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.

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Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 17 August 2018

Dorothy

How would a 144 rack train get south of the crossover in c2, c3 without
a shove?

Name: Dorthy E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 17 August 2018 Hey Tin Man do you think if there were 1 train that should be built in c2 and c3 it should be the q244? There is a x-over, then the train believe it or not could be pulled out. In railroading your pullout game is strong, but your shove game is dangerous.

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2018 I thought that The HAL 9000 computer is Running the network.... Or was it skynet?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2018 The tin man Can't believe Salyers still has a job. Can't fix a problem till you acknowledge there's a problem; Salyers is the problem.

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2018 Bravo Car Guy!! We need more people think "Out side the rail" . When tbe big western railroads where offering 20k sign bonuses There was a reason! They all "sux"! Step 1; everyone get log ons to glass door,make negative reviews to cut off future railroad employee victims 2; start putting in applications at other places of employment,then quit Let's see how they can run the railroad if nobody's working there!

Name: The tin man E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2018 Another glorious day in the land of OZ, thanks to our stellar management we had a y128 run out of fuel in route to the yard then a y290 do the same, while at the same time (technically not the managements fault)the y299 derailed working their industry do to wide gauge, and all the while when u thought it couldn't get any worse the 144 rack q244 that has to shove out of the north end to depart out the west TX. Wye dumped racks all over the south end of the a yard, a TM told us it was the worst derailment he's seen since hes been here and hes for over 15 yr. All in all today was a good day

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 16 August 2018 You use more fuel flat switching than humping, FACT! When you hump cars down into a bowl, grade carries the cars to rest. When you flat switch uphill in a bowl you have to generate the energy to get the cars to where they need to be. To generate that energy you use fuel. If you hump 500 racks a shift you would travel around 10,000 feet +/- a shift. I bet you travel 5 miles an engine per shift flat switching. Not to mention all the extra wear on the brakes and everything else. Yeah maybe it don't add up to as much as running a hump but there are a lot less "human" factors when you hump.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 August 2018 Great job guys, great job. Some of the worlds best railroaders out here doing their thing! I just hope those cakes can still be made! LMFAO! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Better get out the PAM SPRAY IDIOT!!

Name: CSX for sale E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 August 2018 Once CSX gets the the green light to sell track. This is just the start of it, it will be like a wolf smelling blood. Once CSX sees that money come by in from sales it will be like an addiction. The share holders will make lots of profit, they will sell everything they can and then bail.

Name: Car Guy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 August 2018 I had 17 years with csx and left 2 years ago, with I had left sooner! I make 23.50 an hour and my take home pay is about the same as csx. I work indoors, set schedule, holidays off, 2 15 minute breaks and 30 for lunch. I am not dirty, or tired when I get off and I couldn't be more happy. I don't worry about managers spying on me! There are great jobs out there, railroading is not the job it use to be, especially at csx. There are plenty of distilleries, auto manufacturing plants, heavy equipment jobs, etc. I never thought I could leave, but now I wonder why anyone would stay. I think people are scared to take the leap, I was, but I am so glad I did. The day you leave there is this huge weight lifted off of your shoulders and for the first time in a long time you feel free! It felt good to drive off the property on my last day, it was like graduating high school! There are better things out there trust me, don't be scared to make a change. You will look back and wish you had done it sooner.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 August 2018 If they want trains running on time they need hostlers

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 August 2018 Jamie is in charge of network now.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 August 2018 Read that Noticed Boychuk is no longer over the implementation of precision railroading. I saw it wasn't mentioned any where. Focus on network railroading. It's about time they got their heads out of their arsses and looked at the network as it is. Now, let's see them pull a rabbit out of their hats and schedule trains on time! First thing they need to do is make sure the trains have power. That would be a damb good idea. We got the cart but always waiting on the horse! Saw Brian Barrs name mentioned too. He was a pretty fair man when I worked with him. Be interesting to see how he handles the shit they just threw in his lap!

Name: Get out now E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 August 2018 They moving management around, or should I say head hunters! If your able to retire get out now if you can. Be ready for big shake down!https://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx_transportation/news/CSX-overhauls-operating-management-announces-new-appointments--55319

Name: Brakeman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 August 2018 Cond. 1-10. It's because railroaders are cronic bitchers. Have been for 100 years. Only legal bitch they got is if the agreements are violated. Compnay signed them back stabbers should honor them. Other than that it's boo hoo if they get extra work or something makes them get out of the seat more than once. Nothing worse than lazy train riders. The remote men work the hardest. The rock pounders have more of a legit bitch when idiot managers come up with stupid moves that takes twice as long to do. But the fact is you just do what your told and take it like a real man. Boo hoo this and bio hoo that is for she she's! There's plenty of those out here!

Name: Brake stick E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 August 2018 Today is August 14th and CSX still sucks!!

Name: Self indulgence E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 August 2018 If you are built for it, give them a show on cab cam by giving yourself a hummer!!

Name: Spy Cam in the Cab.... E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 August 2018 It aint personal...its just Business....

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 August 2018 Wokeup Good advice. I realized it a few years before I retired when I left the road and took a pusher job in the terminal that if their BS can't get to you it screws their head up. That it's their railroad and it was only for 12 hours. We had one TM that would watch us with binoculars so we started watching him with binoculars. We took breaks where they couldn't get to us. Then came back and got another break at the shack. All the work got done they just hated seeing us taking breaks. It drove them crazy. Railroad became fun again, back to "us vs them" attitude.

Name: Wokeup E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 August 2018 Csx morons! I've had just about enough of all your stupid shit. Facts!!! Your job is to come in and do your job. If you do it as taught and to your best ability and you aren't breaking rules it doesn't matter how much mouthy the micro managing supervisors run their mouths. If they give you a stupid move just do it and keep your trap shut. Just do it and if shit goes to hell write out that statement on what the idiot told you too do. Just come in,get your paperwork when you can, get your power or box and do your job. You stupid ignorant morons know what your jobs are. They don't have power or your trains 2 hours out sit on your ass and wait. It's your damn job. If the TM wants to know why your sitting tell him to ask the damn yard master. It's his job to know. When it's said and done it's the TM and YM who weren't following through on their duties. Every damn day I hear stupid shit in the crew room...why did they do this. .....why did they do that.... who gives a rat's ass!! You think running your pie holes changed a damn thing? F...k no it doesnt. So come in when your called, let the TM AND YM do what ever stupid shit they want. Let them step on their dicks. 12 hours is all they got you for. They screw the pooch write out every stupid thing they had you do and hold on to it for 10 days. Make notes for your own ass the go home and see what happens. The supervisors are drowning and freaking out on the crews because they got no where else to shit. Stop your bitching and crying like little girls. You all know they got you 12 hours when you answer that phone agreement or not. When managent see you are all cool, calm and collected and you just don't give a shit anymore your going to see some serious sweat coming from their asses! lower your blood pressure. Quit worrying why they do stupid shit. You could get hit by a truck tommorrow and die. This outfit isnt worth any of our stress. Let them stress out for us.

Name: MayIhaveAnother E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 August 2018 My brudas yall some hard up mofos to be doinz it likes u be doinz it. The stressers be killin yalz. Fmlaz be treaten me rights..been trimmin dis new bonzi tree sippin my malt nibblin wings kickin it witha brunette.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 August 2018 I don't understand this thing about the railroad. Guys that have been here a long time that are really good at their job like to boast about it and remind everyone that they are awesome at what they do and give tips about how to be as good as them. If someone else does it better then all of a sudden they are company sukkas. What gives? Also we just got back to humping and all of a sudden people are walking around like they just lost their best friend, no one is happy but everyone wanted the hump opened back up.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 August 2018 Average dwell on the system, wow. Csx kicks ass. You must be trolling as a yardmaster.

Name: 88 Pocket E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for N/A Posted: 13 August 2018 Why would dwell be 16+ hours, almost the worst in the system and almost double the system average? My guess is I can't sit here and do my job without being micro managed by someone that could spend his time doing his job in his own office.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 August 2018 Well CSX you might wanna consider hiring people now, we need conductors as it is and there are a lot of folks about to retire or quit. Don't bank on a lot of people transferring where manpower is short.

Name: Dead eye dick E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 August 2018 Fuck Frulla. That goat fucker has sucked his way to another promotion. This company proves everyday what a future bankruptct company looks like. Hey Foote, why don't you randomly pick people off the street to fill these management positions. They probably know more than the people in there now. I guess Double H in looking up from HELL shaking his head while getting screwed up the ass by satan. Fuckin dumbass.

Name: JAZZY "J" E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 August 2018 Well we know you hate calling an extra job (like it comes out of your pocket) don't base the results of calling an extra job off of today's Y195. Don't let it discourage you from calling extra jobs in the future, most of the time an extra job will be well worth calling to catch things up a bit. Why not add a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift hey you job? There is always something to fill their day in with. If you run out of ideas for them you could always make them switch cars out at the north end of N9-N14 Mty tri's to N14 Mty Bi's to N13. Don't worry about having the Hansel tied up, N15 stays clear so they could always shove in and clear up. Just try it for a week and see if it's worth it, see if you can justify it, if it don't work take it off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 13 August 2018 Will our union ever step in and force the company to honor our contract?

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 August 2018 If you'd do that you've got more problems then we can help you with here.. I'd start by calling the employee helpline

Name: Miss you E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 August 2018 Where is the guy that built an igloo or snow fort and had some hot blonde staying in it with him? Haven't heard from him in a while but I do miss him. Hope all is well

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 12 August 2018 Well damn why did they make the requirements harder?

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 12 August 2018 Attention Brothers and Sisters: Your Union is looking for candidates to fill some important positions as assistants to elected union officers. You must be at least 18 and meet following requirements: 1. 8th grade Engrish 2. Non smoker 3. Minimum 15 years seniority 4. No felony criminal records 5. Ability to type 60wpm 6. Presently employed 7. Hispanic speaking 8. Non white 9. Minimum 20 yrs. carpentry work 10. Minimum 10 Yrs. painter Apply at any local Union office.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 August 2018 Winter is coming, miserable conditions, cold, sleet, snow, cold rain! Yay can't wait!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 August 2018 You wouldn't work at the RR for 3k a day? Dude I would duck sick for 3k a day!

Name: LO LC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 August 2018 I'm glad I'm on LO LC you guys in Louisville yard got issues! I can bounce around short line and texas all I want and there isn't any drama, I wouldnt set foot in that yard on a job

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 August 2018 Where they get you is there's a line of suckers waiting to work there. Flood glass door with negative posts about working there you got to cut them off their supply of replacement workers

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 August 2018 I keep telling you guys..get out while the gettin is good. I wouldnt work for a rail road for 3k a day ! Go to trade school Get a job where they cant easily replace you.

Name: Canada E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 August 2018 There it is! We appreciate the info, really, but not every day, eh? We pretty much knew what was going to happen before the old bastard showed up. Now it's a revision of a failed plan so they're trying some new shit. We'll let you know how it works out, that way when Foote becomes the next traveling overpaid CEO, you'll know what to expect. Besides, just busting balls. Gotta lighten the mood now and then so the old heads don't have heart attacks on the engine.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 August 2018 Got a chump at my terminal that thinks because he has been there 15+ years he is better than anyone with less than 10. Constantly coaching guys on things they do wrong but won't call out anyone else for the same exact things if they have close to the same seniority. Guy breaks rules that he thinks are stupid but picks out every little thing anyone else does. Don't matter if you been here 1 day or 40 years, it has no bearing on how good you are. You either know what you are doing or you don't. I can't stand someone constantly saying well I been doing this for 20 years I know.

Name: Canada here E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 August 2018 Hope some of warnings helped. They are a ruthless bunch that took over CSX. When Hh took over cn cp. text book corruption. All as I really can say do not trust any management at CSX they have an agenda, and you are just a number. Good luck

Name: Canada E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 August 2018 When I worked under HH at CP, he hurt our feelings and made us do things that other real railroaders do every day. I still have tear stains on my overalls. Just kidding. I haven't seen one of those posts on here for at least 12 hours, I thought we needed another. Sorry your butt hurts Canada, but I'm sure there is a website for your shitty railroad. We can handle it. Those fuckers will be gone in a few more years. They know we are the ones that run this place and their time will expire while we stay.

Name: Survey says E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 August 2018 What happened with that survey anyways?? Seems to have disappeared before anyone got an answer about anything. There are a few like that. We had a dumbass that stayed on the switchman's xb for yard jobs. He ran through a few switches, only got 10 days for his 3rd run though switch 2 days after they let him get away with the first 2, shoved 40 cars past the other end of the yard and through a number of switches, wrecked the yard goose 5 or 6 times. His last one was 5 days ago, he totalled the goose in the yard. Ripped the whole side from front to back when he sideswiped a gondola. Idiot claims he lost brakes and steering at the same time. Trainmasters are hoping to terminate him this time but we'll see. He's the kind of guy someone else will find coupled up or cut in half. He's between cars grabbing hoses before they stop. This job is clearly not for him.

Name: Code Name Teflon LOL E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 August 2018 Everyone knows who you're talking about when you say Teflon. Funny thing is "Teflon" thinks he is the best railroader in the world and will quickly talk about others not knowing how to switch cars as good as him LOL. Always critiquing his co-workers, he thinks he is the "cool guy" that everyone likes but no one does

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 August 2018 Dekra Survey... Equal treatment Is Louisville the only terminal that has a single employee that can tear up engines, cars, switches, get away with anything and not get in any real trouble? Code name Teflon We have guys terminated for less, but yet he walks free every time

Name: Ozz Burn E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 12 August 2018 Dig in my wallet and see how it works out

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 12 August 2018 Aug 12th is national "idiots who try to beat a train day".

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 August 2018 Loco/engineer Any program that is installed or implemented that has any control or influence over the speed and control of a train must be reported to the FRA. They also have a right by law to review that program and any records pertaining to it. The more reports you make to the Trip Optimized department the better. CSX knows the crews aren't doing it and they don't care. As far as we know no one has been disciplined for failure to activate and use the program unless a train handling charge has revealed that the operator was not using the TO system. The crews can not complain about its failures if they don't follow through with reports. You have the ability to notify the TO department when your completing your tickets. The fact that the company has failed to set up radio communications as they have with the PTC help desk just goes to show their lack of concern for its use. If you use it and it has any failures REPORT THEM!

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 August 2018 Driving that train....high on cocaine...casey jones u better watch that speed...

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 August 2018 Loco First , you never turn your back on the "TO"! You should know by now you don't trust anything that is installed by this company for one minute. Second, it's a company program and is not like the PTC which is enforced and regulated by the FRA. If it causes you any trouble or you get an over speed on it again make sure you do your TO report and call the FRA operating rules inspector. Make sure they know what's happening with the thing.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 August 2018 Hoggers Do you know if it a fact that the ERAD is not on when you are using the trip optimizer. I had an ex RF who is now a TM tell me it is off when you are using it. It has been messing up really bad and has given me several overspeeds and didn't activate any alarms to take manual control. If this is such a bad thing to be speeding then why hasn't there been a notice out suspending it until they can figure out what's wrong with the thing. Why should we be hung by the kneck till dead if we speed over 5 mph but the TO" program is allowed to continue to be used?

Name: To wiser E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 August 2018 My last four years was with Hh as ceo they cut 1/3 of the staff. Ran the employees ragged, but wanted the same production numbers plus and to be safe. We where given 30 seconds per side to inspect a rail car. And if you found defects like high flange on a wheel. They went into the records and hung the guy that inspected the train in previous terminal. But the wheel might not of been defective when the first terminal inspected it. Point being they wanted to hang someone for doing there job. Steel on steel wearsout Hoggers where demoted back to conductors for a broken knuckle pull apart. They just wanted to blame the employees for everything that went wrong. Not the fact that they cut so deep that it was impossible to get the same production with ten thousand less staff. But it looked good on paper for there next quarterly report. They all got koodoos for there misleading shareholders. That is why management wants you to lie on everything to cover for them. If you lie you take the heat and let management off the hook. It does not matter how fast or good of a worker you are. You will change nothing as far as management cares. As long as the shares go up the management will just do more of the same and worse. Then when CSX is about to fall apart, Foote and friends will cash in and retire. Do your job as you where trained to do it, follow all the rules. This is one regime that is always looking for scape goats when something goes wrong. You can take that to the bank.

Name: wiser E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 August 2018 Other Are you serious? And just what should they do with management that sucks at their jobs? How about all the white collar idiots they have in Jacksonville. How about the lost dispatchers? How about the chessie department that doesn't follow up on repair request. I have been waiting for over 2 months now to get an answer to a problem with payroll printouts and I'm pretty damn sure it has been swept under the rug or I have just been blown off like everything else they do. Get real. I've been out here 22 years. This horse and pony show has not changed and wont in your life time. If everyone in the field was perfect at their jobs and we could prove it to the stockholders and the media that would give us a right to demand that management be replaced with more credible and dependable employees. I'm a damn stock holder. I invest in this company and should have a say as to who is running this company. We all have a say. Everyone is too lazy to demand some answers from the board of directors. So go out and do your job the best you can. Don't worry about the idiot who isn't as smart as you think you are. Don't draw attention to yourself. Just make that pay check and take it home. Your job isn't that hard. You deliver cars. Its that simple. You flat switch. Not rocket science. Just remember. BE HONEST! Don't lie on the on boards. Don't cover up recrew trains. Make them put the correct trains and locations on the tickets. Don't let the TM's bully you into putting false info on anything. Do your job and go home in one piece.

Name: Chains E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 11 August 2018 I retired last year, and what I observed in all the departments,to stay employeed you have to be just as good as the weakest link in the chain. I’ve seen guys work there whole career at a snails pace. But one thing is they are consistent and don’t draw heat on themselves and cause no problems. Then another guy I worked with was go go go, looked busy all the time. But by the end of the shift had next to 0 production. So when there was a job to do that needed completed in a timely manner. Management never went to these people. They where good they dotted there I,s and crossed there T,s .And that is how they trained management to accept them over the years.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 How can a guy with 15+ years seniority and been on the same job over a year still not know what they are doing? They are everywhere!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 If you have enough seniority to hold a job but you suck at that job there is nothing anyone can do. Management should be able to place employees where the can actually be productive. If you suck at all yard jobs then you should be forced to the road or shown the door.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 August 2018 I wonder if they will ever realize a happy employee is a productive employee.

Name: Self support E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 When I worked for Hh at cprail. I never got mad I got even. I followed all the new rules and played there game. At times the management hated it. Because they thought it would speed some situation up. I would go to the letter on air tests etc. And when they called I would tell them what I was doing. Most times was told to speed it up but I made them TM tell me to skip this or that. Then would say ok I take but under protest. Maybe throttle down when I could. A dollar here a dollar there, I would always get my money out of the company one way or another by doing it there way.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 August 2018 Jokes on you CSX. My engineer and I just spent 35 minutes on overtime waiting to tie up our time ticket. You just paid out $50 to save on what? The cost of electricity for the computers? To try and deter people from putting in claims? Guess what, I'll just make more overtime for myself and everyone behind me in line by putting in valid claims. I could see if the computers quit working and you didn't want to replace them. But to just remove 2 computers to save on electricity. Pathetic! All this to save a dime but will end up paying a dollar. Dumbasses

Name: Money E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 I hope you are on pay waiting to use the computer. It all adds up money in your pocket. Keep a log of your time worked etc. It’s the company spending a dollar to save a penny. Milk every hour of pay out of CSX you can. They cut so much staff no one cares in management.

Name: Billable fish E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 Please don’t listen to rumours on CSX. It will just add to the BS train. When you see it with your own eyes then you know for sure.

Name: Radnor E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 August 2018 Anyone know how Radnor is running and if we're gonna see another hump open?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 10 August 2018 Anything new on the KY? Heard business was picking up.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 August 2018 Please I don't believe anything anymore. Salters said he would cut carman jobs if they didn't work faster but now they are hiring them.

