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: Retired now
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 April 2019

Your right divorced first wife got fat and ugly nothing could change
that. O n wife two life is good so far. ie when a lot of women are
board they eat! Keep them active. Lol

Name: Out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 April 2019 Parole, don't jump to conclusions I do have a family which I was able to keep in spite of the railroad I had health insurance before I got to the railroad and I got it now it's not the only place to get it Working and CSX sux is not conclusive to a family man I would assume when you say you retired that you're riding solo as the divorce rates at the railroad that my terminal were 35 to 40% well above the normal I'm sure

Name: The Yardmaster Oooovvver E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 April 2019 Enjoy your day! OOOOVVEERRRRR

Name: Happy easter E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2019 For Christian families enjoy your turkey supper. And for Muslim families enjoy your pork roast or turkey ?Be safe out there! Not sure is it hala pork?

Name: To out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2019 Parole I�m sure you ride solo, some have a family counting on them. Some guys or gals don�t have the option to walk away they have a family to support. Before I ever quit a job I had one to go to. Good luck parole with your ventures!

Name: Out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 April 2019 Parole.....try replacing pay check? Well i have maybe not nickel for nickel and maybe I don't have the same health coverage but I sure as hell got a much better life and in the end you can have all the money you want if you have a shity life what the hell is the point

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 April 2019 Vanderbuilt Nice try on deflecting.... Jesus!

Name: Cornelius Vanderbilt E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 18 April 2019 1st quarter net earnings are 834 million. Thats a clear sign things are being managed right.

Name: MYGOD E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 April 2019 THISSUCKS!!! Is anyone else just sick of this DP power and all the horse shit that is going on with it. Every time you turn around you get some damn bulletin about don't do this and don't do that. Now this latest one with the rules that if your on undulating grade you put up the fence but put it in dynamic before you start. Then release the brakes and blah blah blah... what the hell happened to the knock down mode if your independent is applied when your using the dynamics. How can you even use it when the brakes are applied. I just don't get this crap. I hear engineer after engineer say how much they love this shit because it gives them a smother ride. Well guess what brothers. It aint going to be worth it if you tear up a train because you didn't follow one of these insane asinine rules you have to know and cant understand a damn thing about it. THEY DID NOT COVER THIS CRAP IN THAT TRAINING CLASS IN THE LITTLE TRAILOR IN THE PARKING LOT. Everyone of you better not make one move out there without reading the books and every single bulletin rule and have them in your lap before you take off. All of this is horseshit. I know damn well most engineers are good enough to run a damn train without these things. I can guarantee you I will be ripping one apart before its over because I will be screwing something up they have written that I either missed or just don't understand. This sucks.. Im so ready to take a job with a shortline! Just give me an damn old fashioned train and leave me the hell alone!

Name: Uhoh E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 17 April 2019 Legal...look up this guys name on google he will go to any lengths to get his 5 minutes of fame. He has shared pictures of a CSX accident in the Birmingham yard and supply abc/33 40 with his �photo credits�. On Instagram he is posting pics of him in the cab and giving his location. Isn�t that a code of ethics no-no. Someone high up isn�t doing their job monitoring social media. I�m sure he has no conscience about who, where, and how this affects others and how it can destroy others reputations. I�m with everyone else stir clear of this looney tooney!!!

Name: legal E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 April 2019 Birmingham If this man is making videos of fellow employees and using that information to have them reprimanded or fired and the company knows about this you can open a very big can of worms. First, if you can prove this it needs to be reported to the manager of the hotel that you are staying in. Who is to say that this person is not taping other occupants of the hotel that do not work for CSX. This man's behavior is no different than stalking. You should also inform corporate lodging that this is happening and that you do not feel comfortable staying in the same hotel. You must report his behavior to your ethics committee. If you can not catch him in action then you must be able to prove that he in deed is the one who is doing the video taping. CSX is regulated by a Federal Agency. They are not under their complete control. CSX is privately owned. They must follow all Federal, State and Local laws and regulations. If they willingly allow an employee to violate your rights of privacy and allow an employee to stalk other employees in order to entrap them then they are in gross negligence of the law. You must be able to prove that this employee is the one who is doing the actual taping and submitting the footage. If you have that proof then you can take your case outside of CSX and retain your own legal counsel. It does not matter if you are staying in a hotel or other lodging that is provided for by CSX. This employee is violating laws outside of your bargaining agreements and under State laws you have a right to request protection from harassment while staying in your lodging. I am confident in stating that you do not have any language in your bargaining agreement or your contract with CSX that states in order to be employed by CSX you must agree to be video taped in any lodging provided by the company by a fellow employee or fellow officer. This is not the same as your agreement on video cameras in the cab of your locomotives. Csx will have to come forward and defend their actions if they have not addressed this situation as you have claimed. I would think this employee would use common sense and step down from his behavior if he knows the cat has been let out of the bag. If he has been recruited by the company to commit this behavior then they are just as negligent as the employee and can be held accountable and charged with violations of any applicable laws.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 April 2019 How to File a Complaint The U.S. Department of Labor�fs Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is responsible for administering and enforcing the Family and Medical Leave Act for most employees. If you have questions, or you think that your rights under the FMLA may have been violated, you can contact WHD at 1-866-487-9243. You will be directed to the WHD office nearest you for assistance. There are over 200 WHD offices throughout the country staffed with trained professionals to help you. The information below is useful when filing a complaint with WHD: �� your name �� your address and phone number (how you can be contacted) �� the name of the company where you work or worked �� location of the company (this may be different than the actual job site where you worked) �� phone number of the company �� manager or owner�fs name �� the circumstances of your FMLA request and your employer�fs response Your employer is prohibited from interfering with, restraining, or denying the exercise of FMLA rights, retaliating against you for filing a complaint and cooperating with the Wage and Hour Division, or bringing a private action to court. You should contact the Wage and Hour Division immediately if your employer retaliates against you for engaging in any of these legally protected activities.

Name: Bad apple E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2019 I�ve dealt with problem people like this in the past. They keep getting away with everything, and it gives them a feeling they can do as they please. But one day they just go to far, and they end up in the lime light and self destruct. You know the saying give them enough rope and they will hang them self�s. This is so true!

Name: Wifey E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2019 Hey ethics, The yard master is telling the truth. Im the wife of a person Cade done this to. Management hid it and it was reported various times to ethics. Ethics isn�t in the victims favor. People really do need to know about this guy. He is a problem child.

Name: Ethics E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2019 Yardmaster Your a liar. All it would take is one phone call to the ethics committee about this behavior and this man would be on the street. If you know about it then others do. If you know and haven't reported it your just as guilty. Don't believe this is happening. You put his name out here for all to see so let's see how this goes down now. You got a grudge against this guy you just brought on the crap.

Name: Solutions E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2019 When you have the chance at the hotel. Have a blanket party for this piece of shit. The more boots the better.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2019 I am going to bring some light on a situation that is happened in Birmingham Al. He has been behind getting a few workers fired here and in a lot of trouble. All need to share it because the company does not seem to care enough to put a stop to it. An employee at the Birmingham known as Michael Cade Breasseale has a problem videoing his fellow coworkers in the hotel rooms and on the job. He then shares the video he has made on his phone with other coworkers to make fun and "fit in". He and his buddies makes fun of any of you coworkers that stutters or has any kind of abnormality at all or another color than himself. Csx is aware and allows this. This really shows how immature you guys can be. He represents CSX. He represents you workers. He has no problem downing the company as most of you do. People like Cade are snitches, they portrait themselves as your buddy while finding out on you and running and telling to make himself look good. He likes to stir crap between everyone texting and spreading gossip. If you work along side M Cade Breasseale in Mobile, Montgomery, or Nashville, be alert and aware-he is going to video you and send it to a fellow named Mike Stone (partner in his crime and one of his union buddies that will snitch you out) If you are in a hotel room please for God sake make sure your windows..blinds, peep hole and all are where he cant look in on you. There is a question as to if he is gay or not, why else would he like to video you guys. He posts on gay porn websites. Stir clear of this psycho he is nothing but trouble. He has a problem stalker his victims and will go as far as following them around on boards and lying about his placement. A liability waiting to happen. Protect yourself from him!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2019 Another fatality involving remote control locomotives!! When will the FRA Put a stop to all the non sense.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 April 2019 Brothers Please take some time to bow your heads and say a prayer for the lost brother and those who work out there everyday in this horrible environment. Its a shame that they wont lower the flags for just one day for a lost brother. They wanted them lowered for the evil HH but not one day for the backbone that makes this railroad run. God bless his soul. May he rest in peace and his family find comfort to get them through this awful time.

Name: To parole E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 April 2019 I retired from th rr life is good now. If I would of quit when things got tough, I would not be enjoying the life I have today. It�s easy to quit, try replacing the pay checks. There is so much cheap labour out there and more coming into country everyday to low ball you. Choice is yours!

Name: Out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2019 Csx ssssssuuuuuucccckkkksss! Im sure glad i ain't got to play their games any more. You guy should stop bitching and get out The money ain't worth it. You'll be happier and healthier out of that shit HOLE. Good luck...

Name: HOPPIN BOB E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 15 April 2019 Yes suuu.... CSX suks...and lies...and cheats and steals....and just down right immoral... Yes suuu...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 15 April 2019 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. � A 24-year employee of CSX Transportation has been killed in an accident at the Wauhatchie Yards. Allen Lowe was struck by a train. He was the father of two children

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 15 April 2019 How many Management Factor Failures are there in a day at CSX???

Name: Retired now E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 April 2019 I have been retired two years now never been sick since. My thirty five years as a rr I picked the flu up once a year from some other employee. They come to work infecting lots. I would get sick and have to take time off. Once put in hospital, because guys scared to book off. I will of never recouped the money I lost and others lost because of the flu virus etc going around. And the person that is sick his mind is not on safety or the job, he fights just to get threw the day. Many where very sick and sent home but that was after many where infected. They use to get pissed off I wore a paper mask when people where sick because they could not make me out on the radio. 2019 there has to be a better way moving forward.

Name: rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 April 2019 Corp I have been stating the fact that points are a form of discipline on this site ever since the policy was enacted. The question is why has it taken so long for the Unions to get something done about it. Any one with half a brain in their heads knows that the points are nothing more than an effort to discipline employees for taking unauthorized days off such as sick days. They serve no other purpose. Any system that is set up to put the employee in the position of possibly losing their job in nothing more than a system of discipline. A person who is sick and goes to a doctor, pays a co pay out of their pocket, misses a day of work and loses money should not be disciplined for doing so. A person who comes to work sick is a liability. They may also infect others that they work with and that may result in more employees having to miss work. Their attention span is limited and their ability to work safely can be jeopardized. The big question is how should the company handle situations of employees taking a sick day who do not see any type of physician. No proof of a co pay or slip for the visit will pose a problem for them. Not everyone needs to see a doctor every time they are sick. A 24 hour bug or sinusitis, etc. doesn't always require a trip to the doctor and forking out money to do so. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 April 2019 Dear Sirs and Brothers, I�m happy to report that our dispute with the Carrier over the Crew Availability Points System (CAPS) was a success for us in arbitration. The National Railroad Adjustment Board First Division ruled in our favor by validating that CAPS violates our contractual due process rights under B&O Agreement Rule 17. In short, an employee has the right to dispute CAPS points through the investigation process if they so choose. The five lead cases and Awards are attached for your reference and file. The core part of the Awards state as follows: �The core issue is whether points assessed pursuant to the CAPS policy are non-disciplinary in nature, and merely serve as notations for the employee�s accounting or attendance tracking purposes. On this record, the Board determines that the claim is arbitral as encompassed within the scope of the CBA. The reasoning is that the points are not simply notational or a minor accounting task, but rather a complex system that serves to progress the employee along a path to formal discipline. Here, points are a form of formal discipline. The Board determines that the CAPS program plainly violates Rule 17 and the just cause provision of the CBA and is therefore invalid. Errors in the assessment or calculation of points by the Carrier may occur under CAPS without clear redress. Based on this finding, the second and third issues are moot. The Claimant�s claim is granted. The points are to be removed from the Claimant�s record.� As a result, this office sent a formal notification to the Carrier to discuss the CAPS cases that remain in abeyance, and discuss the records of employees who were deprived of their due process since the inception of the Policy. Although the Awards will not technically be effective until thirty (30) days after the Awards were adopted, we�ve advised the Carrier to make preparations to broadcast an employee notice prior to March 31, 2019, informing NMAD employees, under the jurisdiction of the B&O Schedule Agreement, of their right to a fair and impartial hearing in accordance with Rule 17 unless of course they opt for the waiver. That being said, should an employee chose to dispute assessed CAPS points, they should continue to submit a grievance with the Local Chairperson until additional instructions are distributed from this office. On a side note; it is possible that the Carrier will scrap the entire CAPS policy. Therefore, do not be surprised if a new Availability Policy is released in the near future.

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 April 2019 brothers Reasons for the misleading rules? To rush things and leave a loop hole to put the blame back on the crew. Nothing more. Ethical values out the door. Karma is a bi...

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 April 2019 ABout these HBD detectors do not trust them esp with roller bearing cars, do your check as required and if you see nothing wrong do 1 other thing, do a roll by as if a bearing is bad you will HEAR it, know a cond who tripped off 2 hbd,s and found nothing so went on his way 3rd time was a charm when the train went into the hole and piled up 40 cars and that's what they found a burned off roller bearing, they fired the crew of course.

Name: Supervisor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 April 2019 I worked with a supervisor for years, that was very clever. He had a talent to talk out of both sides of his mouth. He would talk to the men as if to be concerned and on there side, and was protecting everyone from the big bad wolf. And when he talked to his bosses he would give them the feeling he was ruling with an iron fist, protecting the company from the big bad union. Us older guys seen the game he played, he new we new. But it worked out very well for him playing both sides till he retired. Lol

Name: seenit E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 April 2019 Gossip life What you failed to post was that the gossip life works both ways. Management is just as guilty as any field employee. I cant count on my fingers and toes the amount of times a supervisor has stood right in front of a room full of crew members and started spouting off new rules and procedures that are in effect that were never ever put in writing. They will twist words and manipulate rules to suit their means at the very moment. Then they will change procedures in the yards without putting anything out in writing and posting it in the terminals. They are now saying they don't want to be paper supervisors. They want to be one on one. This is total bullshit. I have personally seen them use this tactic to head hunt a specific person they don't like. Bust them on a yard rule that was started by word of mouth. Of course they cant win because they know its unethical as hell and rumors don't make rules for the whole. They repeat rumors on a regular basis as to what yards will be closing and this job is going away or that job is going away and send everyone in a feeding frenzy. No one knows where they will land if and when the change actually happens. The whole business is a rumor mill. It starts right at the very top in the corporate offices. It will never stop. Why? Because this mentality works in order to keep the door open for manipulation of rules and regulations. It instills fear in those with no seniority. Most are afraid to miss a days work because they aren't sure if they will have a place to work at the end of the day. This isn't a railroad. Its a circus. Its a business run by a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 April 2019 You should really research before you post. Average of a week to week and a half to see doctor no matter what. Average of 4 to 6 weeks to get a surgery. You can try and praise their insurance but it is not great by any means.

Name: Railroad jobs E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 April 2019 Medical free in Canada , I stand corrected! You pay a small monthly priemium for insurance threw your employer. For dental etc. And you can go to your doctor threw appointment. Medical paid threw your taxes.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 April 2019 In 2017, the average unattached (single) individual, earning an average income of $44,674, will pay approximately $4,596 for public health care insurance. An average Canadian family consisting of two adults and two children (earning approximately $127,814) will pay about $12,057 for public health care insurance.There is no need for the person who accesses healthcare to be involved in billing and reclaim at all. ... The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care or dental care, which means most Canadians rely on private insurance from their employers or the government to pay for those costs.Ninety-three per cent of us have a doctor we go to when we're feeling sick, though. Canadians visit the emergency department more than other countries � and we wait longer, too: It takes about four hours of waiting to see a doctor when you're at the emergency department. Again what were you saying about health care in Canada?

Name: Bonuses E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2019 CSX stock buy back, putting blame on fellow employees so you can hate them for not getting your bonus. The brass at the top just added money to there pay packages. Your a lifer at CSX if you don�t get fired or quit. Ceo top guys are not. There goal is to leave CSX with as much money as possible in the shortest time. It�s all planned, they did this at other rr that Hh was ceo at. These guys at the top can steal venom from a snake.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2019 Safety first means nothing to this company they are taking managements bonuses away if someone is hurt. Tell me how that is right ?also we have train masters that think it�s a joke they right people up and then drive through the yard like a raging maniac at 40 mph but that�s ok so we are at a state and time of the hell with union employees we will make you follow the rules and we will do what we want . Let�s see hire the military folks they all worked as one NOT once hired here they say f the working folks that just want to do their jobs and they laugh and joke about how they write people up do not work here

Name: Gossip life E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2019 Being a railroader it�s rumours and gossip because you have no life. Majority thrive on gossip rumours and bs stories. Been there done that it will never change.

Name: Railroad jobs E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2019 Hundreds of railroad jobs in Canada, all trades all areas of the country. Free medical care. Very low crime great place to raise a family. An option for layed off people!

Name: Sad Harry E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2019 Frontier Buffalo terminal is next to go boys going to just be a whistle post before we know it feel bad for all my brothers going through these shit times with this company

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 11 April 2019 Years ago a train was hit by scanner, the conductor inspected the train found nothing. Got on train pulled 37 car derailment. A wheel had come loose on the axle spun on the axle generating heat. But if you looked at it you could not see anything wrong. But when train pulled again the wheel plate broke putting the train on the ground. I�ve been a carman for a long time. And there is no way the conductor could of detected this problem. But he did his job and was not blamed.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 April 2019 conductor/new guy Rules were written in a manner to protect the company not the employee. It doesn't get any simpler than that. If they can find another rule in the book to use against you to shift blame its going to happen. That's why you better learn them and find the loop holes. You hit a detector that gives you 3 hits and one is 90 cars deep. Half way back the dispatcher comes on and informs both of you that there were no more defects detected by the new and improved supper defect detector and if you dont find anything wrong with the three cars you can come back to the head end and take off. So you get to the last one and all is cool so you head back, board and leave. 10 miles down the road....POOF!!!! Emergency, emergency. L123 is in emergency. When you find the car that is on the ground with a hot wheel and broken along with the rail rolled and the car tipping over with 3 other cars you realize they are right behind the last car you inspected. Flash forward to your investigation and charges of neglect of duties and failure to follow the rules as written in your operating rules book. Mr Investigator....why didn't you follow the rule that says if you DIDNT FIND anything wrong you would inspect the next 20 axles behind your last reported car? (4304.2) Moron conductor..... because the dispatcher said there were no other reported defects and I did not have to. Besides it says in the rules that I don't have to do any further inspections. Mr Investigator.... what rule would that be? Moron conductor....Rule 4303.4. The section on getting 3 hits. Section 3 paragraph A. Mr. investigator.... What about rule 4304.2 that is still in effect and has not been removed or cancelled. The dispatcher told you if you didn't find anything wrong with the 3 cars reported you could come back to the head end. Did the dispatcher instruct you to ignore the other pertinent rules Moron conductor.....What? I followed the instructions the dispatcher gave me. Mr. Investigator....So what you are claiming is the dispatcher instructed you to follow only half the rules that are in effect for the situation you were in. I'm going to assume you knew about the other rule that is in effect and chose to ignore it. Were you afraid to call the dispatcher out on it? Do you not know how to use a good faith challenge or was it just easier to go back to the head end without following all the rules and procedures for this incident. Moron conductor..... Listen pal, I did as I was instructed. Its not my fault that your new detectors didn't catch that other hot car. Its not my fault the cars derailed. Mr. Investigator.... Yes it is. If you would have followed the other half of the written rules that pertain to this situation at hand and informed the dispatchers you would be following them you would have found that hot wheel and all of this could have been prevented. There fore you are being charged as follows.... 30 days in the clank with plenty of time to find all the gray areas and contradictions of the rules....HA!HA!HA!

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 April 2019 checkers... what the hell is remarshald and who said a thing about having a reefer against anything. Where do you people come from. Stick with the topics and if you don't know the proper terms go study.

Name: Dangerous E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 April 2019 So your saying it does not matter having a running reefer, next to a dangerous flammable. You better read your rule books again. Just tie on and go.

Name: Checkers E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 April 2019 The conductor is responsible for the train. Before they depart he should get crew cab drive the train or walk the train. If the train run is not in proper order, the train should be remarshald and new paper work is required. The conductor should do his due diligence !

Name: Inquiry E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 April 2019 If someone was injured or killed, there would be inquiry. Then the company and employees involved would be hung out to dry. Tm should walk the train and confirm cars in run.

Name: Good Job Everybody E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 April 2019 Because at RoseLake that�s what we do here.

Name: curious E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 April 2019 conductor crews If a train leaves a yard with cars they don't know about and they turn out to be very dangerous chemicals and the train wrecks before it can go over another one of your car readers, who will be held accountable if the chemical kills or hurt someone or even kill one of the crew members. What is emergency personnel show up and don't know about the cars. If someone dies then someone could be charged with manslaughter. Could the crew members who don't say anything to the yard boss about the car reading being wrong when leaving be charged. I would think they couldn't because the company has to know its wrong and everyone ignores it. This sounds like a serious problem. I would never live within a hundred miles of a train track. Are all railroads like this

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 April 2019 Conductor Are you talking about the detector at roselake yard that gives you an axle count that's always off by at least 25 and sometimes over a hundred? I was told they have known about that thing for ever and no one cares. That's why so many trains leave out of there with extra cars that no one catches because everyone just ignores it. The next detector is way out of the yard and out on single track. This way they can get cars out and not worry about having to stop and identify them. Can you imagine how late trains would be leaving the yards if they had to stop and find out what they really have in their train. This is why they don't fix it.

Name: Brakestick E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 April 2019 Today is April 9th and CSX still sucks!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 April 2019 Watch out Huntington Locomotive Shop. You guys are next!!

