. This behavior is unacceptable and can not be tolerated.

Name: G.B. E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 May 2018 Steve Salyers....can't make operational decisions at his terminal, cant make suggestions to his hire ups on jobs that need to be added, so what's left interior design dissension, just a way show us who's boss, he isn't fooling us, short fucker.

Name: New culture E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 May 2018 They did same to us threw out our am fm radio threw out our coffee maker we had in our lunch room. That was payed for by the guys. We had a sitting area out side for breaks if you did not want to go to lunchroom they threw table and chairs in garbage. They just want to take all the creature comfort away. Just goes to show you how childish they are. Once the workers are all layed off. The management crew will be fighting for there jobs. Then you will see some back stabbing.

Name: Stand by me E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 May 2018 Why did the midget hitler take all the chairs and shit outta the locker room in Louisville?

Name: Service E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 May 2018 They are most likely leasing them. And have service maintaince program. Where tech from the company that they bought from will trouble shoot and repair. Comes with lease agreement.

Name: The Ghost of HH E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 May 2018 I haven't checked the message boards here in nearly five months. Just checking in on the condition of CSX. Looks like things are getting better!!!

Name: Rrjim E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 May 2018 Re: work. Good call rrjim I’m not in running trades I’m a carman that works the yard. I started as trainman but transferred to car dept. I talk to crews every day.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 May 2018 Work You aren't in transportation? That's apparent. Road LE's & Conductors have no set hours per week. With all this technology I would think if CSX is calling one can look things up to see if its their job or not. Before I retired you had 10 minutes to respond to a call. I only ran up on a job if it was beneficial to me not CSX. That wasn't very often. Plus When I got home I claimed 10 hours undisturbed after every trip.

Name: Fact E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 May 2018 Trainmasters are going to be cut next. Study is showing that the Yardmasters are doing a great job moving crews and trains. Company will save millions on this move. Trainmasters are proven to be useless. This will take place by 2020 or soon after.

Name: Work E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 May 2018 Only work the hours you are required to by your contract not a minute more. Let the phone ring off the hook looking for there important loads. Let HQ tell the customers it will get there some day. But for now we have to cut staff to get operating ratio down. Ceo and the board of directors should be in the nut house for shock treatment.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 May 2018 What Ass-Clown would sale their vacation for 1.5X? What dipshit is going to stay marked up the entire summer? What simpleton would admit Fmla abuse? What kiss ass believes the horseshit Ed Harris is putting out? What dumbass pays over 100 bucks to their union? What piece of shit lays off Union every weekend? What moron moves out of state for this shithole?

Name: Tired Of The Madness E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 May 2018 Csx you want to buy back my vacation and personal days, I get sick for 3 days and have a Dr. Note and still get points, caps on personal days, and you wonder why people go out and get FMLA..Maybe if you gave employees an incintive for not marking off like maybe starting with negative points , banking negative points to use for emergencies... thanks to the unions for always looking out for us everytime the company makes changes why do we have a contract if you allow so many side letters and bulletins to change shit.

Name: Stock E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 May 2018 Stock slowly climbs as long as CSX keeps selling assets. They are high fives at HQ they are the smartest people in USA.just ask them. Lots of trains sit all week no crew what a couple of weekends. You need a break people take a couple off. Fuck CSX what they going to do fire everyone, maybe they are that stupid. Remember the monkeys run the zoo. Over and out!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 May 2018 HQ It's your attendance policy and we are accused of sharpshooting the system. I got fmla and need to use it legitimately once a month. This also means I will never ever have points taken off. Even if I mark off sick once a year I will eventually be terminated. How do you suggest I take off when I need to be off other then fmla?

Name: ClassAction E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 May 2018 https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=51052 Moody Law Firm, How is this not Fmla interference? It's time for a class action lawsuit for all who have been on Fmla. CSX corporation, CSX transportation, Foote, Harris, and Johnson should be listed as defendants in the lawsuit and whoever else took an active role in this outrage.

Name: Red E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 May 2018 Conductor Me too. I'll be at the lake. I think I'll abuse one of those missed calls. HQ is full of shit.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 May 2018 Fucking idiots at HQ. I think I will take a dive for Memorial Day weekend for that one.

Name: PSRwillFail E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 May 2018 Ed You're a bitch. Enjoy your time in the Spotlight. You're on limited time. You will be replaced with the next puppet within 24 months. Keep your insincere thank you on the gateway for working Mother's Day. There wasn't no more layoffs in 2017 than this year. Your system notice fell on deaf ears. There's not a railroader one in HQ.

Name: Curious E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 May 2018 CSX Talked to the trip optimizer help desk and asked them why they cant Call us on the radio when we have problems but the PTC help desk can. They said PTC is a federal mandated program and the TO is not. They wouldn't say anything else. Doesn't Take a rocket scientist to figure out what they were getting at. YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IT. why even have it up and running then. The rep also said they know we can't use our phone's on the engines to call them so it is imperative we report not using it because of this reason. Another interesting fact....all of the sudden all Work orders for trains running on the st.Louis line from Avon yd to Roselake are not being submitted. Every train has to be built by the TO department. Why is that? Because you know we can't call them on the engine and there is no contact with them on the radio so we just got to run without it. Admit it. The program sucks and you know it. It runs under track speed all the time when it doesn't need to. Your full conservancy numbers arent worth the loss of track speed. Someone is deliberately screwing with the input of workorders. Get rid of it! I'm tired of reporting issues with the damn thing. You know it sucks. Just get rid of it!

Name: To xclc E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 May 2018 You sound frustrated about the union. Well with all what you have said, I was fired and held out for 3.5 years. The union put a case together for me to present to the arbitrator, the company had all there big guns to fight me and the union. I won my case and was returned to work with full seniority. It took time and money to put my case together, I don’t think a law firm would of done as good a job as the union. The union saved my life by getting me back to work. And I retired last year. The unions first priority is to get people back to work that where fired. Other issues are secondary. There are so many grievances in the system that they have to be fought in order of importance and what affects members as a whole. All as I can say is I’m forever grateful to the union reps. That got my job back and my union dues was worth every penny. When your knee deep in shit feels good when some one cares enough to pull you out and wash you off. You could be next employee fighting for your job back.

Name: Ceo E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 May 2018 One thing a ceo knows if they don’t produce they get fired in most case. But at there rate of pay it does not affect them just there ego and repritation. And they can leave a company upside down. Which in most cases takes years to be what it once was. They can do a lot of damage to a company in a short time. And the board of director for CSX seem clueless. The proof is hiring a half dead ceo like Hh and giving him the pay package they did. Company policy no insider trading, but I think it is rampant giving partners in crime inside information so they know where to put there chips. A lot of the craziness will go when Foote leaves. And the new ceo is going to need cooperation of employees to repair CSX from the hedge fund gangs raid.

Name: WeStop4donuts E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2018 Laughing Great post keep them coming.

Name: Hurting E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 May 2018 Finish You are absolutely right. I have been in pain for over 3 years now and my doc says its because of the constant vibration and movement of the engine seats. There are a lot of injuries filed in different professions that deal with vibration. I know someone on the railroad now who is filling a suit for whole body vibration injury. Its not uncommon in this line of work. So is carpal tunnel especially in the wrist. CSX knows exactly what causes it and wants to deny it but there are too many witnesses working out here who cant testify to the severity of some of these engines and how they bounce you all over the place and out of the seats. Some are so bad there are days I can barely walk and my lower back and legs are sore from it. I have a choice, I can file with my doc for the injuries I have now or ride it out and take my chances I don't end up a cripple. It a damn hard choice to make!

Name: Suits E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 May 2018 At head office you have all these suits running around knocking heads high fives. They don’t know what they are doing but as long as the stock goes up they feel they are on the right track. But the day is coming that there spread sheets will not get a train out of the yard. Then the panick starts managers getting fired etc. And when other railroad hire all the people they cut, they will be screwed. And then they will fast track managers and IT people to run the trains. Then the scrap metal will pile up from the wrecks. Stay tuned folks the shit will hit the tracks.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2018 Hey laughing you hit the nail on the head. Karma is a bitch and these a-holes will get what they deserve in the end.

Name: Finish line E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 May 2018 I retired last year had to get out stress big time. Best thing I did but like a lot of railroader 35 years of service took its toll on the body. Waiting for back and shoulder surgery. The older the worker the easier it is to injure yourself. If you get pain in body parts don’t ignore it try and find out what is wrong before it turns into something worse. Work safe people get assistance if you need extra help.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 May 2018 I love all you guys because we are all in the same box car, but bitching won't do anything. WE ARE THE UNION, not the people who represent us! If you are unhappy,go to your meetings, bond with your people, and do something about it. Yes the new management at CSX is running the place into the ground, the same way they did at the CP. But the stock price is going up, and thats all they care about. It isn't going to get better, its going to get worse, so do something about it!

Name: LAUGHING E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 May 2018 HEY CSX!!! You let that half dead has been cut the crews so short that now there is no one to work and run the freight on time. Our engineer and conductor extra boards are exhausted and trains are sitting out and not leaving the yard either. The engine house workers don't even give a shit anymore. Now you come up with a new notice that violates the language in the conductors agreement and are restricting their rights to make moves in the time frame that was agreed upon. Its so stinking bad that you come out with a notice telling people you will forgive one step of attendance discipline if they stay marked up for a ridiculous amount of time without taking any uncompensated days off and just one during a week day for the entire period. You have lost your minds. YOU LET IT GET THIS WAY! YOU LET THAT WALKING DEAD BAG OF BONES CUT THIS COMPANY TO THE THREADS AND FILLED HIS POCKETS WITH MONEY. HOPE HE HAD A GOLD LINED CSX CASKET! People have had enough. We all know if you had it your way we would be working 7 days a week all year long and wouldn't even be allowed a vacation if you could pull it off. Thank god the FRA stepped in and gave us mandatory rest. Thank god we can get some extra rest if we get 6 starts and you don't pull your stunts to restart them. My tax man shit when he saw how many hours I worked for your last year. Doesn't matter if it is overtime hours, held away, class room, etc. Hour and hours of being away from home and sitting in hotels. This isn't time with my family. This isn't time sitting in my recliner at home. This isn't personal time for me. This is time I'm working for you. We did the math. If a person with a 5 day work week that works 40 hours a week did as many hours as I did they would have to work 16 months in one year without taking off one single work day to equal all the hours that I worked. 16 FRICKIN MONTHS IN ONE YEAR! You white collar sit behind the desk 5 day 40 hour a week pencil pusher would shit if you were told to figure out how to work 16 months in one year and get the same amount of hours in that I did. You would cry like whipped pups. Then you want to cut the work force and beg for help. Offer to buy back vacations. Screw with the agreements. Your just plain sad! You made this mess. You made very stupid business decisions. Now you better figure out how your going to fix this.

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 May 2018 Running short staffed adding stress lack of rest. Incompetent people giving instructions is just an accident waiting to happen. Trump has lowered the unemployment numbers big time. The biggest problem for all these companies is staffing. Then they have to be trained. Trust me the railroads are going to be competing for people. The ones that cut staff are a blessing for other railroads because they pick up trained people. It is going to be a win win for railroad workers as the work pool gets smaller and smaller.

Name: Staff E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 May 2018 The railroad ran well till Hh came along they cut so much staff but wanted the same production. People even where forded to work threw there brakes etc. Then management had to get out of the office and do the field work 7 days a week 12 to 16 hours a day. I seen many manager resign over it. They only called people back when they had no choice. It all came to a head after four years of psr. Now they have to put all that money back into the company that they took out. And now ceo trying to make peace with staff after years of abuse. In the end the employees win and get it back. Short term gains for the share holders. Long term problems for the company,

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2018 After 20 plus years, I’m looking for work somwhere else. Cant live like this anymore. Better not go take a crap without the phone in your hand. Might miss a call.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2018 Rumor here on the Western Region of the U.P. is that Cindy Sanborn would like to get rid of all the brakemen. Is that what happened over on your R.R., have only a conductor and an engineer on your locals. We are so busy here we need more people, not less. I work a pool job and we are constantly getting called off our assigned jobs to work locals, yard jobs, etc. We have borrow outs from other parts of our R.R. working here. And our course getting time off is difficult. The money is good but having time off is also.

Name: WeStop4Donuts E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2018 when the company starts bitching about availability over Mothers Day. Offers caps forgiveness. Takes away seniority moves. Complains about misusing a missed call. Willing to pay out millions in Fmla lawsuits. Etc..etc.. You can bet we haven't begun to see the end of this insanity. Ed, Jolandha, Jim, And whomever else had a hand in the interference of protected leave. I hope that each one is sued individually.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 May 2018 Mother's Day weekend and we are down a trainmaster. There are always two on third but tonight there is one smh.