Name: prounion E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 August 2018 Please Our unions are in for a big surprise. Its going to get worse than they have ever seen. The boys in Canada warned everyone. They came on here and posted everything that HH did to bust the unions and Foote will be following his foot steps. You are finally going to get a good look at what our unions are made of. Indianapolis just did away with the pod terminals as well. They are allowed to have 2. You got over 350 engineers and conductors coming in and out of that terminal. Just how in the hell do they expect people to be able to come in and print off bulletins, work orders and do time tickets, along with putting in claims that they have every right to and are entitled to do by union rights and law, adjust bid cards and check their status and train line ups without having to wait in line like your working at the BMV! If they think for one moment that I will stand there and wait in line over 20 minutes to tie up a ticket so I can go home they are sadly mistaken. I will call crew management and tell them to do it because I cant get access to a pod in a reasonable time to tie up and go home. If I get any flack from it I will wake up the FRA hours of service officer and explain the problem to him. Some people think this is a deliberate attempt to discourage people from tying up a pod putting in claims because others will get pissed having to wait in line for someone to take the time that is needed to do their claims. This isn't cost saving. This isn't using the company resources wisely. This is once again causing another hassle and unnecessary inconvenience for employees. What is the motive? What do they plan to accomplish. Nothing good could come from a move like this.

Name: Please E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 August 2018 Please please please, I dont know about other places but there was a LC meeting in louisville today and chairman where told the expectations from here on out, to much to go into here but listen to ur fellow works and all I can say is that if it sounds to petty to be true believe it

Name: Jobs E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 August 2018 If people are layed off, CSX should post those new jobs across the system first. Before hiring from the street, people might relocate to fill a position. Make sure the union and CSX are doing this.

Name: The game E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 August 2018 They can do that

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 August 2018 Louisville Osborn Yard is hiring 3 Carmen, just posted yesterday on the CSX website. Pay rate for 1st 366 days is $27.00/hr.

Name: Indeed jobs csx E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 August 2018 https://www.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=Csx

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 August 2018 I don't know about other places on the railroad, but on the Albany division its 2 computers per terminal? What a joke! Who are the Yo Yo's making these decisions?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 August 2018 Hiring Make absolutely no sense. If they were gonna cut it seems they would let everyone exercise there seniority and move first before advertising jobs.

Name: Hiring ? E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 August 2018 I looked on Indeed and there are several jobs posted for CSX. In every department, but CSX announcements of 5000 more cuts by 2020. It does not add up in my books just what they are doing. Maybe the job cuts announced to share holders is just propaganda.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 August 2018 Cond 10-20 It was 28 days not 2 months. We didn't mind it if you were on a loaded up extra board seeing we didn't have gaurentees. You got to hold & work those jobs. There was a lot wrong on the railroad back then. We had school teachers, farmers etc... that maintained seniority by only having to work 2 days a month. Then during summers & after crops were in they bumped a younger man off a job. Those 2 days they worked credited RRB & kept their health care intact. We were glad when it stopped. The one thing that hasn't changed is having to be glued to a phone. That changed over the years when we got beepers to have a little freedom from the house. Then by the mid '90s it changed again. CSX only allowed 10 minutes to call in on a beeper. We had to get cellphones. Being first out for 12 hours happens. It's part of the job, we didn't like it. Same as being 4th out and they deadhead 2 crews and called a make up without knowing about it making you 1st out. Again, it's part of the job. That's the point Retired was making.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 August 2018 Railroaded gone wild That's awesome. I got off ambien, blood pressure and anxiety meds since leaving a month ago. The way I feel now is life changing to say the least.

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 August 2018 Another "benefit" to getting out of csx is i dont need any benefits! Sleep disorder,Gone! Weight,back to normal with out all the crazy hours...back pain Gone! I dont miss that sxxx at all. You guys should start putting in applications Or better yet start your own company.no more kissin axx to get a day off.. Weekends? I got em all off Nobody even asks if i will work weekends

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 August 2018 Retired now Poor guy!! Was that back when you could stay displaced for two months straight?

Name: Helping meds E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 August 2018 in the Second World War the German soldiers where given meth to keep them up for days. And the Japanese comacasey oilers where given meth to do suicide dive. Maybe that is foots plan for CSX. Lol

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 August 2018 wasted life: Evidently you have no experience waiting for calls to work before pagers & cellular phones were available.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 August 2018 The B.S. "Greed"...is starting to heat up again about 1 person train crew utilizing remote control and "utility"conductors...When will the maddness end!!

Name: wastedlife E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 August 2018 CSX FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAN! If there is anything you do to straighten up this railroad, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something to straighten out these god for saken train line ups. I sat since 8 am in the morning till 2000 hours at night waiting first out to be called for a pool train that you changed the time on 5 damn times! You had me sitting at home not being able to do a damn thing that might take me longer than 30 minutes to get home. YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING! You know you are making us slaves to the phone when you do this shit. If you don't have power or you cant get the trains worked and ready don't put them on the damn line up until you know for sure your going to run them and do it about 4 hours before they are called. At least we will know when it shows up on the lineup we have 2 hours to get home or finish up what we are doing before it will get called. This crap has been going on for far too long. We filed complaints with the Unions and the FRA. Neither one of them will do anything to help us. So please for the love of God have a soul. Have a heart. Pretend you at least give a little shit about us. My God, we are making your stockholders rich. We are making the white collars money. What more do you want from us!

Name: Sad E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 August 2018 I hope the train crew involved in accident get some counseling that they need to help them deal with that, terrible accident. I could not imagine going threw that!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 August 2018 Robert pines. Please o bother NS. It was their train that ran over the kids. Of course it was not their fault but at least you won't be bothering us.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 08 August 2018 Remember August 12 is national idiot month for people who try to beat a train and get splattered all over the road... Hence, road kill.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 August 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/07/freight-train-collides-toddlers-killing-one-portage-indiana/930350002/ Half wit brain washed CSX crew runs down a 4 year old and two year old after $97 MILLION ceo pay was year. L@N ---Hint it's not me you should be looking over your shoulder for your asking for it remarks.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 07 August 2018 Remember August 12 is a day of remembrance for idiots who try to beat a train and put T&E lives in jeopardy..

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 August 2018 Let's see fake RR lil' jimmy The video shows like 5 Osha violations --no safety strap riding three feet above squishy train wheels. A 12 year old moron with a learning problem could fill in the blanks. Let's see---CSX guy with butt out in a busy street for a switch completely in the wrong location gets hit by Amtrak and RRJIM FOAMERs cookie jar pops up like anybody gives a flying flamingo about Lil jimmies cookies. Further proof railroad safety is ran by cross eyed baboons and winos. https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/amtrak-train-stalled-on-tracks-jacksonville-sheriff-s-office-on-scene/805470773 CSX employee hit by Amtrak train in Jacksonville Hmmm---Just add Amtrak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBn2pHslQCc Then the FRA data is all over like a bad rash --unpaved street---128 trains a day when inventory is 49. 60 mph train speed limit when inventory is 25 mph. And what about wasting a few million safety funds on the Polish pedestrian catwalk 87 0.083782 621193R CSX FL DUVAL JACKSONVILLE MCQUADE STREET 0 0 1 0 0 GT 126 4 60 NO 2 5,567

Name: Legal pot E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 August 2018 Ten more weeks and pot is legal in Canada. It is going to be interesting how companies are going to deal with people that are safety sensitive in there jobs. And smoke up on there days off. But will still have the drug in there system.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 August 2018 hey smh. youre right about the oldheads. im not one of them. i got 20 years in and ive been stuck in an extra board 95 percent of the time. im just saying handle your finances. we make more money than most people. the job is not great either. f k off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 August 2018 Canada How much you pay in healthcare premiums and then out of pocket and deductibles. I guess it all evens out.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 August 2018 SMH That's BS. We lost a lot of penalty claims etc...when trip rates were introduced to appease those who hired after 1994. Then every loss after 2000 wasn't by oldheads since we weren't the voting majority. What was didn't matter since we also didn't have it anymore.

Name: Benefits E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 06 August 2018 It was the old guys that fought for the benefits you rr enjoy today. When there was a union on the rr we stood together and made the sacrifices, to get the benefits everyone enjoys. We never had air conditioning and the creature comforts you have today, that was all fought for. So enjoy the benefits you have and I hope you don’t negotiate all the benefits away.

Name: Canada E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 August 2018 You people pay a lot more in deduction in USA. Up here in Canada we get a lot more tax deducted. By the time you spend a dollar here just about 50 percent taxes.

Name: SMH E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 August 2018 I love hearing a old head talking about how good this job is and how wealth it made them. You old hogs had great contracts and what the contracts did make you then you stole the rest. I've got 25 years under my belt and I've almost seen it all. You old heads are thieves like the company. In the last 12 years this place has went to HELL. This young generation railroader is being screwed and punished for what you did over the years. It's kinda funny just sitting back and trying to figure out who's stealing the most. The company from its employees or the union from the employees or the employees trying to get back what everyone has screwed the out of. Old hogs can rot in HELL along with the management.

Name: suckered E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 August 2018 LC's! Union dues went up another 15 bucks after we got our raise. Im lowering my OOS insurance to offset the cost. Now that we cant claim any of this on our taxes anymore thanks to our POTUS who has clearly used loop holes on his taxes for ever is there a way you are going to claim them. You got the inside info on all of this. Got any suggestions on how to lower the dues? Maybe we should all just drop our OOS insurance and say the hell with it. Like I said, cant claim it anymore anyway!

Name: Overtime E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 August 2018 All the overtime work you pay more income tax, so you have to find invest ment to be able to defer income tax. Some investments you can do this. Talk to a financial advisor to find loop holes!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 August 2018 Even with all the aggravation...R.R. still a good job....just have to remind ourselves that sometimes... Stay safe Bro's and Sis's...

Name: slave4$$$$ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 August 2018 Public readers I worked soooo many hours last year that it totaled up to 16 months worth of 5 day a week 40 hours a week work schedule. Now you ask yourself this...If you work Monday thru Friday for 40 hours a week how are you going to come up with the extra hours on the clock to get that extra 4 months in. Maybe leave and go check into a hotel for 15 hours then go back on the clock. Accumulate some more hours. Or stay at work for 12 hours instead of 8? Or maybe sit in your car after your 12 hours at work is done and wait in your car another 3 hours for someone to come get you and take you home? Railroad is a genius on figuring out ways to dominate every minute of your life if they can. If it wasn't for the feds stepping in and making it mandatory that they have to leave us alone for 10 hours, we would have our phones wringing within 6 hours after we got home every time we left work. IT USED TO BE THAT WAY! If you didn't work 12 hours on a job they could call you back in 6 hours to tell you to report in 8. Now they say we are coddled and we should be happy we get to be left alone for 10 hours. You people have no clue. Then there is the mental fatigue that is caused by constant stupid crap that goes on every single day along with fighting for pay they refuse to give you that was signed, sealed and agreed upon by the company with a written signature. It just never ends. I don't think we make near enough for the battle fatigue that we have to deal with but we just chuck along so you can have your goods made and delivered. So the next time you are sitting in your nice recliner watching that flat screen and drinking a beer just thank the good lord you have us slaving out here getting US freight across the railroad for you!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 August 2018 Pines You crazy fool. You haven't a clue about what happened in JAX. You haven't a clue about anything. lol

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 August 2018 nevermind. i see some of you dont understand what i mean about being wealthy.its not about your take home pay and all tha crap. invest wisely and with compounding interest and growth your investment will pay off. my 401k is worth three times what i have contributed over 20 years. that plus the assets that working for the railroad has provided such as buying property and such. handle your finances and you will see. it works. out.

Name: RR Slim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 August 2018 You don't make 633 more a month than them. You forgot that they work under the table or sell stolen stuff to the pawn shop

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 August 2018 Assume you receive 26k a year in total welfare benefits. (Fair assumption) Housing Food Healthcare Etc That 26k is basically your take home pay. 26,000 divided by 12 months is $2,166.66 My take home pay at CSX is around $1400 a half. (I'm a yard guy) So $2800 a month take home. 2800-2166.66 is 633.34 I work 160 hours or more a month to make 633.34 more than a welfare recipient.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 August 2018 Wealthy Conductor got it right on spot. As of now after they take out my 401k money, then my 200.00 for union dues or 228.00 for medical premium and then take an average of .345% of what's left, I don't bring home a fortune let alone enough to get rich. Yeah we can live fairly comfortable if we pinch pennies, have just 1 kid and save wisely but that's not reality. No one is getting rich. Living out of hotels and giving up a family life should be compensated nicely. We deserve every dime including the pay they steal. You should know this. No one is getting RICH with what they give up. No one is living the dream!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 August 2018 Let's see---CSX guy with butt out in a busy street for a switch completely in the wrong location gets hit by Amtrak and RRJIM FOAMERs cookie jar pops up like anybody gives a flying flamingo about Lil jimmies cookies. Further proof railroad safety is ran by cross eyed baboons and winos. https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/amtrak-train-stalled-on-tracks-jacksonville-sheriff-s-office-on-scene/805470773 CSX employee hit by Amtrak train in Jacksonville Hmmm---Just add Amtrak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBn2pHslQCc Then the FRA data is all over like a bad rash --unpaved street---128 trains a day when inventory is 49. 60 mph train speed limit when inventory is 25 mph. And what about wasting a few million safety funds on the Polish pedestrian catwalk 87 0.083782 621193R CSX FL DUVAL JACKSONVILLE MCQUADE STREET 0 0 1 0 0 GT 126 4 60 NO 2 5,567

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 August 2018 Wealthy? That's a strong word that you just used inappropriately- Lets assume you start at the RR day 1 making 100k a year (didn't happen)but lets assume- and you work 30 years making 100K per year every year- after taxes, dues, etc, etc, you bring home around half maybe a little more but not much- 100K X 30 Years is 3 Million, divide that by 2 and you've got 1.5 million that you actually bring home. Your entire career the absolute most you will bring home is somewhere between 1.5-2 million. THAT'S THE MOST MONEY YOU WILL MAKE YOUR ENTIRE RR LIFE! THINK OF ALL THE HOURS WORKED FOR THAT! NOW THINK ABOUT FOOTE, HE MAKES $2,638,712 A YEAR. DIVIDE THAT BY 2 AND YOU CAN FIGURE THE GUY MAKES IN 6 MONTHS WHAT YOU WILL MAKE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE! SO TO SAY THE RR MADE YOU WEALTHY IS REDICULOUS!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 August 2018 who gives a shit. if you guys are investing in the 401k, then there is not too much to bitch about. working for the railroad has made me and my wife wealthy. you have to think long term. most of the asshole bosses will be gone in a few years and there will be another operating plan. ive seen people come and go. no big deal. just play the game.

Name: Railroader gone wild E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 August 2018 I read about all you guys complaining I've been gone for 6 months now and I don't miss the place at all I told them to take their money their demand days their vacation days their personal days and their Railroad Retirement shove it up their ass no amount of money could make me go back there it's an employee's job market now .now is the time to get out while you can

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 August 2018 hogger All you can hope for is that they know it when they become LE's. I tried the look it up routine. I just frustrated myself. There were some who still didn't know the signals other than clear, approach, and stop.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 August 2018 Hogger You're absolutely right. By field, I meant yard switching. The road is a different story. 15 years out there I've never had a single failure or a target on my back.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 Why not have a pay scale? The least you can make is A the most you can make is Z. That way we can all be paid what we are worth, not all equal. Some guys work really hard at doing a good job and some work really hard at being lazy. Why are we paid the same?

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 I think what CSX and the union jointly should do is creat a video game for these young green behind the ears conductors .Conductors can play at home and in the bunkhouse. Where they get points for each level of rules they understand and move to next level of rules. Lol

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 Further proof railroad safety is ran by cross eyed baboons and winos. https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/amtrak-train-stalled-on-tracks-jacksonville-sheriff-s-office-on-scene/805470773 CSX employee hit by Amtrak train in Jacksonville Hmmm---Just add Amtrak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBn2pHslQCc Then the FRA data is all over like a bad rash --unpaved street---128 trains a day when inventory is 49. 60 mph train speed limit when inventory is 25 mph. And what about wasting a few million safety funds on the Polish pedestrian catwalk 87 0.083782 621193R CSX FL DUVAL JACKSONVILLE MCQUADE STREET 0 0 1 0 0 GT 126 4 60 NO 2 5,567

Name: hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Cond. 10-20 Your not the stupid dumb ass I had last week that wanted to know what we were supposed to do when we came up on a warning board not on our bulletins. I told him to get his frickin rule book out and read it. He started running that pie hole telling me that I should know the rule being the engineer and why don't I just tell him. Again I told him to get his damn book out and never to get on a train with me again until he got his head out of his ass and learned the rules of the road. You say you can go out without ever reading anything and just work with your ears open YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT! Do everyone a favor and quit. You listen to gossip and rumors from idiots like the one I work with then your dangerous. You come in being the first one on duty when a brand new bulletin is issued on something that is important as hell and you just keep those big ears open when you walk out and see how far that gets you every time. Jeezzz, it gets more pathetic everyday. where do they get these arrogant self absorbed losers!

Name: Grievances E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 In my time on the rr I witnessed as ashop steward the guys that always put a grievance in for one thing or another. The management stopped trying to get him to do things that violated collective agreement. Because they knew they would file a grievance. So management would just move onto the next guy that was willing to cross the line or or do unsafe things by taking short cut. So the management does not want to deal with grievances. Or upper management was tired of grievances. In a perfect world managers would not ask anyone to cross the line. Because he New he would get a grievance put in on his watch by everyone.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Conductor 20-30 I'm not sure who your LC has to represent but 3/4 of who our represents our model employees who never had a single problem till this regime change. And I guarantee you I could go in the field and never look at a rule or a new bulletin but keep my ears open, stay focused and work safe and not mess up plus keep a target off my back.

Name: Language E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 When I took LC and shop steward training we where told to watch out for sucker words in agreements. The instructor teaching the course. I asked him why then when the national rep settle our contract that they always leave sucker words in the collective agreement. He said they leave them there because companies will not sign off on agreements if they are removed. That is so irresponsible in my view but the union is in such a hurry to get a contract. Then they can use time to challenge the company in disagreements that they left in the collective agreement in the first place. The company lawyers must love these national reps. I asked the instructor why does the national reps not practice what they teach in these courses!!!

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Other You can hang a tele and do an air brake test. You are trained and qualified for that. If there are Carmen on duty and you do the work you need to get the Carmen to put in a claim for another craft crossing their line and taking their assigned work from them that they are on duty for. Good luck with that. I have only had a few actually go for it when I was a conductor. However I was forced aa an engineer once to tear power apart in a engine service area and then run it around the round track and put it back together to switch out leader. I put in co mingled claim and requested I be paid the extra rate the engine service employee's were paid. I also put in claim that I wasn't hired to work in that area and was never trained to be an employee in the engine service department. Not only did I get paid but the superintendent got a call and was told that kind of activity better never happen again. So sometimes it is a good thing to draw attention to some of the games that go on. You win a few, you lose a few but better to try than not!

Name: xlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Ape Its called loop holes in the agreement that most union members don't bother to learn about because they don't want to waste their precious time reading it. All switcher jobs (like J101 etc) have loop hole wording that says any switcher job that is getting paid the same exact miles and the same exact overtime agreement can do any switcher job if there is a call for it due to shortages etc... the same thing goes with y jobs that pay all the same. If you get called to go out and work a job that pays less than your chosen job you are entitled to the most pay. If they use you in another class because of manpower shortage you are entitled to the highest pay of any job you work and there are penalties for performing certain jobs. Read your agreement. Every agreement has loop holes that favor the Carrier and gives them the ability to twist it to their advantage.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 August 2018 How is it going up in Nashville now that you are humping again?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 If I am on the Y999 that is described as working the blueberry farm but everyday they have me work the sewer plant which is the Y888 work and the Y888 goes and switches cars which is the Y777 work and so on and so on, then why even have bids, and why even have a union if the company will do whatever they want with you anyways? We have a union... 1. Lost quits 2. Lost demand days 3. Lost boots 4. Lost thanks awards 5. Lost seniority rights 6. Forced to cross craft lines (Conductors are not Carmen) (Trainmasters are not caller runners or Conductors) 7. Yeah we get a raise here and there but dues go up 8. Certain employees get targeted and fired for anything 9. Certain employees get away with everything 10. ETC. We now work twice as hard and way longer than we ever have and we have lost all the "perks" I don't want to hear about how most jobs require you to be at work a full 8 hours. I get it, but most jobs don't have guys working outside in the extreme heat, cold, rain, lightning, etc. Most jobs have a roof, climate control, and smooth walking conditions. You pour concrete over the yards and put a massive dome up so we work in decent conditions and I will gladly work 25 hours a day.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2018 To the idiot below this post... So we have a bid system so we can be awarded jobs based on what we want to work right? If we show up for our job and the managers make us do whatever they want us to then what is the purpose of having bids? Why not just have everyone on an extra board and you just take a call and do whatever they want you to do?