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 April 2019 CSX Why don't you just use common sense and simplify the rule. If you get a hit and cant find anything wrong with the car then check 5 cars in front of and behind it. Real simple. We all know detectors are off all the time. Give bad axle counts every single day. So if you cant find anything wrong with the car check a few more and that's the end of it. If you do then do as you need to per the rules. Why do you have to write things so complicated. We know your so called new and smarter detectors are supposed to pick up hot wheels and other stuff but we all also know they aren't perfect. far from it. How about going to roselake yard in the great lakes division and fixing the one right outside the yard that has been wrong for over 2 years now!

Name: Wtf E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 April 2019 Heat stick Who asked about a temple stick? Who said anything about identifying a problem with a car. Man, no wonder new guys are so confused. How's a heat stick gonna get the boys question answered.

Name: Temp stick E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 April 2019 https://markal.com/collections/temperature-indicating-sticks

Name: Heat stick E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 April 2019 If you have a carman buddy ask him to get you a heat stick. It is the size of a pen with a compound that is used for checking hot bearing. You hold it to the bearing and if it melts it is a bad order if it does not melt it ok. Take guessing out of it.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 April 2019 conductor NA Your not helping. The new employee never posted anything that even remotely insinuated that he was lazy. The problem he has is with the LANGUAGE of the rules. If he is new then he has no idea what he is in for. They write rules left and right and then leave conflicting rules in the book that are related to the same task but never combine them. His question is a good one. The language says just what he said. It says if you get a hit of 3 or more defects and the dispatcher cant give you info on the rest of the train you must INSPECT EACH AXLE BEHIND THE LAST DEFECT REPORTED. What part of that don't you understand. He should talk to a TM and get a straight answer. HOW MANY! If you have a 124 car train and get 3 hits and the last one is 50 deep does the wording of the rule mean just inspect the next axle on both sides behind it or the rest of your train. When HH took over he cut corners and changed rules to speed things up. Safety went out the door. The new language in the newest rule(4303.4) in regards to getting 3 or more hits says if the dispatcher can get info from the powers to be in that famous back room that says there are no more defects reported in the rest of your train YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DO ADDITIONAL INSPECTION OF YOUR TRAIN!!! So why would you walk and inspect another 20 axles if you don't find a problem and you are told by the dispatcher and that particular rule you don't have to. The problem here is when they came up with this bright idea they did not go back into the operating rules book and remove the still existing rule #4304.2 that says you will inspect 20 axles before and after a reported axle IF YOU DONT FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE REPORTED AXLES and you were going at a speed above 8 mph. This rule doesn't even say a thing about the number of hits! Could be 1 or could be 10. Now if you cant understand why this is a problem for new employees who don't get it yet on how this company operates then you have no business giving advice. Now go get your rule book out and look at the procedure(rule 4303.4) for getting hit on 3 or more axles. Look at the 3 different procedures. Then go to page 6-4 and look at the very first block in the chart for rule 4304.2 Score....CSX 1.....New guy 0! Welcome to the rule book!

Name: Hot box E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 09 April 2019 If you get hit by scanner, and your walking train a damaged hot bearing if bad will be white hot you will smell the burnt grease and can feel the heat from not touching the bearing. On some wheel sets the adapter that sits on top of the bearing will be hot all so some wheel bearing adapter had a stink bomb built into them. When they got a certain tempature you could smell the stink bomb. Don�t mistake a sticky brake for hot bearing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 April 2019 Stock price is up...! Thats a good thing.

Name: Rule E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 April 2019 Go to suspect car have a smoke put your feet up for an hour, then head back to the head end all is well.

Name: New guy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 April 2019 Question about rule If you get hit with 3 defects and per rule chart 4303.4 the dispatcher can't give you any further info it says you must inspect each axle behind the last defect reported. Does this mean just the next axle or does that mean every car behind the last reported axle? I've had several old heads tell me that the company messed up again and left 2 rules in the book that conflict each other. The rule chart 4304.2 was never annulled and is effective till they remove it. It says if defect is not found and you were going over 8mph then you inspect 20 axles before and after reported defect. I was guessing if you just got one or two you do the 20 rule. If you got 3 or more you use the 4303.4 rule. WTH....so how many cars would be each axle behind the last defect? One car or the rest of the train. Crap! What if you had 40 cars behind the last one.

Name: Stock E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 April 2019 After announcements of shop closers and layoffs, stock climbs almost 4 bucks. That is the game plan. Real low operating ratio high stock value, I expect lots more yet to come.

Name: AOC clown E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 April 2019 I think 2020 election is very important to the workers of America. Trump is trying to bring jobs back from overseas. It is good for the country as a whole. AOC and the politicians like her is a total joke. When I see her on the news , it�s like watching Saturday night life. Anyone of sound mind can�t take people like aoc for real, a total joke. It shows how stupid people are to elect a nut bar like aoc the rest of her gain not any better. Just my view.

Name: union E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 April 2019 union memebers Last poster is right. But if your legislative rep is being told to support a political party that you don't support then you can order them to stop taking that portion out of your dues. Legislative reps should only be dealing with bills or federal laws that are or are not beneficial to the entire membership as a whole. Now... how about an answer for the guy wanting to know why the new bulletins don't say a thing about what the latest division timetable should be.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 07 April 2019 Again: Union dues cannot be used for campaign contributions. Look it up. A of portion dues may be dedicated to support a union's legislative department. However, any monies given to support a political candidate's campaign MUST come from funds donated voluntarily by members for that purpose.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 07 April 2019 Union dues cannot be used for political purposes. Any donations from unions for such things must come from members' voluntary contributions, which are in addition to dues. BlePAC, Smart-TD PAC, etc.

Name: Union donations E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 April 2019 You say politics is not welcome on this sight, because it is not rr related. Well I feel that it is, because your unions are taking your dues and making campaign donations to canadates that are detrimental to you as a rr. Democrats want to flood USA with cheap,cheap labourers. That is not union friendly in my mind,to bring people in that would do your job for a fraction of your wages. They just put them on the fast track to be trained, and willing to do your job at any cost just to get there foot in the door. I�ve witnessed this in other industries and the end result is not pretty for the person trying to make a living wage. Support candidates that are in your corner. If you don�t try and protect your way of life no one is going to do it for you.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 April 2019 Hey Rules!!! I looked through all those new reissues of system bulletins. I cant find anything that states what the latest subdivision timetables are or the dates of the latest issues. Is it supposed to be in the cover page of the operating rules issues or with the subdivision bulletins. I didn't see anything in those either. What is the protocol so all the new guys who just marked up can keep up with what's going on?

Name: The future E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 April 2019 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCv9TIlrgg

Name: Berrney E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 April 2019 And don�t forget to vote democrat, Bernie needs cheap labour to maintain his five houses. Pelosia does not want to talk to fellow Democrats about her worth of over a 100 million dollars. They don�t want you to be a capitalist, they want you to stay sheepal. But it is ok for themselves to be capitalists to make there millions. They want to take border walls down to let the parasites in to take everyone�s jobs. But they all say they support unions lol. The list goes on these people plant nonsense in people�s minds how they are for the little guy just to make them self�s rich and in control.

Name: Kadaphy E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 April 2019 Before kadaphy in Lebanon,died he said the muslims would take over the west, without lifting a sword. Muslims breed 5 to our 1. They already are destroying Europe, and now North America. And we elect people that raise our taxes to pay for them. When there population numbers are where they want them to be. They take over goverment etc. Sharia law baby. So don�t forget to pay those extra taxes to pay for all these imagrants that are going to eat your lunch.

Name: Fed up E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 06 April 2019 Paulie hilal is Egyptian. Slightly more understandable now. 7000 workers gone so a dam middle easterner can make billions. Only in amer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2019 Cond: The very first letter in the word union is "u". Curious. What, if anything, do you do? If you've truly been around 10-20 yrs., how do you conduct yourself? Safety First.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 April 2019 Ape Doesn't mean a thing. They've been painting at all the terminals. Needed to. Looked like crap. People writing on the walls and crap. Just like on the engines. Bunch of damn kids. As for sticking together hang it up. Never gonna happen. No one cares because the union's dont. How many years has the company constantly raped our agreements while the union just sits back and does notbing. Then come back with some side letter stating they can DO THAT NOW! How many claims are settled for .50 on the dollar. Same crap just another day.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 April 2019 Well they are painting and cleaning up Avon, You know what that means another round of the price is right. Why don�t we all stick behind one another instead of trying to backstab everyone and take this railroad back! Guaranteed it can be done!!! Forget the shareholders and Wall Street they don�t have a clue!!

Name: HOPPIN BOB E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 April 2019 No su bos...aint got naw "bad orders" on dis road no sir bos naw form "A" bos on this here railroad...no sir bos..naw hot boxes or hot wheels on dis here railroad boss...naw no wash outs on dis railroad here mr. boss... we naw DARK territories on dis here railroads boss...we getin yall richer on dis here railroad mr.boss.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 April 2019 Yes su boss we getting it done 8 and sand boss yes su

Name: Stock E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 April 2019 CSX will sell and cut as much as possible to get stock price up. What happens in future with CSX is not footes concern. Share holders want the big pay day. The new ceo will have to find the money to get things going again, if there is anything left to salvage.

Name: train master E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 April 2019 Well you'll be out of a job before to Long. missing your organization trains and coal trains.. I hear you all whining on power calls so STFU you poser...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2019 Guy's : geez will the whinning and crying ever end ? Just do your job.!! Get the freight over the Road..

Name: Electrician E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2019 Shut all the shops down that will keep the trains running. Screw Q's, fall outs keep running them dead in tow to keep the shop numbers low keeps out of service low. all trains are delayed can't get power can't get crews sounds like precision schedule railroading at the finest.

Name: SMW E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2019 https://www.wowktv.com/news/kentucky/csx-cuts-113-jobs-in-russell-ky/1902329480

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2019 Russell locomotive shop has shut completely down..

Name: To loco E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 April 2019 Your not part of brotherhood when you go out of your way, breaking company policy to help the company out. At a time they are cutting jobs like crazy, we follow company rules like they, should be followed. Not risking your job to being fired and helping the company cut more jobs.once an ass kisser always an ass kisser.

Name: friend E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 April 2019 Fellow friends of William Pack If you are unable to attend the service you can view William Packs obituary on the website E.M. Coots Sons funeral home, Jeffersonville, Indiana. They have a place for comments on line. There is no doubt that he had many friends in many states and the family would greatly appreciate your support.

Name: unionbrother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 April 2019 Brothers Flags should be lowered half staff tomorrow and Saturday until he is laid to rest. He is well worth the honor. We all know this wont happen in the terminal.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 April 2019 Fly on the wall Karma is a b...ch. I doubt very seriously you will be as admired as the man who was just posted about below.

Name: Flyon the wall E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 April 2019 I am minding my business, when you the company man lose your job for cell phone use, I just hope you have lots of seniority so we all gain a turn.

Name: IN MEMORY E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 April 2019 All brothers.... Please take a minute to bow your heads on Saturday at 11:00 pm in honor of the passing of William (Bill) Pack. He was 69 years old and retired from the Great Lakes Division out of Avon Indiana. He was laid off several times over his career and moved as need to keep his love of working on the railroad. He had the biggest heart for everyone. Was always there to lend a helping hand whether you were an engineer or a conductor. He was funny and full of laughter. If you did not know him you would have become a friend in 5 minutes of doing so. He will always be remembered in our hearts with a smile and admiration. Horns will be sounded in his honor at this time. Please take part as this is in honor of the passing of a wonderful railroad brother.

Name: Cdstepchild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 April 2019 Now they're d/h terre haute crews to Evansville to take trains back north. This shit is out of control. There should not be a home terminal in Vincennes or terre haute. We are getting screwed over big time. Also if we have a super pool the higher trip rate should be paid. We are getting beat out of this too.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 04 April 2019 Worry about yourself fly on the wall. The only one you need to worry about is yourself. Not any of your business what someone else decides to do unless it affects your job directly.

Name: Fly on wall E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 April 2019 I would like to be a fly on the wall when a guy has to go home and tell cup cake he got fired for using his cell phone at work. Priceless it would be to watch. Some people never learn, they are like computers you have to punch the information in. Good paying job lost because you can�t follow a simple easy rule as not using your cell phone. What definition would that fall under- idiot or moron or retard?

Name: Foote Disease E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 April 2019 I'd like to personally thank all you uneducated dumb fucks for using your personal cell phones to help CSX be the best ran Railroad in North America. It's O.K. for you dumb asses to use your personal phone to call the PTC help desk, the Train Dispatcher, Mechanical desk or T.M. if it helps us expedite our trains. But,if you are caught using your phone to call someone that isn't related to train movement you will be charged and fired (the cameras and cell phone detectors are firing you everyday). We here at CSX believe in Teamwork when it helps up out, but we are doing everything in our power to eliminate your jobs. We at CSX can't make you use your personal cell phones for company business, but we are counting on the sucks and Kool-Aid drinkers to give 110%. Just keep your head in the sand and ass in the air and Mgmt. will take care of the rest.

Name: Good place to work E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 April 2019 Just my personal view I liked going to work before the Hh regime. The guys where good you never got beat up by management as long as you did your job. It was a much fairer place to work and employees and management worked together and got the job done, and we always had a feeling of accomplishment. I did 35 years there, now retired with this management I would not go back for any money. They tried hiring me back temporarily, they could not get anyone to go back that just retired. They got the message!!

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 03 April 2019 Before hh, Exactly WHEN was the rr a good place to work? I for one did 40+ yrs. Was a job & was grateful to have it but never thought it was good.

Name: Before hh E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 April 2019 Before Hh regime came along. the rr was a good place to work. One of the things the company was worried about was the amount of people that where retiring at once, and having trained people to replace them. Then along came Hh and he cut thirty percent of the staff. Now they are having trouble hiring and retaining employees because of the new way they treat employees. They still treat employees like shit, and does not look like this will change. Cn cp now CSX.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 April 2019 Rules other I isn't a matter of falling asleep at the switch. Its a problem with them rushing to get things out all the time and not bothering to proof read. I remember a rule we had where we had to say we checked and double checked the switches on the radio after we lined them. This would be a great rule for the person who is responsible for putting these bulletins out. CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! It just makes me think that the person doing this is a white collar worker who never worked a day in the field and has no clue what we do! If they did then they could figure our where the responsibility of the rules belong.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 April 2019 Help It's probably because they are doing their best to abolish the yardmaster union and make then a part of the division of supervisors.Not sure why you need their turnover/schedule. Good luck.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 April 2019 The fact that American workers are treated this poorly is an atrocity. By a Fortune 500 company in this day in age and in a union shop is inexcusable. Mr foot and his henchmen should be charged with crimes against humanity. Where the hell is the government. Do you not realize these workers run trains. With thousands of gallons of hazardous substances. Are you hoping for a major incident so you can take over? Jimmies contract for his 13 mil is all incentive based. Guess who works harder for and with less so Jim gets his 13 mil. Change this web site to Csx atrocities or Csx crimes.

Name: Help E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 April 2019 Does anyone know how to access the yard masters turnover? They changed it recently and we can�t access anymore. Everything has to be top secret at the RR. What a joke.. any help is appropriated thanks...

Name: Real rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 April 2019 Posters The post submitted from RULES other NA. Was not a post from me. Though the comment was some what accurate I would not wish to offend anyone in any department. Everyone's safety is my top priority.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 April 2019 I guess someone fell asleep at the switch. If they have to get informed from this site to update rules to presant. Amazing!!!

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 April 2019 Rules Thankyou for that post on the messed up rules. They reissued those rules you stated in our operating rules. Funny how it was posted on here on the 30th and it was changed so quick. We are all surprised that happened. Thankyou for looking out for us!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 April 2019 Ah, for cryin' out loud, no matter what, no matter where, is there such a thing as job security anywhere anymore?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 April 2019 csx : Is not a place to seek long term employment anymore. There goal is to run a railroad without employees. In pursuit of this goal officers culivate and enviroment that breeds resentment and chaos. Work discipline,pride in workmanship,and ethics will do nothing for you with csx. Fraud,lies,Employee discipline,and intimidation are the tools of csx management. "I like my hammer" is a common statement by csx Officer's in the field. You will be stressed and you will be intimadated and you will be asked/required to make calls wide right of Federal,State,and corporate policy.

Name: Audit E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 April 2019 And an outside firm will come in and do an audit on management. And you better be generating value for csx or your gone. Don�t think AI can�t replace management, my wife is in banking industry, and the new programs that they have and introducing is unbelievable. Lots of people have been replaced by these programs. It just has not made its way into the rr industry yet !

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 April 2019 That's why autonomous freight trains are needed and will happen in near future. Totally Automatic...take human error out of equation. Safer more efficient and more Profitable.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 April 2019 Movement You don't have to ride the point if you can see the track is clear and all switches are lined for its movement. It is no different than shoving cars into a track that you can see is clear. That's why 3 man crews are better out on the local jobs that could use this move to get things done faster. Someone on both ends. I worked a local for years that we did this on. Single rail local. when we got to the end of the line we had to run around the cars with a drop. Had to do static. Had to work industries on the way back. Never had a problem with getting the switch lined and back in place before the cars got there. The only other choice we had was to go 12 miles out of our way to Y the cars. It was on another division and we had to get warrants to do it. Fought like hell to get the time to do it and share with their locals. When management saw how we could do the drop they were all for it. No problem. They trusted us to do the job right. Besides, if your worried about protecting the shove just ride the leading end!

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 April 2019 i get tired of this safety issue in dark territory check re check its all BS some will still make a mistake we are human and humans make mistakes its happened a lot of times and caused a derailment, but they have the human factor, just blame it on the crew and all said and done when just a simple distant switch signal would have stooped this , just to cheap to pay for a 6 volt bulb on a signal mast. and scene i am on a rant today this might grab ya, we had a real prick for a tm a few yrs ago this bastard wanted to fire anyone he could for anything, i later found out he was a hostler at a local small yard before he got the tm title, what ass he sucked to get TM i do not know, but all the guys who worked at that yard told me that when he was a hostler he would refuse to move engines when it was raining outside, hence he got the name wet back.LOL but true.

Name: Movement E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 April 2019 What about riding the point and protecting movement at all times. You can�t throw switch and ride the point at same time.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 April 2019 Riley. Dropping cars. Good question. Ignore that ignorant ass Bob. He has key board courage. Just another one who hides in the bathroom when the TM comes in. Rule 404.2(new rule) states that equipment must not be move with handbrakes applied except when Paragraph A: Necessary to control the movement of cut of cars NOT COUPLED TO A LOCOMOTIVE! Now how often do any of us move cars without a locomotive attached?When your spotting them. Maybe need to let them roll down a little? Or how about ducking in the clear with the power and letting them roll by so you can get on the other end. Only way to run around them. You can do that if you can get the power in the clear first, line the switch back and then release the brakes and allow them to roll slowly past the switch so you can run around them. Most guys using air bleed the cars off one by one until you get a slow roll. Safer and more efficient to stop when your putting on the handbrake to stop them. Of course your screwed if they wont roll. What you can not do under and circumstance is pull the cut to get them going and then cut them away from the engines and while they are rolling you throw the switch so you can get the motors in the clear and then get the switch back before the cars get there. Used to be done all the time when cars wouldn't roll and it was the only way to get around them. Used to call that a static drop. When you had 3 man crews it was safe. Someone was at the switch ready to throw it while the other guy rode the cut and stopped it if anything went wrong. Rule 405.6: When switching, cars must only be cut off in motion when being pushed by a locomotive. Do not cut off cars in motion while being pulled by a locomotive. There is nothing written in this rule that restricts any particular car from being switched at all. Hope this clears thing up for you!

Name: exrep E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 April 2019 By the book It is nice and good to know your bargaining agreement but it doesn't have s single thing to do with the companies operating rules. The bargaining agreement only covers your agreed work rules and conditions, pay and other perks such as meals, vacations, etc. You know what kind of hell it would cause if the company could come back and charge anyone who submitted a claim that was wrong. Charge them with trying to steal and filing false claims. Im surprised they haven't tried that yet. Only can deny. The rules are the ones that need to be learned backwards and forwards. You are 100% right about them using them to win their case against you. There is only way you can prove that a precedent has been set on a certain rule you are breaking because supervisors are allowing it and know it. Get them on a tape recorder ordering you to do it. Get several statement from others who have been told to do it. Of course they will want to throw the book at your for violating the recording device rule but it they want to save the supervisor they will negotiate. Not something they want taken to the press or copies sent to all Union offices. Your right. You better know your shitz and have all your ducks in a row!

Name: By the book E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 April 2019 All my years on the railroad, you might work a certain way in the field and it is acceptable with management. But when something goes wrong and you have to go for statements. The company will always go by the book, and you better know the book for your answer on your statement. For liability reasons they always go by the book and if you say it was acceptable to your supervisor to work that way, you will never find a supervisor to back your answer.In the end it is all about the company covering there ass. I tell guys before you stand your ground on an issue arguing with management make dam sure you know the facts. Some guys go off with there mouth and get pulled out of service because they where not up to date with rules or collective agreement. Knowledge is power.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 01 April 2019 Amen!!!!, Reading & understanding contractual agreements too: Too many meatballs want to submit penalty claims for things they are not actually entitled to - then are upset when those are denied.

Name: AMEN!!!! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 April 2019 Reading rules You couldn't have said it better. And your right. It boils down to just plain laziness. If anyone comes on here and says different then they are liars. I don't know how they made it through conductor school. They had to read there and take test. Even engineers that have years under their belts do the same thing. I just worked with one the other day who made fun of me because I was hoping no one was in the crew room when we go in so I could print off the new bulletin reissues for the new quarter without having to fight for the printer. He sat there and said he couldn't believe I was going to do that when we didn't need them yet. Told me to get a life! What a total dumb ass loser. If someone ask me a rule and I don't know it I tell them Im not sure and then I look it up when I can to find out for myself. Its called self educating. I had an old head teach me that every time you look up a rule make a copy of it. At the end of the year see how many pages you had. I had 52 pages the first year. Now when someone ask me a rule I get the book out and show it to them. Then I tell them I could have told them but to never believe any one out here. Not even a trainmaster. If you look it up and see it then you know your right. Got to be the laziest people I have ever worked with in my life!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 April 2019 Dang i hate reading all them rules..gives me a Migraine.