Name: Cuts E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 May 2018 Just like cn cp CSX will cut so deep that they will have managers doing craft work 7 days a week. And if you don’t think this will happen I will bet anyone it will. So if your a manager you better tell the wife and kids they will not see you much. And if you managers don’t play the game they Foote will fire you. Just a matter of time before this will happen. Trust me on this.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 May 2018 Work force cut in half today at Cumberland locomotive shop! This is the third round of furloughs for us. Does anyone know if any other locations got hit today?

Name: Staffing E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 May 2018 Foote still tells share holders they are still going to cut thousands of more employees by 2020. And at the same time people are resigning and not returning from layoffs. The economy is booming and x CSX employees have found other jobs. Some said they wish they would of walked away as soon as Hh started his bs. Staffing is going to be a big issue now for CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 May 2018 What "Testing" posted makes a lot of sense. Read that & remember it.

Name: burned E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 May 2018 LESSON 101!!!!! DO NOT....I REPEAT....DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR EC1'S OVER THE TELEPHONE. DO NOT GO INTO YOUR CREW BUILDING AND CALL THE DISPATCHER OVER THE PHONE AND GIVE UP ANY AUTHORITY WHAT SO EVER. DO IT OVER THE RADIO! BOTH CREW MEMBERS MUST BE PRESENT WHEN IT IS DONE. BOTH CREW MEMBERS MUST HEAR IT IS DONE. BOTH CREW MEMBERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HEARING THE CONVERSATION! TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS DISAPPEAR! USE YOUR HEADS. IT DOESNT MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKE THE DISPATCHER TO ANSWER. GET OVER IT. GIVE UP ALL AUTHORITY OVER THE RADIO! It used to be a rule that all mandatory directives had to be released over the radio. You can not use your personal phone on the engine anyway. There is no reason to wait until you get into a crew room to call a dispatcher on the telephone and release any authorities. This will bite you in the ass. A crew is getting ready to burn on this one. Unless the phone is on speaker and the dispatcher is told it is on speaker phone and both crew members are present when he/she is releasing the authority there is no proof that both crew members where present. If there is not a camera on the engine then it will be harder to prove that both crew members were present but there is a better chance that you are both together on the engine in the cab than in a crew room on the speaker phone!

Name: Testing E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 May 2018 They will do audits in all departments, and you will get written up for something. The goal is to put as many failed audits on your file as possible. Now when you get into more serious trouble they can show a pattern that your a problem employee, an accident waiting to happen. And they want negative employee record hanging over every employee. Makes it much easier to fire you with cause. I would be up to date with all rules and regulations. Playing stupid is not a defense.

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 May 2018 NOTICES Be glad system notice 103 was cancelled by 131. It amazes me how many guys don't bother to read the notices. Just because you don't have to carry them doesn't mean you shouldn't read them. How stupid are people out here! The only reason they cancelled it was because it had an order for TM's to ride trains(60 miles) during this quarter. But the big thing in it was an order to test 15 separate employees each month. Wonder just how they pick and chose who they are going to test. Back to individual testing. Those who are old enough and have been around here since conrail remember the list that came out with names of employees the were supposed to head hunt. Not to mention the southern region training manual that was put out to pick out and stalk "problem employees"! That was a major embarrassment when it was thrown in Michael Wards face. Of course he denied he ever knew anything about it. You young pups better wake up and start reading your notices. READ BETWEEN THE LINES! Notice 135 was cancelled but replaced with 137. Only difference between the two is the effective time. Making a seniority move is not ILLEGAL now or during the holiday or the weekend. The union agreements for conductors still allow bumping legally!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 10 May 2018 Work: Not bad. It is a shame that it is not easy to place blame, etc. on so-called managers, even the incompetent ones. Be sweet if we could confront some the same way they talk to us. The CSX General Rule regarding that employees are supposed to treat fellow co-workers\employees civilly & courteously is violated often by both management AND fellow employees. An embarrassing shame.

Name: Work E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 May 2018 A lot of managers are employed to just rattle the employees, control the sheepal anyway they can.To the strong cool collective employee that is not easily rattled they try and put a false failed audit on you to show who has the upper hand. Myself I follow the rules watch what I say yes sir no sir. And go about my business. When I have been put on the spot by a manager, I’ve told him I’m just following instructions even if they are wrong instructions. I have told them it is not up to me to correct a person in charge even if I know they are wrong. I said I don’t want to be written up for not following instruction, with a straight face of course. You can see the colour change in the managers face as they get mad. Because they know you are right and some people barking out the orders are incompetent. But can’t expect you to correct them. I go to work I’m the robot while there go home get my pay and leave all the decisions to be made by the people that make the big bucks. I’ve learned not to get rattled and just sit back and watch the gong show. A person does not have to make it any harder, then management tries to do. And that’s how I roll.

Name: MayIhaveAnother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 May 2018 I be layed up Momma's Day weekend and Memmorial day weekend I f I be feeling under tha wether. I gots homies that never took of tha uniform. That be a trigger right their. This job be wacked. You gots to be hard up mofo to be staying out hear.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 May 2018 You Willard boys and girls in the GL WC pool may want to check out System Notice 134. No more bump games on weekends and holidays. No more dumping your shittiest trains on the Buffalo long pool. Miraculously marking up when a deadhead and turn from Cleveland shows up in your line up. And you cry because jobs were lost closing the humps????

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 May 2018 hr She had a good sense of humor. We laughed about it. Sorry if today people have sensitive feelings.

Name: hr E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 May 2018 RRJim Tell her to put some ass into it today and see where that gets you!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 May 2018 Minority I agreed with most of what you said till you said we gave up our dignity. You might of gave it up. Most people I know never did. You can make a point with a TM by being civil and having at least a toe on the rock when questioning their decisions. That starts by knowing the rules & the job. It's their railroad they make the rules just have to follow it. I made money going by their rules then doing shortcuts even if it didn't violate any rule. When I stepped on the railroad I didn't have an expectations of when I'd be back home. I chose that life and I made a good living. People make good money on the railroad with still having benefits most don't have in this country today. People complain about the unions do nothing. Most haven't a clue about the restrictions placed on rail unions under the Railway Labor Act. Read it sometime. As for racial, gender, or sexuality diversity on the railroad there is only one thing that counts that the person can do the job. Who cares what they are? I never got off the locomotive to help them. Had a female one time who couldn't throw a switch, I heard other LE's would help her. I got on the nose of the locomotive told her "put some ass in to it". She got so mad she threw that switch. Today she's a darn good railroader.

Name: Whining E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 May 2018 Listen whining the company makes the rules. They want to fire you for not having your vest not zipped to the top. And a whole lot more stupid rules. They want to fire you for not reporting the simplest things. The railroad is the ones that makes mountains out of mole hills. So you have to play the game of the safety culture the railroad created. Managers driving around in a company vehicle making six figures to see if your zipper on your vest is done up to the top. Or to see if you have your boot laces are tied. Then they go for dinner on company credit card. Where is the value and production in that for the share holders. All we have to do is follow the rules. Sounds like a guy like yourself will move a train before you have done your due diligence, thinking your doing company a big favour. But when you screw up your going to be the first one they fire. Then you whine to everyone you should of been treated special because you where a runner for the company. If you delay a train by following company and goverment rules and they fire you. You are getting your job back because you followed all the rules. Corner cutters like you are what get people killed.

Name: Minority E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 May 2018 workforce Are you frickin kidding me. Ive been in this industry for 22 years and the terminal I work at has only had one woman TM. Had 2 or 3 come through for training but never stay. When I was first hired there were only about 10 blacks! Now there are at least 35. I would have to go over the roster again to get the exact numbers. Right now I think we got maybe 5-6 Mexicans. Don't know about other nationalities but I'm thinking we don't have any other. The CSX diversity group was abolished and didn't do much anyway. It takes a certain type of person to work the railroad. Got to sell your soul, family life, social life and your health. Not to mention your dignity along with it. Nothing worse than having a TM half your age and with half your years of experience try to tell you how to do a job that you have been doing longer than they have been wet behind the ears. Oh, almost forgot. We got about 4 women too. Don't think the transgender thing is going to happen. No co-ed bathrooms!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 May 2018 The latest that I'm hearing is that Foote himself put a stop to the hourly wage! For starters it would cost them too much, but he also stated that it would just make crews less productive. If this is true, its a win win situation! SCREW THAT HOURLY RATEm no need for slavery.

Name: Work force E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 May 2018 If Foote wanted to show that CSX is an equal opportunity employer, he would hire more women and transgender people. I feel if Foote was serious he would have transgender people working beside him at head office and promote more women and transgender people. He should surround himself with these over looked people. Foote replace these outdated bully managers with more compatible women and transgender managers. Be an industry leader and one of the first to show your are serious about being an equal opportunity employer.

Name: cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 May 2018 Disgruntled Guessing you don't have to recertify this year. They did away with the sexual harassment and hostility in the workplace videos. that is something we all thought they would never do. So no more training on harassment. No more video's on spotting terrorist. No more video's on vegetation. In fact the program is so screwed up by this new outfit they have no idea how to even test the employees in their area. Heard that the physical characteristics test has questions that a lot of people have no idea how to answer. Remote control questions for people that never worked a remote one day in their life. Union thinks they just want to get everyone through as quick as they can this year then come back and change everything next year when they figure out what the hell is going on in each division. Don't see how they could flunk anyone with the way testing is being done.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 May 2018 Sue Ed Harris if your rights under Fmla are violated.

Name: Disgruntled E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 May 2018 There are 70 million millennials in the USA, these tender little snowflakes are not scared to write up a manager for getting there feelings hurt. Or the 90 pound female that wants to be equal to men. I hope that this is the people that are applying for the railway jobs. And the women play the girl card, and the snowflakes put in human rights complaints for management being to assertive with them. I hope all these people get hired by the railroad, and it ends up that management have to take courses on how to be more understanding with new age employees. And by law have to try and accommodate them while they are on the job. This will soon be the only people that will be in the pool to hire. And as the snowflake culture takes over the railroad,that the management are able to adapt, and the railroad spends the funds to train management not to be so assertive that there is a chance of hurting the feelings of the new culture employees. It will take time for the ceo and management to accept a softer more gentler way to run a railroad. So old heads try not being so hard on the future employees of CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 May 2018 system notice 135 Csx has their panties twisted about crew unavailability. Better stay marked up on Mother's day and Memorial day or it may be a repeat of Christmas and New Year's Day. SN135 addresses Mother's day and Memorial day specifically. They're complaining of misuse of missed calls LOL, delayed mark ups following displacement and of course their go to FMLA. SN 135 states If the company believes that an employee's mark off or unavailability was improper, the employee will be immediately charged and disciplined, UP TO INCLUDING TERMINATION. Sounds like Moody Law firm will have some new clients.

Name: LOCO E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 May 2018 SMH You talk a big game. Come out of no where and spout off. Let me tell you something pup. There are a lot of lazy self righteous mama boys working out here now that would have had their asses kicked a long time ago because the old heads would have set them straight and took them out back. Cant do that now because you'll get fired for hurting their tender little butts. For the last year I have had to sit in the cab and listen to the cry babies and do ALL THE REQUIRED WORK that both crew members are supposed to make sure is done. "Im not calling signals because I think it is stupid and just a waste of time! Im not getting off the engine and watch trains as they go bye. Someone almost got seriously hurt from it and its not safe! Their rules are stupid!" I had 2 supervisors tell me that they didn't give a shit who called the signals or who got off and watched roll byes as long as it was done. If no one got off or called signals both crew members will be charged. You both know it is to be done! So I have been calling the signals and getting off the train when we are stopped while the worthless piece of crap who feels he is above the rules and better than anyone else sits in the cab and sleeps! I don't care what their worthless opinion is and I don't care if they are immature children who cant handle authority. Im tired of baby sitting their worthless butts and their days are numbered. Now you tell me how are the guys who do their jobs, follow the rules because it is part of their damn job supposed to handle these pukes? You think it is fair to the rest of us because they want to have a temper tantrum? If I had it my way I'd kick their asses off in the gravel at 60 mph and let them walk home! Mama boys don't belong on the railroad!

Name: Bigly E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 May 2018 I hate company men and I'm pro-Union. I read post and hear people cry about almost anything. About how bad this is and how bad that is. I'm just not seeing it. I've been here for over 25 years and this is the best I've had it. I basically work 4 runs and off for 3 days. I'm making more money today than I've ever made. You pussies would bitch about a free beer and a blow job.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 May 2018 CEO Foote.......................