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Cond. 10-20 Im sure I have been paying my hard earned union dues longer than you have. I don't want my money and my LC taking off to go represent some dumb ass who wont, not cant, take the time to read the damn rule book the best he can and to print out and read a damn bulletin because he's just a lazy puke and wants to act like he's a tough man who doesn't have to do what his damn boss says. Get his ass in trouble them cries like a bitch to the union to help him when he doesn't deserve one single minute of the unions time. Worthless and lazy doesn't give you automatic rights to have my LC's time wasted to try and get you off easy. make your bed sleep in it.

Name: Briefing policy E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2018 It is company policy to have a job briefing with all your mates, so the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 Don't forget you can take minutes twice in a 12 hour shift.

Name: qwerty E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 If my bid on job is to work industry a, b, and c but you idiots have me work other industries and switch cars out and do whatever else for the first 4 hours of the day, don't act like a dumb mfer and start rushing me or questioning why I'm not getting my own work done. You know why stupid! I am not rushing to make sure I get my own work done if I am doing other work too. I am a dues paying union member and I bid on jobs based on the job description!

Name: Boys E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 Yes it can make for a long day when they send a boy out to do a mans job. A lot of young men are brought up by mommy these days. No father figure around. In most cases that is what you get. A boy in a mans body!!!

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Cond 20-30 you're just a do as your told bitch and a troll for upper management. Guys like you need a swift kick in the nuts. That rule book has changed so many gd times and is full of rules that are hard to interpret. Get off your high horse. Somewhere a trainmaster needs his knob polished and you sound like just the man for the job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Had a good one the other day. Had 120 loaded auto racks with 1 junk engine. Boy that Jacksonville engine desk really knows what they're doing.....ASSHOLES!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2018 Work Shall Set You Free !!! NOW GET OUT THERE AND BUST YOUR ASS LIKE WE PAY YOU TOO BUT IF YOU GET HURT...ITS YOUR FOUGHT ALWAYS.....GET GET GETIRRR DONE DAMN IT.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 August 2018 Conductor 10-20 I think I'd rather be in the same union as the moron you speak of over you.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 August 2018 apes We all know that CSX is totally inept when it comes to a lot of internal business practices. But it doesn't help any of us out in the field when you have so many lazy worthless cry babies and boys(not men) who wont do their part. Every single day there is some idiot standing in the crew room quoting some rule that they don't have a clue what their talking about. Then there's that idiot who stand there and says "I didn't know that was a rule". If you read your damn rules book and your bulletin and notices you would know this you moron. I just stood next to another stupid moron yesterday that overheard someone quoting a rule that someone else didn't know. The moron stood there and said I don't read those things. I haven't been asked to show my bulletins in years to anyone. I don't know why you guys care so much about that shit. I just wanted to tell him to take his lazy worthless ass out of there and quit. Let someone with less seniority move up who actually tries to do their job right and quit wasting good space. Its idiots like that who make the work place bad for us. Grown boys shouldn't need someone to hold their hands. He just stood their and laughed. Im thinking, what's so funny you ignorant retard. Go back and suck on your mama's tit and let the men do the work out here. Worthless idiots in the workplace. Ide rather spend the day working with a Tm than that retard.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 04 August 2018 If CSX don't do what why, then it wouldn't work. How could it even? The employees are and they do but there isn't. So how could it? There is a lot of have and it works fine but they are for short periods. When will it end?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Why can't we bank caps points? If I'm at 0 points and go a month I should get negative 3 and so on. Maybe cap it at negative 10 or something and have an option of cashing it in for a demand day. There is no incentive to keep a 0 balance month to month.

Name: Hedge fund E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 August 2018 When ackman cashed in cprail stock walked away with a lot of profit for clients 850 million. But then lost clients money investing in phizor. He made lots for himself on fees but his clients got burned. Once Foote thinks the stock has peaked and they can’t raise stock value anymore you will see Foote and friends cash in and run. Hopefully by then the infrastructure of CSX is not so bad that it will take billions to bring back to normal status. Greed is the name of the game infrastructure and employees mean nothing to these greedy assholes

Name: Last post E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 August 2018 Sorry that post did not go well?

Name: Could be you E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 August 2018 https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DaBF5P-s7l1c%26feature%3Dshare&source=yt&hl=en&soc-platform=1&soc-app=130 Lots of sleepless nights for these guys. Tried to use them as scape goats!

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 August 2018 I retired just before Hh left the company. The company preaches safety all the time, they cut the cab companies and expected crews to walk everywhere. As a yard carman I tried giving crews a ride when I could. I was disciplined for doing that , told it was not my job. They expected crews to walk along distance in the freezing cold in winter months. Most conductors still road the point to protect the movement. And had to walk back to the headend 100 plus cars. Then you would hear the tm yelling at hogger they need your power for another train on shop track. How much longer to cut power off and get it to shop track. Hogger as soon as conductor gets to head end. A lot of times they would get hogger to tye train down wait for conductor. By the time conductor got to the head end a lot of time passed. In some cases crew times out and have to leave everything because of time spent walking from tailend to head end. But the company is saving 20 dollars for cab fare. You do the math how stupid rr think from an office cubicle and never know how the job works in the field. Then they start phoning everyone on why there are delays. The conductors job is to protect the movement most ride the point. But the ones that don’t are helping the company out. But if there ever is a mishap they will hang the conductor. My point being to protect yourself and others do the job the way you where trained to do it and follow the safety rules.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Conductor 1-10 I do my job better then most and watch my shoves. I've seen to many road train come in short on time just shove them in blind. I was really making a point of the dangerous rush culture the company has created. Get a clue conductor 1-10.

Name: Eng. E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Hey csx Had a dumb as tm jump our ass for getting off train to find a worker at a flag location because we couldn't get ahold of flagger. Said we don't do that anymore. Rule 310.2 line 2 says you got to provide warning to any workers present then sound horn before proceding. Tell us how the F...k do you provide warning to the workers if you can't see them directly? I should have told the TM to kiss my ass when he went off about the delay but the punk wasn't worth it. You got some totally ignorant morons out here. It was in writing in the old rules that you got off and found the boss. For damb good reason. Obviously this idiot tm doesn't get it. Providing warning to workers may require making contact with one! Just get rid of these damn TM so we can do our damn jobs safely. We are entitled to take the safest course of action! So sick of these stupid pukes!

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 August 2018 This last guy speaks volumes about what's wrong with many big corporations and csx. He's willing to jump through hoops for a company knowing that they eliminated jobs that made his life easier but just doesn't care. They put profit over your safety and you point the finger at your coworkers. Why do we blame each other for a mess that was created over money? If they weren't a profitable company before I might understand but don't come on here and take up for this miserable excuse for a company while thousands of your fellow workers have been laid off because of pure greed. Have fun riding those shoves YES man.

Name: Dr. E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Employees If your forced to work through your dinner break you have a claim for that . Put it in. If you have a medical condition such as diabetes or low blood sugar and you are supposed to eat and/or you take medications to control it you have a right by law to have that meal break. Inform your supervisor and call your medical department and file a complaint. You are entitled to a meal break. Your health and welfare is priority. Do not file a complaint with your local union reps. Take the issue directly to your international union reps.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Lazy cond. You do have the resources to watch the shove. It's called your lazy ass. Just do your job. So it takes a little longer to do your job. You get paid for it. Quit being a lazy bitch. I ride shoves all the time swinging tracks or setting trains. Walk back to the head end of get a ride if your lucky. Stop your bitching. Your just lazy cause you don't want to do the work. JEEZZZ!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 August 2018 Yep. Everyone should pick a date and start laying down and rule them to death.

Name: Employees E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 August 2018 They cut all these jobs to get operating ratio numbers down. The existing employees they figure would pick up the slack work threw dinner break. They really think they could get the same production with half the men. That’s where the whip come in, thought they could whip People into getting production numbers. They really do think and expect that. They are nuts

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 August 2018 We don't have the time or resources to watch shoves. That's just the culture HH created.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 August 2018 Louisville needs a hostler on each shift and a 2 man hey you rco job. Things would go so much smoother. Throw in a utility person with a truck that can line switches, watch shoves, give rides, and attach to any crew at anytime for any reason and you're golden.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 August 2018 Modern Day Slavery !

Name: Trainmonster E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 August 2018 We all know the trainmonster is the backbone of the rr. That’s why trains are delayed all over the place. Just a legend in his own mind. Lol

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 August 2018 Engineers Has anyone in your terminal been charged yet for not using the PTC when their engine is equipped. We got guys coming in all the time boasting about how they don't use it. Never engage it. The horn annoys the hell out of them because it blows at every dirt road across the country when it doesn't need to. I always use it because I thought they were tracking it. If they aren't and you got people not using it then let us know. No since in having to listen to that micro managing piece of crap if you really don't have to.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 August 2018 Here we go...another day of breast feeding these....knuckle drag ers....Help Lord the freight get over the road today

Name: Rr life E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 August 2018 Retired last year, this is how I looked at my career on the rr. I had no education grade twelve. Rr trained me for the job they wanted me to perform. Never had weekends off for first thirty years. Worked all shifts but made good money for the new duration I had. A lot of guys could not take the shift work and left the rr. The top guy is the hogger you will never make that on the street. And the pention plan hooks you to. And it is a profession where you have dignity for what you do. It is a good life if you can take all the bs. But sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. And they can’t move the rr to Asia like Harley Davidson did.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 August 2018 August 1, 2018......and CSX SUCKS more than it ever has!

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 August 2018 Who gives a shit. Noone knows what is gonna happen at any location on csx. Go in get your paperwork and go get on the engine. Stay under the radar and do not bring any unwanted attention to yourself. It works for me.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 August 2018 This "no early quit" has been around for a long time. Maybe some terminals relaxed it. When it happened at the one I worked out of CSX thought a 30 minute early quit was enough even though the work was done earlier. We just slowed down there wasn't any incentive to get it done like before. At times we made overtime. When CSX cut the extra boards down and they were exhausted at least 3 times a week I worked the next shift on a new ticket for 4 hours at 8 hours punitive rate. I worked with one conductor that when we went to work industries he decided to slow down to where when we got to the signal to the mainline and only had 30-40 minutes left he would call the YM for a ride. He would tie the train down. Every time because of a standing order of "no overtime" they put us on a new ticket as an extra job. He'd get mad. I told him we were making another 8 hrs at time & half for only 2 hours work to shove the train to the yard and shove it in a track. I let CSX make me money. If I had known working a 5 day yard job paid that good I would of left the road decades before. It didn't when they had real early quits. It was do to all the cutbacks.

Name: Stock value E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 August 2018 You people have to understand that with stock being bullish. Foote is not sweating the small stuff,all as matters to Foote is stock continues to climb on his watch. He does not care about nothing else. All managers that drank all the koolaid would love your job to get cut if it meant more,stock value for the company. Once Foote knows that the stock has peaked he will most likely retire the hero. The next ceo will inherit a mess. These managers in the meantime are going to try and get every minute of work out of you. The last conductor sounds stressed that posted here. Very understandable but the company is not going to do anything to make it easy for employees. It’s all about corporate greed and investors demanding profit. The only people that know what your going threw is your rr brothers and sisters. These managers will just demand more and more out of employees and will not back off.

Name: To conductor shortages E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 July 2018 You say I’m not a railroader well had 34 years of it the last 4 was with Hh. My point being with this regime and the shares slowly going up. Nothing will change it will just get worse. At head office because the stock bullish going up they will keep doing the same tactics. Until there is a change in the stock. This Foote and friends are there for themselves and the shareholders. So don’t help management was my point they get the big bucks and perks to manage. Show up get paid go home, they don’t care about your av or if you pay is right. You have to keep records of everything you do hours worked etc. I said this before on here. I had Hh 4 years of hell. Foote is just trying to repeat everything Hh did at cn and cp. I know it’s not fun but you have to try and make the best of it or get out.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 July 2018 Shortage Obviously you aren't a rroader. Shortages cause hell for the rest of us. They cap our vacation and personal days. They refuse personal business. Then they call all damn might running roster calls and f...k Everyone's sleep in the house. They stick you with extra jobs and screw your pay all to hell. Don't pay extra tickets that were agreed upon in the union agreements. Nickle and dime your ass to death. Only way to guarantee your pay is to be old enough to hold a reg. Job that pays the same rate everytime you work. Then don't answer the damn phone on roster calls. Screw helping them out. Why dog catch and work other jobs they will just dick you on pay! Screw them and their attendance policy. If they kept people hired like the agreements said and let us take our days they wouldn't be in this mess. Been the same crap going on for the last 10 years and the union's don't give a rat's ass. So much for what you know about shortages.

Name: Doo doo man E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 July 2018 What happened to train master Josh caston in Richmond.heard the chump quit.he was a real ahole.

Name: CSX cuts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 July 2018 I had googled CSX and the latest was 4200 more cuts across the system. But then you read posts on here that they are hiring in some terminals. I think throwing big numbers out there for job cuts is to attract investors. The facts will come out as time moves forward. Myself I know they cut to deep!!!!

Name: Shortage E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 July 2018 People don’t give a fiddlers “;!, about shortage of people let the company stress over it.just get in the hours you need and let the high paid highly skilled managers figure it all out. Go home crack a cold one your duty is done.

Name: Job cuts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 July 2018 If CSX wanted to save money they should offer early retirement packages to people with just couple years to go. Makes people at top of seniority list happy and guys on bottom of list hopefully.

Name: Guy E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 July 2018 Cool hand Luke is 100 percent correct. Company doesn't care how efficient the terminal is, if they think they can save a penny they'll close the doors. Willard was cheapest place to process cars system wide. Look at it now. Complete joke trying to flat switch. And another thing, anyone who post on here acting like they know this company's next move is only guessing. No one has a clue except the very top of management.

Name: Cool Hand Luke E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 July 2018 The man, Probably not a great idea to piss off the guys who might be qualifing you in Nashville. Not sure what, if any changes are in store for Louisville, but Radnor's hump will need cars to process. A couple thing I do know, CSX will do what they BELIEVE is best for CSX (stockholders) and we'll be the last to know. It's laughable reading about unused potential and what great switchman Louisville has, as if that will have any influence on Louisville's future.

Name: To hr E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 July 2018 That buddy system is not like it use to be. It’s dog eat dog with these managers now. They will eat there own they are so scared of the outsider regime. Witnessed it many times when Hh took over. Guys that thought there shit did not stink got a big wake up call thrown to the curb. You might be right some have protection from higher ups to a point. But no one is taking the chance to lose there job over some out of control manager. They can hide this behaviour in house. But if it is taken off the property and there is proof. I bet you will see him fired from the company. Company policy on harrasment and labour laws also to protect t he worker. There are so many recording devices now it would not be hard to catch them on tape. There is no policy where it says an employee has to take this shit from management.

Name: realconductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 July 2018 The man Big mouth who thinks your a one man circus. Call it nastyville. Those guys work just as hard as you Im sure and are working for the same company and have the same agenda. Your not wanted anywhere that you have an attitude towards the fellow brothers. Im sure I could wipe the floor up with your arrogant arss but it wouldn't be worth the wasted effort. Check that attitude at the door. 12 years isn't squat. Seen guys with more than that cut off. Don't shit where you sleep. If you are a real railroader then you should know that. Don't forget, you might have sucked your way into the lime life where you are now but new supervisors may not take so kindly to you.

Name: The man E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 July 2018 Let's go ahead and head down to nastyville fellas, I got 12yrs in let's psr the shit outta there hump.

Name: Harrasment E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 July 2018 We use to have a supervisor who would throw his hard hat on the floor when he got mad. It intimidated some employees. One day we had a guy work with this supervisor and again the supervisor got mad and threw his hard hat. The individual went to the other end of the shop and called rr police and said he felt threatened by this supervisor, the rr police came then called supervisors boss. The supervisor was removed from the property. Never to be heard from again. Review your harrasment policy and if you are dealing with this type of manager. The policy will explain how to deal with this situation. Do not take this type of behaviour from no one. Just because they have this bully regime does not make it legal. Inform your union rep. And have a paper trail. Nothing changes without paper trail , that way it is not swept under the carpet.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 July 2018 You boys in Nashville better play your cards right. If Louisville has cuts there are a lot of guys willing to move 2.5 hrs south to work. Just saying!

Name: rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 July 2018 Conductor 1-10 If you can not find a rule that was previously issued before HH took over in the new subdivision timetable, subdivision bulletins or HQ System bulletins then the rule no longer is in effect. The rule that you quoted about running with one unit on line when handling empty unit trains was originally put out when we still had Division general bulletins. We no longer have those as you know. Example would be when the Great Lakes had a general bulletin. This rule was in this publication. When HH took over and changed the operating rules departments format to circulating individual subdivision timetables and bulletins a lot of information was removed. The new timetable and relevant bulletins for each subdivision is how we operate. Make sure you check you subdivision timetable very closely. Make sure that the rules that are no longer in the HQ system bulletins and in your subdivision bulletins are not in your timetables. If they are not then the rule is obsolete. Every supervisor should know of these changes and the rules that have been removed from all issues. If they do not then don't hesitate to educate them. If its not in writing anymore than it is not an rule anymore. As one poster stated before, we do not run on rumor. We do not run by "it used to be". We run on written facts. Until the operating rules department issues changes or brings back rules that were made obsolete after HH took over you run by facts in writing. If a supervisor comes up with a new rule that has not been put in writing or states that it will be coming out soon, do not hesitate to contact the operating rules department and clarify the information.

Name: Supervisor tempor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 July 2018 We had a supervisor just like you described, he made the mistake of calling an Asian employee “@&$;;: and more than one person heard what he called this man. The man filed complaint with witnesses and the supervisor was fired and escorted off the property by rr police. And never allowed on company property again.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 July 2018 Wantout This supervisor wouldn't happen to be the one that every time he is at an investigation he loses it and goes off cursing at the poor victim when the tape recorder is off. The one that insist on being addressed as "Mister" blah blah when he doesn't show the same respect. Is this the one who was rushing crews to do illegal brake test on line of road pick up of cars? Is this the one who threatened to pull several crews out of service for refusing to pick up and move high and wide cars without proper clearance paperwork? Is this the one who was forced by a division manager to take anger management class in the past?

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 July 2018 Lesson101 Thanks for the info. Just out of curiosity I did look up what you said. I'm guilty. I didn't notice the change to the rule either. Just had an engineer warn me for getting on our power on the main side when there were no trains around or coming. I was raised with enough sense to look both directions for crossing the street. He said I would be busted for violating the rules. Guess when I see him I will educate him. I was told when they hired me that rules in the bulletins stay in effect until they are removed. If a new rule book is put out they move the pertinent rules to the book and remove them from further reissues. That single unit on line rule is gone too. Glad someone is keeping and eye on stuff. I thought it was stupid to have one engine on line anyway unless you could maintain track speed. HH might have been a nut job and a tyrant but he had some sense on some things obviously.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 July 2018 Water cooler talk in Jax is Louisville is gone be downsized . Job cuts are coming .

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 July 2018 Put a hostler job on and you won't miss departure times. I thought it was all about PSR. Not very P if your train don't leave on time.

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 The man What's your point. Sounds like all your eggs are in one basket. As long as auto does good and doesn't need bail out or economy hurts them you might reap the rewards. You got some kind of attitude. Afraid for your job? Your not going to make Csx rich all by yourself.

Name: Profit E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 July 2018 Head office does not have to visit any terminals,they know what is profitable and what isn’t. They know at the start they cut to deep for the sake of getting operating ratio down. To appease the investors,Foote is just repeating what Hh did at cp and cn he was there part of it. The work will slowly come back, and the maintance they can only put off for so long. Steel on steel has to be maintained they have no choice. Don’t start making sacrifices for this company by running around like a chicken with its head cutoff. If you do it will bite you down the road. Trust me they will need you more than you will need them. There still trying to hire people at cn and cp. giving retired hoggers 400.00 a day just to be on stand by. Most retired people and fired people are not returning and helping company out. They had enough of the bullshit treatment. The same thing is going to happen at CSX don’t panick. Google what Hh did at cn and cp see for yourself. CSX is just a much larger rr and is confusing Foote. Cn cp straight track coast to coast. CSX spaghetti track, it is making Foote dizzy and giving him headache how to make Hh plan work!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 July 2018 Why isn't anyone from Jacksonville visiting Louisville to see exactly what is going on? It's a huge money maker already and could be the belly of the beast that we call CSX.