Name: Reading rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 March 2019 So often on this sight some asks about a rule. Some times an answer is put on here. How do you know if the guy giving you the answer to your rule question is not just playing with you. Is it that hard for some of you to read a document for yourself. What is the problem? Do you not have time or the documents? Or just plain lazy, I always had information close by, in my grip if I needed to look something up I did. Some of the most simplest rules everyone should know, I�m shocked how many people don�t after doing the job for years.

Name: Dave E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 31 March 2019 FRA: Run a copy of this post, I'm back! We have lost our jobs to other nations by not applying Fair Bid and Fair Business practices under the Anti Trust Laws. We are no longer the worlds most powerful nation but a shell dependent on corruption and greed. Every rail employee should read the Sherman and CLayton Anti Trust Laws. We as Americans can not compete with other nation who use child, slave and sweat shops! As LOCO mentioned: As railroaders we have shipped Americas freight for a longtime. What LOCO didnt mention is that one of our main shipments is now Trailer On Flat Cars Which don't carry American goods but CRAP from other nations which HAS destroyed our nation. NOT with out a FIGHT FRA! SEC! For you other guys out there I am from CSXT Operating Headquaters Jacksonville. I helped start all the bad stuff before I understood. Media: You want a story ? Contact Atom over this site and he'll give you my private e-mail. CSX, FRA, State Officials, other Railroads? Bring iron!

Name: locomotive E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 March 2019 Brothers Rules is right. The rules he wrote are under our control. All we can do is tell the dispatcher we lined switches in the proper direction in dark territory. All they can do is ask if we filled out our spaf forms and if we are clear of an ec1 territory when we report we are. As for being stopped closer than half an engine length from an absolute, I used to think that was stupid to notify them but I was in that position once and as soon as I let off the brakes to pull forward the signal dropped on me before I could get past it. It looked like I ran it. It was clear when I started to move but dropped so fast I didn't have time to get stopped before I rolled by it. Not by much but enough to make it look like I ran a stop. Never fails that CSX doesn't think these things out before they jump the gun. One circus act after another.

Name: Co E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 March 2019 New guy There is none. Get used to it.

Name: new guy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 March 2019 Guys Does anyone know what the difference between the new HQ issue bulletins rule numbers 019 and 020? I read them a dozen time and I cant find a difference. Does anyone know?

Name: rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 March 2019 ALERT!!!! All locomotive engineers and conductors RE: New format of rules Date: Effective April 1st, 2019 The cover page(001) introducing the new format and which bulletins each department has to carry is seriously flawed. Item 1-section A subsection B referring to who is to carry dispatchers bulletins states that only dispatchers are required to carry these rules. This is misleading as it may confuse some employees into believing they are no different than General Notices when it comes to the seriousness of train handling and other operating rules. You do not have to carry them but you must read them thoroughly. I would suggest you carry the following rules contained in the dispatcher bulletins. Rules: 501.-EC1 504.7- Very important rule for engineers. This rule should have been left in the operating rules section for crew members. A dispatcher has no idea how far you have stopped your locomotive from an absolute and therefore has no way of instructing crews on the matter until he/she had been notified. 505.11-Releasing authorities 505.12-Hand operated switches 506.11-TWC/ABS hand operated switches(EXTREMELY IMPORTANT) 506.12-Prior to releasing authority 506.13- Trains overrunning an authority All these rules, with maybe an exception to making changes to an EC1, are rules that must be considered and acted upon by the crew members. They should have been left in the operating rules section of the new reissues. Look for changes to the rules very soon as these rules were not considered properly and should have been given greater consideration. It is not uncommon for crew members to forget to read General notices because they are not required to carry them, It give them the illusion that they are not that important. Do not make this mistake in regards to the dispatcher bulletins!!!!!!!

Name: Regret E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 March 2019 If your wife partner is threatening to leave you because of the hours you work, let her walk. She new your hours when she got with you. How long do you think it will take for her to walk when you have no money, because you can�t find a job after quitting the rr. Statistics show that when men have money issues the woman walks out of the relationship. Really consider what you are doing before you quit your rr job for a woman. I have seen many men over the years quit there job for a woman just to regret it. Don�t let her play you, remember that vow threw thick and thin. You make the wrong decisions, and it can affect your whole future!!!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 March 2019 Wildwood POSER! LIAR! No one is blocking your intersection while they sit there and eat donuts and coffee. Your just running your mouth about a rumor you heard. We have every right to sit on any crossing we want when we are working. We only have to cut trains now when we leave them tied down and are leaving. We can sit as long as we want while we are on board and preparing to do work. Get over it. Guarantee the railroad was there before your fat arss was. If it wasn't for the railroads you would have half the stuff you have. Who do you think ships tons of the commodities that are used to make the recliner for your fat arss and the plastic for the remote you have in your hand. Not to mention the parts used for that computer and smart phone your using. Coal and oil to keep your house warm. Get over yourself. Use another road to get around idiot!

Name: Rr marriage E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 March 2019 Most true rr are married to the rr. I�m on wife number two. Now retired the first wife was there for my money, nothing but a pain in the ass. The second wife came with a career and no baggage. You can replace a wife you can�t replace your seniority and the money you make as a railroader.

Name: Wildwood E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 March 2019 Yall keep blocking our intersection while you drank coffee and eat donuts!! Csx management needs to address this !!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 March 2019 I let csx ruining my marriage and my life for money.... I quit!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 March 2019 Much more to story on �Rollout� ...those cameras, CADS, crews, signal maintainers, Amtrak delay reports don�t lie. Interested to see how long this takes b4 the initial report given by TM on the ground changes his story to reflect the truth.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 March 2019 Roll out at ACCA yard last night. Cover up began immediately. All in front of a Paseenger train, (Dropped signal on him).

Name: Lazy E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 March 2019 My years on the railroad I seen it all in 35 years. We had employees follow the rules and policies and called management on it when they wanted you to bend the rules. You ended up labeled shit disturber. You would stand your ground but management always had there go to guys that would break the rules and he would get special treatment. And these ass kisser would sit across from you in the lunch room thinking they are special. One day our ass kissing brother carman got caught breaking the safety rules and a safety official fired him on the spot. And his supervisor denied he new anything of this workers unsafe work habits. At his arbitration hearing he tried to say he was told to break the rules to speed things up. No one backed his statement and he lost his case. Us guys that try and stick to the rules where all still working. Karma. The guys that take short cuts are stupid this day and age where they want to find a way to fire you with cause. They can get rid of you and save money at the same time.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 March 2019 DUMBO WRONG WRONG WRONG! Obviously you haven't been out on the rails or in the yard long enough to see whats really happening. Yard guys.... Break rules because the TM and hit squads are around breathing down their necks to get the work done. They are scared little boys who are afraid of the big bad wolf stalking them if they don't work like whipped mules. No balls and no back bones Road guy... Got to get on that road. Got a ho at the other end who is waiting on him or got to hook up with the crew and watch the game. Sooner you get there the sooner your on held away or get back. Some are just lazy as hell and don't want to take the extra 10 minutes it takes to do the job right. Seen them jumping off equipment going 10 miles and hour. Don't want to wait to do it right. Lazy is about the biggest reason for cutting corners. No one is sucking up to this circus. They are either lazy, blue balled, scared or got plans on either end.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 27 March 2019 Railrunner, Yes Amen! Bring back Big Blue! At least they could move Freight!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2019 Railrunner: Its by design your right, UNION PACIFIC will buy CSX debt and all by 2022.. Then will see how quick we get our raw materials too us.. Gonna be interesting to say the least.

Name: Dumbo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2019 Still with the written rules, some employees will still violate them thinking they are doing the company a favour. ie ass kissers and when they get pulled out of service scratch there heads thinking how did this happen. Before the Hh regime you could get away with it, not anymore but some are very slow learners. I�ve seen this with many new hires, before they send them home it�s a piss test first now they have a new issue if there piss test is positive for drugs.

Name: HA! HA! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 March 2019 Trainmaster MOLE! You are so full of shitz.... If you are a trainmaster then you know in order to follow all the rules to the letter of the law then you have to stop and look them up every time you encounter something that you can't remember or don't remember ever seeing. You know the amount of rules is ridiculous. As for following the rules to a tee half the rules are written to cover the companies arss. Just like getting down and observing trains. It states very clearly MR. Trainmaster that you are to do it IF DUTY AND TERRAIN PERMITS.. It is up to the crew to decide if the terrain is permissible and safe to get down and watch a train blow by at 50-60 mph. If a crew member where to get down and get hurt while walking to his safe distance they would throw the book at him and accuse him of not inspecting his area for slip trip and falls. Don't deny it. You know its true. A lawyer already posted on here how the way it is written will cover the companies arss on any choice we make. Everyday there are engineers standing next to their trains closer than 30 feet because they are scared to death to be caught up in the cab where it is safe to be. TM's are telling everyone to make an effort no matter what. You call that safe. You call that looking out for the safety of the crews. Nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. Intimidation tactics. That is all this boils down to. And for what? To do a roll by inspection that is a joke and should be done at 10mph and not 50-60 mph! Every new rule is written in blood. That's the reputation of the railroad. Its going to take someone getting seriously injured or killed before this railroad rethinks its "Get down and make an effort attitude" when the TERRAIN DOES NOT PERMIT STANDING 30 FEET AWAY!

Name: Lol E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 March 2019 Piss on the FRA company fools

Name: Lol E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 March 2019 There are no FRA laws with the PSR that's why the get awaway with so munch FRA will fire the common man the man that does not have the money to pay for the high price lawyers like the big heads do and look away not realizing we did not do are job the way we wanted to because fear and intimidation will gets us fired because there push push push we went from the safest RAILROADERS to the worst and the FRA has not fired not one of the millionaire for it

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 March 2019 Just follow all the rules to the letter. Be safe and methodical while you work. Thats all you have too do when your working. Simple: dont worry about other yards, terminals,extra boards,etc..etc...just do the above just for today.....go home come back and do same thing mentioned above day by day...and see if it dont work about better for you in the long run.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 March 2019 Engineer You forgot to mention all the sub division time tables and all the special instructions in those as well. I carry 6 of the things for the territories I run on. Some divisions have different special instructions. Your point was well made. The public has no idea how many written rules we have and that its impossible to know them all. My major concerns When to accept or shop locomotives because of fra failures(stinking overflowing toilets, seats broken and on the floor, etc...) When to talk on the radio and when not to When to use sterile cab When to do roll by and when to stay on board doing more important duties Watching for slow orders and signs that might be test Contacting a foreman for a work authority When to call clear of a Dark TWC area When to slow down if EOT fails. Making sure brake test are done by the federal laws and cars are placed properly in the train Proper calendar days done. New rule says everyday now Setting up PTC and TO and DP if stuck with it. Speed control and when to adjust in bad weather or when you have extra cars and don't know what they are or there is a traffic jam of trains ahead of you. Making sure I don't make a move that the ERAD might pick up as a failure Watching for illegal gate runners at crossings Brake slips are legal and eot info is correct and on the headend Making sure I don't do anything in front of the camera that they can try and use against me Doing everything above and trying to help the new guy who just marked up and cant remember his first name And the most important....Praying I don't get busted for breaking one of those other thousand rules that I cant remember.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 March 2019 3 stooges Apparently you didn't read the post! Im guessing your basing your comments on your own experiences of not knowing the rules. IF your making your comments about the guy who was railroaded as an example, he did follow the rules. He couldn't get 30 feet away from the equipment because he was next to a lake that was too close to the rail. You 3 sound like you are trying to twist it in the companies favor. They railroaded him. I hope one day they pass a law that every time the railroad shows up for an arbitration case and it turns out to be something as stupid and ignorant as this they have to pay a hefty fine for wasting everyone's time, money and resources to deal with playing kangaroo court. If it went in front of a federal judge Im sure they would hear about their stupidity. If I was the judge I would make sure they knew if they ever showed up in my court again with lame crap like this it would cost them dearly! Oh... and for the public who views this site and have no idea about the contents of our rules book, it is over an INCH THICK and has more than 420 pages in it(front and back). Not only that there are several individual rules written on each page. There are several thousands. So how in the hell could anyone know all these rules. Then they change them every time you turn around. Its a major joke for this company to think for one moment that any employee could memorize that book. I can say without a doubt that there is not one single employee including the operating rules department heads that can quote every rule. If they could then there wouldn't be so many mistakes made in them when they are published. Not a single white shirt in this company knows all the rules by heart. Now they are talking about putting them on tablets. Are you FRICKIN KIDDING ME!!!! It is rare if I have a trip where our EOT does not drop out or the PTC or TO doesn't lose communication. Many local jobs have problems with their on board devices staying linked up. Just what are we supposed to do if we are in the valley where we cant get a signal and we are in a situation where we need to look up a rule? Do I have to get off and start walking with it until I can get a signal? Maybe tone up the dispatcher and have him look up the rule for me. Guarantee he wont know the answer right off. So if a rule says an employee can be no closer than 30 feet to any train rolling by as he inspects it, do you think they should railroad him when he cant just to make a point????????

Name: Just me E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 March 2019 I use to grab a coffee and show up to work about an hour earlier , just to catch up on bullitins etc. Other guys would be reading the comics in the news paper. I made it my business to stay up to date. I did this for 33 years. Each to there own.

Name: Lazy E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 March 2019 With all my years on the rr a lot of guys fly by the seat of there pants, ie can�t be bothered to read any updated rules. Then when they find themselves in trouble go out of there way to find all the documentation regard the rule they where busted for violating. With all the extra time an employee has sidings hotel etc. It does not take much to review rules and policies. The company knows how to trap you by not following the rules and policies, ignorance is not a defence. With this regime that wants to cut staff, they just go after the easy pickens, why make it easy for them. I would carry every rule book I could fit in my grip be prepared and stick to it.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 March 2019 If all employees followed CSX policy rules, they would not be able to nail you guys. Again it�s like your first day on the job second guessing everything. If the book says 30 feet and you don�t have 30 feet don�t do it. If they send you home let them, file a grievance and go from there. Do you think they are going to fire everyone, and go threw arbitration. To go threw arbitration it is expensive and time consuming for the company and union. What they are doing is the guys that think they are doing the company a favour, by not following the rules are now getting. Nailed by the company, the employee sets his own trap then the company goes for the kill. Then in a statement they have you hands down for not following the rules. Easy peasy for the company to win those cases. Your your own worst enemy people. When it comes to statement time the company follows the letters of the policy�s and your done.

Name: Being sick E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 March 2019 When I�m sick I�m usually to sick to even go to the doctor, I�m. Calling in sick. I�m looking after my health and staying in bed. CSX can go fuck themselves.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 25 March 2019 Response to target: Yeah, if sick - carrying a virus that's easily spread, etc. - shouldn't be around coworkers. Sure, anyone can probably get a sick slip from a doctor - but who the hell really wants to have to see one unless necessary - Dr. visits require time & aren't free. Missing work\pay isn't cheap either. The CAPS thing is & has been something else. CSX let us down. Unions let us down.

Name: Cp slave E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 March 2019 Not many old guys left at cp. all the new hires treated like slave robots. The new hires will never know that at one time the rr was a good place to work. New hires being there a short time hate it, but stick around because they have bills to pay.

Name: Sick E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 March 2019 Been retired two years now have not been sick. When I was working I got every flu cold etc. That someone brought to work. And had a lot of employees dragging there ass because of being sick at work. When people go to work sick there production is down and that�s the way it is.

Name: target E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 March 2019 FACTS! Any time a new rule comes out there is always a rash of head hunting and they always try and make an example out of someone. It doesn't matter if you have proof without a doubt they will find a way to twist it and charge you anyway just to sent a message to the masses. The only problem is everyone knows this old tired trick and it doesn't do any good. You just take the unfair and illegal write up and wait it out until you get it removed. Just like the illegal attendance policy that has been ruled as unconstitutional. How in the hell do you assess points to a person who had to go to the doctor, was seen and treated and has valid proof they were there. Points are a form of discipline. Plain and simple. The points were a mere scare tactic to try and get people to come to work sick. Where in the hell is the safety in that!

Name: Cp rail E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 March 2019 When Hh took over cprail shares where at $70.00. Today the shares are at $273.00

Name: Trump mole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 March 2019 TRUMP 2020... Keep America great...

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 March 2019 Inspection rules says engineer will inspect the passing train from his/her side of the standing train. That engineer that was found guilty was not able to get 30 feet away because of a lake. Your right. Crap hole. He will win it in arbitration.

Name: Knowledge E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 March 2019 When you start on the rr, they give you safety rule books etc. And you sign for them all threw out your employement there are safety bullitins etc. I know most of you can read, there should be no dought on what the company rules want you to do. People always seem to second guess what they are suppose to do. Follow the rule book, if they fire you for following there rules, then it is just bulling and abuse. Record everything and enjoy your time off work till you are reinstated with benefits and pay. Don�t be stupid and take it upon yourself to break the rules for the company. Follow the directions laid out in black and white. You have to read and know the presant written rules not hear say rules some manager made up. Do not be scared to challenge the manager trying to get you to violate company policy they keep trying to push you to submit. Knowledge is power take sometime and read the manuals and be prepared to stand up for yourself. The company preaches there safety policy, just follow the rules and screw the rest of the intimidating non sense.

Name: Locomotive E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 March 2019 Ape You know why great lakes people bitch the most? Because this division is the one that was chosen to be headed hunted for failures. They harrassed the employees so bad at one time the union actually stepped in and tried to make a difference. They started focusing on the Chicago division instead but they found out real quick you can't screw with yards worked by gang members. They brought the hit squads back to the great lakes. This is fact. Not fiction. Rules state in black and white you will be 30 feet away from any train while doing a roll by inspection. Now you tell me how the hell they can charge a crew member for not being on the ground watching a roll by when there is a damn make 15 feet away. Rep did GPS shots of location. Still found them guilty. Rule says do roll by if Duty and TERRAIN PERMITS. Is this horse shit happening on other divisions? I bet it isnt! If that crew was less than 30 feet away and got hurt by something that flew off that train they would throw the book at them and deny all accountability for their injuries. We are supposed to take the safest course of action. Supposed to be empowered to make that choice! The great lakes is a crap hole. Now you understand!

Name: Caved beaten E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 March 2019 My advise don�t listen to the guys that there nuts,shriveled up like dry prunes. They cave to the intimidation and have been weak most of there lives. Put those grievances in every time you have a violation of the collective agreement. Don�t listen to those people that say your wasting your time. Then every couple three months ask you LC at what stage it is in. And if it can�t be settled locally with the company, then it should go to arbitration and there could be many grievances of violation of the same rule that will be dealt with as a whole. It might take time to get to arbitration. Tell your LC to keep you informed on your grievance status. It is worth your while to be made whole on the money they owe you. CSX will keep violating the agreement hoping you will not put in a grievance. I won twice being pulled out and once being fired, held out 3.5 years. Everyone told me I was wasting my time fighting back, even some local union reps. Glad I did not listen to them. When I was reinstated with back pay lots of people where shocked. Ps what do you have to lose nothing and everything to gain.

Name: Out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 March 2019 Remember....if you feel a burn. See a doctor Soon.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 March 2019 If you believe you are due a 2nd slip for being held over on a yard job then I believe I would know exactly where it said that in my agreement!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 23 March 2019 God forgives the Brotherhood Doesn�t!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 March 2019 Anyone notice anything about this particular website? The highest percentage of the bitching\complaining posts seem to come from great lakes division people.

Name: Stock buy back E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 March 2019 Foote and friends looting CSX to prop. Up stock value. And CSX stock buy back to also increase the stock value. The more Foote props. Up the stock value the more of a pay package he personally gets. When he leaves CSX he will be very well off as he looks behind him at the rubble. The stock has been pretty stagnant I thought Foote and mantle would of cashed out by now. Maybe there waiting for approval to sell more CSX assets.

Name: biteme! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 March 2019 Broken record Go screw yourself. Bet your one who bends over backwards and pays those dues every month and smiles. You put the claims in whether they get paid or not. Keep the union officials buried under mounds of paper. Make them do something to earn at least a nickel of all our hard earned money! Its real sad when a high up the chain official shows up on the property and deliberately makes crew do work that is a clear cut violation of the union agreements. An upper manager one step from being in Jacksonville show be charged by Union labor law lawyers for malicious assault on the workers and raping the agreement. He should be put on the street!

Name: Rainbow E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 March 2019 Bernie Sanders for 2020 !!! Lets feel the burnnnnnn...babe....

Name: Out on parole E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 March 2019 Blah blah blah, Broken record....

Name: Back log E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 March 2019 Company can reject everything, it does not mean the issue is going away. All it means is it will take longer to settle. CSX has to follow the labour laws with dealing with employees. That grievance you put in today you might see a check for it in three years. Just fight fire with fire don�t stop putting in those grievances. Rome was not built in a day. I was made whole on three grievances, the last one took 37 months. I forgot all about it, then received a check making me whole. CSX just wants to discourage everyone not to put in grievances. At cp Hh ended up paying for 88% of the grievances same as cn. Hh refused to pay but had no choice.

Name: Cpnductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 March 2019 Ape If your working jobs with assigned shift times if a job on the next shift can't be filled they arenr supposed to just force you over 4 hrs to fill it and just pay overtime. Your supposed to get a ticket for that job on that shift. no one is supposed to be forced to work over if the next shift does show up to work. They can ask if you want to buy not force you too. They need help they can call an extra crew.

Name: Grievances E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 March 2019 When Hh came to CSX, we where warned by cn cp guys that went threw all this. We where told to put in a grievance for every violation. Collective agreement breaches and safety hazards and not to let up. The only way CSX will lighten up if they have to spend money at arbitration hearings and making people whole from the positive outcome. This is the only hope there is for the company not continuously breaking the rules. If people can�t take the time to file a grievance every time CSX abuses employees, then just live with and take the abuse.