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 May 2018 If Goote would wise up and get rid of the trainmasters then this place would fix itself. Yardmaster’s can do the job better than those waste of space TM’s. This would save the company Millions.....

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 May 2018 RRjim , I like you and your thoughts unión brother but yea they quit back then for reasons but now 90 % for being treated like shit just shanty talk that I’ve heard with my own ears it’s treating people like shit and not paying right they make enough to follow the agreement and find every angle that’s not even relivent to not pay happpy works = good perfomance all hrs all day takes a lot of of anyone and it’s a serious job get killed in a sec but does not justify watch a man for every little thing why not say hey I’ve seen you been working crazy hrs you did this let’s job brief how to do it or yea take a lunch we’re I work work at they fired people for taking lunch

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 May 2018 Smh I knew railroaders that quit with 10-20 years for a lot of reasons. Some left when the FRA started drug testing in the late '80s. Some left because it wasn't much of a life for a family. Some left because they couldn't conform to the rules. When CSX became a reality and took over everything changed. Gone was the railroad family atmosphere. We were now just a number in a big corporation. What's going on today isn't new. We went through downsizing, yard closures, line sales etc... in the '80s. It was a terrible time not knowing with rumors flying. By the '90s CSX started ID runs. We had ID pools at both terminals. In 1995 CSX moved our jobs to the other terminal. That was 90% of our jobs. No moving allowance no nothing. Just a few of us went up there with reversed lodging, majority stayed home. They thought they would get a New York Dock agreement to make up for loss income. That never happened. CSX won stating we didn't lose any jobs we still had them even though they were 200+ miles away. I lived in that bunkhouse for 3 1/2 years till I gave it up and came back. We told new hires if they want to work steady go up and take an ID job. The trainmen up at the other terminal weren't on the same consolidated roster. So, a new hire could pull one their conductors even with 30 years off our jobs. Some were smart enough to go. LE's were on the same consolidated roster so when it came time for engine service they did it up there. Those guys did good for themselves. Point is life never was the same after CSX.

Name: Number8 vent value E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2018 http://techinfo.wabtec.com/DataFiles/O&Mfiles/pdf/4211-4,S.13.pdf Read and learn.

Name: Brakes E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2018 Be safe don’t leave the terminal if your air pressure is not right up,and you have the proper calibration. If your air is not up call the tm to get the car shop to drive the train for leaks, could be a number 8 vent value stuck open, or a emergency portion or service portion. You could have several bleed rods stuck open or a hose gasket. Or everything I mentioned safety first is the company policy.

Name: Fooking baby E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2018 Nepotism that is how you got your job. Daddy said son go in the field for awhile spy for the company. And when the time is right we will give you a management job. Company mole.

Name: Employees E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2018 Hh started the reign of terror at cn cp now CSX. Hh and the likes figured out that you can terrorize employees intimidate and manipulate, them up to a point before they crossed the line into criminal harassment. At cp if a person called in sick a manager would show up at his house to talk to the employee to see if they where really sick. Upsetting the employee and his family. They really crossed the line in a lot of areas, they really intimidated employees to areas that where unheard of. Hand delivering disciplinary letters to a employees home. Randomly taking employees for drug testing when it was not warranted, the list goes on. Now that management created a work atmosphere of no employees trusting them. Management wants employees to forget the treatment they received. But the employees have a long memory and the good old days of working together is long gone. As soon as a new employee starts it does not take long before they are threatened and do not stick around. All as I can say is employees be creative and try and stick it to CSX anyway possible. Nothing is to small it all adds up stick it to CSX management all you can and don’t stop.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 May 2018 The poor old railroads are the only company’s that cannot find any good employees ....but they make how much on there stock smh

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 May 2018 Thing is RRjim people that have 10 -20 years are feed up that’s along time to say there not cut out for it kick a dawg good dawg enough it will bite back

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 May 2018 Some are cut out to work on the railroad some are not. If some don't come back after being furloughed or some quit that's not unusual. Management it's always been a "Us vs Them" mentality. They've never been anyone's friend. Work by the rules. That's difficult to do at times seeing they create new rules every time something happens even though rules were already in place. That started around the late '90s when non-railroaders at HQ in JAX started writing the rule books.

Name: X employees E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2018 It’s great to hear people are not returning to work. And that several people are quitting,I hope they CSX gets so short staff they they can’t move a train. These company brass want to treat people like shit. Karma they are getting it back in away they never planned for.

Name: hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 May 2018 Conductor You were right. The flat cars with the patrician down the middle is a center beam car. A wood rack car can come in several styles but basically have the same idea. A flat with metal poles attached to the sides help hold the poles, logs, lumber etc. on the car. You can google pictures of both types of cars on line. Just look up flat center beam cars and wood rack cars used on the railroad. That new rule also says not to run over 50 with gons loaded with stump wood. we have all talked about it and have decided if we have any gons loaded with any wood in them we are running them 50. We are not sure exactly what stump wood is. We seen lots of gons with poles, ties, cut up ties, chips, ets. so we aren't taking any chances. the hell with this outfit. They cant even put info on a work order making sure you know if you have empty flats in your train if they are bulkhead. Instead of making the conductor watch the whole train go by we're saying screw it and running 50.

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 May 2018 Car shop/mechanical What the heck is a flat car with a center beam. I thought it was those cars with the partition down the middle like I've seen carrying lumber. The new speed chart for cars says you can't run 60 with empty center beam cars or loaded or empty wood rack cars. So the cars I see with lumber/boards are wood rack not center beam. No trainmaster knows the difference. We need some damn pictures of these cars so we know the difference. This is just bull crap.

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 May 2018 Dispatcher out ,,it's going on down in the stone smh footie had a story out saying moral is good ,,,to news reporters I will find the link ,, that tells you bs lies come from the top I work and know of others in terminals that have had many find other work I personally know 8 plus 6 and people are not coming back from furlough smh what a great place to work lmao can't man trains or yard jobs because of there mistreatment of human beings .. Btw that's not counting ones looking or waiting for the call I know of even more that would have left if the job they applied for hired um smh ,, this is a job not a career anymore ,, that's the facts they will fire and then you realize it

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 May 2018 F.amazed Following someone 35 on an approach?? Approach......approaching the next signal at 30 prepared to stop. I'm guilty. I don't rush sigs running on an approach. Your one of those hot shots who have an over inflated ego for sure. Always trying to amaze with your train handling skills. The reason we're stuck with the damn ptc. The worst fucking kind of engineer there is. Boo hoo...someone is delaying me. Do us all a favor and quit before you kill someone!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 May 2018 F...k amazing Your a total idiot. Read your FRA laws and rules before you spout off your pie hole. Try reading brake test certificate rules # 5213. Follow your rules and don't make up your own. There is a reason for the use of form btc-100mt. Why do you think the FRA has stated an engineer must be provided with a legible tonage graph. Just because they are lazy pukes and don't want to provide one doesn't mean it isn't supposed to be done. Knowing your exact length and tones,is a crucial part of running a train. You better buy and read the latest FRA CFR49 RULES and stop advising people it is on to break FRA LAWS!

Name: Truly F....ng Amazed E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 May 2018 I'm amazed some of you guys have a job. Surely not smart enough to read and comprehend. The system bulletin clearly states it is updating rule 4400 which is equipment handling / equipment speeds. EQUIPMENT SPEEDS ! Has nothing to do with track speeds. How could any of you idiots possibly read this and think now you can run 70 with an intermodal train or any other listed. It even states in the 2nd paragraph I think, that timetable or special instructions may further limit speeds. It's only how fast the equipment can be allowed to go. Don't know how to make that any clearer. There's also a rule that states where different speeds are listed the lowest speed will govern. While I'm at it, regarding you short pool guys who are always whining you need paperwork for a pickup, it's pretty obvious you are wasting time to have delays so you make overtime, same as you do when I'm following you running 35 mph on approaches. If there aren't hazmat then you only need to know how many you got. But, by the way, if you leave the ORIGINATING TERMINAL, there is also a rule that states ONLY the chief dispatcher may authorize you to depart without proper paperwork. Did you also know that a brake slip IS NOT REQUIRED ON CARS PICKED UP LINE OF ROAD, doesn't mean a class 1 doesn't have to be done, but a brake slip isn't necessary. Another common delay tactic.... Some of you on here are an embarrassment, please read your rule books. The second rule discusses the hierarchy by the way....

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 May 2018 Yo Read your rules book. Timetable special instructions supersede bulletin rule changes. A division can take a rule and change it in their special instructions.

Name: Dispatcher Out E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 May 2018 Gentlemen, If you are wondering why you are getting even worse call times lately it's because of the debacle of their relocation of the dispatchers. Forced them to move on their own dime using a complicated process where they will reimburse you for expenses, except they deny that the expenses are relocation related. Given that we had nearly two dozen not come down, a dozen leave already , and another dozen or so will pack their bags in the next couple of weeks. You have people on desks now that have very little experience on those desks as they've been forced to them. You've got extra board guys working desks after management has harassed them to mark up earlier than they should be. You've got multiple desks that are overloaded because they keep combining consoles. You've got half the office in on overtime at any given shift. There are people that work 25-30 days straight with no rest days to keep from having to blank jobs. Hell, someone marked off sick on a Saturday morning a couple of weeks back and one guy had to cover two desks for two hours until they could find someone to come in. You've got a disaster in the making, with people who are over worked doing jobs they aren't truly qualified on, and when it happens I hope the FRA runs wild through management.

Name: Yo E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 May 2018 Loco, Bulletins supersede the time tables... You should know this

Name: Currentloco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 May 2018 NEWBIES Timetable formats have changed as you all know. We used to have one timetable on the great lakes division that had the track/line that you ran on. they took that book and made several separate books for each line. This made things simpler so you would not have to carry a book that had lines you did not run on, Your timetables dictate the TRACK SPEED that your line is approved to be run on by several factors. Not getting into that. The new bulletin that came out was a change to the TRAIN SPEED chart in the operating rules book. It has nothing to do with the TRACK SPEED that is allowed. Therefore you are to run at 60 mph MAX if your timetable speed for the track is listed as 60! The bulletin was put out to allow trains that were restricted to 50 mph to be able to run 60 now which is the approved track speed in your timetable. You can not run 70 just because the train speeds were raised for intermodal in the new train speed chart. The company is obviously planning of upgrading the rails so that someday they will be safe to run 70 and just went ahead and put the information out early. That is the difference between train speeds and track speeds. Your timetable will tell you what the max TRACK SPEED is for your line. Eventually there will be new timetable issued that reflect the changes in TRACK SPEED.

Name: Retired Railroader E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 May 2018 just to clarify something for y'all T&E operating folks. I know most of you know this, but it may help some newbies better understand. This has to do with mainline speeds, which you have been discussing. First off, a TT covers basically 2 components, 1. Station pages and 2. TT Special Instructions. Your speeds in the TT appear on the Station Pages, and are the Maximum allowable speeds also referred to as Normal speed. Normal speed is the max allowable on block signal system tracks. Bulletin orders, current and Summary, can modify those speeds up or down. Therefore, your Bulletin orders are more current and supercede your TT station page listed speeds. When the new TT revision is put out, the speeds which have been permanently modified by Bulletin order(s) will become permanent in the TT. Then the Bulletin process starts all over again because speeds will change over time, higher or lower. When it comes to TT Special Instructions, that is a little different. A TT Spec Inst is something which modifies a current Rule, because the Rule itself does not adequately cover a specific operating condition. TT special instructions are usually tethered to a Rule number, but adds to the Rule because the actual operating condition does not fit the Rule perfectly. ( this also applies to other operating conditions such as Air Brake use) I've been gone for a very long time but there are some things one never forgets. Let me know if this made sense and if you have any questions, I'll answer them as best I can. Safety is of first importance.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 May 2018 Engineers. DO NOT RUN 70 MPH IN THE ST. LOUIS LINE OUT OF INDIANAPOLIS! read your rules. When rules and special instructions conflict SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS SUPERSEDE! Your timetable special instructions do not allow you to run 70 period! Yes, you can run 60 with approved freight but not 70. Do not act like a hot shot and run 70 just because you have a news bulletin that changes a rule. You will not win the charge of speeding when you go to investigation. This is a set up. Do not fall for it. Follow your timetable special instructions!