Name: The man E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 July 2018 Ford pays for the crew starts mother fuckers we are straight profit in Louisville any thing else is just a bonus we service big important customers, not to many mom and pops, will also have intermodal, I wish we had all of our small business back but we dont, we only deal with big money shit, so fuck em and....

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 Lesson HA! You are so right on but are you kidding. You really think any of this matters. How about the bulletin that says your not supposed to do work(pull cars) that are not on the onboard but we do it all the time and just add the cars later. The TMs almost shit themselves when they saw that for the first time. You think they are going to leave a multi million dollar industry like a certain steel mill(name not mentioned) not worked because they couldn't figure out how to get the cars ordered and in the system before you went to work? They do what they want and say what they want. My favorite is OH it was a rule they just forgot to put it in the new reissues. BULLSHITZ. How many months does it have to be gone before its officially GONE! I think a good argument would be screw your new safety rule. We think it was put in there by accident! LOL LOL LOL

Name: Lesson101 E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 ALL SUPERVISORS Get out the operating rules book. Turn to page 2-2 in the Safeway section. Now black out the rule number 2101.1. IT DOESN'T APPLY ANY MORE! Now get the latest reissue of the HQ SYSTEM BULLETINS. Go to page 4 of 66. Read new rule 2101.1. If you look hard enough you will see it is a combination of rule 2101.2 and 2101.3 from the book. Now look real close. Don't strain yourself. Look at line #3 in the bulletin. Where do you see the words live track or main tracks. YOU DONT. It was removed in the new bulletins when HH took over. Thank god! You had supervisors who were causing trouble with this in line of road switching and crews were working between double mains. So stop this bull crap of threatening to write people up for getting on the cars and motors next to a main! Oh...while your at it please for the love of God show the Engineers where the rule is that states all empty unit trains must be run with one motor on line before another one gets written up! We,ve been looking for it since HH took over and it was removed. Guess it doesn't apply anymore!

Name: robbed E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 The man Your not going out of your away from home terminal to drag in a train. If you were you could get one and bring it back on one ticket. If you go out and get another it is another ticket and the agreement the engineers can only be forced out for a second if its an emergency and then they have to be deadheaded home. If you go to get that train and come back with one you are traveling with another train in the opposite direction since you already had a train assigned to you. Don't let them put it on a j ticket. Its not dog catching. Put in TA adjustment for the trip back on the second train. Claim full pay. Its another train. Then if they screw you on the deadhead put in claim for that too. You already went out and came back to the away from home terminal with that second train. If you want after you get back with the second train you can request to stay at the hotel and go first out on the board. Yeah someone else may be rested before you anyway but then you should get another meal and the company has to pay for you to stay in the hotel again. Put the claim in for the second train they screwed you out of. Put in the 8 hour claim for not running you through your home terminal before you were forced on another train that went back to the first terminal you were called out of. These jerks will rob you blind if you let them. Put all your claims in and find a way to make it the most expensive to them as you can if they want to threaten you and violated the hell out of the agreements.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 July 2018 Louisville needs someone to come evaluate how we are working then they will realize that we can handle at least 3 times the volume we are now with a few very minor adjustments. The Osborn Yard is layed out in a way that could, (if used right) bring dwell times down to a few hours, hit departure times 99% of the time, and bring in a lot more revenue. A lot of times Ford and Toyota want more cars than we have! What is the problem, why aren't the empty racks we need getting here? If we don't service a customer 100% it's because the cars we need didn't make it here. Where is the problem?

Name: showmemoney E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 July 2018 The Man So you never missed your quota. That's not the issue. So your tough switchers. Back and forth. Up and down. No prize for that. The question is other than moving those autos what else do you bring in for revenue. Does the company make enough off of the auto freight to break even or make a profit to justify your existence. Its all about the bottom dollar. What does your yard bring each quarter? Don't let being a super switcher who blah blah fool you into thinking your profitable. Your just a number. Don't be a fool and not plan for a move elsewhere in your career.

Name: xlc E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 July 2018 Bendover Not sure what agreement you are on there with kind of situation but in our agreement when a crew is called out of an away from on terminal and is forced to get a train at another away from home terminal they should get a straight away dead head to the other away from home terminal. When they get there they should be issued another ticket for the train itself. Then there is an 8 hour penalty claim because a crew can not be forced out of their away from home terminal to get another train at another away from home terminal without being run thru their HOME terminal first. Sounds like you should be given 2 straight away deadheads and a ticket for the train as well and put in an 8 hour penalty claim. You need to put claims in for this asap and get on to your LC to talk to your general chairman about this. I can not say this enough. Check every single piece of paper that your name is on. Check the origination of the train. Check every detail. Make sure any trip made by wagon is correct in the drivers system. If the area is bogus make them change it. These kind of trips are the ones that they are covering up information about the trains locations and areas traveled. They may even have then coming out of a bogus mile post or traveling to a bogus one. they may have your job under a Jjob to hide the crew description. They have been hiding recrews and this kind of work for months now. Even the trainmasters have made comments on how crazy it is now. You would think after the article came out in the Jacksonville newspaper and dispatchers blew the whistle they would clean up their act. Keep everything that is bogus. If your name is attatched you have a right to file a charge with the union on false information being submitted on documents that your name is on and you want it removed.

Name: Ben Dover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 July 2018 As I went down the rail today I couldn't help but wonder if my train was going airborne or not. Such a violent trip. I really don't believe it was the engine but more so bad track lacking maintenance. I used to see the regular track inspectors every day but rarely see them once every couple months, if that. When the big one happens I pray to God it's not me. Just a matter of time. Not if but when!! Another issue that I was just made aware of is that they are trying to force the crew out of their intermediate hotel in North Baltimore to take the Q150 to an away terminal and then bring Q151 back to NB and then DH home on a combo, all on ONE ticket. Threatened to right the crew up for insubordination when they tied their Q150 ticket up In Walbridge instead of getting on the Q151 and taking it back to North Baltimore on the same ticket. Unbelievable. Question to any low level manager? How would you like to be told we are cutting your salary in half and you will be expected to do twice the work for half the money! Probably be closer to what you're worth!

Name: The man E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 July 2018 To switcher Louisville is where the ford truck plant is and where the Louisville automotive plant is we originate all escapes and f250 and above we doin alright by the company, and I would hands put our crews up against any other crews any where, we have done it all, from humping to reverse humping, 2 man bowl down to 1 man bowl and never missed our numbers that's with 2 hr. Quits we kicks cars up hill with our eyes closed and make it work, it's a funny thing being the red headed step child u develop that hard exterior that allows u to keep Chiping away and get the shit done. Up hill slow down hill fast revenue first safety last.....OUT

Name: New hires E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 July 2018 When company hired new guys it was good to see young people getting work. And it did not take long to feel a person out to see if they where the right fit for the job. The biggest mistake some of us made was covering for a lost soul till he got his probation in. These type of people mean well but they are lost and even dangerous to themselfs and others. And some realize it and move on to other employment. Then there are those that catch on fast and turn out to be good employees and are pleasure to work with. I have seen them all pretty entertaining!!

Name: To conductor cubs E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 July 2018 I made those statements about the new people, because under this regime they push and intimidate the new people just like everyone else. They develop a complex that they are going to be fired. When ever I have had a new person and he gets confused I tell them to stop everything they are doing and ask someone the proper way to perform the task. I said the people will respect you for it. I have told new people not to feel embarrassed if you have to ask how to perform task. And never take chances, because you could hurt yourself and others. I have seen hot shot new guys loose there lives being on the job less than six months. It still haunts me to this day. I can remember a class they sat at table in class room. In front of them was a pencil and a pipe cleaner. The instructor told them not to touch any thing on the table until told to. We’ll instructor talked all morning. And he noticed some students fidging with the pipe cleaner. He said we will break for dinner now and the students that played with the pipe cleaner not to returnAnd wished them good luck in there future. One guy asked why he was told he could not follow instruction by not touching anything on the table!!!!

Name: switcher E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 Louisville No one knows what's going to happen. Don't be so sure you are needed as much as you think you are. Avon yard is a big yard and is rated the most productive hump yard on the system. However they don't make the company the money! Word is that there are still talks on the table to close down the hump and just use the yard as a go through and make Hawthorne the major yard again. Company claims even though avon yard is the largest production yard on the system the revenue they create is worthless. Some freight goes through to be humped and delivered to Hawthorne to service the industries and others out east but very little is done that travels from Avon to St. Louis. Long haul across the road on the St. Louis line is not making them squat. Its all about the bottom line. The almighty dollar. You might handle a lot of auto racks, etc... but how much are you making them in revenue along the way. If all you do is build auto trains and don't service enough industries to show a good enough profit to pay for your operating cost your just as vulnerable as the rest of us! They are reviewing everything across the system at this very moment. They will cut and chop everything in their power to reduce operating cost. Just because HH kicked it doesn't mean that his plan is off the table. In fact, now that the monetary damage has been done and they have to fix the mess they made you can expect more cost cutting to kick in. Like begging for your money in cheap stock pricing. Time for the smoke and mirror show to begin.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 July 2018 Investing What is it with you and others who constantly make that stupid ignorant comment that we will have more accidents and derailments just because we have new cubs coming in that don't know anything. I can bet my entire pension that you didn't know shit when you were hired. People aren't born knowing how to railroad or how it works. I'm sure you didn't either. I didn't know shit. I learned it. Just like a new baby learns to walk. We all know for the last 22 years that CSX has a training program that just teaches the basics and brain washes them with more safety propaganda than die hard field training. Just worried about injury lawsuits. It was up to me when I got a new cub to teach him the true in and outs of railroading. If you get a new group of cubs and later down the road they are tearing everything up then you haven't done your job as a trainer. Yeah, you get those few handfuls that think they know it all already and don't want to listen but there's a lot more who want to learn and learn right. You teach them how to cut corners and break the rules all the time then you get what you deserve if you work around them later and get yourself hurt. use some common sense. Everyone was new at one time. So stop with the bull that things are going to get worse just because a new cub steps on the ground. Do you job and teach them correctly. You got a bad apple let everyone know it. Watch him. Keep an extra eye on him. If he needs it rip his ass. I just saw an old head of 24 years corner a car a few days ago. It happens to everyone. Check your attitude at the door if your handed a new cub. Focus on teaching him right and make sure he gets what your saying!

Name: Nice E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 July 2018 I work 7 till 330 now , good pay , no phone calls , no stress . I sleep all night like a baby . I just made plans for next weekend , because I know I’m gone be at home , life is short . Make the most of it while you can . If you retire at 60 and die at 62 was it worth it .

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 July 2018 Words straight from Harrison's mouth "Humps can justify their existence only when they classify 1400-1500 cars per day". Louisville which classifies mostly auto racks was humping 1200 per day minimum on 6 hour shifts! Louisville can garuntee at least 1600 per day on the hump now that there are no quits. Add in some flat switching in L,N, and A yards and the place could classify bucket loads more. This is a way underutilized terminal, someone from Jacksonville needs to show up and reevaluate the strategy here! There is no reason Louisville shouldnt be receiving 3 times the cars they are now.

Name: Bean Counter E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 July 2018 I have worked in RR retirement benefit plans for 25 years. If you severe employment before vesting, your RRP contributions are transferred to Social Securoty. Your monthly retirement benefit rate drops with each quarter of unemployment. So for example, if your 45, terminated and unemployed until SS RETIREMENT BENEFIT AGE, your monthly benefits would be approximately $900.00. Not $6,000 or anything close to that. With respect to Congressional dissolution or the RRA, it is of course only a matter of legislative action which can and does happen. In such case, the pension money can be legislatedly transferred anywhere to any approved entity, and reinvested or dispersed as directed by law. This could, of course, include a merger of pension with the Teamster’s pension fund, as they are also a government regulated fund. Hope this helps clarify your questions.

Name: Vice Chair - BLET E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 July 2018 Point of Order. First, I concur with RRJim on pensions. Good job Jim. Secondly, in response to killjoy and ass, the RR Unions are not run by the Mafia.. The Mob murders its members an we don’t engage in killing crime drugs whores money laundering fraud or nothing in similarity to that kind of thing. Yes, it is true we are partners with the Teamsters, and Big Jim (Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.) is the President over all of us, but only his father was involved with stealing pensions, murdering, bribery and all that nonsense that does not affect the here and now cause Big Jim Jr. has our backs and he is not a thief or a murderer like his father was. Nor is he going to run off with all our Pension money. That’s sheer nonsense. If anyone thinks differently, the Union door is always open to our brothers and sisters to discuss any problems or issues you may have with our duly elected BLET/Teamster officers - and that includes Big Jim Jr. hisself. So rest easy folks and God Bless America and the Teamsters.

Name: Reservations E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 July 2018 I forgot to mention when experienced people walk and are replaced with people off the street.managers and tm, should make there reservations now for the Nut House so they don’t get put on a waiting list. !!!

Name: Investing E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 July 2018 A broker said never invest where you work. I don’t know why he said that. But they offer company stock to make you feel like your part of the company team and you will go that extra mile for the company. I know employees made lots on cp stock until Hh cancelled it for employees. I think CSX like cn cp cut so deep to get the operating ratio down That now they are screwed. If guys with years of experience are fed up with being beat up by the company and resigning after years of service. CSX is in a bind. They have to hire new people that know nothing and they will not stay if company is going to treat them like shit. The writing is on the wall people are fed up and say no more of this treatment and walking. I seen so many good people walk when Hh was ceo at cp. managers down. They still are trying to replace people that walked and got fired. I retired early to a hit on my pention but was fed up at the way they treated us. If you can find a decent paying job run from CSX. You only pass threw life once. With all these people they have to hire it is going to cost them in derailments run threw switch’s all kinds of shit is going to happen. And when all these accidents and derailments happen. CSX gets negative media and share holders run. It’s going to be gong show at CSX. Seen it at cp And cn. Sit back just wait you think tm are stressed now just wait till they have lots of new people. Lol

Name: Salyers E-mail: Stevesalyers@csx.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 July 2018 Louisville will be fine, we flat switch as well as anyone we will continue to switch what we have, some traffic will go to be humped else where but the majority we will still switch we have a great team here and this location is valuable to the network, auto racks are our bread and butter Ford is back and traffic locally will increase in the coming weeks.

Name: wantout E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 July 2018 retired now Thanks. I got a couple years and putting every dime I got away. Im getting out of here. Just too much bull and too much restructuring going on and no body knows what's next. tired of dealing with TMs who don't read the damn new system bulletins and learn the changes in the rules. Still writing people up on old rules and stupid crap. None of us should have to tell any supervisor that he is wrong and needs to get the reissue of bulletins out and read the changes. Its just one big joke after another. We got 2 tm's on the verge of quitting and one that should have his arss kicked to the door. Curses people out and uses the F word all the time. Threatens you if you challenge him and is basically a total loser. Just need to get paroled. Wonder what's up with this deal of offering us to buy stock at 15%. Don't trust the whole deal. Got to set it up so they take it out of your paycheck and that's after tax. I would do what invest said and put that money in a roth Ira before I would buy their stock with it. Better investment for the future. What do you think they have in mind with this deal?

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 Wantout, If you leave the RR industry & don't work anywhere else, current connection shouldn't be broken. However, at 20 yrs./240 months, you'd have to be age 62 & your Tier 1 & Tier 2 benefits would have age reductions. That can be OK for some people who also have additional, other retirement income.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 July 2018 You will need 15+ years to be the bottom guy in Louisville soon

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 July 2018 Nashville and Cincinnati both humping cars, Louisville will be a run through soon. Better get those applications in before it happens or what few jobs there are around Louisville will fill up quick and you're S.O.L.

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 July 2018 To my knowledge it you get fired or pull the pin. You can leave you money in the company plan and you will get at normal retirement age. Or you can take it out and put in a registered plan at which time you will also get it at normal retirement date. I think this is how it works just guessing!!!!!

Name: Wantout E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 July 2018 Retired now If I quit with 20 years and don't work anywhere else is that considered cutting my connection with the railroad? Will I lose my tier 2 after paying into it for 20 years? I gave them all that money they sure the hell should be giving me some of it one way or another.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 RRJIM Thanks for the information. It's too large an issue to approach. I'll probably take the fact the cost to CSX was tremendous compared to "Doing what's right". Your last posts were very informative keep up the good work!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 Corporate 30+ Did you have 30+ years with 360+ months into Railroad Retirement? I don't know how CSX could take it away even by getting fired. The corporate 85 plan which is a separate management retirement at age 55 with 30 years I don't know about I was a union employee. If CSX fired you I would of gone to RRB to see what work wouldn't break the connection to Railroad Retirement. I know starting your own business was one, working for the FRA, going to another railroad, some government agencies even state agencies etc.. I would of even tried to get a disability if I had 30+ years. You might of lost the management retirement portion but you would of kept the RR pension intact. I don't have a clue what new hires in management are subjected to.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 Retired I asked about if I get married after retiring about the spousal stipend when I was at the RRB office filing the forms. The new wife can collect it after 2 years at age 60. NO, plans on doing it. I was married 3 times during my career. None of the ex's are entitled to collect seeing you had to be married for at least 10 years. lol

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 RRJIM A very large media firm contacted me to help in exposing RRs putting employees and public in danger. I took the safety and other issues on for CSX, employees and the public before. This cost me my job, Tier Two, seperate retirement and Tier One reduced to change. I filed suit in Federal Court and the Department Of Justice forced me to release CSX. Tier Two was combined into Tier One. In other words they took my private fund. The request concerns the new employees also, so what are your thoughts? The request also concerns CSX management. What are your thoughts?

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 RRJim, You're not doin' too bad...... - No state can impose income tax on rail retirement benefits.- - Retire, then later on become married & the spouse can elect to receive an RRB annuity? Dunno about that one.- Most everyone who earns income in the RR industry is taxed both Tier 1 & Tier 2. Employees & employers contribute to both. Everybody is taxed 1.45% Medicare. Tier 1 paid goes into the Social Security Trust Fund & is moved over if/when a person applies for a RR pension. Is why an applicant should apply early so all necessary paperwork can be completed. Tier 2 funds the RRB system & gives a retiree a much higher total pension amount than what just Social Security would. Anyone who retires from the railroad industry & maintained a current connection is entitled to both Tier 1 & Tier 2 benefits. Spouses too IF married at least one yr. prior to retirement. Retired railroader's spouse entitlement is 50% of Tier 1, 45% of Tier 2. Amounts are determined by the retiree's total lifetime earnings. Maintaining a current connection can be a biggie. Before anyone wants to leave the RR & work for another entity until they reach retirement age, - then later apply for a RRB pension, needs to check on just what would/would not break their current connection. Be a shame to lose all\any Tier 2 that was contributed & the benefit(s).

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 Kill-Joy Look up RRB. It's not privately run it's a government agency. The only crooks who want to rob it is Congress like they did with Social Security. The Board is made up of both railroad management & union representatives. I think the last time I looked it's presently solvent till around 2042. Like what most retirement should be each generation contributes. Unlike Social Security which at present Congress says it's broke. Maybe SS should look at RRB on what to do. Quit watching the movie Hoffa. Your description came right out of that movie script. By the way only 2 rail unions are affiliated with the IBT that's the BLE&T & BMWE. It's a separate division just for railroads.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 July 2018 Newbie Tier I is your Social Security equivalent Tier II is your pension. You don't lose Tier II if you're not married. The spousal stipend does not affect your retirement. Because of the higher percentage we pay in both Tiers compared to Social Security it allows for it. The spouse has a choice when she gets retirement age to draw SS or Railroad Retirement usually it's whatever is the greater. Plus she can also retire at age 60 under RRB compared to SS at 62 with a reduction or 65-66 for full SS. I didn't have a wife when I retired I draw both Tier I & Tier II. I can still get married again even though I'm retired and after 2 years (might be 1 year) she can make a choice of RRB or SS. You never lose the spousal stipend even in retirement you just can't draw it without the wife. Technically yes you lose the SPOUSAL stipend by not collecting it if your retired and single. Even being single it's still a great retirement. To make it better if you have a chance to get into a 401K through the union or even open an IRA do it. Start small 2%-4% then increase it when there's a pay increase or you get use to not missing it out of your paycheck. It's nice to have a pension plus investment funds to do the things you want after retirement.