Name: Boeing FAA UP FRA E-mail: info@csx.com Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 March 2019 All Rails: Pay attention to what's going on with the FBI investigating the recent Boeing crashes. Apparently, the FAA allowed Boeing to govern itself by former FAA officials who are employed with Boeing as safety inspectors. On the UP, a majority of the FRA inspectors are officially UP employees, who are inactive, and is employed with the FRA; assigned on UP territory overseeing train operations. And those inspectors also advises the FRA to delay the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC). The last five years, UP has had more [fatal] head-on/rear-end collisions than all the Class I railroads combined. And what makes the situation worse is union bosses being paid to accept the oversight arrangements with the FRA. All rank and file employees should contact their representatives and request an audit of FRA meetings (documents) with union bosses, including compensation to union officers that includes concealing personal injury claims. Vote Republican, the Democrats wants to sell our country back to China and Hollywood! DB Cooper

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 March 2019 Where in the agreement, article and page #, does it say you have to have a second time ticket when being held over in the yard?

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 March 2019 Blah blah. Jesus christ. Not more of this political blah blah bullshit. This is a safety thread. Who gives a rsts arss about your political opinions! Let's talk about crews not getting paid for hitting cars unless someone dies. How about junk engines and air pumped up above legal. How about running guys into the ground and ordering yard crews to stay 12 hours when they have relief crews there. Scheduled on duty time yard crews are not supposed to be forced over without a second ticket and their doing this shit at avon! One violation after another. Shit is getting deep!

Name: Democrats E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 March 2019 It�s was the Democrats that gave jobs away to over seas. The Democrats gave companies money to move over seas. It was the Democrats that was willing to support single mothers with ten kids. Iran payout the list goes on, letting any parasite into USA that wants free money. And get supported in prison at big cost per parasite. Cheap cheap labour etc. If dems get there way you will all be working for min. Wage.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 March 2019 You sound like a big fan of Bernie and AOC. Good luck if they take over.

Name: American rr E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 March 2019 One thing the north American rr are not doing is putting profit back into the rr for the future. They figured out how to loot everything for Wall Street, and upper management. And when they have taken everything they can and there is nothing left to loot they will move onto the next scam. And the new ceo and team will have no choice to start rebuilding everything that was neglected. They have been doing this for years at cn cp after Hh left. CSX is next in line to be saved from the destruction of the greedy thief.Hopefully CSX will be able to get the customers back that this regime has neglected. The $$$$ to put CSX back to what it once was will take years and lots of people. I�m amazed the goverment lets this happen this day and age. That�s deregulation for you.

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 March 2019 One thing that blew my mind, was when a senior man on the list got fired. A lot of younger guys on the list only cared about getting better days off etc. Because of a senior man on the list being fired. Now that�s a brotherhood!

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 March 2019 Why would I even make a post like that if I wasn't one of the people who would lay off? I'm not gonna bicker back and forth on here with you but if the right people took action the majority would get on board and the men who wouldn't should have their ass beat. And yes...what about the union? Are you going to lie and say things have improved at all for the past 10 years? What does a raise mean anyway whem just about everything except for milk, bread, and gas(which always fluctuates) has increased in price? We are the union but we have many "union" members who jump through hoops for the company and suck ass. You know who you are bitches. It doesn't matter anymore. Why does this site still exist? The people who want to fight and stick together should just fold up the tents and go home.

Name: Sticking together E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 March 2019 One of the reasons people will not stand together, is of greed a lot of people today are one check away from being broke. No common sense when it comes to det the more the creditors will lend the more people borrow. You might have a wife that can�t stop shopping on high interest credit cards. You have to have your stuff you know. Or a guy has gone threw this and he is in divorce court, or paying child support and vaginamony. And that one extra trip means he eats till next payday. In the end it is all about money. If you think men will stick together like they did thirty years ago it will never happen, like the one guy said everyone today is a victim. Issues guys fought hard for in the past, where just given away.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 March 2019 Wasting your breath about sticking together. It will never happen. Company is greedy but Railroaders are worse. Cut each others throat for that extra ticket. Railroaders are their own worst enemy. Complain about a Union and no representation but to be a union you have to know what a union is. You say union officials are afraid to get arrested for striking. Next time your ordered to go against the contract stand up and refuse. Tell them no. Can't ask your Union officials to do something you're not willing to do yourself. Everyone acts like the union is shit. Ask everyone to mark off for a 24 hour period and you would think they were asked to give up their first born. Ask them to try an organize and watch the guys start fleeing the room. Go ahead and bitch about your union but if you pay dues well you are the union. It starts with every dues paying member. Can't be a union when we don't act like a union. It's just like kids now a days. I don't play in a game because my coach sucks. I get bad grades because my teacher is terrible. Blah blah. It is always someone else's fault but theirs. Sort of just like the railroad and union. This is the best, why do we even have a union? Really?

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 March 2019 I disagree with that statement. If enough men in all crafts of all the big railroads stuck together for just 1 week it would be amazing. This job market isn't great but these railroads wont find enough people to train and replace if at least 80 percent were on board. These gd railroad unions have their hands tied because everyones afraid of going to jail. Well why the hell are we paying dues without representation? If I'm just gonna get bent over anyway I don't see the use. Our benefits aren't what they were, the attendance rules are a crime, the way they just make rules as they go to fit their agenda is a joke. There is absolutely zero morale anymore. When I hired on people weren't exactly happy but you also didn't need to lube your asshole before you left the house either for all the fucking you were about to get. You used to have reliable lineups, nicer hotels, family days, better benefits, all the safety equipment you ever needed, a shoe allowance...you took away our fucking shoe allowance? What a terrible fucking place to work.

Name: Solidarity E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 March 2019 Working under Hh for four years did not matter if guys stuck together, or how much the union challenged Hh. He just fired people for any little thing, he new it would take the union a long time to fight back with arbitration etc. He new he would not have to deal with anything because he moved on. This regime is about profit greed, breaking all the rules. Stick it out and if your pulled out in time you will be made whole. I was pulled out twice and then fired. I returned to work threw union getting me back with full pay. Remember you are nothing to these people.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 March 2019 You know I sit back and read some of the shit that goes on and I really wonder how a bunch of grown men can't stick together. It's like a big bully on a playground just beating the hell out of everyone with no fear. No fear in his mind that if all these kids on the playground stuck together they would kick his ass. The bully just gets worse and worse with no fear of repercussions. One day CSX and these other big railroads will find out the hard way.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 March 2019 Engineers Watch those PTC's too! Watch for a glitch that will combine workorders. Old and new can be screwed up and put old into your info. Call the PTC if it happens to you. They will tell you there are tons of glitches. Just make sure you report them either by phone or use the PTC report form.

Name: Fired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 March 2019 Said on here many times, this regime loves firing people with cause. Saves them lots of money, so why do you still think you can not follow there rules and not get busted.

Name: XLC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 March 2019 ALL CREWS!!! Better wake up and read your notices! Pay attention brothers. They just pulled a guy out of service for reporting he was on duty 12hrs and 1 minute. The rules have changed. It was outlined months ago on how to report your time. It is covered in the pods. Pay attention to it. You got deadheads, walking dead heads, wait time etc... If you are forced to stay on a train and watch it that is different. That's an fra violation! You guys have been lazy for way too long. You don't want to take the time to report your tickets correctly. If you pull up on the main and outlaw and walk to your terminal you have to report a walking dead head. If you outlaw in your terminal and a TM or wagon driver picks you up you have to report a taxi or company vehicle dead head in your own terminal. Just use your terminal mile post as begin and ending location. They aren't playing around. If you are made to wait on a train for hours for a ride you put in that wait time! This lets the FRA know that you were stuck out there without a ride! You got any questions call your FRA agent for your area! Great Lakes....Robert Crawford 817-235-5397 Washington D.C office.....202-493-6014

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 March 2019 conductor 1-10 aka private specialist hate to see you go but wish the best for you.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 March 2019 BETTER JOB! If you live in Indiana the postal service is hiring several positions. There will be a job fair on the 23rd this month. Get on line and check it out. Just remember when the floods ravage areas as they have the mail cant be delivered and they are way behind. They need as many people as possible. I hate a natural disaster but it will mean job security for a long time to come... Get your apps in and pray you can get out of this business!

Name: DMAN E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 March 2019 Dman here, fellas I have moved on to well different pastures after 12yr. at the RR it was time to move on, I wont talk about how great my new career is or how glad I'm to be gone instead I want to take the time to think everyone of my brothers and sister u all know who u are. And you all know who I am so please if you want show this to people as I cant reach them all to show my appreciation for them the men and women I worked with day in and day out in the rain sleet snow and bullshit helped mold me and teach me valuable lessons while at the railroad, reliability accountability, looking at for one another. I have said it all along and will continue to do so, if you need to hire some one and have the opportunity to snag your self a RR employee do it the dedication and ability to work under pressure and perform is a rare and valuable skill most dont have. I'll finish with this thank you so much for those of you that reached out to me yesterday thank you so much, I love all of you and hope for the best for ever one I'll see you all around, stay safe and keep em on the rails boys, DMAN OUT!

Name: Soul E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 March 2019 It amazes me how many people for a few bucks, will sell there soul. And they are everywhere!

Name: Trust in us E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2019 https://www.unionfacts.com/article/crime-and-corruption/

Name: Perks E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2019 https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2019/03/former-flint-union-boss-norwood-jewell-charged-in-uaw-corruption-probe.html?outputType=amp

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 19 March 2019 PSR is more like a spreading virus that, no matter how disastrous its results have been, continues to spread from railroad to railroad. ITS TIME WE ALL STAND UP, RISE UP, AND COME TOGETHER AS INE DO WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO TO GET OUR RAILROAD BACK!! NOW!!!!

Name: Kulak E-mail: Pinochet@helitours.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2019 Who the fuck reads or quotes WSWS? If my position is such that I have to look to the "World Socialists" to be my voice or advocate, then maybe it's time to find a new way to pay the bills.

Name: Sell out E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2019 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/19/prec-f19.html

Name: new guy E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 March 2019 uneducated Do you guys proof read anything? How did you make it through high school without knowing when to use a period at the end of a sentence or when to start one with a capital letter. You look so ignorant it isn't even funny. How do you expect people to take what you post seriously when you write like a bunch of hillbillies!

Name: University E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2019 A lot of men that come out of university with bogus degrees, are terrified of any form of physical labour. When things got to be to much they went to the safe space room provided by the school. Where they could cuddle with stuffed animals etc. Till they felt safe enough to come back into the class room. That is why you don�t see upper management they are locked in there office safe spaces. If they break a finger nail at work I�m sure there is an app for that. Don�t panick. Lol

Name: Leroy Butthole E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 March 2019 A degree in philosophy from trump university? That might only qualify you for train master at csx but at Union Pacific you could be the ceo. They love fake degrees.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 18 March 2019 Conrail is coming back!!

Name: Lol E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 March 2019 Come back in 2 years and tell us this again. Trainsmasters are the problem with this company. Take your degree and shove it in your moms glory hole. Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 March 2019 Mr. Old head: i will make it clear. Yes i am a college graduate "degree in philosophy " and yes i do love my job as a train Master and CSX has been good to me since day 1 10 months ago. I think alot of the problems are created by the old guys that are so close minded to transportation in a changing economy. And a Merger would be good for Business and good for America.

Name: Road Foreman of Engines E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 March 2019 They should do away with trainmasters and make all Seasoned Road Foreman of Engines responsible for what they are now Engineers and also get this lazy donut eating conductors whipped into tip top shape and productive.

Name: Seniority E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 March 2019 No one screwing no one. You start at the bottom like we all did. Senior May junior must. That�s the way it is until you get some whiskers!

Name: Rookie trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 March 2019 Rookie Tm forgot to inform you. There is not an app. for that,without you gadgets your totally lost, and most likely will go into withdrawal. There might be an app for that!

Name: To rookie trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 March 2019 The old heads have forgotten more than you know about the. RR. Your fresh out of school basically and you can tell you have drank all the kool-aid. Would you think a merger would be good mr. Trainmaster if because of a merger they abolished your position and made you unemployed. You sound like all the other brainwashed, bought and paid for management.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 March 2019 Mr. Old head: i will make it clear. Yes i am a college graduate "degree in philosophy " and yes i do love my job as a train Master and CSX has been good to me since day 1 10 months ago. I think alot of the problems are created by the old guys that are so close minded to transportation in a changing economy. And a Merger would be good for Business and good for America.

Name: Salaried E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 March 2019 It has to suck being a salaried employee, the phone rings in the middle of the night, and your called into work because of problems. Then you have to go check things out then phone everyone to come and fix the problems. Because the only thing you know how to do is sit like a bump on a long and enter bs Into a computer. Then your boss does a performance appraisal on you and decides your a slacker and you don�t get your bonus. And the younger guy hears your a slacker and he is waiting for the, brass to put him in your job. And demote you to a lower scale paying position. And the wife loves you for it while she contemplates divorcing your ass.

Name: motorhead E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 March 2019 Brothers A lot of good view points on here. You either take a stand for the violations of the agreement or you don't. You front out the supervisors who are unethical and tyrants or you don't. You do your job the best you can or you bitch and make the time you are there miserable for yourself and anyone who is stuck in the cab with you. Merger talk is just that, talk! Other poster that says blah blah is right. Not a thing any one can do about it, The unions have no power in the matter. That's the problem with all the members. They don't know how the unions work or what powers they have. We are all blue collar workers who are just a number. we don't sit on the board of directors. We have no influence in Washington. Merger this merger that. Got to work today. Got to make the money day by day. If it happens then we all got to deal with more big changes. Nothing new. People are just too damn worried about something they cant do nothing about. Working conditions should be everyone's main focus. If you got a jackass playing supervisor and causing trouble take him out. Keep the house clean.

Name: Perspective E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 March 2019 Started rr at twenty retired thirty five years later. Paid into pention from the start, now retired good life. I started the rr green behind the ears took aptitude tests pasted them all. Over the years everything I know regarding rr life they paid me while I was being trained for my job. I worked shift work never had a weekend off, maybe partial weekend with some jobs. My friends had 9_5 jobs but never made the money I made. I was building up my pention year after year, where a lot of my friends saved nothing for retirement. Now I�m retired getting checks and most of my friends will have to work until they get goverment benefits. In the beginning I envied them for working days and having weekend off. But now I can do what I want with nice money coming in priceless. I know people getting out of university have large student loans and made there first pay check at age thirty and in the prime of there career is not much better pay than a railroader. If your cut out for the rr life you,have it pretty good compared to most and that comes with the sacrifices of being a rr. But in the end in my opinion a rr is much better off than the 9_5 person. And they can�t transfer your job over seas. Happy rr people remember put money away for the slow times etc. And you will do well, I survived the Hh regime you will to.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 March 2019 Blah Get a life deputy dog. No one is even paying attention to you. Who gives a shit about a merger or buy out. Go to work and do your job. Get a pay check. That's the whole damn purpose of going to work. That and paying your union to get rich. unhappy go flip burgers at Mcdonalds.

Name: Deputy Dog E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 March 2019 So https://www.progressiverailroading.com/c_s/news/Ohio-panel-approves-CSX-grade-crossing-project--57113 $5,000 for a set of crossing lights only right? Actual document $352,412.00 does $5,000 not make. Should make jail time for some thieves. The project will be paid for with federal funds and is actual cost. The plans and estimates for the project in the amount of $352,412.00 have been approved. Construction may commence at once. Staff requests a Finding & Order with completion of the project in twelve months. Staff requests that the following language be incorporated in the Finding & Order: Why would the crooks put just lights at a 2 track ---23 train a day with 50 mph trains? 1525 0.015958 155261E CSX OH SHELBY BOTKINS WALNUT STREET 0 0 0 0 0 SS 23 2 50 YES 2 40 Google map 40.4695362 -84.1855950 But wait https://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/ofallon-progress/article227466804.html Follow this and CSX has 44 sets of crossing gates and 24 sets of crossing lights just sitting in Illinois when there are no trains running. Move them and use new underground cables is all that is needed. $15K max.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 March 2019 A merger between CSX and UNION PACIFIC is the right thing to do and it is the best thing for BUSINESS..!!! Not personal just BUSINESS...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 15 March 2019 BNSF is more likely to buy us. Not merge.

Name: Poodle pines E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 March 2019 Trucks kill 500 to 1, compared to the railroads. Trucks are notorious for having sucky brakes and no steering. They should not be allowed on the interstates.. People who run around gates like idiots and get killed are just part of thinning the hurd, just like a pines ... People like that deserve to be charged for murder...

Name: Cuts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 March 2019 The railroad I work at since, 1981 they cut staff by 65 % and still doing it. And running twice the traffic. With A I coming look out over next five years, the changes will cost even more jobs combined with more laxed transportation laws.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 March 2019 You guys wanna bitch and complain that csx keeps cutting and combining. Stop taking roster calls to pad your own pocket book.. You morons take every call and bail out the companies shortage and then they look good. Keep engineers set back and can depend on some to bail them out. Guys take road trains off yard board and keep boards trimmed back.. Work the local when you 9x out so you can get a days pay while your turn sits at home. I get it you got bills to pay.. Got to feed the family. That's fine , just don't be mad at company for cutting jobs. I get there's times when you get trapped and what not. But see the big picture

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 14 March 2019 Reply to name Merger News: 1st heard about a CSX\UP merger in the mid to late 1980s. Lots has happened since - still waiting for that to happen though. Share/stockholders? What's the matter with them? The packages doled out to big shots = undeserved and unreal at best. It's all very sad.

Name: Merger News E-mail: jfoote@csx.com Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 March 2019 If there's a CSX-UP merger, Foote will run the combined companies, and Fritz and Sanborn will be eliminated while Vena will become Chief Operating Officer if he so chooses. Lance Fritz's judgement is a bit unstable, due in part to the numerous but justified turnover of regional vice presidents. The questions should be asked as to why those incompetent (VP'S) fools were selected in the first place. The recent firing of XO Cameron Scott speaks volumes. In the brief amount of time of his tenure (2yrs), he walked away with a $50million pay package. Are share holders getting played because of Fritz?

Name: Deputy Dog E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 March 2019 6 Passive 24 FLASHING LIGHTS 44 GATES ---all 05/16 FL (FLASHING LIGHTS) and HS (HIGHWAY SIGNALS) INVENTORIED ARE ACTUALLY CROSSING GATE CROSSINGS WITH GATES REMOVED. https://www.icc.illinois.gov/docket/files.aspx?no=T17-0062&docId=257395 CSX Transportation, Inc. 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Name: Deputy Dog E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 March 2019 Taking the CSX walking trains through O'fallon Illinois story and taking all the 74 railroad crossings CSX dry docked like 4 years ago with no trains in the Illinois Commerce Commission dockets. Looks like 44 railroad crossings with crossing gates and 24 crossings with crossing lights just sitting there gathering dust while CSX is killing around 100 people to normal drivers ONE would be ORDERED moved to where needed by their state railroad buds and Feds we pay $1.6 Billion a year for crossing safety. WE the PEOPLE probably paid like $14 Million for equipment to get these highly overpriced signals put in to start with and the railroad will cart OUR signals off like the other 1,200 complete crossing systems in the state just went poof off closed crossings in 40 years.. With blind no signaled crossings all over the state the MURDER charges when a car full of kids gets blindsided by a train because of this complete fraud scheme by the railroads/state/Feds go on?? The beauty of it is ---Google views and the ICCs own records have all kinds of pictures. https://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/ofallon-progress/article227466804.html

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 March 2019 Former Field Hand still in the matrix. At least your proved your own point.

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 March 2019 Cond. 1-10 Thankful for answering the young man and getting back to what's really important.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 March 2019 Side letter 4 of the CSRA is where you'll find the discipline forgiveness for Conductors.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 March 2019 Like them or not Fritz, Foote,lonegro,Vena,and Cindy Sanborn would make a hell of a Team..

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 March 2019 I just hope CSX and Union Pacific will merge. What a powerful Company that would be.

Name: Former field hand E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2019 And with in 2 years you'll be dead

Name: Former field hand E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2019 Still sucks...big time! You guys sound like broken records... Rules this.. Fra that... Manager this.. Company that. Please look around your selfs Your in a Matrix. Like the movie Truman. Get out while you can. You wait around and 30 years from now when you retire you'll be up at 3 in the morning on this website bitching about the company

Name: Former field hand E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2019 And CSX ........

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2019 Change You can view it in the employee gateway. Big question is whether or not conductors still get the 180 forgiveness rule that was in the older policy. If you go 180 days without any minor discipline one level was dropped if you had any. That's not written in this policy. Looks like it would be void since there are no minors anymore. The engineers have a forgivness policy in their SSA. I was told theirs still stands since it's in their agreement but we don't because it was never written in ours. We only had it while the old policy was in effect. Can't get a straight answer from any LC and they can't produce a written agreement that we still get that forgiveness.

Name: Hantavirus E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 March 2019 Guys use to use those old wooden sheds in the yard for coffee break and change cloths. One day a few people got really sick. One person died the other made it. It was confirmed hantavirus from deer mice poop. When they tore the building down it was full of mice nests. Beware of some of those old buildings.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 12 March 2019 Well beaten, go back a number of years & get housed at one of the dumps we stayed in: kept clean but bunk sized bed, an overhead light, a chair, a washcloth & towel, hooks to hang clothing, heat of course, AC later, community bath facilities....'bout it & conformed with contractual agreement(s). Be careful what you wish for.

Name: Change E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2019 What's the current discipline policy, what does it take to actually get terminated other than attendance. Just wondering if seems like everyone is getting like 1 day waivers latly

Name: Up min. Wage E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 March 2019 Back in early 1900 at fairs they use to crash steam engines head on for the crowds. It would be cool to hire on a rr at minimum wage, the fun a guy could have causing all kinds of chaos. Ditches would be full of trains, it would be a blast. Be carefull what you wish for, because you get what you pay for!!!