Name: Life E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 May 2018 We only get one walk threw life. The railroad was a good place to work. Until these hedge fund hacks took over. If a guy can find employment where he can be happy and support his family all the power to you. To earn a living now seems to be harder and harder. Our standards are still better than in some countries. If a person can leave the job stress at work and not take it home your much better off. Try stick it out at the job your in good luck.

Name: Hear ya E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 May 2018 At the railroad I work at Hh broke every rule, forced managers to do everyone’s work forced overtime. All as we could do day after day would put grievances company laughed at us. But we got the last laugh because Hh was in violation of the collective agreement and he ended up paying. We never got discouraged when we got beat up. Day after day we put grievances and the arbitrator seen what the company was doing, intimidating everyone. At the end of the day people got there jobs back with full pay. Hundreds of thousands of dollars where paided out to make everyone whole. You just can’t stop the fight,Rome was not built in a day.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 May 2018 Loco Timetable speeds on the st.Louis line out of Indy are 60/60. Therefore we can run 60 as stated per the new speed chart on the new bulletin. I'm hearing most timetables state the same.

Name: Grievances E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 May 2018 If the company has violated the collective agreement, and you feel wronged. You can take a blank piece of paper and write a grievance on it , you don’t need a special grievance form. Give a copy to your rep and copy for yourself. If it is a clear violation and can’t be fixed in house. Then it goes down the road and if parties can’t rectify grievance then it goes to arbitration. If the arbitrator see several of the same grievances he sees a pattern of what the company is doing. If it is a clear violation parties will be made whole. The union has a legal duty to represent you. So if you are violated and put your head down and pout and do nothing, the company just keeps doing the same thing. I hear on hear the company this and that, you have to fight back it only takes five minutes to put a grievance in. Now there is a paper trail and in most cases is going to take time to be heard by arbitration.

Name: Seniority E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 May 2018 Pal I don’t think your telling the whole story. They call someone back in your craft junior to you. You have a solid grievance and will get every penny back from arbitration ruling. Seen this done many times before and the affected employee was always made whole. I would like to see the ruling from the arbitration hearing in your case.

Name: Work E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 May 2018 The hogger that is running the controls, was on the ground before he was a hoggers. Everyone had to pay there dues. Sounds like you have no seniority. The new guy cry’s in every department. You have to pay your dues in a union shop to bid on the job you want. That has been the railroad culture for over a hundred years. The most sacrid thing on the railroad is seniority. If you can’t accept that your in the wrong industry.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 May 2018 All crews Timetables and special instructions over ride bulletins. I was informed today by management to follow your timetable instructions until the timetables are changed or bulletins are issued with direct orders to change your timetable specific speeds.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 May 2018 Louisville terminal is safe. The big wigs need it so they can go to Derby at the shareholders expense.

Name: Me 2 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 May 2018 Me Your correct sir. They are not negotiating with the BLET. That part is over. It's time for a vote. SHOW ME THE MONEY !

Name: Ben Dover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 May 2018 I hear you Loco. Until they clarify this speed change and tell me exactly what's in my train and give me the proper time to break it down to determine the speed of the train,(Which will never happen) I'm going to continue to operate as if this change never came out. I myself bring up the train sheet on TMAI and look at the posted speed for the train and operate accordingly. Too many variables to consider. How the hell do I know if there's bulkheads on a car or not without looking at them. I know the yard master can look it up but I've seen it more than once where the computer was incorrect. As far as I'm concerned it's business as usual until it's printed on my orders what the speed of the train is. When that occurs the responsibility for the correct speed will be on someone else. We as engineers know if we derail and kill a bunch of people and it's determined we were speeding, who's going to jail!!! You know for a fact that CSX doesn't have your back!

Name: SMH E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 May 2018 Lying little pussy. You're the rest this job sucks. Name: Lc2 E-mail: 2 Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 May 2018 Red the final offer today. All I can say is WOW. The Engineers are going to have pride in their job again. There is going to be a real pay difference between the Engineer and their sidekick and it's about time. Congrats to all

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 May 2018 Speed change What the hell is going on with this new speed rule changes that came out on the new bulletin. Everyone I have talked to so far is not running 60/70. Most are saying they don't really know whats in their train by looking at the tonnage graph. Lumber cars, flats, bulkheads, contents of loaded gons and who knows what else. A solid intermodal should be no problem. Go 70. But the rest Im inclined to agree with. Is anyone else staying at 50-60 until this gets straightened out?

Name: HA! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 May 2018 LC2 Funny how you chimed in with your crap as soon as someone posted something that sounds like serious shit! Dispatch is right. Used to be a rule that no mandatory directive could be taken over a phone. It all had to be done by radio. You from the Chicago division? You one of them dispatch is talking about?

Name: Lc2 E-mail: 2 Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 May 2018 Red the final offer today. All I can say is WOW. The Engineers are going to have pride in their job again. There is going to be a real pay difference between the Engineer and their sidekick and it's about time. Congrats to all

Name: dispatcher E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 May 2018 Chicago division crews You guys running on TWC ABS on the Chicago side need to stop calling the dispatchers on the phone to release your EC1s! You have been doing this for years after you get off the train and get into the yard office. We have been told that both crew members are not always present and you don't have the phone on speaker phone so the other crew member can hear it. You have a bulletin out explaining the procedure for this! Just a heads up. they will be watching dispatchers and crew members. Do it over the radio. Have both crew members present. This is a major offense. Just do your job right. No time is being saved by cutting corners and rushing. Cover your butts and the dispatchers. USE THE RADIO!

Name: TRUTHFORONCE E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 May 2018 OLD HEAD GONE AMEN brother. You couldn't have said it any better. Every topic you touched was right on. I learned a lone time ago that its the skeletons in the closet that get things done. Rattle some bones. File complaints on laws that are broken. Beat them at their own game with their own rules. They can spit on and disrespect the signed and sealed union agreement all they want because the Unions have to sit down with them and negotiate everything but they cant break the law! No matter how high above it they think they are they can not. We see it out here in the fields every day. FRA turns their heads for the right price. A picture is worth a thousand words and the tongue is mightier than the sword. There is nothing CSX hates worse than bad publicity. Doesn't look good for the investors and the supporters on the employee gate way. Today it is worse than ever. You cant blow your nose without someone being offended or you having to apologize for it. Now is not the time for CSX to have the spot light put on them! If the guys would just wise up and see how much more powerful they are than the unions they would realize what they can accomplish!

Name: Harris E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 May 2018 Executive vice president of operations Ed Harris is visiting Willard this week. Either there to close the place or open humps. Only time will tell.

Name: Sister E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 May 2018 If your sister sat in for you to right ged test, she must be one scared looked N.Y. woman!

Name: Sand disease E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 May 2018 http://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/silicosis/learn-about-silicosis.html

Name: Sand lungs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 May 2018 A friend of mine did thirty years on the shop track servicing engines, he had a couple years to go to retire. One day he got sick turned out he ended up with a lung disease caused by inhaling silicon sand that they put in the locomotives for the sanders. He never smoked as he was fighting for disability pention he passed at 53 years old. My point try not to in hale this sand it could get you to.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 May 2018 YM Every train I ran for 36 years had a train consist. 95% of everything I hauled was coal & grain. Things might of changed in the 8 years since I retired. Lots of changes since I left.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 May 2018 Toxic Yep! I'd say it was the track since the engines were the first to derail and turn of over. Then these dump asses increase the track speed.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 If you Google xmark they are shutting down. Will have to use another way to get to csx mainframe.

Name: Cind. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 Cond. What do you mean xmark is gone. I just got off msinframe and used the "x" mark to bring up bulletins. Do you mean something else?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 Thanks for IT information. Will be calling them. Thanks again!!!

Name: Hogger mainframe E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 May 2018 If you can’t find what you want on computer,get on the phone and talk to help line. They should have IT people to help you out. And that way also there is a foot print that you tried. From the last post, I retired six months ago just ahead of Hh retiring and becoming ceo of CSX. Foote and friends where cut from the same mold Hh was. Foote will have no respect for collective agreement, or labour laws or human rights. They just don’t care Foote is there to carry out PSR and will push forward over who ever he has to. And will not care a less how CSX will look ten years from now. His mandate is to sell all and any value he can at CSX. He will line his own pockets and share holders pockets, but will care less how they leave CSX when he departs. As an employee you have to record everything in your note book, complaints you have told supervisors instructions given to you that you feel violates company policy. Make sure you put in grievances and keep copy for yourself. You should be made whole in future don’t just let it slide. We won 87 percent of of grievances at cp. But takes time and you have a paper trail, don’t let up. It cost Hh thousands of dollars to make employees whole threw grievances. He refused to pay but had no choice. He thought he was going to intimidate everyone and counted on employees not putting grievances in out of fear. He got a wake up call, if you decide not to do anything then you will receive nothing also. It’s your future remember Foote and friends will not be there to long you all can out wait these pricks. Hang in there !!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 xmark is gone. any ideas how to acess the mainframe now?

Name: old head gone E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2018 Lesson 101 The cold hard facts are as follows: No one stands for their unions anymore. The young cubs of today come from a different breed of Union families. They have very little experience with them and didn't stand on the battle lines when scabs were picketed and Union brothers stuck together to kick worthless Union officials out of office. Todays Unions are no better than they were when the mofia ran them. They count on everyone complaining and not doing a thing about it. Pay them their dues and reap what you sow! Csx has shown itself time and time again as an inept company. Putting out bulletins just to cancel them hours after they have been published along with not being able to get proper work orders, locate information on cars on line or road, not having foreign line rules classes, not providing rules books and info in a timely manner, giving failures on rules that aren't even in existence anymore, losing training history of employees, failure to pay new hires on a timely manner, misclassifying deadheads, failing to call taxi's for relief of crews, losing trains on the GPS systems, missing paper work for RSSM cars and the list just goes on and on and on.....This is all just a joke of a nightmare or just one big Disneyland ride! The only thing that keeps this company afloat is the backers. READ THE EMPLOYEE GATEWAY! When was the last time you took a real good look at all the pat me on the back propaganda. Inflated stock prices and smoke and mirror business is the only thing that keeps CSX afloat, You want your job? You want to retire with a good check? The only thing you can do is come to work and keep your mouth shut. If you don't have the balls or friends to back you out here and who are willing to make the Union International reps life miserable then you have nothing. You can however take care of yourself and make sure you are not the one being set up or stalked for standing your ground! CSX is not a federally owned company. The are regulated by the Feds but they are not owned by them. CSX MUST FOLLOW ALL STATE AND LOCAL LAWS. CSX IS NOT EXEMPT FROM LAWSUITS CHARGED AGAINST THEM FOR BREAKING THESE LAWS. FRA LAWS ARE TO BE FOLLOWED. If you are being forced, intimidated or harassed into breaking any of the stated laws you have the right to report/whistle blow if need be. Unfortunately there is no protection for your pay issues. Your only recourse is to deal with your unions. Good luck with that if you are a wimp and wont follow through on your claims. You can however look at what your problems are and if you are smart you can figure out what other avenues can be used to settle your issues. One of my favorites was when I was denied pay for a trip the company claimed I never did. Now this was just plain insane and it wasn't necessary to take this to the union. After I faxed enough information to the payroll/HR/Operations and corporate lodging it was taken care of. Someone had a lot of egg on their face but it was paid. There are a lot of avenues one can take. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE YOUR UNION AS THE FIRST COURSE OF ACTION IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITHIN THE DEPARTMENTS OF CSX. IT IS YOUR DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY AS A STOCKHOLDER AND EMPLOYEE OF CSX TO BRING ANY PROBLEMS FORWARD THAT YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED OR DISCOVERED WHILE BEING INVOLVED WITH CSX IN ANY CAPACITY. If you get anything out of this post, let the last paragraph be the information that sticks in your head. You may not be able to control the changes that are coming with job descriptions, classifications or wages but you do have the power to protect yourself and others and work in a safe and harassment free environment as well as a productive and lucrative one. Don't be small minded. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!

Name: Toxic E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 May 2018 Another toxic train derailment in Kentucky, 15 miles short of destination. No cause yet but makes me wonder again if it is lack of maintance and regular inspection of the tracks and equipment. The money they saved by cutting staff is really paying off isn’t it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 Cannot acess csx mainframe to check lineup. Anyone else with this problem today. Trying to use xmark and keeps showing not available. Could someone help tell me what to type into my google search that would help?? Thanks ahead of time.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 May 2018 what happened in louisville today? Is the crew ok?

Name: Retired Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2018 Even a train of identical hoppers could have a shop in it. Railroads rely totally on computers to keep track of bad orders and restricted cars. If ordered to go,let the dispatcher know, on tape, and you are covered.