Name: Production E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 July 2018 A dog has the mentality of a two year old child. All as it wants to do is please it’s master for a treat. It will do anything the owner trains it to do, like chasing a person with a gun shooting at it. There are some people that are the same way they always need gradification for some reason trying to outdo others to get it. In most cases just a happy go lucky simple guy. As a retired old guy I learnt on the railway the company wants you to run take short cuts and get the job done. But as an old guy I witnessed over and over as soon as these runners get hurt hurt someone else or damage equipment. In the investigation the rule books come out and you are asked why you did not do your due diligence. As you where trained to do the job and the copy of all the rules and safety manuals you received read and understood and signed your name that you understood all the rules.you can’t say in a statement the real reason you work so fast is to work six hours and put in for eight hours. Now the company has you for theft. Or violation for other safety rules. And your going home. The old guy is consistent works safe puts in his hours of work and goes home in one piece and is able to do it the next day.

Name: Kill-Joy E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 July 2018 Sorry to burst your bubble RRJim, but Kick Ass is correct about the Unions and RR Pensions. The Teamsters are still run by the Hoffa Mafia, under Jimmy Hoffa's son, Jimmy Jr. To think they cannot rob your RR Pension fund is putting your head in the dirt. Kick is correct with the Teamster mafia thing. And, the Hoffa Teamsters now run the RR Unions. And they use heavy handed tactics to keep the rank and file in line. Back in the day, it is well known that Hoffa Sr. stole the teamsters pension money, was jailed, then releases by President Nixon for a tidy campaign contribution in the millions. Hoffa Sr. tried to regain his President of the Teamster's title, and he was murdered by the hit man who was his very best friend and whom Hoffa had hired to murder his competitors and other antagonists. The upshot of all this hoopla is that the teamster pension fund was drained by hundreds of millions of dollars, even though it was protected by the federal government, just like the RR pension fund is "protected" by the federal government. . So,with regard to the federally protected Teamster pension fund, long story short, the " Feds", an oversight committee appointed by yours truly Tricky Dick, appointed Federal trustees to handle the rest of the multimillion dollar fund. Of course, with the remainder of what was left of the Hoffa - Mafia - Teamster marriage, the balance of the fund quickly disappeared. "Poof" as kick likes to say. Can the same thing happen to the RR pension? Kick Ass obviously believes so. I tend to agree with one exception. Get rid of the Teamsters and you will save your pension fund. If the RR Pension fund becomes "empty", like so many do - even government pensions funds have bankrupted in the billions of dollars - , even though "protected' but he government, RR workers will be defaulted to Social Security, which pays far less than the RR Pension would have paid. One last bit of information that a lot of new hires do not realize and uninvested RR employees do not realize:: it takes years to vest in the RR Pension. The likelihood that you will cross that threshold is very slim in this day and age with most roads cutting jobs due to high tech innovations. Most of you will convert to Social Security. Which, again, pays a pittance. And dont count on the Washington Agreement if your company merges with another RR and cuts you loose. That is a political hornets nest that pays out to whomever the Company wants, legislation an laws aside. Personally, the RR Union, being run by the Mob, should be fired. Anyone would be preferable to the Hoffa run Teamster Union. They are clearly not looking out for your best interests. If you think otherwise, as Kick said, read the history. History repeats itself.

Name: Ha E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 July 2018 Take away are right to have a personal day that was earned and work undermanned while intensional disregard to are union contracts which Footie should be personally sued and brought up in criminal court for he is the man in charge making all the money off this it's against the RR labor at to not follow are Union contact in "good faith" and they change a 23 year old seniority moves and give us no way to even make A doctor appointment I think fottie should be in front of a judge with the head of labor relations, not that's a democratic society the highest court with all Union members welcome to say how they violate are agreement and refuse to pay are straight out rightful claims

Name: Tm E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 July 2018 Retired. What you failed to say is you slowed down. You slow walked and drug the work out. You proved nothing. I've seen young bucks go out and run circles around old heads on local jobs when they were on vacation. Got the same damn work done. Got it done in 8 hrs instead of 12. Then the threats came in. Old heads did 12 hrs to get overtime pay. Their bread and butter. Threatened younger guys. Told them if they kept that shit up and burned up the jobs they would be sorry. You think management isn't stupid? Get real. We know what's going on and why. You can't cut the mustard then go get a wheel chair and sit in it. Leave the work to the productive bucks!

Name: Stats E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 July 2018 There are Labs that take years of statistics of different industries. Depends who hires them to do a study like the rr. They take years of stats on injuries for example they record month week day where it has the highest number for an injuries. The age of person years of service department. You name it it is included. Even the effect of a full moon on a person. And they are very close at predicting an event. I can remember going to our company safety meetings and the instructor would say be extra careful because the software is now predicting an injury or fatality. And have to say these predictions are pretty close.

Name: Injuries E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 July 2018 Most railroads have soft ware, that predict a derailment after so many train miles. Same as injuries and fatalities. So many hours of work equal injuries then the big one a fatality. I’ve seen these on company computers. How accurate they are who knows, but it is a tool they use.

Name: Dude E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 July 2018 Just repeated what I have heard from some safety study they do. At different railways. When something happens in yard they blame it on rushing taking short cuts

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 July 2018 Your argument sucks dude! The are more injuries and more damage to equipment now than ever

Name: Fast moves E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 July 2018 Yes you got more done in less hours by skipping breaks.But what they found out that there where short cuts taken also, which was a safety issue. And taking short cuts and running, the company figured just a matter of time for fatality or equipment damage.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 July 2018 Typical day pre Harrison... 1. On duty at say 0700 2. Hang out in locker room until 0745 ish 3. Go hard until 1230 ish 4. Park engine 5. Hang out in locker room until 1255 ish 6. Tie up and go home More work got done, far fewer derailments, morale 100% Revert back to the pre Harrison days and thing will be better all around period.

Name: Retired conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 On the subject of early quits in the yard, 30 years ago I told a new Trainmaster who had just decreed no early quits that we could get more work done in 6 hours than in 8. He didn't listen, we proved it, the yard melted down. Higher ups got involved and we got our quits back.WE ALL STUCK TOGETHER.

Name: Dan E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 July 2018 Yard master, We used to work through lunch which justified our quits. At least in the eyes of Ward’s CSX. It is no longer his, but Foote’s, and he makes the rules, so I wasn’t crying... just asking

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 Newbie: Tier 1 & Tier 2 taxes are paid by both employee & employer. Tier 1 can be considered the equivalent of social security (FICA). Tier 2 taxes fund the RRB system and gives a RR retiree a higher total pension amount. Safety First.

Name: Don'tturnmyback E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 July 2018 !!!! I'm the meantime while your basking on your checks we're watching our backs. Tank car jumps frog that was reported rough several times! Thank god it didn't dump its class 3 liquid all over the place! Cost cutting strikes again. Wasn't considered urgent enough to warrant attention. Take a moment to say a prayer for the second crew in 2 weeks to be involved in a suicide fatality. Why people want to die by train in beyond me. Hope the crew's are recovering well.

Name: L&N dispr E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 Yeah doctor num nuts. That pension is really shirty . I mean these idiots keep sending me $4656 every month and my 401k keeps sending me 3200 every month. Gosh dog i hate retirement..

Name: Benefits in career E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 July 2018 I started the railroad with a grade 12. Got into the mechanical department at age 20, being the new guy got all the swing and shitty shifts. After four years got my journeyman status welding etc. Which the railroad paid to train me. Could work for any railroad in North America. Now retired with pention at early age compared to my friends. A lot of people are jelous of my position. You make sacrifices working for the railroad and make good money and benefits. You miss out on a lot but with the money a rr makes I believe we live a higher standard of living than most. Pention company stock and what ever your invested in. If you can make it to the finish line you can have a pretty good life.

Name: Ym E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 July 2018 Dan No quits in our yard. Why would there be? Your called to work an 8 hr job. Most people who have 9-5 jobs work till 5. Just don't get why yard crews cry because they got to work the 8 hours their paid to work. No one is entitled to work less. Try walking off any other job early. Tell your boss you've done enough now so your leaving. see how that goes over.Just don't get it.

Name: Offended E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 July 2018 Webmaster. Can you please block that filthy mouthed posted who calls himself doctor kick. He turns my stomach and just ruins this sites credibility. He obviously has some serious mental issues and no respect for anyone. Just not wanted on this site.

Name: Newbie E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 July 2018 RRJIM ok...I'm still lost by what you said. Tier1 is the same as social security in a sense. I get that. I was told tier 2 is an extra supplement set back for your spouse. If you never get married you lose it. What exactly is the pension portion. Just the tier1? If it's equivalent to social security I'm assuming it's your pension. Just what exactly is tier2! Is my retirement checked based on how much I put in 1&2 or just tier1?

Name: Dan E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 July 2018 I read on here the other day that quits are back. Can anyone verify this? We’re still working 8 at my terminal

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 July 2018 Sitting at home enjoying the pension I paid into. Rr Jim thanks for your wisdom and setting record straight.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 Dr Dumbass RRB is a federally run program not in the hands on any union. Look it up. Then shut up.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 Goober Railroad Retirement is funded by the employee & employer. Yes, there are two tiers in which one is a Social Security equivalent the other the pension which pays a lot more but it's not SS. That apparently irks Paul Ryan seeing he's tried to cut it down to SS levels hiding it in his budget plans for years. Even the railroads told him "No" seeing management is also under RRB. I also had a 401K through the union in which I contributed 15% for 18 years before retiring in 2010. I don't get your point. Railroad Retirement is based on earnings the more one earns better the retirement, it also provides a spousal stipend. Most people I know with a wife at retirement are collecting around $6000 a month. Again, I don't get your point. RRB is not anywhere similar to Social Security it's a separate entity. Even my Medicare is Railroad Retirement Medicare not SS. In some states RRB is not subject to state taxes & only the SS equivalent portion is subject to federal taxes. The pension portion is tax free. My point was only 13% of the workforce today has a structured pension. A 401K is not the same it makes the employee totally responsible for a retirement with a possible match from the employer. It is also highly vulnerable to the stock market. I watched 2 major market down turns in 2001 & 2008 with the 401K. If I had been retired during those and had to depend on just SS & a 401K it would of been being up schidt creek without a paddle.

Name: Dr kick your sdd E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 27 July 2018 RR PENSIONS? JESUS H CHRIST ARE YOU PEOPLE UNBELIEVABLE STUPID. That crap about “ oh my god, my rr pension saved my ass” is utter bullshit.....posted on here by Union hacks. The only pension the vast majority of you are going to get , is the one stuck up your incredibly stupid ass. Dude. Umm, don’t look know, but Your Union is owned by the Mafia. Dude. remember Jimmy Hoffa? No? He was the guy in charge, just like Jr is now. Let me spell it out for you unread illiterate twerps. The Teamsters own your ass. And your balls. And your dick. Wanna know what’s gonna happen to your precious RR PENSIONS. ?? .......POOF! Now you see it, now you don’t. Just ask Jimmy Sr how that works, er, worked. Oops, he’s dead. Hmmm. Check up on what happened to all that that pension money . (That’s a hint). Sure, a couple of lucky duck union officers might get to the promise land.....just not YOU stupid. Still don’t know what happened to all those Tesmster billions? Well, guess you’ll just have to ask Jr. He knows. Just make sure he’s hooked up to a lie detector when you pop the question (wear a bullet proof vest, don’t drink the water or eat the food....and send in that dweeb union newbie.....) In the meantime, work for those measly union wages, make sure you kiss a lot of Union ass, have a really big loud useless voice in those Union decisions, and damn....don’t forget to pay pay pay those union dues and choke on that gigantic RR PENSION deduction outta your check that your never ever gonna see. Cause your either gonna get fired before you qualify, or the Hoffa gang will spend it all on bankrupt Bahama casinos, or the “Union” bobble heads will contract your ass out the door. RR PENSIONS.?? Still don’t get it ? That’s ok. Drink some more kool/aid pension bullshit. And when you retire, the union will, according to your all powerful union contract, send 100 young virgins to live with you in your castles filled with $$$$. #RR PENSIONS ARE 4 IDIOTS.COM

Name: Carreers E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 July 2018 Working at the railroad is not for everyone, if you like the job it gets in your blood. But if you don’t like a certain department, go to a different department in the company. The hours and type of work might be better suited for you. And that way your pention stays in the company. I started out as trainman then went to mechanical where I retired.

Name: Car Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 July 2018 Are their any other places where the 'Vacation Relief' man (who has the weekends off) refuses to work people's vacation days?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 July 2018 Where are the newhires

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 July 2018 Hoover is exactly right about RR retirement

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 July 2018 Goober needs to do some more research on RR Retirement. Safety First.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 July 2018 Wow! A group of newbies showed up at yard for a tour. Shocked they actually hired someone. Let's see how many stay when they get the taste. They never leave until they start getting their pay screwed. Hope they got that training pay disaster under control. But then it's probably better to teach them early on how to file complaints and get screwed over. Wonder where the hell they're going to field train them first. God forbid its in the yard!

Name: Thank You E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 July 2018 Goober, Thanks for clearing this up for Jim and many others that think Railroad Retirement is this spectacular plan that is going to ensure everyone retires better off than they would at a lot of other places. It's decent but it's just about on par with most other employers. I stuck around for 14 years because I didn't fully understand the Railroad Retirement Plan, I thought it was the best thing out there because that's all I had ever heard from others. Once I educated myself on it I decided I wasn't sticking it out at CSX for the retirement. I have a company match 401k now where they match dollar for dollar up to 7% of what I put in and .50 cents on the dollar to 15%. So basically for every $1000.00 I make I put in 15% which is $150 they put in $70 for the match on 7% and another $40 for the half match on 8%. In a nutshell I put up $150 and they put up $110, all pre tax so that's $260 for every $1000 I make. So on 70k that would be $18k a year towards my retirement. That's 180k for every 10 years. The match alone is around 8 grand a year. If I would have started here instead of CSX 14 years ago I would have around $270,000 in my 401k. I regret the time I spent at CSX and I never thought I could leave and make the same kind of money but I did and couldn't be happier. You only live once and your kids only grow up once! I know a lot of guys that went through divorces because of CSX and a lot of guys that missed out on their kids lives. On paper your pay sounds good, but where does it all go before you get your check? You can make 50k a year somewhere else and have fatter checks than making 70k a year at CSX.

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 July 2018 I’m glad I was able to pay into defined plan since I was 20 years old. Age 55 years service 35. Years Equals 85 points ful pention at 55. Check for the rest of my life and if I die before wife she gets it. It’s a good deal in Canada, it amazing your union has not pushed for the same deal in USA. Plus company shares and purchased of my own stock picks. A guy can live pretty good. Plus will get cpp pention and old age pention at 65.

Name: Goober E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 July 2018 ame: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 July 2018 I read an article today that put some things into perspective. Today only 13% of American workers have a structured pension. Railroad workers are one group with a retirement. It's not that important to someone starting out. As the years then decades go by and you get that yearly statement from the RRB it's about hitting mile stones. The 120-240-then the big one 360. You're part of a small group these days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RRJim: Railroad retirement is no better than social security, and here is why! RRR is a two tiered program tier one (1) is the same as Social security. Tier two (2) is all paid by the employee and invested for you. Most folks have a 401k the same as your tier (2) however they do not fund it, and Social security back's that up. The defined benefit plan is what most companies have done away with. That my friend was all company with no employee contribution. RR mgt get's that today. I was lucky to have all three. Defined benefit, 401k, and Social security.

Name: Just womdering E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 July 2018 At cp when they promoted a tm etc. Company gave white shirt and tye and a big tube of hair gel. They wanted them to look professional. Even if they where wet behind the ears. Are they doing this at CSX also.

Name: YM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 July 2018 Don't kid yourself. Your only half right. There is a lot of stupid stuff posted on this site. I know for a fact that there were a few TMs and an RF called to the conference room because their names were plastered all over here with constant complaints and details of things they were doing. The facts posted were just too clear and descriptions of the yards and incidents were undeniable. So yeah, go ahead and post some serious info. Insider trading, security clearance info, names and dates and clear info on the company business. Use your name. See how fast you get a warning. CSX hates bad publicity in any form.

Name: Waycross E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 30+ years Posted: 26 July 2018 We fired our guns and the brtish kept a cumming....they aint as many as they was awhile ago

Name: Triggered E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 July 2018 Customer, do you have issues personally trying to decide which bathroom to use. Life is full of tough choices huh. It's ok your in a safe space.

Name: Don' t kid yourselves E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 July 2018 If a government agency ever visits this site I can promise you it is only for a laugh.

Name: Customer E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 25 July 2018 Triggered Your point? Not fooled -well said and factual. Words have power. Grape ape- wish you could deliver our tanks as quick as you deliver your wisdom. Carmen- thankyou for keeping our equipment up and running. You play an important role in the movement of our cars. Railmen- Thank you for doing the best you can in such an upside down business. We understand you don't have control over the delivery issues. We appreciate all you do for our industry. We know many of you and I'm sure there are other industries that would appreciate your hard work and the effort you put out. If you need a career change Im sure many would be happy for you to come on board. Wouldn't hurt to ask. Good luck and be safe out there.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 July 2018 Was at the RR for 21 yrs. Faked an accident injury,eventually was awarded 1.7 million,full disability,and medicare.life is very good drawing that pension every month and having to never answer to that shithole place again. Oh and my health ? Jog every day and play golf in the evenings. Hopes this gives some of you dumbasses an idea !!!

Name: Triggered E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 July 2018 Not fooled, its ok you can use whatever bathroom you want as well.

Name: not fooled E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 July 2018 Posters DR Kick... is a company mole. Your post for the last 2 weeks have been getting hit like crazy from servers in Jacksonville, Georgia and North Carolina. You are making someone in corp. very uneasy Don't let this mole distract you from the agenda which is discussing the issues that are disturbing as well as possibly illegal and a violation of county, state and federal laws. Put them out on the table. Management cucks was right on when he stated that Foote will say he knew nothing about what is going on. Those of you who are new and weren't around when the union members actually stood their ground and the unions actually stood behind them should know that's exactly what MICHAEL WARD did when the stink hit the fan over the organizing bumper stickers. They said...The railroads use us and then abuse us... Managers went crazy and crossed the lines of the union members organizing rights and went as far as to threaten to have cars towed or banned from being parked on the property if they had the stickers on them. It took a few members with connections in D.C to get the die hard attention it needed to what was happening and eventually Ward called off the henchmen and claimed he knew nothing about it. Unless you send registered letters to Foote's residence or office that he has to sign for he can always say he never heard a thing or was never notified that anything illegal was happening. This site is a perfect place to have healthy and productive discussions on the situations at hand. It is viewed on a daily basis by numerous agencies involved with the railroads. However, it doesn't help to get vulgar, nasty, low class and ignorant when posting. It takes away from your credibility. Its hard posting without some anger coming out. We all know what it is like out here. Our life style is stressing. Our health is under attack and our Union rights are violated constantly. Don't let them drag you down to the point that you are physically and mentally ill! Posting is a healthy release. Just make it worth your time. Use this site wisely!

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 July 2018 Dr kick your ass?? + corporate office!? Funny stuff..Thats all you candy ass queer baits know how to do is suck and jerk each other off with your baby soft hands that don't know what it is to do real work. Don't worry you can use any bathroom you want. You are the entertainment.

Name: Retirement E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 July 2018 Retired last year. Best thing ever happened to me I started paying in rr pention at age twenty. Retired now with money in the bank. A lot of friends I have will work till they get old age pention from goverment. But then it is poverty to try and survive on it. With my rr pention and my divedens I get from stock I bought life is good. Another smart thing try and have everything paid for by the time you retire. Pention plan is what kept most people stick it out on the rr. The group that is really going to suffer for not saving for retirement is women. One piece of advice to young people, start putting some money away for your retirement and with rr pention you will do ok.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 July 2018 I read an article today that put some things into perspective. Today only 13% of American workers have a structured pension. Railroad workers are one group with a retirement. It's not that important to someone starting out. As the years then decades go by and you get that yearly statement from the RRB it's about hitting mile stones. The 120-240-then the big one 360. You're part of a small group these days.