Name: beaten E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 March 2019 Another day and it still sucks. Wish they would put us in hotels where the staff is quiet and the tubs are big enough to soak after being beat to death by worthless seats that vibrate and bounce. Wont raise or lower to the right positions for your back or you have to move them off to the side to get that stupid center mount camera out of your line of view! And who's bright idea was it to plywood in the seats. Like sitting on a park bench. Like the park benches they crammed down our throats in the crew rooms!

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 11 March 2019 I remember working in the yard as carman. A track was blue flagged and locked, I heard the hogger say on the radio to the new conductor don�t do it. The new conductor thought he would save time and dropped the blue flag. The carman me told him to put it back up and never ever do that again or you will get fired or kill someone. He could not enter the track anyways because it was locked. A manager seen him drop the flag and fired him on the spot. Don�t get caught up in that mind set that your speeding things up and stepping out of your bounds, you could get. Someone hurt or yourself fired.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 March 2019 The post from: Name - Giving your job away, Employed as - Conductor, 1-10 years must be from either a mole, troll, or a true blue APE = All Purpose Employee, which is what they like/want. Evidently thinks job is safe. It ain't if people with more seniority from other areas start moving in if they need to. Ignorance is bliss.

Name: Paper work E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 March 2019 When you take it upon yourself to do others work to speed things up. Just remember when something goes wrong because you made a mistake. Your ass is grass, they will put all the blame on you. I have been in front of investigation board, and that is when they get all the rule books out. Why did you do this or that. Is that in your job description, I think you get the message.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 March 2019 Ah......you all know how it is: the more you do the more they will expect. Some azzholes try to bully, intimidate, threaten. Just comply with the company rules & your contractual agreement the best you can.

Name: NOMORE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 March 2019 conductor 1-10 My all time favorite is when a TM comes into the crew room and starts busting your arss because you have been on duty over a half hour and your still there! When you explain to him that your still waiting for your legal and proper paperwork the first thing he does is ask you if you called anyone. I just stand there and laugh. Then I tell him I followed the rules. I told the yardmaster per the operating rules and it was the YM's job to see what the problem is and if he cant figure it out he is supposed to tell his TM! They cop an attitude from hell. They want you to make the calls and get the ball rolling and do all their work. I did that years ago but finally said it aint happening anymore. By doing their work for them all the time your just an enabler. Guys are in such a rush to get out on their trains and get the trip done they don't see the harm they are doing. We are to blame for these inept monsters. We have babied and coddled them and held their hands for so long they expect it from us. Its time to stop. The other guy was right. They don't care now but when shit starts getting deep and trains are delayed everywhere because we decide to stop doing their work bet your arss they will care!

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 March 2019 paperwork Quit trying to throw that mistake that was posted on here back onto the conductor. Read the post again idiot. The last guy explained it well enough. No one was ever talking about someone leaving with bad paperwork. The dude never said he was forced out with it or left with it. He asked why in the hell they could have sent him a work order that didn't even have the car in the train on it. It was a simple question. You some kind of mole poser? Maybe your from the work order department and trying to turn the whole post around. If you don't have the answer on why they send crews that stupid shit then go back to your basement.

Name: Paper work E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 March 2019 When employees take there training and complete it, they sign off that they understand the rules and regulations and will abide by the rules and regulations. And once they get out in the field if proper paperwork is not provided they leave the terminal anyways. And then protest after the fact. It�s been posted on here lots.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 March 2019 paperwork I didn't read anything in that conductors post that even hinted that he took a train without the proper paperwork. What he wrote was a question to the inept work order department who obviously sent him a work order that was a major joke. He was wanting an explanation. I would like one too because I had the same thing happen several times. Its just stupid insane to have to call these people and ask them where the rest of the information is on the train and why cant they find it! Another lost train in the system!

Name: Paper work E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 March 2019 As a conductor is it not your responsibility to have waybills train orders, dangerous cars in your possession in the cab before you take the train. What if there was a derailment, and ems needs a run of your train to know what they are dealing with. How the hell you going to explain that. Don�t lift the train until you have the proper documentation. That is your responsibility and the rules is it not?

Name: Gossip E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 March 2019 One thing about railroaders life in North America, is there are no shortages of rumours and gossip. We use to say if you don�t here any rumours by1800 start one.

Name: bouncedaround E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 March 2019 UP Google whole body vibration injury and you can find numerous cases on this issue. Railroad employees have been filing law suits over this issue for years. Tank drivers in the military are the number one plaintiffs on this issue. You know any one who is still active in the service in your terminal they could ask questions from their branch. I do know that you have to file within 3 years of diagnosing your injuries and their relation to excessive exposure to vibration of the equipment. I never had a problem with anything until I left the yard and started working on the road. Being bounced around in the cabs of the locomotive and having constant exposure to vibrations through the seats has been proven to cause serious damage to the body. The railroads know this. You shouldn't have a problem finding a lawyer to address this issue. Some days I feel like Im lucky I can get up and walk.

Name: UP Lateral Motion Claims E-mail: info@up.com Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 09 March 2019 UP Employees: Update on excessive vibrations exposure claims, waiting on documents from UP'S [unofficial] government lobbyist (Akin Gump Hauer & Feld,LLP) to provide claims statistics documents to its former Partner and current Director of UP [Jose' Villarreal]for an update. UP management has assured me that this is not a conflict of interest to illegally gather information from a third party in order to overtly circumvent the law. In essence, the government lobbyist tips off the Director as to when a claim and or case is filed against the UP, and how the claim/case can be litigated.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 March 2019 CSX Typical day on the railroad. Another wrong car in the wrong train. Another undocumented hazmat car without waybills. Another junk engine sent out after the supervisors were so scared they wouldn't get their origination on time departures and would get in trouble because you are tyrants. Afraid to take the time to get something decent to use. Just another day at the circus!

Name: Bocephus E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 09 March 2019 Mr. Weather man....what is your forecast, Csx has gave us too many highs and too many lows too many storms and too many PSR tornado's... we sure could use a bright forecast tonight.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 March 2019 Fra poser Learn the proper way to form a sentence. As for the FRA enforcing rules I can tell you for a fact that they have bad apples in every bunch. I had two inspectors tell me the name of an inspectors we needed to watch our backs around. He was in the back pockets of management and spent more time ratting out crews on petty stuff and not enforcing important violations on the railroads behalf. This man now holds an upper level job in the FRA. Wonder if he still turns a blind eye.

Name: The FRA E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 08 March 2019 Carmen that a flat out lie.. Federally mandated laws governing inspections that are followed verbatim.

Name: Fra E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2019 Like I said fra inspectors have to do so many inspections per year, different territories. They pick up on the small infractions and rr told to rectify. In my thirty five years as a carman I�ve seen the rules getting laxer and laxer. Like air brake maintance, and other defects. They will never interfere with the operations of any rr. All smoke and mirrors all is good folks public is safe. Lol

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 March 2019 You really are gullible! The TM can order all he wants and the FRA inspector DOES NOT answer to a TM. Hahaha. More crew room talk. FRA can board any train, inspect any equipment, and any track. He is suppose to notify local officials as to he is on property. That is it. He does not adhere to our rules nor answer to a TM. LMAO. You should actually talk to a FRA inspector one day. See the government regulates RR's not TM's or RR's regulate themselves.

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 06 March 2019 The Federal Railroad Administration is a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. HQ is in Washington, DC. 8-9 regional offices. Main gig is safety. Used to be that the RR companies were fined for regulation\rule non-compliance and violations. Starting in the late 1980s, individual employees could be too - if deemed that they knowingly and willingly violated such.

Name: Back door E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 March 2019 If it was night and I seen someone walking on the deck towards back door of cab. I would of locked the door and made him identify himself, if he did not have his ppe on. I would make him stand there till rr police checked him out. I work in yard I call cops all the time on people that I don�t know without ppe on. That is what we where trained to do since 9-11

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 March 2019 Check in.. LMFAO... the FRA is part of the federal government who regulates the railroads. Do you not know what their jobs are? Does the FBI announce they are doing a raid. Does the CIA ANNOUNCE their showing up? FEDERAL railroad administration. I had a TM sneak in the back door of my engine at 2 am unannounced and I didn't know him. He coped a attitude when I demaned to see his ID! Who hell did he think he was pulling that crap. I say more power to the FRA and sneak attacks!

Name: Check in E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 March 2019 To begin with everyone, non railroad employee, has to check in, and prove who they say they are. Company policy at all railroad since terrorist attacks. We where constantly reporting people on the property that where model railroaders. We had to take a course on report and looking out for, nonemployees. They cannot go near a train or track without proper protection. Blue flags lockout tag out etc.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 March 2019 Ape... Your a moron. We had an fra guy show up unannounced two weeks ago on the property and the TM went off. The yardmaster even had the balls to tell the crew he was talking to on the radio that he needed to check in with the TM on duty. We didn't know it was against FRA regulations for an inspector to do surprise visits. If it is it just proves the FRA is bought by the railroads. They should all be able to do surprise visits. This is how you catch the illegal crap going on. No cover up. No warning every one in the property they are there. Tell us how an FRA inspector can be ordered by a TM to check in first!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 March 2019 I was the FRA inspector. CSX made me CRY! Quit being a gullible. It never happened. JESUS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 March 2019 If you meant me, I was never employed by the FRA. If a FRA inspector was "harassed" as you say, I would love to know that story. From my days on the RR, that would never happen. If it did or was perceived as a slight to them, I imagine the FRA would "pitch a tent" on the property and no one wanted that. They did what they had to do and we respected that. I'm going back quite a ways and maybe things have changed. Things are changing so fast, hard for us old timers to keep up. Best of luck.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 05 March 2019 Wish the person who was an FRA inspector would post again. How he/she was harassed, intimidated, etc., in the Toledo area by CSX local officials & those azzholes got away with that.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2019 When will CSX start to Hire Conductors again?? Anyone heard anything

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2019 I spent a lot of time around the FRA during my railroading life. Started on the ground 1970 and wound up in management and here is my take. I don't like to do this because I am retired and sucking up that nice pension. So, I found the FRA folks to be good railroaders, and by the book to a man. Had to provide them with efficiency tests as well as go into the field with them radaring trains, visiting towers,( manned interlockings), crew rooms, etc.. To say these guys are being paid off by management doesn't ring true with what I lived firsthand. I had a lot of respect for them. Even hint that I would pick up the check was taboo. You knew never to even try, it was gospel. There was one or two that really busted balls but, all in all, I respected them. Did have several fines to pay as well. We paid, corrected what we had done wrong, and moved on to the next. We wanted to be 100% in compliance with the CFR. Took pride in it. Good luck and don't do something just because you can. Rolling stock has no conscience so think, stop and think, before everything.

Name: Fra E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2019 After watching 60 minutes it just proves the tail is wagging the dog. USA Canada uk the big railroads own the goverment inspectors. The inspectors fra are just props to give the illusion that the goverment is watching out for everyone�s safety. I wonder how much federal money meant for rr infrastructure is funneled into managers and shareholders pockets. They will not of complete the safety measures of installing equipment by 2020, they will get more extension on when to complete the work on infrastructure. Then the New ceo will blame everything on past ceo. And it will be same old bs. Be extra carefull for your own safety.

Name: Deputy Dog E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2019 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-safe-are-americas-railroads-60-minutes/ Footes' salary is?

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Dispatcher 10-20 You are to be commended. It takes a bigger person to admit to being wrong. That is something you do not see on this site very often. Now ask yourself one question. Why did you miss that rule when it was only a few pages from were you were looking? Frustration, anger, fatigue, or the need to find a quick answer? It is amazing how much a person can miss when they are under the gun or pressed for time. Just remember when you encounter a rude, obnoxious, mouthy know it all on the radio that they may be the one who was rushed out of the yard by intimidation. Maybe they were called and reported just to find out their train isn't even close to the terminal. Lost several hours of sleep for nothing. Maybe they have been sitting around waiting for their power to be worked or fighting with the work order department to get their paper. Perhaps they just had to spend 30 hours in a hotel and 2-3 days away from their family. No, it does not excuse their choice of bad behavior but learning to deal with the monsters that CSX created will truly make your job easier. I find that feeling sorry for someone for being so miserable is easier than getting mad at them.

Name: Ring master E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Proven circus Your post is a fine example of why so many employees find themselves in unfortunate situations that their unions cant even help them with. I hate to tell you this but your suggestion on going to meetings isn't going to do DIDDLY SQUAT SHIT in helping out the employees on a daily basis out in the field. KNOWING THE RULES WILL. Finding every single loop hole and gray area in the rules just may help you out when you have been the chosen one to stalk and they are just making up and twisting rules to get the target they want. The LC's that represent you should know these rules forwards and backwards but the international reps and the general chairman wont. An LC is no different than a lawyer but he shouldn't be the only one knowing what was done right or wrong when you walk into Kangaroo court. You and others keep spouting off your mouths on how we should fight our own battle and not expect the unions to do it all for us. Well knowing your rules and not just your damn agreement is your obligation. The agreement wont keep your ass out of trouble. Knowing the rules will. Keep your friends close but keep your enemies in sight and your rule book closer! And quit posting as a trainmaster because your even dumber than they are. Are you related to old Hillary Clinton who used to post on here?

Name: Proven Circus E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 March 2019 You guys suck. Take a minute to look at these posts. You're wasting your breath on rules,dispaters,crossing gates, and everything else that doesn't even pertain to how bad CSX is. You guys are showing your weakness by turning on each other. That's why your Union suck most. You just sit back and pay your union dues and expect the union to fight your battles alone. Think how strong the union would be if YOU helped with the fight. Go to union meetings, get involved.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 I stand corrected. I found it. Thanks

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Dispatcher Try looking on page 5-7 in the operating section of the book. As a seasoned employee you would think that you would look several times before you quoted any rules have been annulled. Its real easy to miss them. When they issued the new book in April of 2017 they moved several things around and put them in categories that had nothing to do with each other. Any time a crew is running in sterile cab conditions when a dispatcher tones them up they are to tell the dispatcher they are running under sterile cab and the dispatcher is to acknowledge.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 I can�t find rule 503.14 in operating rule book? I see 503.1 and 503.2. I�m not mad BTW. As far as the history of the rule, unless it made the rule book or It was kept in the reissue, it is null and void.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2019 Very common on the RR for people to butt in, interrupt conversations and/or radio transmissions. There are way too many inconsiderate, impatient, selfish employees who just don't seem to be able to use common sense.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Train dispatcher 10-20 You can find the sterile cab rule in the operating rules book under rule 503.14. The first publication on this rule stating the proper procedures for establishing and maintaining this rule was on Feb. 1st, 2014. document number 007. Even though the lengthy discussion topics were not reissued the rule still stands. It was never annulled. Most class 1 railroads have a sterile cab procedure in place. I suggest you revisit your operating rules book and keep up on all issued system bulletins as they come out. Im not sure why you became so angry when you read the post making reference to answering the radio when addressed by a dispatcher. I believe if you read it again you will find that the poster was making a comparison to being addressed by a dispatcher or another person. If anyone in supervision addresses a crew on the radio there is a pretty good chance that crew will return the call. Maybe the yardmaster might be needing the crew to stop their move or have other pertinent information the crew needs immediately. If this is a problem during shove moves then the rule needs to be reviewed. All yardmasters should be given direct orders to never address any crew while making a shove move unless it is an emergency. This however would require the yardmaster to pay the upmost attention to all movements in the yard and determine what job duties each crew was performing at the given moment he/she intends to use the radio. If you were a conductor at one time I believe you understand exactly what the posters intentions were. Step back and take a deep breath. The stress may be getting to you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN RUNNING A TRAIN AND HAVING THE TRAIN RUN ON YOU FIELD BOY... THE LATER DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU AS AN ENGINEER (NO MATTER HOW MANY YRS EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE).

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 FIELD BOY, YOU SURE ARE CAUGHT ON A$$, MAYBE YOU'RE IN THE WRONG FIELD OF WORK?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 GIVE A NAME FIELD BOY AND I'LL TELL THEM.

Name: Former field hand E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 And shove their rule book up their a$$

Name: Former field hand E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Tell the d@#$ scratchers i said they could kiss my a$$

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2019 Conductor.., "Why do you answer the dispatcher when you're in sterile cab"? I think you may need to reread the rules. Pretty sure Sterile Cab does not exist anymore, Harrison did away with that. I may be wrong but if so, please quote the rule # or bulletin that keeps it in place. They main reason you may want to answer the dispatcher is account if he's calling you, it's probably important dumb ass. We talk for 8 hrs straight most days and trust me, the last thing we WANT TO DO is talk to you for a nothing reason. So go ahead and keep playing the chicken shit game of not answering bc "you're sticking it to the man" hit a school bus and kill a few or a gas truck and kill yourself you stupid fuck. And now here comes your TE response, so I'l negate that right now. I'm a certified COND ENG also.

Name: Intimidation E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 March 2019 I had a supervisor that would give us information on what the brass was up to and to watch our backs. When Hh was in charge he bragged how all he needs to get rid of anybody was a little ink. And he pushed for guys to be let go for next to nothing to cause fear in the work place. There is a new sheriff in town, Hh was a soulless bastard. Foote was one of his followers that did his bidding. So until things improve I would not break a rule that benefits CSX. If the wrong manager catches wind of someone breaking any rule, they will fire you just for the power rush. I�ve seen guys do a supervisor a favour by bending the rules and a higher manager fired the union employee. They want you to fear them so they can control you. Because the staff they cut they want remaining staff to run there asses off. Same production less people.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 March 2019 Simple rules I read your post on here once before. I wish we had the right to stalk the supervisors. You lead by example. You don't lie and manipulate and expect others to follow the rules when you don't. I was in the bathroom one night and a couple supervisors came in. They didn't know I was in the stall. They started talking about how they were all going to dress in black and go out and "Get them a few tonight". Stood around and joked about it like they were on the hunt. I made sure I told everyone I saw what they said and sent out text to everyone I could think of. Someone should take guys like that out back and fix the problem. There are plenty out there like that. Its the mentality they want out of these scum bags. Its time for the shoe to be on the other foot. Start documenting every time you see one of them breaking rules or ordering you to break them to cut corners when they are in a bind. Call ethics Turn them in. You start messing with someone's career just because they forgot to put their glasses back on before they open a damn window you need some help. Some old fashion help!

Name: Simple rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2019 I remember one training class, everyone sat down with material in front of each new hire. With the pencil was a coloured wire pipe cleaner. The instructor told the class not to touch anything on the table. Just before the first coffee break the instructor told the new hires that where playing and bending the wire pipe cleaner to go home. They could not follow simple instruction,and that is how he weeded out the new hires that did not listen. I find it amazing how with this militant regime, how employees will make excuses for CSX to break the rules that they are hanging guys for. Know the rules and follow them. You think they are going to give you an at a boy for breaking rules they ask you to. If you break the rules on purpose I guess you have to man up and suffer the consequences.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 March 2019 Brothers Has anyone heard or seen any concrete evidence that the company is going to make you find your own way home if you get sick in the hotel and have to mark off? That's a ton of money for a taxi ride if your on a long pool. Will they pay for it then take it out of your check? I haven't seen any notices about it. I cant believe it would even be allowed by the FRA since the company called you out and sent you there under the hours of service working for them. Maybe if you mark off redblock but if your really sick that's just total bullshit. I would think they would have to be responsible for your safe return home after they sent you out on the road. Got to wonder if this idea got started because of the ridiculous medication policy they have now and they are afraid someone will have to take their meds at the hotel because of the way they are prescribed and then mark off because they are afraid of being dropped when they get back.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 March 2019 If an engineer has a valid 8 HR claim for dismounting the locomotive to watch a train by. And the carrier blantly denies claim. How in the hell can the carrier charge an engineer when the carrier breached the contract. Of course we all know CSX is made up of criminals. That need to be sent to prison.

Name: HA!!!!! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2019 READ HQ NOTICE 128- FEB27th!!!! You just have to love these observation orders for managers. Come back and retest the stool pigeon they got in 48 hours. Watch their entire job for the day until you can get all the listed task. Oh and my favorite one. Observe the employee to make sure he is compliant with the drug and alcohol policy. REALLY?? Unless he smell like a brewery how in the hell would they know. On top of that how would they know if you took anything either. DONT COME TO WORK WITH BLOOD SHOT EYES OR LOOKING LIKE YOU HAVENT SLEPT IN 24 HOURS. OH SHIT MAN, GUESS THE ROAD POOLS BETTER JUST MARK OFF! Don't get sick in the hotel. Just shoot yourself. If you have to take some serious cold medicine then your screwed. Take something as soon as you walk in the door and beg them to keep you there for 24 hours!

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2019 Radio Why do you answer the dispatcher when you are in sterile cab. Many do it and don't even tell them they are in sterile cab. I hear people talking every trip when they are in sterile cab about total bull crap. It a good bet that the engineer answered the radio because it is human nature and habit to answer someone when they call out to you. All it takes is 1 second of letting your guard down out here and they got you. Just like the guys they wrote up for not having their safety glasses on when they opened the window on the motor. This was after they were standing outside under the window and waving at them to open it. Its total horseshit. This goes on every time they get in trouble for something they do wrong. Cant get the trains out on time so to even the playing field they make the cronies in Jacksonville happy by feeding them another way. Just last week they were busting a guys chomps and giving him a hard time because he stopped his cut to get off. No where in the rules does it say it is mandatory to get off of moving equipment. They turn their heads when its a benefit to them. They break rules and twist them to get what they want. How about all those locals and jobs running on TWC/dark territory using EC1s. I know for a fact that every day there are several that break the radio rules. How about rule 1009! No one is stopping their train before they get closer than 3 miles to the new territory they need and EC1 for. It happens every single day. No one gives a shit because it keeps them from slowing down. So what is the big deal if someone accidently answers the radio when a YM interrupts their shove move when you can violate EC1 mandatory directive rules! Nothing but a 3 ring circus !