Name: YM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 RRJIM Wrong! A trsin consist is not always needed. Your example of empty coal hoppers in one of them. If the cars are not hazmats and do not require paper work to identify any loads it is not required by FRA law. If they are all the same type of cars in length it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out he length. Weight is on the side of the cars as well. It does state that an engineer is to be given a legible tonnage graph but if the TM or YM can give the info it can be written down and used with their initials.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2018 Some are taking trains without proper paperwork such as a train consist? I don't care if it's MTY coal hoppers a train consist is required. What if they say go without train orders that they'll get them to you? We had a TM that tried rushing everyone out of the crew room even though no paperwork was issued. We looked at him like he was crazy.

Name: List E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 April 2018 If you don’t have the proper paper work, even after you have tried to get it. And now you continue down the track and are carrying dangerous loads but don’t have paper work on it. And you derail and people are killed because ems does not know what they are dealing with or where they sit on the train. Who do you think they will want to put in prison. You can’t play stupid as a defense. What does the law require before you move that train. Think about it!!

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2018 LOCO 20-30 Who cares? Maybe the people who don't want to go through the hassle of being charged for bullshit and having to fight it for weeks before the idiots figure out they screwed the pooch as usual. And another question... just how long have you really worked out here and have you even been awake or paying attention? Figure it out and put in on the paperwork?? Are you just brain dead or something. They have been screwing up work orders ever since they came in and took over conrail. They are missing line of road pick ups all the time and over half the time cant come up with paperwork for you to pick up enroute. Cant come up with clearance implicated shipment paper work to get to you at the next yard or crew point change. I cant count on my fingers and toes how many times Ive had a train handed off to me that the previous crew couldn't get paperwork and when we went to get on it on the mainline we didn't have any either because we were told to use theirs. I even had the guys in the Jacksonville work order department on the phone one time trying to get them to send me the train consist for the cars on a work order they sent me all screwed up. It showed 0 cars on it and 3 motors. The TMCI screen had 96 cars and 3 motors. It was still an hour out so I called them and asked them if they could pull up the scan on the train as it went by another yard that I know had a reader so I could get the proper train consist to run on. Put me on hold and about 10 minutes later told me he was sending it. I'll be damned if they didn't send me the same stupid shit that they sent me before. I just laughed and said what they hell is this you just sent me? Its the same damn thing you sent me before and it was wrong. How can you bring up a scan of train and not be able to give a list of the damn cars. Dude, your work order shows no cars on it. You understand that Im taking a train correct? I need a list of the cars if you don't mind! He had no answer and said he couldn't help me! Your nuts if you think they will get smart and figure it out. You better quit while you got the chance before they fire you. wont look good on your resume! Figure it out! LMFAO!

Name: Hourly rate E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 April 2018 LC2 the only hourly rate you are getting is the rate for selling your ass on backpage. When your not selling your ass LC2 keep your but plug in so your guts don’t fall out.

Name: Lc2 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2018 Hourly rate is on. Thank you to all the Ble chairmen who worked relentlessly on this.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2018 Surely at some point Foote will have to retract his comment about cutting 6000 more by 2020.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 April 2018 Who cares? Just take the call, ask the yardmaster if you have empty bulkhead flats or any ther cars that have special speeds on them. If you cant get an answer then run 40. Sooner or later they will figure out how to put it on the paperwork. Over.

Name: Employee E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 April 2018 You get rid of illegals coming into the country, welfare recipients are happy the way things are don’t want to work. That leaves a finite number of people to do all the work. Places like CSX cutting staff to reduce operating ratio to get quarterly report looking good for share holders. Trained railroaders that where fired or layed of found other work. And will not be coming back to CSX. As the economy grows people have more options. So the remaining employees value at CSX just went up. It will be a sad state of affairs when a company the size of CSX can’t move trains because of staff shortages. The smart people at the top can take that,information to the next share holders meeting.

Name: HR E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2018 Trump Chimp Once again TRUMP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OFFERING SIGNING BONUSES! It is no different than the bonuses offered to engineers in the union agreements and bonuses offered to conductors their first year for not reporting injuries or getting a failure on their records. You know nothing about how the railroads decide on how to recruit new hires. Take you political agenda somewhere else. This is a csx sucks site and not a trump chump propaganda site. Why are you distracting? What post bothered you? Could it be the one on the new speed charts being blasted as inept and having too many gray areas that may cause crews to be charged with speeding? Or was it the discussions on the TO not working properly?

Name: Demo E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 April 2018 Trump chimp Try taking an English lit. Class.

Name: Trump E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 April 2018 Trump is truth says it the way it is, not pc. Like welfare bum supporter Obama’s the welfare bums did not get out and vote. That is why those states lost Democrat vote. Lazy welfare bum breed more welfare bums. Now that CSX is short staffed start putting in bad order card on equipment that needs fixing. And don’t let up don’t use junk to pull trains and put yourself in an unsafe position. If motor is cut out or skidded wheel air compressor toilet anything. Write it up and keep note of everything you do. If you take bad order equipment and something happens you are liable. If you are forced to take bad order power. Make sure you tell them you are doing it under protest and write it up. And put on crew to crew. Make sure next person knows about it. Don’t do no favours for these pricks. Because they all want to see you on welfare.

Name: SMH E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 April 2018 LC ... You’re a lying piece of shit. Your mom should have swallowed you. There’s NO hourly rate negotiations going on. Name: LC E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 April 2018 Received a call from The GC. Will be meeting with him and many other LCs this week. We will be discussing the hourly pay rate. 51.23/hr has been negotiated. Will post more details about the meeting the middle of the week or when more information becomes available.

Name: Hour wage E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 April 2018 There is no hourly wage being negotiated at CSX. So do not believe the posts from the waterheads on here. You will be notified in writing any changes being made to pay.

Name: LC E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 April 2018 Received a call from The GC. Will be meeting with him and many other LCs this week. We will be discussing the hourly pay rate. 51.23/hr has been negotiated. Will post more details about the meeting the middle of the week or when more information becomes available.

Name: Automation E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 April 2018 Automation is coming if you like it or not. China japan have it, Australia is using it to move freight. RR will just load up with insurance for damages.But with all the safety systems and terrain in North America. I think these trains will be stopped more often than moving. There are to many obstacles that cross the tracks that will trigger safety systems. Wild life debris people cars etc. It will be years before they perfect it here and millions of dollars. And a train only has to be fowl inches to cause an accident. Time will tell!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 29 April 2018 Haven't noticed a post regarding this so here goes: The FRA is accepting comments from "interested parties" on automation in the RR industry. If opposed to fully-automated\unmanned trains, etc., it's easy to send messages electronically. Links provided on both the SMART-TD & BLET websites. Have until May 7, 2018.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 April 2018 I think that what Hh got away with in Canada is the model for for most railroads. He broke every collective agreement and goverment labour law. Transport Canada put there heads in the sand. Hh told goverment to stay out of rr business. But when we striked he put pressure on goverment to legislate us back to work. Foote and creel learnt how to manipulate the system. 94 percent strike vote now employees are going to fight back for a contract. They will violate it but it’s a start,I’m waiting for cn and cp stock to crash because now they have to replace everything they sold off. Labour management relationships will never be the same after the abuse that was dished out. Karma will get people like creel and foot it always does.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 April 2018 Conductor 1-10 When did the government start to fund PTC? One of the reasons it's had several extensions is the feds didn't fund it. The cost to the railroads is over $2 billion. To my knowledge there has been no funding for upgrades for roads. bridges, electrical grids, water supply, railroads etc... that has come out of Congress. I know several railroads examples UP & CN that are selling property to fund upgrade projects. Only railroad I know that gets government funding is AMTRAK. Every year that's a battle in Congress.

Name: cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 April 2018 HR/Operations What is it with you people. Do you ever bother to proof read anything you put out before you circulate it. A good example would be your new speed chart. How about those gray areas such as the bulk head flat verses the regular flat as pointed out by rules? How about not putting out a system bulletin and in the same exact day cancelling it to replace it with another. You guys are notorious for doing this. Do you not realize how unorganized this makes you look. How about coming out with a bulletin explaining what stump wood is? Its not in the glossary. Why do you do this? Im not sure Im going to continue to purchase your stock. I cant imagine that other class 1 railroads are this inept! God help the railroad industry if they are!!!!

Name: Beware E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 April 2018 Having a contract or expired contracts, all as i can say after having Hh as a boss for almost four years. They gave out booklets on work ethics and company policy for everyone to honour as an employee. At cp the managements turned into a bunch of union busting idiots. It did not take long for us not to trust any management,they would lie do anything to get an employee fired or pulled out of service. Now that the contract is due ceo creel is kissing ass. We never have forgotten how they systematically abused the employees. You at CSX have the same people calling the shots at CSX. Do not and I mean do not trust any of them. Do everything by the book record everything in a note book. Cover your ass if you want to be able to defend your self if you find yourself fired. There goal is to try and fire people with cause.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 April 2018 From the Roadmaster, from Jacksonville, and other mow guys

Name: Re: m of w 10-20 yrd E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 April 2018 Re: M of W for 10-20 year, Where do you get this information about new castle and willard?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 April 2018 Hello Osborn yard employees, my buddy that works at ford ktp said they are about to hire a ton of assembly line workers. Get your resume ready! The are also needing supervisors and managers.

Name: RULES E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 April 2018 ALERT!!! ATTENTION!!! Be very careful about the way you interpret the new speed rule chart. One, ask your supervisor to clarify on every train whether or not you have stump wood in your gondolas if they show loaded. What exactly is stump wood? Cut up railroad ties? Cleared brush? Old poles? Second, the rule on running 50 if you have empty "Bulk head flats" is not clarified on work orders and tonnage graphs. You have a 3 digit code on an engineers tonnage graph that can identify that you have a flat car but it DOES NOT IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF CAR! Anyone who delivers freight to the UP RR from CSX knows of this problem. There are sections on the UP that require a train that has an empty bulk head flat to run 40 mph. It was discussed with UP management on how to handle this on their railroad as CSX does not specify the type of car on the paperwork and crews were speeding on their line. UP management agreed that if the information was not provided and the crew did not see their entire train they would not be held accountable. Avon yard is a fine example. When outbound trains tie their power onto their cuts it is very rare they see their entire train. Inspecting the head six cars are expected to make sure there are no hazmats improperly placed in the train. This was brought to the attention of two previous superintendents and both said they would make sure it was noted on the air slips of trains going on the UP lines but it was never done. To prevent any chance of having an empty bulk head flat car in your train instead of a regular flat you must either request that the car inspector who is doing your roll by advise you that your noted empty flat is a bulk head or regular flat car or the conductor must inspect the car/or cars. This will be the only way that you will be able to protect yourself from being charged with speeding. This issue has been on going for sometime and has yet still to be addressed properly. If you are in doubt as the type of empty flat that you have in your train do not leave your terminal until it has been identified!Make note also that there is no specific reference to the speed of a regular empty flat. As of now according to the new speed chart a non bulk head empty flat would be considered 60 mph in the mixed freight category.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 April 2018 We've been told to give an estimate to double track a single main on the great lakes. It's ten miles and was single tracked almost 30 years ago. Alot of the road bed has been maintained as access roads so some of the expense of laying new track won't apply. Rail has been measured and ties counted. Switches are already built. They have more big investments planned, who knows which plans will come to be. New Castle yard is still on the board for some major upgrades. Nothing set in stone. Willard has bids on a desk in Jacksonville to rebuild retarders for both humps. No decision on that yet, but they asked for it. Bottom line is Jacksonville wants the b&o line to be ready to handle triple the freight and at faster speeds from the East coast to Chicago. We shall see how it's going to work.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 April 2018 Yes. They're upgrading it where they want to run more traffic, and neglecting it in places that they plan on taking traffic from when all the ptc is done. But yes, they are constantly replacing ties and rail, and this year they are replacing more rail than we've ever seen and mostly all the main line switches, crossovers, and all the diamonds. I believe alot of that is to be able to raise the permanant speeds in sections. Plus there was alot of government money for PTC, so alot of old style switches needed to be replaced and power switches installed in some places to be PTC compliant. There are stretches of new rail either already replaced or layed out to be replaced in 30-40 mile sections where they're replacing the entire section

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 April 2018 LOL! Alright CSX raised speed limits. That's only where they can. They'll still be permanent speed restrictions. A 196 mile run we made half of it was permanently lowered from 40mph to 25mph because CSX didn't want to fix the track. That was around 2001 it's still 25mph today. The only reason the other half wasn't lowered because AMTRAK runs over it. Other subs I ran we were running 50mph till mid '90s when CEO John Snow let the track deteriorate then speeds were dropped to 40mph. Is CSX upgrading the track?