Name: To dr. Kickass E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 July 2018 From reading your post we can tell you have fetal alcohol syndrome. You should stop mixing the booze with the kool aid!!!

Name: Carknoker E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 25 July 2018 Fuck the company...they lied to me...just like a fan stand behind them they suck...stand in front of them they blow...stand beside them they do nothingi

Name: UNION YES E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 July 2018 AMERICA WORKS BEST WHEN WE VOTE UNION YES

Name: dr kick your ass E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 25 July 2018 AFTER 18 YEARS OF STUPIDITY, THE IDIOTS ARE STILL ON HERE RANTING ABOUT THE SAME MINDLESS BULLSHIT. MOMMY MOMMY I SHIT MY PANTS AND NOBODY WILL WIPE MY ASS. BOO HOO. GO GRAB YOURSELF A JOINT AND SMOKE YOUR BRAINS OUT BEFORE YOU JUMP ON THAT ENGINE/TRAIN/CRANE/TRUCK..... HOTROD, AND MAKE BELIEVE YOUR SOMEONE IMPORTANT. DIP SHIT. WE"RE GOING TO FIRE YOU ANYWAY. AND HIRE ANOTHER MINDLESS DIP SHIT. AT LEAST YOUR CHEAP, EVEN IT YOU ARE STUPID. AND DONT FORGET TO JOIN THE UNION. THEY'LL HELP YOU SUCKLE MOMMY'S TITTY WHEN YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS. UNIONS ARE HARD CORE PUSSY. YOU BELONG TOGETHER. STICKIN IT OT THE MAN. YUP. ONLY, YOUR THE "MAN", DIP SHIT. . STILL DONT GET IT, DO YOU. OPEN WIDE. ALL THOSE HIGHLY PAID UNION WANKERS HAVE A LOT OF DICK TTHEY NEED SUCKING, AND THEY NEED A LOT OF MOUTHS TO FILL. LIKE.....YOURS. MMM. SLURP SLURP. SO, SMOKE UP ANOTHER JOINT DOOFUS. DRINK SOME OF THAT UNINE PROOF SHIT. ATTA BOY. COVER IT UP. NOBODY WILL NOTICE. IDIOTS. SAFETY FIRST. OH, HELL, FUCK IT. BREAK ALL THE RULES. THE UNION WILL SAVE YOU!! IDIOTS.

Name: Engine 1 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 July 2018 Thats what the word is here in rocky mt..

Name: Fat back E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Fuck all Trainmasters. Rot in HELL you worthless bastards.

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 24 July 2018 Dont work on company time... Dont shit on your own time....

Name: todd novack E-mail: todd novack.com Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 todd novack just made the local paper in medina ohio . got caught in the rest stop on i 271 for luied acts in the boy bathroom . just sucking a little dick ???? its ok he did not swallow

Name: Manager CUCKS E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 These manager CUCKS where put in these position because they are all just yes men. Seen it with Hh they are all competing for attention kisses and hugs from Foote. They got rid of a lot of managers that new there job but where considered dinosaurs. Foote wants fresh meat not much seniority with the company. Nothing invested in pention s etc. So really these new managers don’t have much to loose, they have no friends on the railroad. So it puts them in a position to walk over anyone they can, and push footes agenda to the limit. Breaking collective agreements breaking federal laws and intimidating people to rush rush and risk injury to themselfs and others. So they are getting lots of praise from head office for doing this. Now when an employee goes along with there instructions to break the rules, you are going to go down the drain with them. And Foote and friends are going to, say they new nothing of these practices and he is shocked. These stupid managers are going to be the fall guys if something terrible happens and they know it. But in there minds they are on footes good side and will be promoted. When Foote is done with these morons he with distance himself from them like they have the plague. Don’t be stupid and go down with them. The only thing in it for ass kisser employees is trouble.

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 Now that is pathedic..

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 What do you mean you don't have to stay on 8 hrs anymore? Are you telling me quits are back? If quits are back I will go hard everyday and be a star employee! I promise! If they give that incentive back I will love this place again! Are quits back? Please respond

Name: Paperwork E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Of course you stand your ground with hazmat paperwork. It's federal law and it's dangerous and stupid to not know what it is. Some of you guys talk like you might or might have gone without it before! No way! I'm not a company man, but I'm also not going to let someone do that on tracks that I share with you every day. I'll tell you about it, and everyone else should. Engineers need to educate as well. You're just as guilty if your conductor is that guy. Make sure you have it. Fuck the trainmaster! He can't make you break federal law, and if he does try to, don't worry, you'll get all your back pay when they toss him out and call you back. It's not an option. Don't leave without it.

Name: Engine 1 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Thank the lord are locals and yard jobs don't have to stay 8 hours on duty anymore !! I will be returning back to mine next week!maybe things are turning around...

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 Just follow the rules and you wont have no problem.

Name: Cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Weed weasle alert. Just got word that tm's are on rampage up north and around garrett. Pulling people out of service and writing them up for stupid petty shit. Been pulling hoggers in and threatening them for not running straight up 60 on trains allowed the speed. Got news for ass holes. Fra law gives the hogger right to run his train at a speed he feels is safe for the handling. Just notify dispatch you may be running under some. When in doubt about the speed on your train corner the TM then notify the chief if you think there is doubt. Let them know the TM told you the track speed to run. Guessing they are in need of failures. Laid off too much after HH too over. Time to up the numbers. Watch your backs!

Name: Parking E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 When Hh came to cprail they came out with rule you can’t back up company vehicle unless you had someone behind the vehicle to guide you. Then they wanted us to back in company vehicles. Well if we did not have guide we did not do it. Management said well you can see to back up in marked parking stall. Most of us refused because it was against company policy. Then you have your followers did it anyways. Just one of the companies games to mess with you. I would stand my ground in regards to paper work for hazmat cars when you took your training you signed off that you New the rules and would follow them. I would rather get sent home than be paraded around a courtroom in shame for not following the law. Choice is yours.

Name: Brothers United E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 July 2018 Brothers lets all stand together and as a symbol of our stregnth and unity, lets all pull straight into our parking spots. No more shall we back in. Its a chance to show the company that we are a force and that we are united. Brothers are you with me? Enough is enough!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 July 2018 Have to have documentation for alert, hazmat, etc., cars. Haz. cars are supposed to be marked with the proper placards - both outsides & both ends.

Name: MayIhaveAnother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Fmlaz be feelinz rite my brodas fortnite ans a slurpie kickin it lades back. My brodas get da rest tha stressers be killin yall. Yall sum hard up mofos to be doin it likes u be doinz it.

Name: Public safety E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 July 2018 When a company is dealing with these dangerous products and due diligence is not done it puts everyone at risk. Management that do not want to make sure employees have the proper paper work and tools to do there job should be fired on the spot. I don’t care if you are saving time to make the operating ratio look good for the share holders. If there is a disaster from poor safety practices of moving these products. Some one is going to pay the price, hopefully a long stay in max prison. You want to endanger the lives of people you will, suffer the full consequences of the law.

Name: SMH E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 July 2018 When will this company figure out that the lower level managers are the problem. Get rid of the Trainmaster’s. The Yardmaster’s can do the job. Trainmaster’s just keep termoil stirring. Useless waste of breath.

Name: Inspection E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 If you happen to know what’s in a tank car on your train in the yard. And you drive by a tank car. That has no placards on it. Get ahold of car department. They have placards that will tell what it is flammable etc. The car dept. is suppose to put any missing placards on that are missing when they inspect train. FYI

Name: Has material E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 As a carman we have to take special training to inspect and deal with tank cars. If you have ever noticed when a tank car is laying on its side they have the car I’d stenciled on the top of the tank car. In large numbers and letters. So car is easy to I’d. These trains go threw small towns that have volunteers for a fire department. If these people don’t know what’s in these cars. And some has haz mat cars ,if they are on fire and you put water on it. You just made a bomb. Or hazardous cloud that will fry you from inside out. That is why it is so true important to know what is in them. Just a matter of time that someone is going to find out the hard way.

Name: Paperwork E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 You can take an empty train out of protest. You can't do that with hazmats. You DO NOT move it without the correct information. It's your job to have it, it's also your job to stand up to these managers and be educated on what to tell them and why you must have it. You don't argue or get out of line with them, be a professional. That's what we are. Have some pride in your job and if you don't know, ask questions while you're going 11 mph up a hill. Grab a book, read some bulletins. It's not fun to read that shit, but you look just as dumb as the 1 yr conductor that became a trainmaster that's telling you what to do. We know more than the management in most cases, let's keep that up and put them in their place. Be the professional rairoader that you tell your friends that you are. Talk it over with your engineer. They all know what's up because they did your job. People just give in and let managers push them around. Don't do that. It's still your lungs that can get burnt out and it's still possibly your friends or family that could be affected if they evacuate the county or something. We are the link between the emergency responders and our kids and friends. If we don't have our shit, people could die while they figure out which chemical is leaking out of whatever car. Get your shit. Don't leave without it. Don't move it without it. If your engineer doesn't know that, be a professional and tell them why.

Name: Paperwork E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 No,don't clear the yard. Don't leave the yard. It's your fault once you depart with it. You tell the trainmaster that it's federal law for you to have proper paperwork and you can't depart without it. You tell the dispatcher you can't depart without it. You tell him you can't make a pickup in line of road without it, and you don't pull it on the main until you have it. Just because a manager tries to intimidate you or threatens you doesn't change the laws. You can't even switch out a hazmat to leave it there if it requires you to temporarily pull it on the main because you don't have authority to handle it on main tracks without waybills and without it being on your paperwork. What do you tell the fire department and hazmat team if you pick a switch and derail, do you tell them it's not a poisonous gas because you were just switching it out??? Fuck no. Don't handle it and don't move it without your shit. Don't double your train and get your profile on the way out. You HAVE to know what it is, what to do, who to call, how to contain it before it moves under your train's power. We should all know this. The reason the managers are getting away with this is because conductors let them.

Name: Not your pidgeon csx E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 July 2018 You guys are 100% right but to add to it..Once you clear the yard put the bitch in emergency and tone dispatcher on emergency channel tell him you dont know what you got and shit just got real. Call every goverment agency you can think of. Like previous poster said, 911/police, news, swat, hazmat, radio station, hell order some pizzas this is gonna take a while. Basically just do your job people and get paid.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 July 2018 just do your damn job and get paid. Works for me.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 July 2018 Paperwork is right 100% Best thing to do is take it out of protest with either a witness or recording of some type and hit the counter, as soon as your E.O.T clears the yard limit stop the train and call FRA, News, Police, Ya Momma, Ya Daddy, Ya best Friend, etc. Oh and Ya better call Saul too. No chance the guy that forced you to take the train will ever set foot in a rail yard again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 July 2018 The managers in Louisville talk bad about each other to T/E crews all the time! Couldn't be any more unprofessional, none of them like each other.

Name: Paperwork E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 July 2018 Dummies, they can order you out without paperwork, but they can't make you leave without a proper train list and they can't make you leave without every bit of hazmat paperwork. That is your responsibility to make sure you have it before you depart. If you don't have paperwork for a pickup, yes, you do have to walk it, you do have to write down every car number and ensure you have all your waybills and info on all the hazmats. You don't leave without that. That is not the dispatchers decision. You tell him you don't have it, then he needs to give you radio waybills. No exceptions. Just because Jacksonville can't get paperwork doesn't mean you're off the hook. If there is a derailment and you don't have everything, you could go to jail. It is your job. If they can't get you a standing order and waybills, you walk it and bring them back a list and tell them to go from there and fix it. Leaving without waybills when you know you have hazmats is stupid and there are no excuses. When you tell the dispatcher what your next step is to get the information, they might suddenly know a number they can call to get you a profile. Never in a million years would I pull a hazmat onto a main line without it. Dump it on the ground and your ass is fired and probably sued, not to mention responsible for death, evacuations, injuries, emergency responders and whatever happens to them because you're too dumb to know what is in your train.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 July 2018 Louisville could be the best yard CSX has if some changes were made. Here we are doing the same things day after day without any change and it hasn't worked and never will. Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! We need a superintendent that is willing to try new things to see if it improves anything. If everything was running smooth then leave it be but the way it is now needs change.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 July 2018 May I First of all, nobody thinks you're funny. Second, the fake black talk that you started was only because people pointed out that the company could identify your posts when you got taken out of service for fucking off instead of working like the rest of us. All of a sudden you started talking like a skinny white kid that thinks he's a gangster. You were dumb enough to say what day they took you out of service and when your investigation was, and then you started that. Real railroaders don't want you here, so when they do call you on your stupidity and fire you, trust me, it's documented, some people will be happy about it. Just disappear again like you did when they actually made you go to work.

Name: Pidgeons in flight E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Coo rooc'too coo....coo rooc too coo...look at me im a stool pidgeon, i take trains with no papers...coo rooc'too coo.

Name: Solid advice E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 July 2018 Cond. You shit catchin stool pideon- Yeah, tell em to go f themselves next time. Bahaha Only the best advice and ideas are found on csx sucks.

Name: Cont. conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 July 2018 That is some scarey shit to be foul three cars and getting wrong information. I’m glad I stayed in mechanical and worked at different railroad. CSX is just an accident waiting to happen. With this rush rush regime. Hh style!!!

Name: ringmaster E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 July 2018 MAYIHAVE You a funny man! Seriously! Boys and girls step right up to the big top. Best Circus in town. Yes boys and girls! Have we got a game for you! Guess how many railcars are laying all over town and whats in them and you can win this 6'2" blow up conductor who not only takes stupid orders but he can also catch all the shit you want when it rolls down hill! Yes, boys and girls you cant get a better prize anywhere. You own live stool pigeon!

Name: MayIhaveAnother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Yo i be layen off fmlaz dis job be whack. You gots to be hard up mofo to be stayin out hear. I be triggered ery days outs hear.

Name: cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Rules I take the train when I am ordered by the TM or the Chief but not without protest. I make sure I get name and initials and on the radio or speaker phone or have another witness besides my crew members hear it. If shit goes south then I tell them who and when I was ordered out on the railroad transporting USDOT commerce and goods without any documentation of what I have. WE derail all over hells half acre and emergency personnel show up and ask what I have its going to be interesting when I tell them I don't have a damn clue. Go check out all the cars yourself. I had to pick up a full track in route and no paperwork was left in the cars. Told the dispatch engineer needed info for the pickup to add it to the TO and the PTC. He came back 10 minutes later and said he had some numbers for us. Gave us the info and we left. Come to find out there were several cars in there that were not in their info right and we didnt fit in the siding they wanted us to take. Hung out by 3 cars. Dispatch say....you couldn't tell when you picked them up how long the cut was. I told him next time we will take an extra hour and walk every car and check the length of each one stenciled on the side and add some footage for slack and then add an extra 200 feet to make sure we are right then we'll get back on the move. END OF CONVERSATION!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 July 2018 If it is federal law and the company knows this and crews. Why would any one take the risk of moving without proper paper work. I’m in mechanical and tm is alway putting pressure on us to send a fax of test and inspect information sap. Are what if a train gets out of the yard with a dimentional load , lots of damage etc. This sounds like a very unsafe practice to be hearing how often it happens. Sooner or later something is going to happen, how would you defend yourself in this case?murpheys law.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Lae Tell the fra,you don't have your paperwork when they board you and you have dangerous alert cars. Engineer will be provided a legible tonnage graph for a reason. Now that they have PTC and TO paperwork is a must and needs to be checked for accuracies. Waiting for proper paperwork is written in your rules for a reason. Clearnce bureau messages are there for a reason. Take an overpass out without it. Explain why you didn't see a stop train order. Cars have different weight restrictions on different subdivisions. Put an overweight on the ground where it doesn't belong and see how fast they ask you why did you have there. Don't be a fool.

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Yep, I wouldnt leave without it. I would also make plenty of effort to get it before I sat around 10 hours. Im starting to understand why the railroad has so many rules they can fire people at will.

Name: Laws E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 July 2018 Is it not federal law to have all the paper work for your train. And the proper paper work for dangerous commodities. If train crews can’t get proper paper work. Are EMS people going to have to spend valuable time getting paper work in the event of an accident?

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Stand your ground to get a work order? Thats not some huge act of bravery..Its the basic meat and potatoes of the job. Saying your gonna sit there for 10 hours, really? Yeah, sometimes all you can do is laugh.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Hey green grapes Yeah, balls you probably ain't got cause you would know how tough it is to stand your ground and tell them to do their job if you've done it.Alot of balls to put a target on your back! All you got is laughs!

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 That took balls? Ha!

Name: Ha E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 You have my respect HA conductor, if everyone had some balls and stood there ground. The company would have no choice but to do there due diligence, it’s not the employees fault out in the field that they cut office staff, and want everyone else to bend the rules to cover there short falls. Get on board with this guy people, make management accountable. I never put my job at risk to cover for lazy bastards.

Name: HA! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 July 2018 LOCO I got one for you! How about waiting around for a damn work order that Jacksonville cant pull out of their arss. Rules say all we got to do is inform the yardmaster that we don't have proper documents and he is supposed to tell the TM. HA! HA! try following that rule all the time. It doesn't say we have to make a dozen phone calls to the chief who will just tell you he sent them an email. It doesn't say we have to find car numbers for them to chase the train. Most do it because they know they will be sitting around for god knows how long waiting. I finally quit doing it. I make the ym aware and its up to him to do his job. If Im at an away from home terminal in a hotel I call the work order department and put a request in. If they blow me the usual bull that they have no orders for it, I call the chief. 1 TIME. I relay the message to the work order department of what he said then sit back and wait. I don't let them bully me into taking a train without a work order and use the Chiefs time and initials because their sick of you calling them! I'll sit there 10 hours if I got to and listen to my engineer cry like a bitch because I wont say screw it and just run without it. Its people like that who wont hold the company accountable for their jobs that have created the monsters out here. BABY and CODDLE the poor misfits because I want to get home. Their biggest excuse is their afraid the TM will come down to the crew room and want to know why they aren't out on their train. You Tell them your waiting on a work order and you have done your job. The YM knows about it. Let him blow up and stomp around. Suggest he start making some calls or someone is going to get charged with delay of train and it aint you! You followed the rules!

Name: WHY E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 23 July 2018 Sounds like a debate here about rules. One guy says there are too many and one guy says it just right. We are talking about a company that has a rule requiring it to be a 2 man operation to operate a locomotive seat! We have way too many rules! We have to walk 25+ feet around a car but we can adjust a drawbar or change a knuckle! We have to hear the engineer say he is down to 4 mph to get on equipment even if it is .5 mph (who can't tell the difference) It was actually a rule to have to be outside of the cab while moving on an RCO job!

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 If I wanted to I already would have, if your not smart enough to figure them out for yourself that is a personal problem.

Name: HOW WE WORK AND WHY E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Louisville could be the busiest terminal in the system with a few minor changes. 1- Open hump back up and get a minimum of 1500 cars a day (was doing close to that in 6 hour shifts and taking 45 minute lunch breaks) 2-Flat switch in the N yard and L yard. (Another 300 per day in each of those) 3-Build full trains in the C yard so there are less doubles before departures and no need to shove out before leaving to go anywhere. (Texas trains get built in C2 and C3) 4-Yard inbounds in the A Yard. (common sense) 5-Build out bounds in certain A yard tracks if and only if the C-yard fills up. With this we could handle a 2500 cars a day easily. If we hit capacity there we have another option: Pull certain inbounds straight across GE lead and use a crew to switch cars out behind Ford. When another train comes over there to drop more off they bring back the switched out cut. All I'm saying is we have a lot of resources not being used, there are a lot of miles of track in Louisville that are not being used at all. Louisville has a lot of quality employees but our process is all wrong we can easily change and be able to handle triple the cars we do now.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 July 2018 grape ape NAME THEM! You seem to know them. Give us a list. Maybe we can start a petition to have them reviewed in order to speed up production without worrying about breaking a rule. You start the list. If we can think of any you missed we'll add them. The CSX lawyers and public safety directors and the FRA read this site every single day. So post the rules.