Name: Radio E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2019 If the employees know your not suppose to talk while a move is in progress, why would the hogger answer the call from Tm. If they are going to try and hang me it will be by following the rules. A lot of employees seem to walk right into there traps then scratch there head after the fact. Like I have said before the employees are there own worst enemies. For example talking to management on cell when the rules state not to. If your that thick then suffer the consequences, and don�t play the fucking victim and want the union to bail you out. Grow some fucking balls. And common sense!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 March 2019 C'mon.......the vast majority of, if not all, yardmasters are pro-company and are treated accordingly.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 March 2019 SMH You got that right. Someone in Jacksonville needs to explain how the hell an engineer can be charged for answering a yardmaster when they are making a shoving move in the yard. We would all like to know how in the hell a yardmaster can be protected for interfering and interrupting a crew doing this and not be charged. They are supposed to know the rules as well. They are supposed to know how sterile cab and all the other rules work. How do they get away with walking on other crews while they are trying to make a shove move or start talking bullshit over the radio which has nothing to do with yard business at hand. The rule book says you aren't supposed to be doing any other task when doing a shove move. So lets just bust the crew for answering the yardmaster but not say anything to the YM for walking all over people and joking on the radio. We ALL think they just set this guy up for a failure! Knit picking bull shit is all it is.

Name: Heck yea E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2019 IM ready FOR A WILD CAT STRIKE ,, union oficiales takes it up the ass so long it doesnt even Hurt them anymore , company treat us like shit And ar� so shady And cr�ate An unstable worker enviroment foote And company should be in prison for the lives lost for there rush rush rush , people have died And theh get there stock for rush rush rush , At the least in volotary Man slaughter

Name: Smh E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2019 He you dumbass Its k�nd Of Hard to follow All the rules when you Dumbass mangement people cant give us the same answer Every time 3 tm Will give you 3 differnt answer Its Been like this since i Been here Butt the company Will backs tihem up on the charge when they should just have a SAFTY briefing on it .some rules ar� Black And White Butt most ar� wisshy washey thats coming from ten yrs dealing with these idiots there Of 4 mangement changes ive seen And they All ar� confusi�n look at How Many times they change a rule

Name: Brakeman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 March 2019 If tm's cover it up they go down with the employee. Just ask some of the seasoned tm's who been around for awhile. Hey company mole.....Your bullshit ain't gonna stop the discussion.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 March 2019 Conductor : your a damn idiot looking for a free lunch : not on "my watch" you lazy terd

Name: drawhead E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 March 2019 So if an employee gets injured and managment covers it up and does not report it, what are the reprecussions and who could get in trouble?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 March 2019 Aint no darn stalking going on. Geez at the paranoia on the road today... Just do your job safe and follow all rules to the letter... and all will be fine... It aint that damn hard if your capable of following rules always and work SAFE!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 March 2019 Aint no darn stalking going on. Geez at the paranoia on the road today... Just do your job safe and follow all rules to the letter... and all will be fine... It aint that damn hard if your capable of following rules always and work SAFE!!

Name: Fyjr E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 28 February 2019 Google csx ethics and click ethicspoint, it is interesting

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 February 2019 Hey jackass/troll. We all know your the same guy just stirring shit. Trying to keep the fight going. You think the webmaster can't trace your server. He can even identify the phone your using. Basement getting lonely? Man power shortage is a joke. What's even more of a joke is the harrassment that's going on to knock down the departing signal before getting the work done just to make it look like the train departed the terminal on time when it really hasn't! Do they really think the white colllars in Jacksonville can't figure this out. Get real! Funny how crews are held to a higher standard. Isn't falsifying info a conduct unbecoming charge?

Name: To trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 February 2019 To trainmaster or I should say to trainmonster. You got your job threw nepotism, daddy got you the job you never payed your dues. When you started you ran with any tidbit of information to management. To show you would be a good loyal rat for CSX. Just remember, the further up the mountain the further the fall. And you will never make the money you do outside of the rr industry. Foote still looking to cut jobs and maybe yours is next.

Name: Corp E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 February 2019 Taco Are you that nieve? That was not a post from a trainmaster. Trainmasters are advised not to post on this site. If they are caught they could lose their jobs. One trainmaster was ordered to stay off of this site and to take anger management training after he read post about his private life and accused other supervisors of posting info only they could know. The confrontation became very aggressive. Don't amuse this idiot poser. He is nothing more than a troll.

Name: Taco E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 February 2019 Suck a cock trainmaster. You over paid suck ass your just a few injuries and derailments away from the unemployment line fucko, keep poking the bear.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 February 2019 Damn i have a migraine from all the boo whoooing...and.whinning and crying...like a damn daycare out here..its the RAILROAD damn it...

Name: RR Codger E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 27 February 2019 I read H Harrison's ashes were spread at Tennessee yard BNSF ATSF or Frisco yard Memphis, Tn.

Name: Friend E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Loco 20-30 If you see the guy again who was punished with 26 points tell him to file a complaint with the USDOT. An important Part of an engineer and conductors job duties require them to use the radio and voice communications for the job. If someone doesn't have the ability to speak then that job can't be done. You can't use hand signals the entire your of duty. If csx is this ignorant then he needs to blow the whistle on this kind of behavior. It's like telling a radio host with strep throat if he doesn't come in and do his talk show he is fired. I suggest your friend talk to a lawyer as well. Expecting someone to show up so sick they can't talk on a job that requires serious communications to work safely is not acceptable. This would make for good discussion with OSHA or the state board of health!

Name: Strikes E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2019 I have been in three strikes, the farmers are sitting on millions of dollars worth the land, that there family got for cheap. They get subsidies year after year. But when we went on strike they said they would run the trains. Lol And for the goverment to put us back too work. Everyone that works wants a pay check, and the last poster is right there never was any sympathy for the hard working rr men and women.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2019 I remember well the UPS strike in 1997. Hardly anyone was on the side of the UPS workers. Almost everyone was against them because of not receiving shipments.

Name: Reality E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2019 The only thing a union member can do is vote on elections and contracts. The days of solidarity, and standing up and working to rule is long gone. No one is sticking there necks out and jeopardizing everything. At one time if you did not go along with the plan,you where blackballed. Now if you did that the person would run to management, and someone would be in shit. Snowflake generation.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 February 2019 Yeah, the general public won't ever be the least bit sympathetic towards railroaders. Cousin has worked at an appliance factory for 30+ yrs. & with Sat/Sun overtime is tickled to earn 50-55K a year.

Name: Change E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Everyone wants a sick out or wildcats strike, but I pose this question to all rank and file. What if we rally against the union you know push them in the right direction, see bad PR is the last thing a union wants, would would have other unions comeing out of the wood work putting their 2 cents in. I have always said to go after the union and hold them accountable, the company has not, will not and will never care its business to them and rightfully so, I am a union member and a stronger believer in a strong union but it starts at the top, on a local level there is very very few things that LC can change. The question is how to do this I'm not so sure news organizations would care about over paid railroaders crying. Make no mistake the UTU is as much at fault as CSX, they are the buffer

Name: Advice E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2019 Watch what you say to co workers and what you post on social media, that can be traced back to you. Talking to the wrong people about illegal strikes or walk out can get you, fired. It happened at the rr I work at when Hh was there. Loose lips sink ships. Have a good day!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Conductor 1-10 Marking off at the way from terminal Yes CSX will NOT provide you a way home. This is happening all across the system. Two of my co- workers were told this recently. The latest one was spitting up blood and lost his voice and couldn't speak by the time he got to the home terminal. He was in bad shape. He lives on the rails. Had to lay off Thursday to Monday. Faxed something from his Dr. To medical department and still received 26 points and is now in step 2. This place is a fing joke. F CSX and F the lap dog unions.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Where is hunter buried? I need to take a dump.

Name: Joe mamma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Loco I have no intention of ever seeing that money for cameras and I fully expect to see one on every engine before long. I was just throwing it out there that if the company actually followed their end of the agreements we would be more willing to work with them on issues but until then they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. As far as cameras in the general public, it is my option to go into those stores not forced to go.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 February 2019 Joe You are a total idiot if you think your going to see a dime for those camera claims. First off they have every right to put them in for protection of their property. Try and sue every business that has a camera on their property or in their stores to having them. Its the companies right. So you idiots need to get over it. Stop tearing the motors up. Quit writing on the walls. Stop the ignorant stupid little boy behavior and maybe one day they might consider it but don't count on it. The feds are behind it therefore they will never be removed. It just goes to show how stupid the unions are for even starting a claim on the things. They just backed everyone to make them think they give a rats arss. It was all smoke and mirrors! Lets see how they stand behind everyone whos going to get 250.00 bucks taken out of every check for who knows how many weeks. We didn't make the mistakes. We didn't write the trip agreements. The union should be eating this!

Name: Pay E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2019 If Hh was involved in it, that explains it all. He did not care about contracts nothing. He did what he wanted , and just told the union to grieve it. That the asshole he was, seen this done lots at cn cp CSX.

Name: Former LC E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 February 2019 Locomotive Engineers: Sick of both the co. & your union's actions? Strike then. Stick together. Just stay home, don't answer the phone. ALL of you. See if everyone believes in solidarity, is willing to miss even one day of work, let alone more, to make a stand.

Name: Joe mamma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 February 2019 I will give part of my pay back for the flip trains for the last 60 days. But I want all of my camera claims paid in full and continue to be paid, my code 75's paid. My recrewing train and running through terminal to destination paid. J jobs paid. Run around paid. And watching trains by paid in full and paid going forward. If we put in a bogus claim contact us tell us it's not valid through the local chairman in writing and then charge us if we do it again once notified

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 February 2019 XLC You are dead wrong. You ever tried to sue a union? I have!!! Good Luck. You will be shocked when you talk with a law firm over this. I WILL believe a lawyer over a RR's opinion. I know what I'm talking about!!!!

Name: Side letters E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 February 2019 Well I�m lost in all my years as a rr, the rr i work for never seen or heard of pay scale being changed. The only time I�ve seen that was at contract time and we voted on it. That must just be a CSX thing. Your union has lots of power, to sign off for all members, scarey stuff I feel!!!!

Name: co E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 February 2019 side letters Locals have a small scope on what they have the authority to do. they do not have the authority to change the rates of pay across the board and working conditions.

Name: Side letters E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 February 2019 Are these side letter agreements local or national. I know for a fact that when the local union wants to change anything they put motion on table then they have a vote. And this is done with the minimum amount of members at the meeting. That is what can happen with no members attending meetings. The union reps. And a handful of members can pass things and you find out after. And when a motion is posted most ignore it and do not participate, just bitch after the fact. Don�t put it all on the union reps.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 February 2019 Brothers Word is they are going back 60 days and taking back the so called over miles they paid us on certain flip trains. If I had known that I was going to have to give my pay back I would have saved for it. The damn union should eat this crap. It's time to lower the union dues! Can't claim them on your taxes anymore any way. The hell with this!

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 February 2019 Ape 1-10 The collective agreement doesn't mean shit if the union leaders sit down with the company and agree to change the damn articles behind our backs. What part of that don't you get!!! What do you think side letters are. How about side letters that are in existence that state the union and carrier agree to sit down on a later date and discuss the current terms. Members are left out. They have no say on these decisions. its bullshit! We pay them to represent us. Not to own us and do as they please. Members are left out! Time to clean house!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 25 February 2019 Why don�t we all stick together for once for a change, CSX Engineers are catered to with pay and benefits. I thinks it�s time we all stand up and fight for change. Get ready to Strike!!!

Name: Collective agreement E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 February 2019 Get a. Copy of your last collective agreement. Stop the guessing on everything!

Name: Sick E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 24 February 2019 Just think of the money they would save in one year! What ever is in the collective agreement they have to honour. They have to wait till next contract to change something that significant.you would think.

Name: Xlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 February 2019 Ape You are dead wrong. The railroad labor act has nothing to do with outside federal laws that protect union members from corrupt union's or union's who are not representing you in your best interest. Read the LMRDA. Research your federal laws that regulate unions.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 February 2019 I don't understand!!!!!!!! You have an agreement. Follow it! If the the company breaks the agreement STRIKE!!! Don't ask the union to be Pro-Active. That's like a cop giving you a ticket before you run a stop sign. The union is to protect you NOT fight your battles! You feel you're being mistreated STRIKE! OH! It's illegal to strike ???? Then quit your crying trying to get some one else to fight your battles! After all, we're the ones keeping China alive and killing American jobs by hauling Chinese freight! That's just pure treason!

Name: Elections E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2019 When union members have grievances, against the representatives of the union. You can show how you feel by voting that rep. Out. If a majority don�t vote in union elections the union reps. Are given the green light to do what ever they want. It is one time you have a voice to show the reps. If you approve of them or not. The same thing with a new contract, review it before you vote for it. I have seen so many people being told we get this and that, and it is a good deal so vote for it. Just to realize weeks later you got fucked over. You can�t blame the reps for that, because you never did your homework by reviewing a new contract. So get real and take responsibility for your own future. That is what you pay for with your dues.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 February 2019 You are right you can sue the union. You are wrong as far as Rail Labor Act and it does protect them very well. They will argue that they represented you in your best interests and now you have to prove that they did not. Then what are you going to sue for? Money? We'll say a Labor Lawyer takes your case 30K is cheapest around. You going to pay that? How many will you get to help pay it? Then sue them and what are you looking to get out of it? Local chairman vote on general chairman. So how do you expect to vote out GC? So sue the one and only that actually protect us. Can you imagine how bad it would be without a union out here? I can and that would be the day I move on!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 February 2019 CO The unions don't break our agreements. they don't violate them. They Change them. They sit down at the table and take what ever $$$$ they are offered and change them. They don't have to discuss the change in wording with the members. They have a right to do this. When a new agreement year hits the table they have to send that out. Negotiations are different than side letters along the way. If we want to put a stop to this then we need to do just what the other poster said. VOTE THEM OUT! If anyone loses any money out of their paychecks because the union screwed up and got hosed on the working conditions or agreed terms of a job then they need to file a class action law suit against the union. the unions should be paying this money back out of their own funds. No one should have any money taken out of their pay because the unions were idiots and made a mistake. Everyone in the county who is a union member is protected by federal laws on how a union is managed and organized. Everyone has the right to sue their unions. It has nothing to do with the railroad labor act. This is our rights under federal law.

Name: Work for rr E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 24 February 2019 I�ve worked for rr for long time, but not at CSX. If our union reps. Operated the way you have described guess what! When there is an election, with an X they are back pounding the dirt. Some reps get very cozy to the point they think they are management,but only for one round. The members let them know they blew it, and if the next rep. Likes his position he or she will work for the membership. The members have the power to vote them out. Don�t forget that!

Name: Co E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 February 2019 Pay LMFAO! You obviously don't work for the railroad. The union's horse trade the agreement any time they want. Nothing stopping them. Members wont take them on. No one wants to sue them. Clean house and replace the worn out old meat running them. They break written agreements all the time.

Name: Pay E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 February 2019 I would say bs rumour, they would only go with agreement in writing. What ever you have in writing would be the rule.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 February 2019 Brothers You better get with your LC and find out if the latest rumor today is true. Unions agreed with company that some of the flip trains were being paid to much and shouldn't have been paid more than a basic day with over time after 8. Going to garnish all the extra miles pay from the guys who worked them. Better find out if its true. What happened to agreeing a better rate because crews were handling 2 trains. Everyone should have known it was too good to be true. Hope they saved some money on the side for this. Don't bother putting in claims if union agrees. You wont have one!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 23 February 2019 What? Did they forget the red flag, spare air hose, certification cards, train documentation, disp. messages, etc., etc.?

Name: boarded E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 February 2019 Heads up! Got boarded and they wanted to see Temple stick hot box tags tools and fusee hazmat guide all bulletins timetables watch checked boots safety glasses checked if phone was stored checked engineers inspection book Someone said They busted an engineer for having window open without safety glasses on and a conductor for not having his vest closed in the front. Was watching to see if you had your ear plugs in when you were closer than 100 from an engine above idle. Don't know if its a targeting thing or someone pissed them off but the weed weasles are on the run!

Name: Solidarity E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2019 In thirty five years on the rr, I was involved in three strikes. We stood our ground and most of all stood together. And if you did not stand up for the cause, you, where looked down on and guys would not back you. There was a time that management respected the union and wanted no trouble. Things ran as smooth as they treated employees. An employee was pulled out of service and everyone in the terminal called in sick. Not a train move. The employee was back to work immediately, and that�s how we rolled. The running trades had the strongest union on the rr. As the guys retired, the solidarity started to diminish. And every contract more and more was given away, with not getting much in return. Hate to say it now it�s dog eat dog,no one will stand up for what the collective agreement says you have. Guys give a little away at a time, and the company loves these type of employees. The company gives there egos a stroke and they are happy like a new puppy. Once it�s gone it�s gone,and only yourself to blame, IE the ass kissers.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 22 February 2019 Ape: I guess you found out that being a T&E employee was alot less stressful than being a train dispr.. I did my 30, now I think about the RR ONCE a month...

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2019 Holy cow how does CSX turn a wheel, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. If the senior guys don�t know how do they expect new people to know. The one guy was right hire someone to go threw all the rules and present a list of presant day documents. It never fails something bad has to happen before any real change.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 February 2019 new guy Are you talking about the NS or the UP or who? If your talking about the UP CSX was giving UP classes about every 3 years. They were supposed to be doing a class with all the new hires. I can tell you for a fact that the UP doesn't do a class with csx crews. I personally heard a UP supervisor say they didn't care how we learned their rules as long as we just learned them. It wasn't up to them to make sure CSX employees knew what they were doing. I cant imagine other railroads do it any different. They bust our chomps once in awhile for stuff and we have to defend ourselves. But your right. that rule you quoted is one big gray area. I have never seen anything in 23 years that say we follow everything we do except our operating rules when we are in their yards. You had a damn good question too. If someone gets injured on their property there's probably a good chance the company will toss it on you and the foreign line.

Name: To conductor E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 22 February 2019 If you are required to work on foreign track, I think it is up to them to give you orientation to there work rules. Until then I would go with your presant training. A lot of companies give outsides training then make you sign a book to cover there ass. Hearsay means nothing in a court of law.

Name: BigRichard E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 February 2019 Engineers put your claim in for every tour of duty that you dismount the engine to watch a train by. Flood the carrier with these legit claims. They will deny them but after the Lc forwards a lot will be paid due to the time running out for the carrier. This is the only way to put a stop to this silly shit.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 February 2019 Confused Don't want to insult you but if your marked up then you have been working for csx long enough to know by now that this railroad is run by rumors and a messed up rules system. Your going to hear all kinds of bull crap rules that you wont find in writing. Your going to hear from supervisors that this rule and that rule was put out years ago but they just forgot to put it in the new book or reprint it. This is how this outfit works. If I were you I would just follow what you can find in writing and what you cant go to the source. The book was written by the operating rules department. Talk to them. Better yet send them an email about your concern then you got something in writing if they actually respond to you. If you call them make sure you record the conversation because it wont do any good for you to tell a supervisor they told you this and that and you don't have any proof. You working for one messed up company when it comes to communication with its employees! If you get an answer do us all a favor and post it on here. I wouldn't mind knowing what they told you! FYI! Riding equipment is in our safety rule section. Securing trains and other pertinent rules are in our operating rules. When you go back to that foreign line railroad you just forget anything that is writing in the operating rules. Follow theirs. Your better off just doing as they ask on anything.

Name: confused E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 February 2019 Brothers/rules/ANYBODY!! I was riding a car on a foreign line rr and they stopped me and went off about the way I was riding the car. They told me if they caught me doing it that way again they would not let me work on the property. I told them I was told by many supervisors that I was to follow their operating rules but I was supposed to follow all the other rules of my railroad which included how to ride a car. He told me that was wrong and I was to follow all their rules when working on their property. I found this rule in the book: 100.5 say Csx employees performing service on foreign line tracks are governed by the foreign line and must carry the rules, timetable and special instructions of that line. I asked some engineers and they said they follow our Equip. handling, ABTH and safety rules and the guy was full of it. That's not what the rule says. I have looked all through our book to find where it say we only follow their operating rules. This is just plain nuts to be getting all these stories and I cant find a thing in the book about it. What the hell would happen if I fell off a bad car and got hurt and was riding the car like they said I had to on their property and its totally different than the CSX rule. Who would be liable. Could they charge me for not following our rule when they made me follow theirs? There has to be something out there in writing for managers and other guys to be saying that we don't follow their rules except operating. Where the hell is it. Supervisors cant tell me!

Name: Heat E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 22 February 2019 The only heat your going to feel from 30 feet away is maybe a car load of lumber fully engulfed in fire. I have walked up to white hot bearings and spit on them and it spit back. You are getting these bullitins from people that don�t have a clue, about mechanical anything. I find this dangerous that a pencil pusher is putting out these senseless bullitins. And from thirty feet away your going to miss lots. You might see smoke something dragging etc. Your not going to see a cracked wheel or anything like that. I�ve done thousands of pull bys from about five feet away and at that it is hard to see broken equipment. There is no common sense with these stupid managers.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 February 2019 L&N Dispatcher Yea I was a dispatcher for 10 years. You have no idea. I'll agree to disagree with you.

Name: Real rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 February 2019 Rules/other non na Please find another way to address yourself. I take the information I post seriously. My info is to help.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 22 February 2019 Engineer: I can promise you one thing, crews screw dispatchers more than dispatchers screw Crews.. yeah I know you go backwards and forwards. I can promise you this, I've looked out for crews and have covered things that would have got them fired.. you act like the dispatcher is your enemy, when in fact, he can be your best friend.... Ape: nope I never acted like I was an official, but after 30 years of dispatching I think it does make me qualified. You failed to mention that the broken rail started as a track light, now would it really make sense to run a train over a track light when you don't have to. Now, if you are 69 miles per hour Pig train, yes I will run you around the coal train.. and I can promise you one thing a pig train will not stop and wait for a local to switch ahead of them. first off you not being a dispatcher you don't really know the difference between a good dispatcher an a bad dispatcher. Now, I'm going to give you fact.. I once ran an Amtrak Auto Train around a pig train because the pig had to stop and fuel, well I got my ass ripped by general manager.. I said that would never happen again. Now, let me ask you this, I run the fast train around the slow one then they get to the yard and the one I ran around can't be called ahead of the slow train... Now , I have just jammed up a yard.. also, you have no clue what other subdivisions are doing. I always like when they say they get bad signals. I had a crew tell me one time he had a bad signal because it was red. I told him no that's a good signal that keeps you from hitting that other train. I don't expect you to understand dispatching and why they do certain things because you've never dispatch a train in your life. just like I've never told an engineer had to run his train because I've never been an engineer . I have respect for you guys and what you do on a daily basis. It's a shame you don't give the dispatcher the same courtesy. Also, you can put in for a dispatching job anytime.. But I think it would behoove you to sit in with a dispatcher first because I think it might open your eyes and explain a lot of the questions that you have.. I've had friends sit in with me who are engineers and have got up shaking their head saying wow, we never knew all the crap you really had to do. This is coming from guys who had over 20 years of running..