Name: English E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 April 2018 Or how about Patatoe or potatoe, railway railroad, who cares.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 April 2018 Anyone who posts on here and uses the word railway instead of railroad is a fake. Nobody tells someone they work for the railway. Its railroad you idiot.

Name: cruiser E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 April 2018 AMEN MAN! I am 100% behind you on that one. Got 12 hours to get across the road. You answer that phone your their bitch for 12. Cry, whine, blow a gasket. Get your blood pressure up for nothing. Your going to be out there as long as they want to keep you. Toning the dispatch up and crying like a little girl because your sitting at a red and don't know why or trying to tell them how to run trains is going to do nothing but put your annoying ass at the end of the line. I wish more dispatchers would do that. Shut some of these cry babies up. Nothing I hate worse than doing pods is listening to some cry baby for hours in the cab because he cant just sit there and shut the hell up and just go for the ride. we all want to get to the other end and get off the train. we all want to get home as fast as we can but the fact is there isn't a damb thing you can do about it because conductors and Engineers aren't in charge. You go where they run you and you go when they tell you. In the meantime just sit back and enjoy the scenery. Go with the flow. They got to pay you but you aint got to go anywhere. You got 12 hours to sit on your ass but they still got to fork out the dough. Easiest money ever made sitting on your ass getting paid. Better than 12 hours in a factory. Who gives a rats arss as long as you get paid. They want to know why the trains late I tell them to look in the mirror. They got GPS. They know where we were. We go forwards and backwards. Shit rolls up hill!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 April 2018 who cares about any of this garbage? im just trying to get paid. i can run 40 or 140 mph i dont give a shit just make sure the direct deposit is correct. oh yea and leave me the hell alone. out.

Name: Rep E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 April 2018 Loco dumbass Your one arrogant a hole. If track speed is 50 and everyone is averaging 40 it sure looks a whole lot better in percentages of velocity than always averaging 40 in a 60. As stats stated. Running 60 in small splurts where your train actually can could make the small difference needed to have a good arrival time without adding power or reducing.Your comments are always geared towards the company KISS attitude. As for TO we all know how it runs way under when not necessary cost us all the arrival time noted at the beginning of the trip. As for fuel conservancy it's a joke when you under power and increase train lengths to the point it's impossible to meet requirements. Using 1300 gallons of fuel that normally requires 800 is not acceptable. We know what we use especially those of us who have traveled the same territory for 20 years. As for laying off failures and observations you have no clue what your talking about. The erad and GPS reduced the number of supervisors in the field in regards to using the radar or tracking locations. It has not however reduced the companies orders to produce failures for Fra testing regulations and for legal reasons. I doubt you understand their reasoning but I do since I have been in direct contact with those using those failures for defense purposes in court. Ask any old supervisor who has any time under his belt what they were told...."If your not getting failures then your not doing your job because they are out there! Get your numbers up or consider exercising your seniority rights back into your craft!"

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 April 2018 Dumbasses, average train speed won't get worse just because they raise the speed limit. They aren't setting a speed trap, and they don't want to fire anyone. We're getting busier and they're seeing that alot of guys recalled aren't coming back. They've been told to lay off of us for a little while because we can't afford to lose anyone. Raising the speed is an attempt to get the trains over the road faster. Maybe TO sucks alot of the time, but there are some trains that can do track speed. Also, maybe it'll help them build reasonable sized trains since they'll be 30mph under instead of 20, or maybe add better power. They're spending alot to upgrade crossovers and switches, rail and ties, and signal upgrades, that's all coinciding with the speed increases. Give it a chance. I know I'd like to be home sooner, how about you?

Name: Speed E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 April 2018 As far as speed limits go I think they are just setting a ,speed trap they will sit in the bushes with there radar guns and download unit. And if you to fast for the track your fired.

Name: Contract E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 April 2018 The last thing CSX wants to do is negotiate any contract or new agreements. They will let any contract expire and abuse and fire and terrorize just like they are doing. They don’t want to sign any agreements then they might have to honour them. Just like cprail ceo creel is doing but his hand will be forced soon. Wake up people CSX still wants to get rid of 4500 more of you. They don’t care which department they cut, the operating ratio has to come down for there big Hh pr plan.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2018 If your train hits 60mph for any stretch of line longer than 20 miles, the Roadmaster and track inspector on that subdivision should be fired. Just sayin’...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 April 2018 All this talk about hourly for engineers is very intriguing but with a certain General Chairman saying that we aren't even in negotiations for an hourly agreement I have to call BS especially with the rate of $51.36 an hour. Please share the email that states it's going to be released May 1st or its all just BS!

Name: Stats E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2018 Loco Your right . Stats will suck for actual train speeds on certain lines but making up time difference will prevent the bed for adding power. I'm placed you can run 50 or better you can run 60 to make up list time. Only time will tell if this will work. 10 mph faster in sprints may or may not help. Now instead of conquering an up hill at 50 you can do it at 60 and may be drop back to 50 instead of 40. You are right though. There will be those who will continue to complain because they can't run track speed. Most of these people have control issues and are never happy anyway. They need to get over it or quit. You answer the phone you belong to them for 12 hours. Doesn't matter what they want. Just tell them to shut up or quit. They know what they signed on for.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2018 Hmmm Ha! Ha! Lol! Are you frickin kidding.all a speed increase will do is make things worse. You can't run track speed with the TO and all the underpowered motors they give you now. It will just piss off the hot head engineers who cry like little bitches that can't run straight up now! God help us all! I don't want to hear their bitchy little arsses now but not being able to go faster will make it worse. Second think about it. What's that going to do to the numbers? The average train speed in 2017 was 40. How they going to explain the comparables being worse. I smell sabatog! Something isn't right in Denmark! Doing 40 in a 50 is better than 40 in a 60. Something stinks about this!

Name: Dave E-mail: dp@powerrail.ca Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 April 2018 We are looking for temp Conductors for a Class 1 railway in the Midwest Accommodations are paid for plus $30 per day meal money. Hourly rate of $43.00. Contact me? dp@powerrail.ca

Name: Hmm E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2018 How about those speed increases on the new system bulletin?? That'll be interesting. 60 for mixed freight, 70 for intermodal! Let's skin er back and move some shit!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2018 XRF Change is good at times. If UP has a shortage why would they offer bonuses then spend all their time trying to fire someone? It doesn't make sense. I don't know where you worked at, it sounds like you were/are management. It would seem that if you had information to the degree you suggest of intimidation you should do the right thing to help those who were affected. Railroading today everyone should be working strictly by the book. It was that way before I retired. No more short cuts, do it their way. Don't trust anyone. Right before retiring working a pusher I got 5 days in the street for doing what a yardmaster told me to do. We were suppose to take a cut of cars to another yard. We were short on time. Something came up that the YM wanted us to do. We were still in the track in the clear but not one car length from the clearance point which was a new rule. I told the YM about it he said leave it he'll get another crew on it. Well, he didn't get another crew on it. The next day got called to the office after I told the trainmaster what happened the YM had no memory of anything. Like I said don't trust anyone. No big deal 5 days off collected my hit & run insurance then retired a few weeks later.

Name: Wondering E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2018 Did Parkersburg,WV Trainmaster David Benson make cupcakes for his male roommate and then have a pillow fight with him? We heard that he told this on himself. Any true to this.? Is that why they call him “ Cupcake” ?

Name: XRF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 April 2018 RRJIM It's too bad your not as smart as you think you are. I got news for you. People need to be afraid of their shadows when any deal is made with conditions that Money of any kind has to be returned. I was part of it. I had my orders to stalk and prevent bonus pay outs. I was one of the many who were given orders to get failures or look at another craft. I know the shit that goes down and the underhanded tricks that were ordered and still will be with any agreements that involve money changing hands. the only protection an employee has is to pay low,stay in the shadows and don't ask questions. You will be out on a list of you dont. Remember when everyone was warned not to do any interviews with the company editors who needed articles for the monthly division Flyer because you would eventually be written up for something. Ask around and see how many people were. There are reasons for the behaviors and they aren't for the crews benefits. Your gone. Did your time and got lucky it went well for you. Those who are left know how it works now and those with half a brain know what needs to be done.

Name: Invest E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 April 2018 If you cash in your CSX stock you have made money, now if you reinvest it in a stock that pays a good dividen. It will continue to grow your in a win win position. You would be surprised after letting it grow for years how much money you will have. And if you need cash take the divedens you make. And leave the principle lump sum invested.

Name: Market E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 April 2018 Yes I watch the markets, cn cp stock is on its way down now because they have to replace everything that Hh sold off when he was in charge. Employees share program was a good deal. People made money, CSX stock will make gains, buy it being top off with the assets sold not by generating new revenue. I see where cp and cn is now, shortage of equipment employees etc. I would not buy railway stock with all the risk involved. There are much better stock. If you want a monthly dividen that pays 14.50 percent here is a ticker to look at. FTN

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 April 2018 APE You don't look at the stock market. Do you? CSX is up after beating the earnings projections. I sold all my CSX last year. Wish I would of held on to a couple thousand shares. When did CSX pay HH $300 million? I know about the $84 million to buy him out of his CP retirement. That should of never happened. As for the $300 mil he died before completing his 4 year contract. They don't pay that up front that was over the life of the contract.

Name: Duty E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 April 2018 I have to agree with loco go to work do as required go home. I worked in the yard at cp when Hh was there. They would pull you out of service for any little thing. So we all did what was required of us nothing more or less. No favours no or overtime, two managers would park in a truck with binoculars and watch everyone. It did not matter how careful we where they found something to pull you out of service for. They the people in the ivory tower made the big bucks to make decisions. We did not help them in anyway shape or form. Foote is doing this at CSX and his methods are going to put CSX back years. Take these people for what they are thieves, and they will line there pockets at anyone’s expense. Only do what you are required to do and then go home. I figure you people have about two more years of this bs.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 April 2018 XRF Of course there are requirements that have to be met. If you get fired or quit within 3 years you have to pay the money back. You sound like you are afraid of your own shadow. CSX did the same years ago offered relocation bonuses. Those that took it did good. Those complaining about CSX here's a chance to go work for another railroad. If UP is the same as CSX then it isn't just a CSX problem. Is it?

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 April 2018 I’m just trying to get my time in. I don’ t really care what the company does. Tired of worrying about it. They are gonna do what they want just like they always do and the union will act like they put up a hell of a fight. Happens every time.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 25 April 2018 Let us do a little math. CSX pays Harrison 300 million while laying off 900 train crew. That 300 million would pay every single employee of that 900 $100,000 a year for the next 3.33 years. Think about that. You may not have noticed how big of an effect that would have on CSX... but your brain did. Harrison takes the money then dies from the stress of realizing he is a shit snake oil salesman with not a clue about quality or foresight into understanding what it takes to invest in a company and take care of its most critical component... its people. Fast forward to this month when an over worked and tired CSX crew ends their shift with a main line switch left open which sends an Amtrak Engineer and Conductor to their deaths and injures over 100 passengers and the resulting class action lawsuits that will after the lawyers finish with CSX eat up another 20-40+ million or more not to mention the millions of dollars in destroyed equipment all of which CSX is liable for. All of this of course happening while a saftey system designed to detect unset switches was being repaired and no one thought to take precautions to verify anything with no redundant safety systems active. I believe Harrisons last words were somthing to the effect that all heretics must be burned including all heretical customers who think delays that shut down their factories exist. When shit goes this wrong you need to focus on quality no matter what it costs. Do you job right from the top of the pyrimid CSX and all the way down or vanish into the mist like all the other railroads before you who also thought debt based money substitute fiat currency was what mattered most. What you were actually supposed to be taking care of was a service to society and your people and the preservation and continuation of a great legacy that you have failed to live up to. Sadly all of this falls on deaf ears of those in power who seek to burn heretics in the hope that having less qualified crews and trains will somehow get everything where it is supposed to be on time without another disaster.

Name: Retired call backs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 April 2018 They are short conductors and hoggers, they are hiring retired guys back over $400.00 a day if they go to work or not getting paid for stand by. Cp doing it don’t know about cn. See what you have to look forward to CSX. Yes it’s funny how things get turned around after there terror campaign.