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 I beleive it is the culture of rush, rush, rush coupled with chicken shit "Barney Fife" managers armed with more bogus rules than you can shake a stick at that really make an already dangerous work environment, unsafe. Following the rules to the letter absolutely slows things down. There are alot of them. Good luck to all.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 July 2018 Grape ape Name the rules that slows things down. The only rules they have out here that they intimidate us to violate are air brake rules and handbrake rules. The number one rules that you can whistle blow to the FRA and demand a response. We know they want you to cheat on inspections and proper air test procedures but thats about it. You can get off moving equipment now. You don't have to do safety stops for couplings. It takes 5 seconds to ask for protection. Your not asked to crawl like an idiot, just watch where your walking. So give us all a list of everything you have had to do that you were forced to speed up and you should have done the job slower. Yeah, they want to rush you out of the building before you get all your paperwork or have a descent job briefing but if you tell them you don't have it or your haven't done a job briefing most the time they will back down and tell you just get it done. You follow the rules what will they get you on. Cover your ass. Use the stinking radio to cover your moves. If people are around make sure someone else hears you. You recognize the voice of someone else out there make a note of it. Hell, just say hello to them on the radio. Get another voice on tape. You can cover your ass without slowing down to a point they know your doing it on purpose. So sick of hearing if we did everything by the book the trains wouldn't move. BULLSHIT!

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Under Hh the rules got really stupid!! Damned if you do damned if you don’t, so the attitude I went with I followed the rules set out by this new regime. Here was the catch when I worked and followed there rules management would say never mind with that rule or procedures, it is taking to much time and you are delaying the train. So I got into the habit of recording it in my pocket book date time event. And followed there instructions. I found there was no sense in debating anything with management. Did my time then just went home. In the four years I worked under Hh I was pulled out of service three times. And my notes helped me get returned to work. Because all as I did was follow instructions. You have the arm chair managers that say you better go by the book or else then you have management that is scared of delays and insist you do it there way. It was confusing getting two different messages so I just did what I was directly told, and when they had an investigation said I followed instructions so I would not be sent home for insubordination again. I said on here before keep records for yourself, could make all difference on getting back to work.

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Just follow all the safety rules and you keep your job. Very simple huh. That's a good thought, the only problem with it is, you can't. If they want you, they got you. It doesn't matter how good you think you are at following all the rules. We should all know this by now. The catch 22 of it, if a person tries to really be a superstar with the rule book and really slow things down, they can single you out and rule book you. Who is gonna win?

Name: cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 July 2018 CSX You know what would solve all these problems? MORE CAMERAS! Put camera's everywhere. Put them so no one is out of sight except the bathroom. Then you can just stop your testing. Stop following us around all the time. Stop micro managing us. If someone gets hurt or tears up equipment its on film. No charges can be filed against anyone without a clear viewing of the incident. We break a rule then fired! Plain and simple. The only ones who would cry are rule breakers who know they aren't in the view of a camera when their doing it. We can stand on our heads and tie brakes if we want as long as we don't get hurt. You got it on film. Let us stand on the rail and release brakes from the ground. Let us be stupid and foul equipment without protection. WHO CARES! You got us on film and radio. Just leave us alone and let us work. You got us hook line and sinker if shit goes south. So just film my butt. I DONT CARE! If I screw up then its my own fault. Just leave us to work in peace!

Name: railroaded E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 July 2018 WAKE THE F*%^$K UP! What the hell is wrong with all of you. Brakes this way, brakes that way....BLAH...BLAH... The company hired DuPont to come in an do a safety assessment of the company and when they told them that they had too many rules and to quit micro managing the employees so much they told them TO TAKE A HIKE! I was there when it happened. END OF THAT DISCUSSION! They have always had a standing order to get failures and always will. This is a fact! It sends a message to the employees and they use the failures as examples in court and for the FRA that they are enforcing their safety rules and regulations. Every time someone gets a failure it shows an example of the employees refusing to follow the rules even though they are in writing and are preached out your arsses. The first thing they ask the judge who is handling an injury law suit is...."what are we supposed to do? Follow them around day and night like little children and not let them out of our sight?" FACT! BEEN THERE! You have rules written to follow. You have a rule that says when in doubt take the safest course of action. They also has a loop hole that covers their arsses if something goes wrong. If there is a contradiction in rules or any doubt of the application...CONTACT A SUPERVISOR! So you make what you think is a common sense decision and it back fires and you didn't contact a supervisor first. Guess where the shit is going to roll. IN YOUR LAP! Too many of you are arm chair lawyers. Too many of you think you are smarter than you are. Got news for you. YOU ARENT. We know some rules are stupid. We know some are written by idiots who never set one foot on the rocks and have done our job. IT DOESNT MATTER. Their lawyers are paid thousands to sit in their chairs and write rules and regulations to cover their arsses. NOT YOURS, So the bottom line is if you don't want to spend time on the street or lose the bread and butter that feeds your children then follow the damn rules. If you have doubts about any of them throw the decision in the supervisors arss. Arrogance and stupidity doesn't pay the bills. Try reading a few of the notices too. Most of you don't and your know it. Everyday I work with someone who quotes a rule and is so wrong its not even laughable. Your too lazy to read the operating rules books and keep up on the bulletins then be the one on the street. Your just making room for someone with less seniority to move up and they're going to love it while their talking behind your back about how stupid you were and how lucky they are! JESUS! Just follow the rules!

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 The emperor wears no clothes.

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Some of the safety rules are bullshit. Point blank. If you do not have enough common sense to know which ones they are, you do not have the real world experience or you just plain suck. The real danger is the culture of rush, rush, rush, coupled with clueless managers who have little experience performing the actual work themselves, enforcing the bullshit safety rules which were masterminded by people with absolutely no experience. Just too many God forsaken rules written by too many damn lawyers. They killed common sense. So good workers will continue to be fired while the lard ass who follows every dip shit rule will stay and get injured and create more bullshit rules. I see no end to the madness. Any good manager with balls and common sense to voice anything rational or against the grain has probably already been terminated.

Name: Displaced E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 July 2018 Anyone know the dist, sub-dist for Madisonville KY? Like for example Nashville is CG NA Rocky Mount N. Carolina is FL RM Richmond VA is FL RT Savannah GA is JX ST So on and so on

Name: To ape E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 July 2018 My last four years of my career was with Hh as ceo. It was insanity I could not believe what this man and regime did while he was in charge. Highest derailments and fatalities under his watch. He made people big money he was a run away train he was share holders hero. If you where an employee management down it was hell on earth. I could write a book on the shit that man pulled off. Foote is trying to repeat what Hh did. As long as shares go up expect more of the same and some. I truly know what you guys are going threw at CSX You are a number and these people will fire you for anything. Let the union argue for members. If you put up fight they will gun you down. The stress is unbelievable so try and take care of yourself and do it for your family. I hope it does not get worse there. I heard they have to open more yards maybe things will turn around for you employees. Hang in there stick together best way you can. Be safe.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 22 July 2018 Pre Harrison CSX was much safer. Now safety seems to be less of a priority. This place sucks anymore! I am scared to work most of the time. Even if you follow the rules 100% and everyone else does too you are still at risk. There have been more close calls at my terminal in the last year than in the previous 15 years. We don't go more than 2 weeks without a derailment now. Most are non human factor. Little things that use to be done were great, like greasing drawbars and switches, doesn't happen anymore. We need some kind of intervention out here. Maybe it could start with news crews showing up. I don't know.

Name: Risk E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 That’s the car design how else you going to perform task. I guess you have law suit if you get hurt. There is risk at everything we do on the rr. I don’t make the rules. In my 34 years I found fault with lots of things and brought to companies attention. Some issues where addressed others where not. The railway is a dangerous place, I lost my granda pa to the railroad. Crushed crew ran red board , he paid the price. What chance do you have if tank car blows up in the yard. Just because I followed the rules does not mean I agree with them. I’m sure I would get the looks if there was no food in the fridge for wife and kids. I retired with all my body parts lots worn out. Guy break the rules there whole career never get hurt. The next guy does the same thing and pays the price. Look out for yourself and mates. One mistake and could be all over. I think every rr knows that in the back of there mind.

Name: Bonnie Decaying E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 22 July 2018 If you operate brakes from the ground you can get ran over. If you operate brakes from the platform you can fall AND get ran over. I would rather just get ran over than fall AND get ran over.

Name: A non a mus E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 If it is so dangerous to operate hand brakes from the ground then why does CSX allow it on the cars that have no platform, or no vertical grab irons 24 inches above the platform?

Name: YOU KNOW WHO I AM BY NOW E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 I VALUE MY SAFETY MORE THAN MY JOB SO I WILL TAKE THE SAFEST COURSE OF ACTION ALWAYS NO MATTER HOW I AM TOLD TO DO IT AND NO MATTER WHAT RULE I HAVE TO BREAK. I AM GOING HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY TO SEE MY FAMILY. I AM NOT A YES MAN I DO WHAT IS BEST FOR ME. YOU ARE THE TYPE THAT IF IT WERE A CSX RULE TO CARRY A NINJA STAR TAPED TO YOUR FOREHEAD WHILE YOU WORK THEN YOU WOULD DO IT BECAUSE IT IS THE RULE. I USE COMMON SENSE AND LOOKOUT FOR MY OWN WELL BEING AND THOSE AROUND ME. MY CAPS LOCK IS STUCK RIGHT NOW SO DEAL WITH IT! ANY MANAGER THAT ENFORCES THESE BOGUS RULES ARE YES MEN AND THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU AT ALL THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFETY! THERE ARE MANAGERS THAT WOULD ENFORCE A RULE THAT SAID EVERY EMPLOYEE MUST HAVE 2 KETCHUP PACKETS ON THEM WHILE ON DUTY BECAUSE IT IS A RULE. ON THE OTHER HAND WE DO HAVE MANAGERS WITH COMMON SENSE THAT ARE NOT YES MEN AND THEY WILL LOOK THE OTHER WAY IF YOU ARE BEING SAFE WHILE BREAKING RULES AT THE SAME TIME, THEY ARE CALLED RATIONAL HUMAN BEING WITH COMMON SENSE!

Name: CHOO CHOO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 This guy can't be F*^cking serious! So by design they shouldn't go out the ends of the track because of the downward grade on both ends!!! How about by design they put in some freaking skates to prevent rollouts, that's what skates are for thats why when you disable them you have cars roll out. The skates are there to stop cars, that's why now that they are disabled we have a lot more rollouts. BY DESIGN! GTFOOH! So by design the track is built with a downward grade to keep cars in, so why waste millions on skates? Why do we have to plug a track before kicking cars in? By design the track should keep cars in!

Name: Handbreaks E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 Let me explain this Homer Simpson style, the man with GOLD makes the rules. Do the job the way you want. If it is against company policy and your busted , it’s an expensive mistake. Good luck my friend !

Name: OMFG E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 So telling a story of how someone has gotten hurt by tying or releasing a hand brake validates your claim that it is safer to tie or release from the platform? So if I tell a story about how someone has fallen off of the platform or ladder while tying or releasing brakes then it would validate my claim of how it is safer to do it from the ground right? Let me break this down for you Barney style... Operating brakes from the platform adds the risk of falling-Fact It removes the risk of getting run over-False (you can fall between the cut and still be run over) Operating from the ground completely removes the chance of falling off of the car-Fact (You can't fall off if you are not on) It's real simple which way adds risk and which removes risk? In case you missed it, Slips, trips and falls are the most common cause of workplace injury. If you can reduce this risk then you are safer period!

Name: Yard tracks E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 Most rail yards are designed like a bowl the low point is in the middle of the track. There is a small downward grade from each end. That way if a car rolls it should not go out the ends of the track. Fyi

Name: Ym E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 Crews In the meantime let's continue to do bogus handbrake test on 12-14,000 Ton trains delivered to the yard. Carman can figure it out when they are bleeding the cars off and they start to roll. Jump up and tie a brake. Shouldnt move that fast anyway. A real good question is how could they charge an engineer for not doing a proper test because he didn't fully release the independent brake when doing the one minute test.Found it in a download after a double. Cars were set up on other cut anyway. Hope they brought that up at the investigation!

Name: Retired carman E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 July 2018 When we where given a track to test, we would put ten percent handbrakes on the headend. Apply the air machine with low air pressure and start tying the track we staffed from each end and worked towards each other. If one had a hand brake to take off we would call our mate to stand in the clear. While standing on brakemast and releasing the had break several times the track would move threw out tieng it up. Once we met we would go check if we had air threw the track. Then go to head end and cut the air into ninety pounds. As the track charged sometimes the hands breaks would not hold track and move and pull airmachine off and track would go into emergency. So we applied more handbreaks and apply the air again. We are trained to release handbreaks from being on the car not the ground. There where so many cameras they would catch you if you where seen doing it from the ground and your fired. You do your job the way you where trained, and if nothing ever happens to you great. There have been guys release handbreaks from the ground and the handbreaks chain hit them in the face and had to get medical attention. I’m sure have experienced the chain whipping on you.

Name: Slack E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 An old timer carman was taking hand brakes off a cut from the ground car moved they figure about a foot , when they found him the wheel got his leg. Car pushed him off balance and got him. He panicked when car moved. He was trying to re apply hand brake to stop movement. I guess it can’t happen you have the right attitude.

Name: LOL E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 Yeah you pretty much just got burned with the Slip, Trips, and Falls fact! I eagerly await your rebuttal. The more you argue that it is safer to climb on cars to tie or release brakes the dumber you sound.

Name: You're Welcome E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 The problem with your argument is that the stored energy you speak of is at compression so when releasing brakes it will expand the distance between the cars, not contract and squish you in. But for argument sake suppose the cars did bunch up on you, a fully bunched up cut of cars still has enough space for you to get in there and do work. Carman lace hoses on improperly stretched cuts everyday, it's uncomfortable but not hazardous. Anyone that actually works around railcars know that it is safer to release brakes from the ground. A cut of cars doesn't go from 0-60 in 4.2 seconds like you might think, so if you release the brake and it wiggles you would have around 13 minutes and 27 seconds to get out of the way. Final though to hopefully shut you up. What is the number one cause of workplace injury? We have all heard it a thousand times.......Slips, trips, and falls! Don't take my word, Google it!

Name: Stored energy E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GxTVgvHD9A Stored energy can get you

Name: Brakes E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 http://railsafetraining.com/seems-like-releasing-handbrake-ground-safer-climbing-ladder-really-need-climb-ladder/

Name: TIRED E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 HEY CSX 52 weeks in a year. If a person worked 7 days a week every week for the whole year and did 40 hours they would work 2080 hours. Guess what... I have already worked 1389 regular hours according to my pay stub. We all know that very few people work 7 days a week at 40 hours. I've already taken 2 weeks vacation time in the last 7 months and still racked up this many hours. Im taking some sick days every month for the rest of the year and if I hit 20 points I'll just take your arss whipping and drop those ten points off and figure out the game. You have slaved us enough. CoolMfer....Company mole.....TM....who ever you are ...go back into your dirt hole. No body walks on water including you!

Name: Nuttier E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 My friend retired four years ago from loco shop. He spends all his time driving across the country taking pictures of rail yards. Now that is an illness lol. Another retired guy takes passenger trains all over to buy lotto tickets from different places. !?!?!?

Name: Retired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 July 2018 I’ve been retired for over a year, and always check out this site maybe I should get my head examined lol not much has changed.

Name: Cool mfer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 July 2018 Cond. If you want to write a damn book go to a publishing co nobody wants to hear your long drawn out bullshit everyone knows how to tie a handbrake only time I get angry is when I work with dumbshits like you lol

Name: cond. E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 July 2018 coolmfer Just stick to tying your little engine brakes or just push that little button that puts them on for you. I understood everything they were saying and why. You can put handbrakes on the side of an auto rack while standing on the ground because you are not fouling the equipment. On other cars You are supposed to stand in the sill step and reach around to tie the handbrake if you have a legal hand hold to support yourself or stand on the platform on the rear and apply it. I had an intermodal car last week that was screwy as hell. The container was pushed all the way to the back of the platform so you couldn't get up on it. The hand hold was only about 6 inches above the floor. Has to be at least 12 so I had no choice but to stand on the ground and tie it. If there had been a TM around and saw me you can bet your ass he would have got up into me for it until I showed him the common sense reason that I did it. This company has changed the rules around so many times over the years that no one really knows what the hell will get them written up or not. When your tying a handbrake there's a pretty good chance that the slack has already settled and there wont be any movement while your putting it on. Its rare. Where the problem comes in is when you are taking them off. Yeah, the slack could roll in on you when you release them but if there is air on the train and the engineer has the air set it isn't going to happen. Someone got hurt doing both some way or another so now we all have to climb up on cars that aren't necessary to do all the time. Everyone is arguing about the procedure because this stupid ass company has changed the rules around so many times and people have been written up for stupid bullshit petty stuff that their just afraid and just trying to discuss it out! Your comment didn't help a thing or add any educational advise to anyone. Sounds like you got an anger issue and maybe you should call the EAP counselor. God knows you cant give any good advise!

Name: YM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 July 2018 ozz fest We have a standing rule that you only tie 3 handbrakes in our receiving yard. Yeah, guys argue that 3 may not be enough to hold a cut but we also have a loop hole to use in our timetable that lets you consider the fact that you may be holding on too to many cars during the test because you will be cutting some off to swing over. Its a big gray area but you are right. They don't waste their time cutting the air in. A lot of times the angle cock is still open on the other end and the conductor would have to walk to the other end and close it which takes extra time. Its not a legal test in the sense that the one minute brake test isn't done by the written procedure but the other rules in place cover the crews arss. You should know the railroad has a loop hole for everything to push production. Safety isn't an issue. The other poster was right. The supervisors know its being done that way and some have threatened to write guys up for putting more than 3 handbrakes.

Name: Cool mfer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 July 2018 Idiot's you dumb fucks arguing about tying handbrakes fuck the rules up that are in place so guess what the company comes up with more and more stupid rules and to jack off that's only been on a conductor for less than one year you don't know fucking shit sounds like you couldn't run a train around a Christmas tree dickhead

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 July 2018 The company I work for if your caught standing on the ground putting handbrake on your fired. We have never heard of or used a brake stick. I guess every company uses there own rules on safety issues.

Name: Ozz fest E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Glad someone else knows what they are talking about, thank you.

Name: RIGHTON! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 OZZ FEST! You jumped on a safety issue from hell. we double cars over in our receiving yard all the time. when we add the cars to a cut of cars that have already had the handbrakes applied and tested with the 1 minute brake test all we do is just couple in. We release the air on our cars and test them for one minute while air is still set up on the other cars. They tell us all the time not to cut the air in. So now you just added god know how many tons to a cut of cars that you didn't release all the brakes on and see if the previous handbrakes will actually hold the new weight. Its a bullshit move and a bullshit test. The air should be released on all the cars and the whole cut retested. If the Carmen have already worked that cut they still leave 3 cars of air on them. They say its equivalent to having 3 handbrakes applied so they say you definitely don't cut the air in. I can turn my head away on that one as long as Im not around if the air bleeds off of them. But everyone knows what the hell is going on for sake of saving time and rushing. No way in hell they can throw you under the bus if the Carmen start bleeding off cars that were doubled over to and a bogus brake test was done and they start rolling out and hurt someone or run into anything. There are just too many crew, YM and supervisors who know its going on and has been for years. I would sign a petition for you!