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 February 2019 Rules Rule 1 says do blah blah. Rule 2 says only do rule 1 if 3 isn't Better. Rule 4 says don't do any of them if they are confusing. I say do rule 5! Mark off FMLA until someone figures this crap out and comes up with an intelligent set of rules!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 February 2019 Management don�t know if there asshole was punched or bored out. They don�t know the rules either. Some manager to make himself look useful to the company issues a rule of the week. So all the no mind managers see his name on the bullit, and think he must be smart and important. Snowflakes I tell you they are snowflakes !

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 February 2019 Bad....joke Atlanta doesn't have a refresher course that teaches the crews how to chose which rule they should violate when they have several that contradict each other. Chose the wrong one that they don't like and your wrote up and possibly pulled out of service. Your the idiot...moron! Crews don't have time to call a supervisor every damn trip and throw the choice in their lap!

Name: Bad mama jama E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 February 2019 Holly hell, why dont all you idiots just go back to Atlanta for a refresher course and shut the fuck up.

Name: Ape E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 February 2019 CSX Why in the hell don't you assemble a group of intelligent people for one month and go over the 4 inch thick operating rules book and take out all the repetive and contradicting rules and clean the darn thing up once and for all. What happened to Tom Wolfe? Bring him back to the table since he wrote the original and make him work this thing out. How hard is it to make a cut and dry rules book! Better yet just add an ambient cold weather section that states what you want for everything. And make sure it states the rules supersede any other conflicting rules since you'll come up with more!

Name: Air brakes E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 21 February 2019 On a lot of cars mainly older cars, since the brake cylinders don�t get regreased from regular maintance. Don�t count on a regular or emergency brake application, if these cars are going to be unattended without handbrakes. What happens is the colder the weather the easier it is for air to leak by the rubber piston cups. The grease in these cylinders is like mud with ice from condinsation. I�ve taken many apart, to cover your ass use handbrakes if you can. Given enough time they will leak off.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 February 2019 Conductor If you are actually leaving the area (not switching) and leaving the cars of a key train behind in ambient weather you should contact the dispatcher and receive instructions from the chief. 412.4 is very clear on the rule of putting these cars into emergency if they are left unattended. Remember that csx has issued new definitions for equipment being unattended or unmanned. The new Unattended equipment definition rule DOES NOT STATE just how far away a person has to be before it is considered unattended. 20 feet? 50 feet? 10 car lengths? This rule was written in a manner that allows crews to save time by not applying hand brakes or doing a one minute brake test. New bulletin 009 issued Feb 1st 2019 rule 409.2 states UNATTENDED EQUIPMENT must be secured with sufficient tested handbrake but not less than one. Since there is no stated distance given as to what would be considered too far to be able to protect the equipment you could chose not to apply any hanbrakes. I would hope you would use common sense on making that decision. All new recent rules and future rules will be focusing on moving freight quicker and cutting corners and will leave the final decision in the crews lap. The crew will have full control of these decisions along with full liability if something goes wrong. Make your decisions wisely. If you have any doubt contact a supervisor and follow their instructions.

Name: Cots E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 21 February 2019 Cots cleaned oiled tested stenciled. In the 1980 and before all rolling stock had to have a complete brake service done every sixteen years AAR rules. It got to expensive to do this so the goverment gave the rr a pass. You could inspect a train and easily set off ten cars for an over due brake job. Now where a car goes to the shop it gets a single car test every five years to make sure the brakes are working with no extra maintance. So brakes work in a nice warm shop but then fail in the cold out in the field. Remember now that cots is long gone all these cars the brakes have had no attention since new. IE new grease in piston cylinders dirt collect cleaned out and so on. Rr save millions by not doing proper maintance. That�s why they change these rules all the time to avoid, regular brake maintance.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 February 2019 Rules So your saying that new bulletin on not dumping trains in cold weather violates 2 other rules? I'm new and the guys say Csx does this all the time. So how do you chose which rules to follow? Some say just follow the newest bulletin. I'm not comfortable violating key train rules!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 February 2019 L&N Disp. Why is good railroading compared to screwing the dispatcher. You really have me believing you're an official or you are really good at thinking like one. Here you go as a response to some stupid scenario's. Other main have slow orders? Put slower train through them. Engineering loves tonnage trains across them so they can raise them. AS far as M.O.W working then they would have a 707 or EC-1 protecting them. May have blockers up at EIC request not to run trains so you don't use the track. Broken rail well come on really I have to answer this. You would not run a train over it. RM or SM working or highrailing then they would have an EC-1 and dispatchers can't line into them. Or you have and your are currently fired and that would explain some of these stupid scenario's. I am losing IQ points if I keep going on. So you are running a UPS train on bad signals behind a slow manifest at 1am in the morning. Well guys I can't get you around them local is wanting out to switch. My TSL showing couple of trains called that MIGHT need head room to double out (or here's my favorite) guys I can't get you around them WHAT IF you break down! See guys I railroad scared and on what if's. Enjoy your slow ass trip because I completely run my territory off maybe's and what if's. Engineer's are not here to screw you. Engineers want a good run and sometimes it is just not possible and we get that. But at 1am and nothing going on except following a slow ass train that is bad dispatching. As far as the stupid scenario's. Blocking both mains, train called out ahead of the other, and blah blah blah. Well if you truly are a dispatcher ( I am doubting with every stroke of the key) you plan out your RR from the time you set down. If train gets called out ahead of the van train well you told the chief and sounds like you didn't plan well. If YM calls train well then we know it is working yard and again that's bad dispatching not to have the faster train around him before they get to next recrew point.

Name: Tax refunds E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 February 2019 https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax-refunds-are-lower-for-second-week-in-a-row-irs-reports/

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 February 2019 L&N I sware to God if I see or hear one more comment on how we try and screw the damn dispatchers I just might try to figure out how. We go forward and backwards. We run on your signals. We wait in sidings on your instructions. We don't make the damn decisions on how or where we move. With ptc, TO and GPS even God knows how fast we are running. If we got to stop and do work we don't screw around just to stick it to you. If anyone screws around it would be to stick it to a TM who is rushing and belittling us. The TM who throws stupid crap in our laps that violate our agreements or is a move that is just plain stupid as hell. They break every rule in the book to get a train out on time but turn around and hide in bushes to bust crews for stupid insane crap. If anyone can figure out how to kill a train just to rain on their stinking parade that's just what it would be for. It's never to screw a dispatcher! In fact the crews are looking out for them. Everyday the conductors could get down and walk their trains while stopped per the written rules. How do you think the dispatchers would start acting if everytime they wanted to run a stopped train they would have to wait for him to come back to the head end after he walked a 2 mile train? What if everyone started it. They can. It's in the rules! Tell us the dispatchers won't care and we'll see if we can make it happen!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2019 Locomotive less than 1 You are absolutely correct. ABTH rule 5555.3 explains the rule for dumping your train with the EOT Before cutting away from a cut of cars. Yes, the new bulletin 011 Dated Feb.5th 2019 contradicts this rule. You also have rule 412.4 that clearly states if you are cutting away from a cut of cars that are defined as KEY TRAIN cars you are to make sure the cars go into emergency. It doesn't matter what the ambient temperature is. This is an issue you should be discussing with the FRA On a more important note all Engineers better start reading and paying attention to ABTH rules 5151.1-5151.4 and rule 5302.1. A calendar day inspection is to be done EVERY DAY. A locomotive consist test must be done when the consist is made up or added to. If you are on a train that continuously uses the same power for several days but you just switch ends you don't need to do another locomotive break test. Just perform your standing and running. However a calendar inspection is expected every day. Things can break or go wrong at any time on any given day. There is nothing in the calendar day inspection rules that states you are exempt from doing them just because you are using the same power for more than one day. Do not be the crew that is boarded by the FRA and they find a calendar day inspection report for your locomotive that is a week old! Again there is a big difference between a locomotive consist test and a calendar day inspection. READ THE RULES. You have been bombarded with bulletins on class 1 air break rules. Do not forget your locomotive rules! If you are not sure you understand these rules then contact your FRA chief mechanical inspector and discuss the issue. This is a fair warning. Be prepared for future inspections.

Name: Cornelius Vanderbilt E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 20 February 2019 PSR Railroading will make us a lean mean customer satisfying machine and very very profitable..

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 20 February 2019 Ape: now a dispatcher also has to figure on pitiful engineers who out to screw a dispr and his fellow workers. Now , does it really make sense to run one train around another, when the train you just ran around is going to be called out first. ( train scheduling) something I know you have no clue about. I think it would behoove you to sit in with a dispatcher ( also the CTD)... It would help you understand how the RR is run and also learn your territory... Why in the hell would you want to tie up 2 main tracks with trains going in the same direction and SAME destination...Come on, you can't be that clueless..I noticed you did not address any of the possible scenarios i mentioned why it is not smart to run 2 trains on two separate tracks in the same direction... Come on, you have been around long enough to know that doing that is not smart. You sound like a newbie making comments like that, I guess I was giving you more credit than that...

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 20 February 2019 Ape: now a dispatcher also has to figure on pitiful engineers who out to screw a dispr and his fellow workers. Now , does it really make sense to run one train around another, when the train you just ran around is going to be called out first. ( train scheduling) something I know you have no clue about. I think it would behoove you to sit in with a dispatcher ( also the CTD)... It would help you understand how the RR is run and also learn your territory... Why in the hell would you want to tie up 2 main tracks with trains going in the same direction and SAME destination...Come on, you can't be that clueless..I noticed you did not address any of the possible scenarios i mentioned why it is not smart to run 2 trains on two separate tracks in the same direction... Come on, you have been around long enough to know that doing that is not smart. You sound like a newbie making comments like that, I guess I was giving you credit than that...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 February 2019 Lmao! Brakeman for less than one year that might be the worst example of taking up for a bad dispatcher that runs trains west on #1 and east on #2 I have ever heard of! That was sarcastic comment I made also. Be careful I am very aware of signals, issuing EC-1's and copying them, authorizing work authorities and annulling them also. Get what I'm saying. Track time following a train. I also know how to use a set of crossovers and run a train around a slower train and if the track got shunted by a kid with wire (lmao) then signal and track are designed to give you a track light or a restricted proceed signal on intermediates and a stop signal on absolutes. If a shunt by a kid (lmao) is far enough from an absolute signal you can also get a restricting signal. See if the segment of track has an TOL ( a dispatcher knows what that is ) <-sarcasm, and no train ID or EC-1 issued on that segment of track in CADS, then a D.I.R.T should be entered and the RR will send someone to inspect it ( hopefully they find the kid with the wire bahahahahah). So in simple terms for ya it was a sarcastic comment for the one that made a stupid comment about an approach signal. Anyone that has anytime on the railroad knows how the signals work. Give me a break.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 February 2019 isn't the train handling rule when cutting away from cars with operational eot you're to activate the emergency toggle and dump the train from the rear this goes against the new bulletin can't find that the rule has been changed and still in our rule book last time i looked.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 February 2019 Brewer yard going bye bye. Will be shut down soon.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 February 2019 APE You just think you know how Signals work. You may know Signal aspects and rules but that's about it. If some kid shunts the track with a piece of wire and does the same at intervals for 75 miles he will have disabled track one . Your option is to run on track two behind another train because the signals can't see you. Be careful and not get into the same block as train one on the Signals can't see you then either. Better yet ask L&N and listen to him.

Name: Information E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 February 2019 The company can get away with falsifying information, at worst get a fine. But when employees do it they, could use it to fire you. I�ve seen it before where guys have been fired for stealing time.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 20 February 2019 Re: signals... First off, If you run Two trains next to each other on two mains and you are going to the same destination, then what is the point. Does the other main have slow orders, is there mow working on it, is there a broken rail, is a roadmaster hi railing on it, is a signal mtr working on it, is it being worked by a local, is it next to a yard where the yard needs to double out, is there an outbound train going to need it, what if you do run on the other main and both trains have problems, well you then have cod locked the whole railroad... It could be a number of reasons...

Name: Destiny E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 20 February 2019 I was a trainman for the first four years,then transfer to mechanical loco shop then carshop. Know all about the bs, made the best of it. Hate it or love it up to you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 February 2019 We know how the signals work. We just can't figure out why we are following a train for 50 miles on an approach and #2 main track is wide open and we haven't seen anyone on it for the last 75 miles.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 February 2019 CONRAIL QUALITY!!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 February 2019 TOO MANY damn foamers on here. 35 years went by to fast for Destiny and the other idiots posting sounds like a mix between a black honkey and a hilljack. If your a carman then no way in hell you understand the life of a railroader on the road and living out of a hotel bag and missing half your family life. Nothing good about this job but a paycheck. Now we got to worry about being spied on and someone listening in on our conversations. Just one big stinking joke. Its the devils money we are working for. There is nothing glamorous about railroad life. It sucks ass. We all stay for the money. Cant wait until they have the balls to charge someone for saying something about one of the two faced supervisors while the crew is out on a train in the cab by themselves. Watch your back union brothers. Wont be long and they will be listening in on your conversations with your LC!

Name: Destiny E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 19 February 2019 Nothing wrong with making an honest living,being a railroader. The rr jobs are unique, in a lot of ways. I did my 35 years on rr time went by faster than I wanted it to. It was a great career until Hh came along. But still made the best of it, and made it to the finish line. There are not many companies anymore that you can work 35 five years for other than a rr career. You have to be a special type to be a railroader,and I found it to be good life!

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 February 2019 Brothers Anybody got any idea who started the rumor they have started installing camera's in the locomotives that don't just do live streaming but also record our conversations. If anyone has any facts on this please post what you know. I have a lawyer friend who has something to say about this invasion into our conversations. Something has to be put in writing notifying everyone that our conversations are being recorded. Has anyone seen anything substantial?

Name: Roberto E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 February 2019 Gots no learnings an I runs a train up and down the rail. Makes 120000 in 2018 I be living like Larry

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 19 February 2019 LOCO engr: no T&E are not ignorant . I have great respect for what you do. Dispatchers know about the junk engines, they deal with them every day. If you report you engine trouble to the dispr, then you have done your job. If the dispr said he reported it, then he has done his job.. Don't blame the dispr.. As far as the signals... When you have crews complaining that a dispr keeps giving you an approach signal, you have to wonder ... Duh , you are following a train..

Name: Student loans E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 February 2019 Student loans, 1.5 trillion owned 2/3 are by females. A majority will never work in the field for what they went to school for. Beware men a lot of these women are looking to hook up with guys that have good incomes to pay it off for them. My point being I retired from the rr with a good pention and threw my rr career made decent money. I started at 20, started paying into pension right away. So I sit here on my couch getting pension checks, and most of my friends that have university never got into work force till late twenty�s. Most will have to work to 65 or later. Yes they had week ends off and worked days. But in the end the wage slave rr employee is better off. Lots of these so called educated people for got to start saving for retirement till later in life and are paying for it. There is the negative side to rr, life but I think in the end the rr employee did pretty good for no education past high school some don�t even have that. Hold your head high and be proud of your accomplishments.

Name: LOCO E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 February 2019 L&N Im not allowed to be on my cell phone while Im running and at the controls of the locomotive. I cant call the yard or the mechanical desk and make sure that the information is relayed as the dispatcher said they would do! Next time I have engine problems I will tell the dispatcher to get the mechanical desk on the radio and I will give them all the details. As for your signal comments we are not idiots. We are well aware of how the signal system works and we know the work load. But the poster was right. This is a common occurrence. It has happened to me so many times I cant count. So in all your years of dispatching wisdom please explain to all of us ignorant engineers why it is so hard to tell someone that we will we rolling in with junk! None of us should have to defend our actions when we get in which is always the same thing. WE REPORTED TO THE DISPATCHER AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD REPORT IT!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 February 2019 You guys are stuck in The Matrix like the movie Outside of that dump shit hole none of that s*** matters

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 18 February 2019 Engr: For the love of God, do yourself a huge favor and sit in with a dispatcher and learn what the protocol is for ALL the crap you report to the dispr... Geez, the dispatcher can't baby sit you all day LONG..Crap just like that, is EXACTLY Why it should be MANDATORY for you guys to HAVE to sit in with a dispr.. It amazes me that T&E have absolutely no clue what a dispr really does on a daily bases. I mean really, some of you guys think a dispatcher can control a clear sig and an a approach signal with a flip of a button... That is not how it works...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 February 2019 Precision Schedule Railroad is a SCAM! Federal Government is now digging deeper into CSX and their Scams! They may not like what they find!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 February 2019 Csx still suxs one year later

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 February 2019 DISPATCHERS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE when we tell you that our power has problems when we do that long job briefing or report it in line of road will you do as you say you are going to and report the issues to the yard we are going to. Are you reporting it to Mechanical? Who are you reporting to when you say you are going to. I sware if I roll in one more time with screwed up power and the YM and TM jump my behind because they wanted to split it up and use it on different trains and say I didn't let anyone know Im just going to have to throw you under the bus. I will be taking exact times and exact words that you use and if I have to I will write a statement stating that I did my job and notified someone. If These TM aren't checking with mechanical to see if the power was reported then I apologize if that's what your doing. If you keep forgetting or you don't job brief with the next dispatcher then you can take you arss whipping like we keep getting!

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 February 2019 Brothers That bulletin that came out on the rules of cutting away from cut on air was not meant to be for cars on yard air/air plants. It was talking about cars that are on air with a motor. I can see after looking at it again how some could think it meant cars on yard air as well. I pointed it out to a TM and he thought the same thing!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 February 2019 Lets make the COMPANY money today and us some money.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 February 2019 Engineer 1-10. I think I know what's confusing you. I work in a yard where we pull cuts into the yard when we arrive that have air plants that attatch to the end of the cut. When I walk up to the head end and cut the power away I always close the angle cock after we cut away so the cars have air pumping on them. That's what we have always been instructed to do. I think the instructions in bulletin are just reminding you to make sure you have the angle cock open if your attatching it to the head end. obviously the Air can't blow through if you dont.

Name: Air brakes E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 February 2019 https://movecoal.org/component/rsfiles/preview?path=2014%2BOperations%2Band%2BMaintenance%2BConference%2B-%2BPark%2BCity%2BUT%252FCarriereOM14.pdf There is more to air brakes than set up and release!

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 17 February 2019 Interesting reading. Makes a person wonder just what do they teach new hires at the conductor school regarding train air brakes and train air brake systems. Surely there is operational experience(s) for a while, after that when actually out in the field for that training and after being marked up - some areas have all types of weather conditions. Then later on, what all do they teach in engineer training regarding train air brakes and air brake systems? WTH?

Name: Number8 vent value E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 17 February 2019 https://studylib.net/doc/18149107/8-vent-valve--part-no.-581602---wabtec-technical-information

Name: To up E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 February 2019 When carman at cp do a break test with midtrain power and they remove headend power. We isolate the midtrain power and put our air machines on each cut, and test it. You cannot run yard hydrant air threw slave power. Nothing to it,when you put train into emergency on in cold weather a lot of times the emergency portions on cars stick open and so do number 8 vent values. That is why you. Can�t get calibration,if in the yard we carman drive the train find the leaks. But on the road you have to walk it not fun.

Name: UP E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 February 2019 Always cut away with the (cars) angle cock open whether it be a full service application or an inbound inspection 70 lb reduction (also needed for cold weather). The question here is your next step. How will you charge the cars on yard air if the angle cock is not open? Angle cock should always be open with the exception of short runaround moves to put power on the other end. There are 3 other exceptions in the UP rulebook, just wait til you wrap your head's around distributed power. Always tie hand brakes unless local instructions indicate otherwise.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 February 2019 Just got my refunds back most I�ve ever gotten . Took two weeks to get it . Trump gave us a huge standard deduction . Thanks Trump u got my vote 2020 .

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 February 2019 Carman Bulletin says: Before cutting away from cars connected to air: 1. Make a full service brake pipe reduction 2. Verify that the brake pipe exhaust stops before closing the angle cock. 3. Ensure the angle cock is open on the equipment to be left unattended. This pretty much says straight up to open the angle cock on the cars before you leave.

Name: Bottled air E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 February 2019 I can remember back in the 1980s a crew, had a drag train picked up grain at several elevators. Had I think 70 cars they pulled down the main line stopped short of a crossing the conductor put couple handbrakes on and he bottled the air so train would pump up faster when they got back to there train. They took the power about five miles east to small town for dinner. Half hour later they where called on radio asked why there train was going west. The run away went for miles hit speeds of 75 miles an hour and derailed every car on first curve. Crew fired!