Name: XRF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 April 2018 Loco 20- 2 days??? LIAR! Now to something more important! UP hiring and signing bonus. Read the entire article in wallstreet. If you quit or you are fired within the 3 year signing agreement with the UP you have to pay back all the signing bonus. Sounds like the same crap CSX tried to pull with the new hires and their injury free bonus they offered their first year. When the FRA was notified about it they made them get rid of it. It just encouraged injured new hires to keep their mouths shut. They changed it to discipline instead. Just remember if they over hire the UP will probably do the same thing. Stalk, discipline and reduce along with getting some of their money back. What happpened with the UP borrowing out our guys?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 April 2018 Hogger You're a dumbass. An operator is a skilled trade. It can be used anywhere in the world in any industry. Takes years to become an operating engineer. A locomotive engineer's FRA cert is shit at best. I've trained chimps in two days to run a train. One cannot intelligently compare the two.

Name: Hiring bonus E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 April 2018 If other carriers are offering$25000.00 to hire on, this is the standard fee they give employees to relocate. And they would pay market price for your house that was sold. So for a recruiting company that is offering this relocation fee is a good deal. And they are not going to invest that money in you, just to fire you on there property. When a carrier can’t move a train because they don’t have, qualified crews it cost them millions. A friend of mine was layed off, received a job with different carrier, and loves it they treat him like gold. And never did take recall from the company that layed him off.

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 April 2018 Loco 20-30 power Kiss my ass loser. If you think being an engines is not a skill your a loser who didn't pass your runs or your woethless at it and no one wants to work with you. Anyone who is trained and skilled and gets certification is a skilled worker. Heavy equipment, back hoe operators etc...your just a company mole mouth piece on here to distract others from looking at going elsewhere where the money and the treatment is better. You need your arss kicked to the curb.

Name: Don the Flipper E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 April 2018 If your last name starts with you get to flip!! Dont be mad at me man, i dont call

Name: Qualified people E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 April 2018 Hh created the intimidation game of firing people to get his way. Foote doing the same thing. Treating employees like they are the enemy cutting jobs to get the operating ratio down, mothballing and selling equipment. And not serving customers and there needs. Employees that are fired or layed off have options to work for other carriers. You are not moving a train without the proper certifications. Like cn and cp the people that where layed off found other work. Lots did not return, they need people to run the trains yesterday and they don’t have crews to do this. The training of new people takes time,now all of a sudden qualified people are important again. They will train many but only a portion will stick it out after getting a taste of rr life. The stock at CSX is not climbing like they had planned and I feel Hh pr plan is going to be stale not bullish. If you are a qualified conductor or engineer take that job at another carrier and don’t look back at CSX.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 April 2018 I just read that BNSF & UP are offering $25,000 signing bonuses to attract railroaders from other railroads. They have worker shortages due to increased business. It didn't mention locations.

Name: Lc E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 April 2018 Just received email 4-23. 51.32 has been agreed upon. Membership will vote in May for ratification.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 April 2018 Certification? That's a joke. A conductor or engineer IS NOT A SKILL. That certification is worthless.

Name: Certification E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2018 With what you people are going threw at CSX with Foote cutting so many jobs to manipulate the numbers. You all have certifications that is the same as having money in the bank. If you are layed off from CSX. There are lots of railroads in North America that would love to have you working for them. Foote is going to pay down the road when they don’t have trained crews to run the trains. Watching that happen here in Canada. You will go threw some rough times but will overall win the fight and be more appreciated.

Name: Jasper needs conductors E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2018 https://www.tripadvisor.ca/LocationPhotos-g154918-Jasper_Jasper_National_Park_Alberta.html work out of jasper this is your back tard

Name: Just a few google many more E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2018 https://m.wowjobs.ca/jobs-train+conductor-jobs

Name: Jobs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2018 Be adventurous come work for the railroad here, the province I’m from there are 100000 fishing lakes. And the same in other provinces, get your citizenship and your heath care is covered by the goverment. And then you just by extra insurance if you want. Cn is hiring 2000 trainpeople to start so is cp. and there are smaller railroads hiring. Hh cut the staff by over 30 percent at each railroad. Now they need these people back and some. Check it out get away from bad relationship etc. The summers are great across Canada. The winter harsh at times, but is a great country to live and work in low crime.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2018 Yeah right! 51 bucks an hour? Are you serious, lol! More like 22 an hour. Don't post carp on here like that. This is a company mole trying to make sure more people dont quit. They know most furloughed employees are not coming back and the pressure is being felt so this idiot put this on there to help retain employees a while longer. When May comes there will be a post about some delay in the negotiations but back pay will be offered. Don't fall for this bs.

Name: WeStop4DoNuts E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 April 2018 Hourly rate of $51.32/HR has been negotiated. Will be released after 1st of May.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 April 2018 Kevin Tobergte and conductor Andrew Hall actually saved NS 21 times the damages to be the scapegoats so they should counter-sue for 21 times injuries huh? http://www.themilitant.com/2018/8217/821755.html Norfolk Southern sues rail workers for crash damage In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court April 5, the company claims that engineer Kevin Tobergte and conductor Andrew Hall were responsible for the “total destruction” of two locomotives and extensive damage to other rail cars. The bosses are asking the court to find these workers liable for damages to the locomotives, rail cars, tracks, right of way, communications and signal equipment, the costs of cleaning up spilled diesel fuel, as well as payouts to landowners adjacent to the wreck and Norfolk Southern customers whose freight was delayed. In fact, there is a clear trend in recent years toward making our business more difficult and costly. The best example that I can give you is the positive train control mandate--a $10 billion expenditure by 2015. The cost benefit ratio is 22:1. The railroads will have to cut other expenditures to pay for it. We spent $9 billion last year on maintenance and expansion, and we’ll spend $9 billion this year, except $700 million of that will be on the first steps of PTC implementation. What will fall out of the budget? What will fall out when the PTC spend is $1.2 billion a year in 2011? Expansion? Certainly! But what about tie replacement and other things that make the railroad safer? It’s not a threat, it’s just the way it is. Something has to give. There needs to be a more reasonable deployment of PTC, and Congress has to help us pay for it. Congress should enact a railroad tax credit this year!

Name: 3rdEyeSees E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 April 2018 Funny how many foreign line locos are hauling our trains around right now. Wonder how these ginned up numbers will look once the horsepower hours run out and these morons have to actually pay to run? Another joke. These stockholders are so 'effin gullible.

Name: Sales pitch E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 April 2018 Hh PR railroading is the sales pitch that Hh calls his raid. Foote knows the script and is going forward with it. They want everyone to believe that they are creating this mean lean machine that is going to have the cash flowing in like water coming out of a tap. Recording false train times dwell times and really it is a smoke screen to sell all the assets of CSX. Lose many customers and valueable employees .They have turned managers into useful idiots to enforce there deceptions.once they can’t sell anything more they will jump ship. The next crew will have to try and repair all the damage , just like they are doing now at cn and cp.

Name: Invest E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 April 2018 Ape 10- So saving for a rainy day or having 4 months salary saved or having an emergency fund is being an idiot? Having surplus is not stupid for a business that lives by how the economy is running at the moment. It can change at the drop of a hat. One bad investment or one stupid announcement from the Potus can change everything and leave the company vulnerable looking for the last minute funds or assets to liquidate to stay above water. Don't encourage other to NOT SAVE for difficult times! CSX is towing a dangerous line.

Name: Jobs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 April 2018 If your an experienced railroader and your certification is up to date. You could get a work visa and get a job at any railroad in Canada in a heart beat. They can’t hire people fast enough, because Hh cut so many jobs here. Ceo creel is sweating now that the stock is in decline and he has to stop the bulliying now and settle the contract. And the goverment is in no hurry to force strikers back to work if they strike. Foote is doing the same thing at CSX. CSX will have to do the same thing they have to do at cn and cp. CSX is in the cutting and bullying mode now. I have a good idea how things are going to pan out at CSX. Just buy watching what they did with us in Canada. A railroader is a railroader. There are no boarders.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 April 2018 Your an idiot you get rid of waste and buy as you need. That is efficiency. Having surplus on the books is a waste of money. Plus all the new requires less maintenance, just like the boat and truck you have financed for 20yrs.

Name: Car repair E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 April 2018 Car repair let them down greater you and do what they want. Hh cut so many mechanical staff he had managers work there days off repairing cars to try make up for the cuts. One year after Hh has been gone. They hired thirty five more carman to meet the demands of maintance. And that is system wide. They deferred repairs by storing cars to manipulate the numbers for there quarterly reports. Steel on steel baby they can fix it now or fix it later. But they know this. Just play the game. We win in the end. Now in Canada they have to replace all the equipment they sold. Replace the men they cut. It’s just a big raid for the greedy.

Name: Strike E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 April 2018 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/business/article-cp-rail-strike-could-disrupt-passenger-train-service-operators-warn/

Name: Louisville E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 April 2018 Conductor Yup, Steve Salyers. I didn't think he deserved the respect of me spelling his name correctly. He is very short with very little hands and a ginormous ego. He's a master bullshitter also. Can't believe corporate hasn't seen through it.

Name: Wages E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 April 2018 Your pay scale has to expire with present contract first. They can’t introduce it till next contract , I think that’s what they are gearing up for!

Name: EARS OPEN! E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 April 2018 Hourly wages Just heard yesterday that some officials at the school in Atlanta were saying that the hourly wages were a done deal and we just don't know it yet. We all know how rumors are but this came from someone still involved with the school. Better be getting up your Local Chairman and General Chairman's rear and get some straight answers on the negotiations going on behind your backs!

Name: Strike E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 April 2018 http://www.bnn.ca/cp-rail-starts-to-shut-down-operations-as-strike-looms-1.1062501

Name: carrepair/Avon E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 April 2018 Louisville Ignore smart ass ape. If you are doing your job like you are supposed to and doing it my FRA laws then go ahead an let him cut two jobs off. They pulled that shit a few years ago at Avon yard and it bit them in the ass. We continued to work by the law and do our jobs right and it slowed shit down to a crawl because of man power shortages as they called it. When they found out we were being intimidated to rush because they were the ones who cut us they were forced to put the positions back on. We had a few FRA guys showing up after we all complained to the FRA about it and they actually shopped the shit out of the cars. We all just sat back and laughed. If they got any train crews doing any of your work make sure you time slip them too for doing your work . Leave a paper trail!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 April 2018 Louisville, Sounds like typical Steve Salyers. Short guy with a big ego? Dealt with him in Philly for a while. Management by fear. Guys on the yard board refused to take a road job one time. He cut the yard list all the way down to 1 turn. Then got pissed when yard jobs weren't filled. We aren't launching rockets, boys. Just running trains. No rocket scientists needed here!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 April 2018 Louisville I would say be a little more efficient.

Name: Louisville E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 April 2018 Steve Sowers told the carmen that if they didn't work the tracks faster he would cut two jobs off. How is that ethical? He's basically telling them to take short cuts and break rules or lose jobs.

Name: Brakeman E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 April 2018 Just a thought when Hh was at cn and cp. Management where putting failed audits on employees file that management fabricated. And never notified the employee or gave them a copy of failed audit. In one shop the union found 160 fabricated failed audits attached to people’s files. The reason for this they figure is to make it easier to dismiss an employee. Guys started looking a t there personnel files to see if information was accurate. The confusion is not by mistake!!!!

Name: cond/switchman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 April 2018 Young pups Just a piece of advice. It looks like with the observation testing going on and some TMs interpreting the rules different than written that we are headed back to a repeat of what happened when CSX first took over conrail and came out with their first rules book. The language was so screwed up that everything could be twisted to several points of view. It got so bad that the operating rules department had to put out a bulletin covering several rules that the supervisors were interpreting differently and writing people up for. They gave the final interpretation and order as to what their meanings were. It sounds like its going to happen again. Tom Wolf wrote the book our latest book and purposely reduced a ton of clutter and stupid micro managing rules that no one needed. His exact words were...... Im hoping that I reduced it enough and clarified things so that we wont have the confusion that went on in the past! If you are given a failure or told by a supervisor that you failed a test on a rule that they are interpreting differently you need to immediately notify your LC and send an email to the operating rules department for clarification. There is no way in hell that we need the same fiasco that we had before. There is no time for this and having failures removed from your record is a pain in the butt! Just ask any old head what happened when this all went down. It was a nightmare and took months to get it under control!

Name: !!!! E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 April 2018 Surprise!!!! Big wig C.O.O Harris showed up at Avon yard for a surprise visit! Be careful everyone! Sounds like they might be sneaking in the back door!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 April 2018 Hey conductor. Youre a grown man. Turn your ball cap around with the bill out front and speak into the radio so i can hear you. Stop trying to be cool and do your damn job you 35 year old frat boy! Also turn that stupid phone off.