Name: Air E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2019 As a carman for 35 years I�ve never heard of anyone being told to pump train with air and leave angle cock open on the other end. I�m glad people ask questions for things they don�t understand. And not assume and guess, that is how people die. Ask a employee to explain it to you in person, until you find the answer you are looking for. You do not look dumb asking, the guys that scare me are the ones that think they know it all, and get hurt or hurt others.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 February 2019 Engineer No one seems to understand what you are asking. Yeah, it seems stupid to put cars on air and leave one end open. You are taught that putting cars on air is to pump them up and get them ready for a break test or to release the brakes. You can leave the cars on air with the angle cock open and the air will eventually make its way through the train. In the winter a little air on the cars is better than none. It wont take as long to charge. Im sure you understand the emergency application and didn't need that explained to you. All cuts should have handbrakes applied when you leave them. The second part of that rules tells you not to dump the air. Cut away with angle cock closed on cars and then open it slowly. They don't want a full emergency application because of the cold weather. Some guys say this is bottling because you didn't let all the air release in an emergency application. It isn't. The angle cock is left open.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 February 2019 If BOTH the angle cocks are turned/closed on each side of a air charged cut beforehand, even if a brake pipe reduction is made prior, then yeah, that is bottling the air. Equipment air applied brakes can and will leak off. If cutting away from cars\train on air and leave the angle cock (valve) open on the cars\train cut away from = emergency application, then air brakes are applied and that portion of train may not move independently at all if ever not bumped into, subjected to strong winds, etc., if on a level surface. If in any doubt, OR cars are to be there a while - apply handbrakes. Hook up an air ground line (bottling air) = apply hand brakes. Heck, the rules = handbrakes.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 February 2019 Carman Thankyou but I understand what you are talking about. What I don't understand is why would you put cars on air and leave the other end open. There are handbrakes applied and tested on the cars we set out. So if they are being pumped up there should be no reason to worry about a run away. Just don't get the point of putting them on air if your not going to close both ends and pump them up.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 February 2019 I'm not seeing it. I kept more of money in 2018. I just received My refund for the same amount as previous year. Give or take a 100. You guys must have been claiming all kinds of BS.

Name: To taxes E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2019 Ya maybe you can get some answers from HR,they take from peter to give to Paul. Working man pays for the poor and the rich. In past I have had a raise on my pay and it put me in a hirer tax bracket and I took home less pay!!!!

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 16 February 2019 When you cut off a cut of cars, you end up putting the cars in emergency. If you close the anglecock after you cut power off. You creat a condition called bottling the air. When this happened air from your resorvoir tanks can leak into the train line and build up pressure that will start releasing the brakes. Many train have been runaways because of this practice.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 February 2019 Old head engineers Im new at this game and I need someone to explain that bulletin HQ 011 to me. It says in black and white when your cutting away from a cut of cars on AIR that your eventually will leave with the angle cock open. Why in the hell would you even bother putting the cars on air if your going to do that. How could they pump up to the desired air that is needed to work them. I know it says if they are left unattended but I do a job where I leave a cut behind on air and no one is there to work them for awhile. I always thought the conductor was supposed to close the angle cock after we cut away so the cars could pump up. Where it says make sure the air is completely exhausted after you make a reduction and close the angle cock Im assuming they mean the angle cock on the engine.

Name: Taxes E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2019 Pal take your taxes to a professional and have them done. You would be, better off getting everything your entitled to. And they would have the answer to your questions. There was a time I had the company deduct more off my pay. It worked out better for me at tax time. Remember you get what you pay for from the lunch room tax consultant.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 February 2019 They be selling they be selling

Name: Beware E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2019 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez_the_world_is_going_to_end_in_12_years_if_we_dont_address_climate_change.html

Name: Democrat cortez E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2019 Democrats Cortez said the world will end in 12 years if her green plan is not implemented right away. No more fossil fuels, she wants to do away with planes trains auto, everything will be converted to electric. But there was no mention of where the power is going to come from to generate electricity. It is amazing how the retarded voters can put a confirmed retard like this woman in office. Unbelievable what comes out of this woman�s mouth. This is not funny this woman believes everything she says.

Name: ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 February 2019 Conductor So what's the problem. Cant take the time to lock the cabs. You don't have a key then get one. Engineers aren't the only ones who can get them. You boys act like someone is asking you to actually do some work. You lock your damn car don't you. You lock your house and you lock you lockers at work. No wonder no one has any respect for us. So many damn cry babies. If they freeze you just use a fusee if you can get one or you call someone and tell them to come take care of it. End of story. How about worrying more about crap that actually is important like maybe how much pay your going to lose when the unions bend over and let them cut our pay. Abolish single runs to swap trains and reduce the rates. All your dumb asses who sit around and say "they cant do that" and actually believe they cant will be crying like little wenches when you lose money and runs. This hedge fund is not even close to being done with chopping us up. Do you damn jobs or get caught and charged for not doing it. Lock the damn cabs. Stay off the phones. Stay awake. Do you paperwork. Just do what your told because soon you may not even have a job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 15 February 2019 Thought FRA imposed a requirement that all new and remanufactured locomotives be equipped with a secure cab lock to prevent unauthorized intrusions,....... 2012 or so. Look it up.

Name: crew E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 February 2019 M&W We just noticed the other day that there are little cameras on some of the poles at crossing we go over. I never noticed them until someone else told me about them. I wonder if they are installing them in all the towns we go through with multiple crossings. Sure the local authorities know why they are there. Need to ask them why.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 February 2019 Loco The same technology that put the men on tha moon is being implemented right now to run remote trains and put us all out of work. The PTC is just a part of it. You pass a lot of it when you go by new Crossing Warning Devices. It's a little slower because of resistance it will meet and share holders need the taxpayers to foot the bill. In time government will shove it down our throats in the name of tarriffs. Every time s train hits a curve too fast the railroads put out media "We need the people to put in PTC." Watch the next one.

Name: Cabs locked E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 15 February 2019 Locking the cabs up was started by Hh at cn then cp. The reason we where told because of terrorists etc. It was just another reason to pull employees out of service if they forgot. When we inspected trains or did break tests. Every time we left the cab it had to be locked back up. And if incoming crew did not have a key they had to sit on the power till someone came and locked the cab, and crew was written up for not having two keys.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 February 2019 CSX Put a frickin man on the moon, Make the atom bomb, Kick arss fighter planes and advanced satellites and you cant even keep tract of what the hell is in your trains. No wonder I have heard so many of your military recruits say thank god you don't have any control of our military! LOL!!!!! Anyone get an answer on what an exception car is?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 February 2019 They be selling what??

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 February 2019 they be selling they be selling

Name: Cool E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 February 2019 RR likes it when everyone where dark glasses and ignore everything, let it go just go!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 February 2019 Another day another dollar

Name: Discrepancies E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 February 2019 Hey brother, the dispatchers are on our team. Don't get that fucked up. When you get discrepancies and the dispatcher can't find it, that usually means that the profile that you have is probably old, and they may have issued another one after you printed yours out. The info the dispatcher has is usually the latest scan, so he may have a more updated train list than what you have.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 14 February 2019 Condr: The dispr notifies the chief who then gets hold of customer service. They are the ones who look at the scanned train and gives the information.. All you can do is take their word for it. A dispr is caught in the middle.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 February 2019 Because they have combined 2,3 and up to 4 jobs all into one. Yes we get alerted on discrepancies but that could take a while for the computers/scanners to process. We simply do not have the time to sit there and look through every car you have and compare it to your work order. There are days we cant even eat our lunch and hold our piss in for hours all while there are 10 bases going off, 2 phone calls ringing, 2 different foreign line block lines going off, and maybe a few other dispatchers, signals, TMs, office Managers trying to talk to us. Good Luck.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 February 2019 L&N How in the hell can you tell the dispatcher you got 44 extra axles and they come back not once but twice and tell you they can't find any discrepancies. So offer to stop train and find the cars because some could be dangerous or even high alert cars and they say no keep running. They will do more checking. Then you pull into the yard and you never heard a thing back from them. That is jacked up!

Name: Sri tags E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 14 February 2019 And some cars are missing the AEI tags.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 February 2019 Re condr: Years ago when they built a train the checker would visually see each car. Then you had a camera that you could still visually see the cars. Never had any sleepers ( extra car) on a train or cars not in the consists... Now you have a damn scanner that will pick up extra cars because it sees another train between the cars of the train that is being checked. It is one big guessing game. It is a joke.

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 February 2019 HDCD Wayside signs? You mean warning boards or slow order boards put out that aren't on the bulletins? Another day at CSX. 1 car missing and 2 extra in the train. Put a damn man on the moon and they cant even get the frickin cars right in the train!

Name: HDCD E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 14 February 2019 Who was the bitch that ran the wayside signs not covered test on a casky crew? These cunts couldn't pass that test. I know for a fact they are targeting specific individuals. This is not random!

Name: FYI cabs being locked E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 February 2019 Hh started this stupid rules to lock the cabs. Carman trainmen all where given keys.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 February 2019 Conductor 30 The question hasnt been answered. What is an exception car. I heard same thing. It's a car they can't get paperwork on and send it out anyway. As for scanner plates, every yard is supposed to keep an electronic record of every car that goes in and out of the yard. Every train they go on. If yard switchers are grabbing the wrong cars or too many then maybe they need to have a regular man who does the class one air test that verifies every single car in the train with an electronic device that sends the info directly to Jacksonville. When the work order gets printed the cars should be in their system. Just like they do with the on board device. Take his little device, walk the train and check them off. Add or delet. Stop this crap. No more cover up. No more surprises on the road. There is no excuse for this crap happening.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 February 2019 T&E Rule 410.8(system bulletin reissue) and rule 410.9(oper. Rules book) Explains the procedures for securing locomotives. Rule 412.5 addresses the reverser rules. Absolutely no where can we find any rules that require you to lock the locomotive and take the reverser with you if your leaving your train in a HUTA. If you are leaving a KEY TRAIN that is a different story. It has been brought to our attention that several crews have recrewed trains and found the lead locomotive locked and the reversers removed with only the lead locomotive being locked. Most have been in an HUTA. Why someone would only lock the lead unit and not the rest is a puzzle to us. Several have been found this way. If anyone knows why this is happening please let us know. Maybe someone has put a verbal order out during freezing weather to leave the trailing units unlocked because of problems with frozen locks and order them to take the reverser when they do this. We are not sure why this is happening. If you have any info on this please share it with us as we are baffled. We can not find anything in writing on this procedure.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 February 2019 BNSF doesn�t need to genuflect before Wall Street sell-side analysts, and make lowering its operating ratio, �enhancing shareholder value,� shedding people and assets and customers it doesn�t want, and adopting Precision Scheduled Railroading�which may or may not work�to justify its existence. Warren Buffett knew that, with this long-term-value approach�he and his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders would have a solid, lasting investment that will pay dividends for years to come while serving the global economy! Uncle Warren will Laugh at PSR all the way to the Bank!!!

Name: Fun E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 February 2019 Memphis (Leewood) is progressing very well with the current local management even with the daily struggle of dealing with the current incompetent superintendents and assistant superintendent. I think CSX is on the right path to succeed for share holders. Happy to be a part of this regime it is making my portfolio look spectacular. A few tweaks in mid-level management would make a dramatic and profitable difference.

Name: Cornelius Vanderbilt E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 13 February 2019 He who laughs last wins.!! U lazy no good hide behind the UNION dim wits!!

Name: Koop aid E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 February 2019 Hey don�t kid yourself, these managers that are drunk on the company kool-aid, being told how important they are and promised bonus etc. In the meantime cup cake is fed up. And having to get on tinder for love, there highest earnings from all the hours working will be used in the divorce settlement for child support and vaginamony. And you will be paying cupcakes legal frees. Once she gets the house maybe Foote will convert cabooses etc. So management never has to leave the property. Wish I was joking but this is going to be the new reality for some of these company loyal s.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 13 February 2019 Conductor / Ape, for 10-20 years: You do know that those reader tags can be damaged, missing, OR views at scanners can be blocked for one reason or another don't you?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 February 2019 Just received a letter about the bonus. Why even mail it out at this point? Whoever is left at HQ must be some dumb motherfuckers.

Name: na E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 February 2019 UP Cond The government cant step in and do a thing. They do not have the right just to STEP in and tell any industry how to do their jobs or run their business unless it is violating the law. It is not illegal to lay people off. However, if there is a problem with getting goods shipped across the country and delays are at the ports then they can step in just like they did with CSX when Hunter caused a major delay in shipments to customers. You have to plan on losing your job just like any other worker in America. That's why you save and have a plan for something else to do. You don't want the government stepping in and sticking their noses into every ones business. What you do want to do is be smart and save.

Name: 20 and under E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 February 2019 Americans are getting work visa to work in Mexico new GM plants. Must be age 20 and under, ceo Mary of gm glad to hire any layed off American worker.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 February 2019 Union Pacific cuts 250 employees, most in Omaha; another 450 employees are furloughed! Ponzi- Scheme Railroading At it�s best!! I really wish the Federal Government would step in, This shit is getting out of control. Greedy Bastards!!

Name: Cars E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 February 2019 Could be bad order cars they want to spiff off. We use to bad order cars and Forman would go in and delete the bad order. Foreman and Tm got together and did it all the time. That is why carman should always record car in his note book.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 February 2019 conductor The cars have scanner plates. They can get info on every car out there even if one is missing. If they keep blowing you off in route then most likely there is a car they want to hide. No since in trying to keep getting any answer after tell you they will get back with you and they don't within an hour. If you roll in with hazmats and the FRA is there and boards you just tell them you reported the axle discrepancy and they didn't get back with you. You did your job. Just make sure you write down what time you told them and the dispatcher name. Guarantee there are hundreds of cars shipped across the system they don't have documentation on or don't want you to know about them.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2019 Reminds me of reviewing a work-order & spotting a car (or more) with no info. Yardmaster & Trainmaster dumbfounded. OK - looks like it's to be moved in the block it's in. Well - since no one is sure - any restrictions? Gotta try to always cover your own ass. Don't know - you'll have to inspect (with car dept. people on duty & available). Finally get the info & OK to go. Then mad because of delay. Stump 'em and it's pass the buck. What an outfit.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2019 Yardmasters Can you please explain to us what happens when you "exception" a car. I heard someone say that if you cant find the paperwork for a car you want to put in a train you just exception it. Is that what is going on when we have extra cars in our train and the dispatcher comes back and tells us they cant find any train discrepancies? Is it hidden in the system? They aren't on our work order so Im guessing they are hidden somehow. Is this how you hide them and then throw them in the dispatchers lap after they get out on the line of road?

Name: Wear and tear E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 February 2019 The union I pay into I went to a seminar,they had a human rights watch dog team. They went to China toured some sweat shops. They would witnessed safety guards off machines so the employee could work faster. A person in there prime of live, there joints where worn out in a three year period. That�s if they where lucky not to get caught in machines. Mexico not much better, it is just a matter of time before labour organizes in these countries. I guess once they start shooting employees that fight back against the corruption , maybe consumers will get a conscious!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 February 2019 Conductor Don't trust the FRA they may regulate on a yard level but they are facilitators for railroads in Global Transportation. Careful don't get too close.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 February 2019 can anyone tell me if Melvin Burch is still a csx cop? If not where is he, I would like to meet him again. Thanks for your help

Name: Dammit man E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 February 2019 Norfolk southern plans to cut 3000 employees by 2021. Sounds like they are copying csx

Name: Brakeman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 February 2019 FRA is paid Boo hoo. You get written up because your not wearing your safety glasses when your supposed to then be a man and take your whipping. You know the rules. You know they are head hunting. No doubt you have heard they want a turn over rate. Used to be so they could keep the school afloat and grant money coming in. Look how many times the union buttered the plate for the company and made new agreement terms for new hires coming in. Why pay a mouthy old head all the perks when they can get rid of him and bring in a new guy who agrees to be hired for less. Get your head out of your arss. If you rush it's your own fault. The company man can't make any of us rush if we don't want to. The problem is you got balless wonders and suck ups who won't stand up for what's right so those who work safe and follow rules stand out. Few men left on the railroad. Just pretty boys. You dont need the FRA to tell you a thing. You follow what's written by the company. You aren't responsible for learning fra laws. If csx doesn't do training on all the laws you can't be held accountable. You got questions about paperwork you think is wrong then ask a supervisor. He tells you to do as he says or refuses to give an answer if it isn't a good faith challenge then you do as your told. Fra board's you or confronts you in the yard you simply tell them you were following direct orders. End of discussion. It's the supervisor who willfully instructed you to violate laws and he's the one who goes to court and pays the fine. Just follow the rules and work at your pace. Deal with it! Do what's in writing. Real simple. Confused about a rule ask!

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 February 2019 FRA. thanks for the surprise visit you made to the big four yard. You caught the TM by surprise. How about doing that more often! Everything was done by the book while you were on the property. Now that's what we need on a regular basis!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 February 2019 Let me save you some time on reading labels to find the country of origin before purchasing. You know the boxes you carry on your train "TOFC"? Open a TOFC and you'll find every item is made in a foreign country. We are just making it possible to abuse child labor and destroying our nation by providing the shipments by train. The next time we're stuck in a motel room for 48 hrs think about how WE the proud railroaders are a bunch of Coyotes and Pimps.

Name: E-mail: Child labour Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 February 2019 Yes your 100% right about child labour, and it is as close as Mexico where they have worked a 14 year old many hours a week. And if they get hurt there is no compensation and no labour law enforced. That is why they love Mexico, mame one person and then hire his brother and fuck them up to. No one gets sued in these sweat shops outside USA. That right shame on the companies and people that buy the products made by exploited labour. I look at labels and don�t buy from these places. They get pretty crafty trying to mislead consumers with label information. Number one cause of death in China for workers is suicide.

Name: FRA is paid by csx E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 February 2019 Ok let's be straight forward FRA is a joke I have been here ten years and have never been asked a ? About how the company does business by them never been educated by them bout what's right or wrong I'll do what they say but have never been face. To face with them , considered my job is at hand I go by tm and the union telling me different views but I'm the one fired As Far as safety think about it csx has not hired only fired and many have quit since new persion RR for the most part all that's left is the same people only thing that has changed Is upper and I mean upper mangement not train masters , just like well Fargo they put un realistic goals on the lower level employees just to fire them when things go wrong we the boots on the ground are not at fault for CSX safety people are being killed we as employees that are left "not many new hires "had the best safty record of the RR the only thing that changed was the big money people that hide in offices with big lawyers its unfair they rush rush rush rush and I'm sure they smile to see this but no money or accountable is put on therm they are to blam for preying on low level employees and I will keep on till they hurt like we hurt ,, safty it's not the boots on the ground and TM it's the unrealistic goals the corporation hedge fudge people have to be savage against one another HOLD FOTTIE accountable the yard I work in is rush rush rush write you up for dumb shit safty glasses is a major that's not safty it intiimdation,,

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 February 2019 OH MY GOD.....SHUT THE F...K UP! Who gives a shit. Your pie hole discussion on economics doesn't solve one single problem in a railroaders life in the field nor does it help with any problem he has at this very moment while he is stuck on a train for 12 hours or a hotel for 48 and finally gets home to find out once again he was screwed out of half his pay!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 February 2019 So why did we intentionally force American jobs overseas? Quite simple really. Railroads ran out of new business. Creating goods that must be imported travels by barges to Deep Water Ports. From there shipments are by rail. New business!!! And we just created a new bunch of corridors. Now we need changes like getting rid of our short lines that provided service to small industry, cars, engines, yards, PEOPLE.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 February 2019 The loss of American jobs was intentional. There are MANY laws in place to protect American businesses among each other and especially foreign nations who can take us over ecconomicly. Have you heard of the Fair Business Pratice? Try competing in a Fair Bid process when you competition uses child and slave labor. Yes we are participating in Child Labor by providing transportation for the goods these children make. Shame on us all!

Name: Tariffs trade wars E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 We will all find out in 2019, with trade wars and tarriffs just how much it will affect the shipping industry. My interest is if there will be major loss to the rr industry. The communist Chinese goverment cares about staying in power. They want the world to think they are capitalists first.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 10 February 2019 Come on. Trade with other countries has been around - a long, long time(s). China has had their nose in the USA's economy for quite a while. Where've you been?

Name: China E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 USA use to be a country of production, now the USA is a country of consumption about 70% of everything we use eat etc is now imported. Most trains with a can on it is from China. When our producers from Asian countries it will affect the transportation industry here, less trains shipping these products. Less trips affects the rr as a whole.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 February 2019 So are you saying if we are Chinas Transportation we can stop shipping Made In China we can shut em down? Makes sense that the only way they can survive is our trains. Forget feeding our families these little slant eyes are taking us over without firing a shot! We're at war and didn't know it. They're taken over our trains!!!!!!!!!

Name: China E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 This will affect shipping companies!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHyqO72oAo

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 February 2019 Lucky You are right! You can't move trains to Chins but you can move the China effect to America. Say WHAT??? We sell our companies and jobs to China right? Simply sell our railroads to 3rd world nations, China and Mexico divide our nation up into 15 ft ribbons. Look up the FEC Railroad. Who owns it? GRUPO!!!! A bunch oh Mexicans!!! CSX will eventually be sold also. Forget about retirement you are not going to make it.

Name: To ha E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 Ha you missed the point I was making. You work for a company that you should be able to retire from. The guys that work for auto Harley Davidson etc. Had there jobs exported out of the USA. The rr is stationary they can�t export the rr. If you don�t like where you work and the dues you pay, you have the option to quit. People in other industries did not have an option. That is where you are more better off.

Name: HA! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2019 Lucky You know why we have a better retirement. Because we pay more out than anyone else does. Jesus I get so sick of hearing how our retirement is so much better. Well if the average individual on the street had as much as we have taken out to supplement that retirement they would shit! People who work and take extra out of their check and invest it like the railroad does for us can live just the same as a railroader.

Name: Lucky E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2019 In North America railroaders have more security than any other industry. They can lay people off. But they can�t move the tracks to China overseas or Mexico. There are so many companies that took tax money and are setting up shop outside the USA. A carrier employee made 23 bucks an hour in USA. A Mexican worker is paid 3 bucks an hour. And labour is cheaper across the pond. I was layed off nine times in a 34 year rr career and was able to retire. If your low man on seniority list save some money for times you are layed off. The rr I worked at had 35000 employees in 1980. Today there are 12000 employees. Technology was the game changer. You put up with lots of shit being a rr today to make a living, but hang in there there is a reward called retirement where most people will never see outside rr life. But most of all folks have a rainy day nest egg and it is there when you need it. Been there done that more than once.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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