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 April 2018 Mr hogger you complain about your conductor. In my day we would cover for a mate lots had a crisis etc going on. We helped our mates on and off the job. So many go threw divorce get bad news. And you know it is hard to get time off work. If it was a repeated practice with the same guy you take them a side and have the talk on his behaviour. Stick together people especially now with all the changes.

Name: Stock manipulation E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 April 2018 When you take from peter to give to Paul, looks good for awhile. But with that kind of thinking and formula it comes to a point. Losing half your customers that generated revenue is not a good model for cash flow. Something has to compinsate for that lost revenue. Selling assets cutting staff etc. But it will come to a head. When mantle can’t extract anymore value from CSX they will move on. Leaving new ceo to restock equipment men etc. Just like cn and cp are doing now after they where raided. By Hh and friends

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 April 2018 Be careful what you wish for hogger, your going to be one man crew before you know it. Like the saying goes, you don’t know what you had till it’s gone.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 April 2018 Conductor My conductor got on oyr train at 2 am this morning and made his frickin bed before we even got out of the terminal limits. Of course I had to call the sigs. And run the train and be alert and stay awake while his lazy ass slept to the other end. We all have issues with our jobs but I'm sick of you smart mouth pricks always dogging engineers with that stupid fu...king remark we just go forward and backwards. When I get done setting up my PTC and doing all my paperwork that's required and checking my units then I get everything set up the best way I can so I'm not miserable the whole trip. Our job is mental. Your job is more physical. Duh duh..couple a car....Duh duh....lace an air hose.....Duh duh...throw a switch. Now read a work order then get up on the engine and go to sleep while I stay awake all night making sure we get across the road in one piece safely. we could bash each other till the cows come home. Fact is I didn't need his ass on the train. Utility man could have done his work in the yard. Another one at the other end. He was a waste of space in the cab. I would have been more than happy to run alone!

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 April 2018 Hogger you sit in your cumphy seat in the cab, it’s not as nice as the lazy boy in your living room. What is your job again, ahead two cars stop back ten cars stop. Job stress to much for you ?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 April 2018 please tell me that other subdivisions have conductors that are useless and serve no purpose in getting a train over the road. i cant believe what i see on a daily basis. i cant be the only one who has to deal with this.

Name: csx record profit E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 April 2018 Yeah right, $650 million profit! I wonder since they just make up numbers why they didn't say a higher number? We all know they lie about the numbers. Especially the departure times, dwell times, recrew rates, velocity, crew availability, and on and on. Very convenient to make up numbers when YOU DETERMINE THE NUMBERS OFF YOUR OWN MADE UP METRICS! Anyone who works for CSX knows all these numbers are made up to sound good to the stockholders but we really know this company is going downhill fast and its just a matter of time before its scrapped out and sold to the highest bidder. There is no future CSX, no matter what numbers they make up. The board of directors should all be fired and put in jail for allowing this company to be taken over by a hedge fund. The board of directors are responsible for the best interest and future of this company. Then again, I know they are being paid off as well. Proxy votes for the board of directors and shareholder buyback are due by May 7. DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!!

Name: CSX Record Profits E-mail: corporate@csx.com Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 18 April 2018 Today, after the market closed, CSX reported record profits of over six hundred fifty million dollars ($650,000,000.00). And it seems that Hunter Harrison's hand-picked successor was the right choice. We salute you Mr. Foote...!And now, we'll swallow or pride and drink all the CSX punch that you can provide!

Name: Friends E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 April 2018 Yes retired still read the blogs, I still have friends that are close to retiring and help them with that. And I’m an investor on the stock market. Lots pull there shares out of company and want to no where to park there money for good returns. You can be retired and still have a indirect connection to the railway.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 April 2018 Retired but still following and posting on a RR site. LOL!

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2018 I retired last year I’m third generation, one family member was killed on rr. The rr was built on booze, it was not accepted at all when I started, I had a good career on the rr.we worked in all conditions and most of the guys helped each other. It was a tight community,and management treated you with respect. I witnessed all the changes just before I left. Cameras pulled out of service for next to nothing. If I had to start now the way it is I wouldn’t. I would work else where for half the money. The generations of the past did have the best years on the railway. Now it’s like a consintration camp. I feel bad for the new guys that work under the new conditions. Things where suppose to get better for modern rr but it is more worse than ever. Good luck

Name: Lol E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2018 In the event of a strike and management runs the trains at cp, they have that hurry up get er done attitude. You will see more derailments with these clowns, maybe ceo creel will go all out and buy managers sleeping bags and pillows so they can sleep in the cab. Only in Canada you say. Lol lol

Name: Strike E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2018 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/business/article-cp-railway-faces-possible-train-crew-walkout-as-union-members-vote-to/

Name: Testedagsin! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 April 2018 Crews It's on! The testing is back and coming on strong. New rule book was reduced to get rid of a shit load of micro management rules now they are confused on stopping distances at switches. Make sure every move you make stops in the clear of any adjacent track even when it is already properly lined for your move and if there is a yellow tie stay way behind it. Big hit right now. If you can't stop in the clear notify ym you are fouling clearance point. Remember if equipment left per orders won't be in the clear occupy the entire switch to the track with the equipment!

Name: Pay back E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 You guys at CSX are now where we where with Hh at cn and cp. it’s contract time look north and see the fucken ceo creel and friends are going to get. CSX will pay for all there shit to down the road.

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 April 2018 Conductor, What I expected. Myself? Suffered account of other's screw-ups numerous times. Again, am well aware of how things are now days (regulations, rules, etc.).

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2018 Retired now. Just another full of yourself blah blah. Couldn't help but post. Sure you would be written up the first week if you came back today. Always know how to do things better but not by the rules. Good riddance because both guys go down now for one person's dumb ass move. How you like that assinine comment!

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 April 2018 What I see & read on this website = none of you could've hacked it in the days gone by. Posting anything regarding such is a pure waste of time - would just be answered with asinine, smart, snotty comments from persons that have no real clue. FNGs are the worst. Plenty of douche bags that aren't worth minimum wage earning six figures a year or close complain about taxes & union dues. Most engineers today wouldn't make a dimple on a real engineer's butt. Most conductors today can't switch a bean out of a bag of noodles without making extra unnecessary moves, if they can handle that. Babysat lots of both. Most supervisors are a PITA too account very little, if any, experience out in the field but they have the power to impose discipline. Yeah, am well aware of all of today's rules, etc. Railroading never was & never will be, for everybody. Glad to be outta there.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2018 Train crews/mechanical You made a wise choice. Both engineers and conductors suffer body abuse. Some in different ways than others. I was a conductor for 10 years then decided to change to engineer when it was offered. I never had lower back, leg and neck problems until I got stuck in the seats from hell on a regular basis. Road conductors deal with the same shit. Seats too low, seats to high, seats rocking like shit, seats hard as a rock and seats that won't stay adjusted. Working on the ground screws your feet up for awhile until you get used to the balast. climbing on cars and bending over all the time putting air hoses together especially when its cold as hell takes its toll after years. Facts are both engineer and conductors get screwed up one way or another. Any body with any time out here knows the truth. Only basement foamers come on here and spout off otherwise.

Name: Train crews E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 My first three years on the rr I was a conductor. It got to me going to work all hours of the day. And to sit in the same seat for hours on a end staring at two rails was not for me. I transferred to the mechanical department. Which was a much better fit for myself. To be a trainman you have to be cut out for it, but was not for me. Now with cameras on you must really suck.

Name: Not fooled E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2018 Brakeman. Don't fall for the crap. That earlier post was not from an enginner about injuries. It was an oldhead conductor. He even made references about his hogger. That company mole who posted that crap about his recliner and digging on engineers is a csx mole paid to distract. Guessing they didn't like the question about the PTC which was a damn good one! Something the FRA should be asking questions about. These moles always chime in when hot topics show up that involve federal law violations or bring the spot light out on a subject of company incompetence. Idiot couldn't even figure out who wrote it. Man, the company watch dogs will hire anyone to sit under their rocks!

Name: Brakeman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 16 April 2018 Trolls. Looks like you don't like having the truth put out there. CSX company sucks. Probably had injuries but were scared little punks who wouldn't turn them in for fear of being head hunted. Don't deny it happens. Comments from young pup conductors dogging the hoggers are posers too. Climate controlled cabs.LOL LOL! Like they all work! Laughed my ass off when engineer cub got tossed out of the seat on bad rail and busted his ass. Back sore for a week. Told him welcome to the club after he cleaned his lunch up off the floor! Can't wait till you snot nosed conductors get sent to school and have to be real hoggers all the time. Not little fly night pups practicing. You'll learn. You ain't as tough and fit as you think! Can't wait till you get your back screwed up from lateral motion! Engine seat aint no barco lounger. Then you would know that if you weren't a bunch of trolls!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 Federal regulators put CSX rail sale on hold. Just read on Jacksonville Business Journal

Name: Injuries E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 I worked rr thirty five years with one injury. All the injuries you have listed,either your an unsafe worker, or a hypochondriac. Either way with all your injuries you must of been away more from work than you where on the job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 Yeah engineers must have it so rough, you know the conditions are terrible having to sit in a chair inside of a climate controlled environment, burning at most 4 calories a day. I bought a chair for my living room that vibrates, I paid 3 grand for this thing and I love it, wish I knew how bad vibrations were for my body before getting this.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2018 Engineers What the hell is up with this PTC crap where a crew got charged for not going one train length at 10 mph after They went into suppression. They said PTC reports it as if it in emergency because it took control of the train. I've had it set me up several times for no reason. Each time it says to recover by putting it in suppression. NOT EMERGENCY! Dispatch reminded me to follow the emergency rule. I told him I was a key train and if I had to follow emergency rule the we should be following the rule for a,key train in emergency. Told him we would start walking it. He said that wasn't necessary. So what is it. We putting 2 different rules together now? What's up with this crap. I had someone tell me if you know it's going to set you up just go ahead and put in suppression when it happens and the erad won't ding it as an emergency. Is this right? Anyone else dealing with this trash out here? Sounds like they have a communications problem with the system. How can they charge anyone with a train in emergency rule violation when it clearly instructs you to recover it using suppression?

Name: Lc pay E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2018 If your lc is off a lot , he is most likely getting full pay still by the union, he just has to show he’s off on union business. It’s a good gig!!!!

Name: Up E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 April 2018 the ble lc needed another extended weekend. He's off again. our lc marked up late last night went to work and it wasn't a dh.

Name: Old head E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2018 North American Apparently your what they call a professional train rider. I've been working locals and yard jobs my whole career. I've pounded the rocks in 30 below and 110 heat index. I've had torn roter cuffs, sprained ankles, back injuries, neck injuries and just a torn down body from years of it. My hoggers have had backs and nerve damage from being beat in the seats. Every heard of body vibration injury? One of the most common injuries diagnosed in this business. They got carpal tunnel in their wrist and hearing loss from noisy ass cabs that exhaust air in their faces and radios you got to keep blaring to hear them. I don't know what your doing out there but my body is beat down from years of this job and I'm not the only one. Maybe your just a superman or maybe your just a shit stirring troll but I do know your comments are pure horse shit and sound like something a management suck would say. you arernt a real railroaded for sure. Maybe a paper pysher.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 April 2018 I never had to marked off for a union meeting. Everyone can make it to 4-6 meetings a year without marking off. If your local/division has 100 members at least 25% can be at the meeting. The excuse most have given when this issue has been brought up before is they didn't want to give up anytime of their own. It's around 2 hours to go deal with what's going on at the railroad. It's the time to bring up problems. If that's not important enough to take a couple hours out of your time then why complain?

Name: Istop4donuts E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 April 2018 Up It sounds like we work on the same sub. Our LC is about 4ft and he's a hothead who is marked of constantly. The utu Lc and Previous Lc mark off every weekend and threw the week.

Name: Training E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 April 2018 To the person paying $6500 for training to get a railway job, you can claim that on you income tax and make that money back in a short time. A person that goes to a trade school or college for up to four years pays a hell of a lot more. And when not in school working minimum wage job to keep paying tuition. I work for the railway, I don’t know why you are looking for sympathy!! And on the railway you have better job security than most any other employer. When you have a democratic goverment that pays for all these people with five kids or more to be on welfare, the tax payers pay for all the freebies these bums get. With trump he has saved lots of tax payers money by cutting these bums off welfare. The middle class people have always paid the bill for the rich and the poor. Enjoy your life the best way you can pal. Time flys.