Name: goingloco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 July 2018 RULES This is crazy crap. I just got off the employee gateway to check to see if there was anything new in the engineers read file for my division and the info is old as hell and outdated. I know they came out with a bulletin that stated we were to stop leaving the engines in 3 throttle when the weather was 15 or below then they came back out with a bulletin cancelling it. Its not in any reissue. The original bulletin is still in the read file so this is the last time Im visiting that site. I also heard a Columbus crew saying they got wrote up for that rule that said you had to have one engine on line with an empty unit train. I just read their timetable instructions and their division bulletins and its not in there. So what the hell do you do about that? Go tell the supervisor that bulletin/rule in no where to be found and therefore does not exist anymore? This crap out here is just one joke after another. Us newer engineers are barely staying sane on the extra boards because they are using the hell out of us. Now we got to worry about this stuff from managers. They need to be made sit down for a day and read every single page of the system bulletins and look at the changes in the wording compared to the rules book. There are a lot of language changes. Something you forgot to mention is the rule about not mounting or dismounting equipment (2101.1)being changed. The old rule in the book said you had to mount and dismount away from live tracks, main tracks, etc. The HQ system bulletin reissue was changed to say mount and dismount clear of switches, derails, bridge approaches, close clearances or any object that could cause a slip trip and fall. We just recently had a conductor charged with getting on his power on the main side. The TM called it the hot side or live side. The union rep got it thrown out but its still bull that a supervisor didn't know that the language was changed and it didn't matter if he got on next to a main that didn't have a thing running on it anyway! Doesn't matter anyway. That rule doesn't say you cant get on your equipment next to a main anymore. We got enough to worry about out here without this kind of distraction going on. Maybe it would be best if the supervisors would just stay in their offices and not come out unless something serious goes down. When HH took over they said he was getting rid of trivial crap in our rules and that was one of them. Why the hell don't the supervisors know this?

Name: Handbrake E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 July 2018 The question I was answering to, was who was responsible for the train after conductor ties it down and then carman take over the train. Answer once carman take track they are responsible for track. No one said anything about the track being switched out. If train dies at terminal it gets switch. If it is run threw but need test and inspect. Read what the question was. Your assume shit.

Name: OZZ FEST E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Better yet let's take a poll. Who thinks I'm right and who thinks this guy is right?

Name: OZZ FEST E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Correct me then, please explain it... I'll wait...

Name: Slow conductor E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 July 2018 Call people moron you know nothing about air brakes mechanical brakes. Or the rules for testing anything. I’m amazed you passed the aptitude test to hire on. O ya CSX desperate hire guys like you now. No wonder the hoggers have to babysit guys like you that claim been on the railway ten years. Hoggers should get bonus for babysitting you.

Name: engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Rules I remember exactly what you are talking about. It was the bulletin that came out explaining the HPTT= horsepower divided by tonnage and getting as close to 2.0. It also stated if you could maintain track speed you were to contact the dispatcher and let them decide what to do. It did disappear right after the new issue of the operating rules manual effective 2017. I haven't seen it in a bulletin for a long time. I think it disappeared before HH took over. Someone said they thought they got rid of it because the dispatchers were tired of the crews always toning them up and wanting permission to put more power on line. It not in any timetable I have to carry either. I haven't seen the bulletin on the one engine on line with empty unit trains either. Not in any of my timetables either and I carry several. It might be slipped in some elsewhere but it definitely has not been coming out in the HQ system bulletins like it used to. I haven't used just one engine on line for these trains for over a year. If it wont run track speed with one I put another on line. Havent seen anything instructing me to do other wise. Most of us thought maybe because we have TO now they don't care because its supposed to be so much better at saving fuel if we are using it.

Name: OZZ FEST E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Name: Handbrake Is this guy serious? So we tie brakes from platform so if a car is kicked in on us we don't get ran over, ok so I guess we lace air hoses from the brake platform too then? Also when do Carmen put cuts to switch out later on yard air? They don't, they bleed them off so they can be switched out. Common sense huh? Moron! If you're really that dumb you need to find another place to work.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Mark. 5401 categories are still in effect in the rules book however many items were changed or deleted. Try reading your bulletins and the rule book again. The previous statement is correct.

Name: Handbrake E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 July 2018 When standing on brakemast to put hand brake on you have proper footing and you hand is holding cross over grab iron. Then with your free hand you apply the hand brake. If cars are kicked from the other end you not going to get ran over. And also once you tie the train down then car department takes train they are responsible for it. The carman apply air to track for test, then brakes release while charging if it is going to roll it will roll while brakes releasing. And if it releases more the. The air machine hose it will just go into emergency then the carman should put more handbrakes on. Just common sense!!!

Name: mark E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Engineers. There are two more rules that were deleted that I'm sure many of you haven't noticed. The 5401 rule that governed the HTTP power rule and the instructions to get the power rating as close to 2.0 as possible that was first issued in 2012 was removed. The rule that stated all empty unit trains were to run with one unit on line is gone as well. Please read the system reissues and your timetable before taking anything about this post as true. After reading this post I reread all of the system bulletins and 5401 has never been deleted.

Name: OZZ FEST E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 I'm not a rocket scientist so I could be missing something here.... When adding cars to an existing cut it is required to retest existing handbrakes and if need be add a sufficient number of additional brakes to hold the cut, we all know this, nothing new here. When a train pulls in and ties down the engineer releases the brakes for a test. After a successful test the engines are cut off leaving the cut of cars with an emergency application. Another crew might add cars later and "test" the brakes, then another crew and another until the track is turned over to a carman to bleed the cars off. When the cars are bleed off is when the fun begins. All the cars added to the cut in emergency passed the brake test because the cut was in emergency. Now all the cars are bled off and it may hold or it may not, who knows, who cares? All I care to know is who takes the heat on it when it all goes south? Would it be the last crew to touch it? They have no way to truly test after adding cars unless the is no air on the cut. Thank you for your time and good day.

Name: OZZ FEST E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 July 2018 How is it safer to climb onto a car to tie or release a wheel type handbrake then do it from the ground? 1. I can fall off the car but I cant fall off the ground 2. Refer to reason #1 Thank you for your time and good day.

Name: LC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Rules Your post brought something to mind that just happened in April. In the last reissue of the HQ system bulletin the rule on the use of brake sticks was deleted. I had several calls from members who wanted to know if and when we would be using them again. I, of course told them we hadn't heard anything and it could have just been an error. Most laughed and said, ""yeah, good chance someone didn't proof read as usual!" I Bet you cant begin to even image the reaction people had when a bulletin was issued pointing out that it was omitted from the reissue and the rule remains in effect. What a shock it was to see that someone actually did catch that and fix it, otherwise members would have been picking up a brake stick if they could find it and use it. The point is, the operating rules department has had ample time to issue bulletins on the rules you mentioned if they were omitted by accident but they haven't. So it is pretty safe to say that those rules are definitely gone. If anyone is written up by a supervisor for violation of these rules then I can guarantee you the unions will bring it to the attention of those in upper management and request that a better system of continuing education be established for the supervisors in the field.

Name: rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 July 2018 BOXCAR No need to look for that rule. It is gone. I was told by a dispatcher that due to the advanced signal system we have now the need for fusees is becoming obsolete. They can protect most trains out here on the system. There are some railroads that don't even use them to protect road crossings anymore. Engineers. There are two more rules that were deleted that I'm sure many of you haven't noticed. The 5401 rule that governed the HTTP power rule and the instructions to get the power rating as close to 2.0 as possible that was first issued in 2012 was removed. The rule that stated all empty unit trains were to run with one unit on line is gone as well. I was told this happened when Hunter took over. He decided that running trains was more important than worrying about the amount of fuel that was being used. You are allowed 27 powered axles and dynamic rating on the units. Keeping track speed is more important than worrying about using a little more fuel. The rule that requires all empty and loaded coal cars to be throttled back at speeds above 40 is being submitted for review. If any supervisor tells you that he is going to write you up for violation of the two rules that have been deleted then you need to ask him to show you where the rule is in writing. When he cant find it he should be professional enough to admit that he made a mistake and drop the charge. The statement that a new hired employee who comes in and prints off his/her first set of system bulletins would not have any knowledge of any of the deleted rules is absolutely correct. The only way anyone new would know about them is if the "rumors" they existed at one time was being discussed. We do not run a railroad on rumors. If it is not in writing in the bulletins, timetables or the operating rules books then they are obsolete until further instructions are issued.

Name: Log book E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 July 2018 We had a log book in lunch room office etc. Any time a new rule or message came out it was pasted in this book. If rule was cancelled it was posted. When we came back from vacation etc. We where handed all the important bullies had to read them then sign a form that we read and understood bullitin.

Name: Boxcar E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 July 2018 Conductor You hit the nail on the head. Too many managers don't know shit anymore or just to lazy to learn. You talked about the changes in rules and bulletins and how they don't keep up. It happens every week. I got a hunt and find question for everyone. Remember the rule we used to have about encountering an unattended fuse by your track and having to run restricted speed for 15 minutes? It was in old operating rule book under rule #11. Not in the new one. In fact I can't find any rule on what to do when you encounter a fuse. Looked under protecting trains. Looked under flagging rules. Looked under hand signal rules. Can't find a thing about the procedure for what to do. Can anyone find it? right now....just don't give a shit and keep going.

Name: Leader ship E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 July 2018 I’ve been on this site for over a year and the conclusion I have come to, these managers could not organize a drunk in a liquor store. That is why you have to be extra careful. Been there know what your dealing with!!!

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 July 2018 Its like my Daddy...always told me..He would rather have a sister in a whore house than a brother in production..

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 July 2018 This place sucks now more than ever! Not only are people not returning from layoff status, quite a few people have started resigning! Its what happens when other companies start hiring who are willing to treat you better. I envy them and wish I could go as well, yet I have too much time invested for a pension. This place is really gonna get ugly as time goes on.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 July 2018 Ape What happens alot out here is these immature macho want to be tough morons who will do anything to defy a rule because they think it's stupid and they AIN'T gonna do it. Then they have this frame of mind now they're just going to do things their way and get someone hurt or damage something. A dog can be taught to sit, speak, shake, fetch but these retards just can't read a rule and follow it. At the same time we have rules written in a manner that makes the company look like illiterate morons and it creates an atmosphere of working for a company thats just one big joke. Now you have people who work by example. How can anyone take A job serious when they read rules that you just have to stand their shaking your head and laughing! A TM just wrote up a crew for a rule that was removed from the system bulletins after HH bit the dust. The rule book is clear as hell. You follow rules in the books or the bulletins. If they have been removed from the reissues or haven't been added to the new operating rules book then they are null and VOID! Doesn't matter if the rule once existed. If it isn't reissued it no longer exist. How the hell would a brand new employee who just got his first set of system bulletins know anything about a previous rule that was in existence if it was not in his bulletins. By the damn rumor mill? The rumor mill isn't listed in the rules book or in any bulletin or notice. This company is the worst for this crap. I hope the crew charges the TM for STUPIDITY and failure to keep up on the information in each HQ system bulletin as they are reissued. There may be a good reason they are removed. Maybe Foote has decided they weren't neceassary. No matter the reason the TM's need to keep educated and if they don't like the change they can challenge it. This kind of crap is getting old out here! It's dangerous out here for any employee who has to put a supervisor in his place especially when he has an ego. You now have a whipped puppy with a chip on his shoulder. Now someone is going to pay. We shouldn't have to be their teachers. Jacksonville is laying down on the job!

Name: To Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 July 2018 Lloyd you made my point for me, your mind and emotions are not on safety been there. I smartened up when I was two feet away from getting ran over by a hopper cars. What gets you is the last thing you, would ever thought would get you!!!! It’s really hard but try stay focused on safety. On your side.

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 July 2018 Operating rule 409.2- UNATTENDED EQUIPMENT MUST BE SECURED WITH SUFFICIENT TESTED HANDBRAKES......BUT NOT LESS THAN ONE! Let me think about this for a second. You say not less than one. If you have less than one then you would have none. Is there something I'm not getting here. If I don't put any then I haven't secured the equipment at all. But not less than one? We get the point but is this not a great example of.....Duh...duh....duh....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 July 2018 Radnor will be humping in two weeks. Louisville stands to lose 600 cars a day.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 July 2018 **You're a dumbass. I'll correct that for you. Important to follow the rules but do it for your own safety not the company. The only reason they put all these rules in place is to protect them from lawsuits anyway...they don't really care about anyone. How could they? Bad lineups, poorly built trains (10000 feet plus is just absurd), an unrealistic attendance policy, poor management, no morale, and about 100 other things that I don't feel like adding. People really dont mind the work but unless you're lucky enough to have a decent schedule the quality of life is unbearable. Guys just do it because they fear the loss of insurance or having to find something different with not many other skills. It's interesting the way the RR traps people. Eventually people do have limits though. Csx is playing with fire right now. Only a matter of time before someone snaps.

Name: Liars management E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 July 2018 I’ve seen so many managers go to there bosses for there weekly kick in the nuts. So when they lie for the company, they figure there in the special club. And get gratification from there bosses instead of there weekly kick in the nuts. But upper management knows these people are CUCKS, and can be used until they have no more value to the company. Easy come easy go.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 July 2018 http://www.startribune.com/hennepin-county-judge-fines-bnsf-4-6m-for-misconduct-during-injury-lawsuit/488536861/ BNSF cooks yard employees lungs and covers it up. So who is the CSX evidence hiders/losers? Don't the worthless bastards know that if the same happens to them the other worthless bastards will do the same to them.

Name: Humps opening E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 July 2018 Any one hear how Radnor is coming along or if more humps will be re opened in the near future?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 July 2018 Wonder if my patent for drop side rail cars with throttle jammers at blocked crossings will go through. The bucket,head harness, piece of string, ice water nap zappers wouldn't be much profit. https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/clarkstown/2018/07/18/no-way-out-neighbors-fear-csx-crossing-closure/783022002/ I think one of the problems by the mile marker numbers. 8/10ths of a mile (6/10ths for proper sight lines) train storage between Pineview and Bradley Parkway. Almost 2.5 miles (2.77 miles between crossings) train storage between Pineview and Kingshighway where the siding ends. So the greed ran railroads mile long trains going the one direction has the crossing blocked sitting at Bradley Parkway instead of stopping before Pineview until it is clear. Breaking the train apart at the crossing would require a whole bunch of walking on a mile long train. Big liability for the greed ran railroads bottom line Then there is the 250 feet clear of crossings (sight lines. Like 4 seconds for a 79 mph Amtrak) railroad rule. With signals drivers see the rain just sitting there and take off about the time the moving train is coming. So a rip out of the Pineview--Bradley Parkway part of the siding leaves over two miles of storage. Fixed 545075F NY CSX Public At Grade Open QR 0022.700 ROCKLAND ORANGEBURG ALBANY RIVER #N\A BRADLEY PKWY 545074Y NY CSX Private At Grade Open QR 0023.500 ROCKLAND ORANGEBURG ALBANY RIVER #N\A PINEVIEW RD 507064R NY CSX Public At Grade Open QR 0026.270 ROCKLAND WEST NYACK ALBANY RIVER #N\A KINGS HWY

Name: To the last post by conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 July 2018 I retired after 34 years on the rr. I have seen more fatalities after the fact still bothers me. And that conductor is a hundred percent right about following the safety rules and If you can’t follow them you should be fired. If you don’t care about your own safety your not going to care about anyone else’s safety. It is all fun until your pinned under a wheel screaming your head off and help is not there for awhile or free slack gets you between two cars and you crushehed by the couplers. I can go on and on about the horrors that can happen. I witness a priest give a man the last rights before they lifted equipment off him then he died. Do not stand for these people that ignore safety and the rules set out for your own protection. You save no time at all taking short cuts. Be safe all practice doing your job the way you are suppose to. If you see someone doing unsafe practice remind him of the proper way to do the job safely, your not being a rat you could be saving a life.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 July 2018 not much to get involved into all the BS but I do have a question for everyone.. With man power shortage, We could really take a stand. It might not be a huge stand but it will prove a point. its pretty simple. Stop crossing over sides to cover jobs you don't have too. Stop taking roster calls. Even if its just one half. I get people got bills and family to feed. I also get they trap people or catch them first out. we could bend these jokers over and prove our point.. Trains would sit, jobs wouldn't be filled. The conversation I had with crew management about this whole bump deal. Sounds like its made life harder on them.. At what point is enough a enough? bitch that our unions don't come to our rescue, Bitch that the company bends us over.. yet when ball comes in our court we sit back and do shit... We have a man power shortage created by these retards. they block personal days, and daily vacations. they force guys to certain assignments, make the bump system a bid system with no bid system perks.. And then we do them favors to bail them out and get trains moved, jobs filled... so of course they wont fix the problem.. Why would they?

Name: COND> E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 July 2018 BIGFLOPPY Your a dumb ass. There are a hell of a lot more conductors wrote up and pulled out of service than there are engineers who were speeding or lost temporary control. Just like the dumbass they kept catching that kept jumping off equipment going 10 mph because he was too stupid to follow the damn rules and tell the engineers he was getting off so they could get it down to 4 mph. Or the dumb ass that kept stepping in between equipment without asking for protection. How hard is it to use the damn radio and just do what the hell the rule says. Hope they don't get their jobs back. their dumb asses are the reason the TM's keep hanging out in the yard. So tired of hearing some of these retards stand in the crew room and talk big about how the rules are stupid and they aren't doing them. Fire the bastards. They just keep drawing attention to everyone else!

Name: Bigfloppydonkey E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 July 2018 Coverourasses Stop being a bitch. Conductors have been getting fired for years because the dumbass engineer couldn't get a hold of them in time and ran hot through a slow order or got past a red. So pipe your tired ass down cause whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

Name: Coverourasses E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 July 2018 Conductors You want to break rules every day of the week then go ahead but when you do you just might be with someone like me who has had enough of babysitting for you and covering your ass every single trip. You all know now that they tag team both crew members every time they get and when you do shit that they know us engineers have to know you doing it and we do along with it just to keep from having to fight with you assholes or refusing to do it and make the day a living hell you put our jobs on the line too. Your spoiled self centered ego maniacs who just cant follow rules and have to act like your big boy pants cant be pulled down. Well guess what boys, Im done with you. In fact several of us have talked about this and we all agree from now on your on your own. If the supervisors try to burn us for your shit we are throwing you under the bus. We will give you one warning to knock your shit off and we aren't getting burned for your stupid shit. We will fight a charge tooth and nail and charge you with intimidation and working in a hostile environment. The games are over. Your too damn immature to do as your told or just so damn arrogant you think you can do as you please and the hell with the rules. Just remember, you haven't got a clue which yards we are getting together on this. Go ahead and be a dick. Take your chances. You can pick your asses up from under the bus!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 July 2018 Railroad lingo is different in other regions. Between 1979-83 about 50-60 of us railroaders from Michigan & Ohio transferred to Virginia. We had the same problem. Give it time, we ended up going with what was used in Virginia. The transfers aren't wrong they're only doing what they were taught. Educate them.

Name: Slang E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 July 2018 I have worked with people that I thought maybe there parents where related!!!

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 July 2018 Hogger I hear ya. Had one a month ago. Just got here. Was riding a shove of 40 cars. Came on radio and said gear down. I asked him what did you say? He screams gear down. I said ...oh slow down. Ok. When we were done the arrogant ass got on the engine and accused me of trying to make him sound stupid. I told him I didn't have to he was doing fine enough on his own. . Told him we don't have gear shifts on our engines. We have a throttle. In fact next time try saying slow down of ease up. Had the balls to tell me to pay attention. Came close to just kicking is arss and taking a vacation. Stupid shits.

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 July 2018 NFT. Can you guess what that means? LOL! DIDN'T THINK SO! It means new f@&^*!king transfers! What the hell is wrong with following the HQ system bulletins. Where is all this slang crap coming from. Ask for protection when your going to foul. Don't ask me to middle when I stop. Don't ask me too take the bunch. It's called STRETCH! Don't ask me to back bunch or give me the pin. What the Fu..k is drag drop. We use English language in my yard. We use the terms put out by the company. Keep the hillbilly shit in the hills. Your in an educated yard now where we speak english. Learn it or go home! Try using stretch, slack, couple, protectiob, foul, shove, dismount and mounting.

Name: Rules E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 July 2018 Conductor You are 100% correct. Shoving rules 406.3-4-5-6-7 have all changed but 406.1 and 406.2 have not! 406.1 B- must not provide protection while occupying an automobile or similar motorized vehicle. If this happens again suggest to the supervisor he review his 406 operating rules. Unfortunately some of the new verbage is causing trouble and room for what is normally called a "gray" area. 406.3 once stated that you were supposed to stretch the cars to make sure they were coupled before shoving. It now states that you are to ensure all cars in a cut are coupled prior to shoving. The word "stretch" was removed. Rail Roading 101 teaches you that stretching is how that is accomplished. Common sense and safety come first. You have the right to ask for a good faith challenge. Use it if you must. If the supervisor can't handle the truth and developes a chip on his shoulder when you prove you are correct then he shouldn't be there. Don't hesitate to voice your opinion.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 July 2018 Hey csx Get your head out of your arsses. You call another ghost train that of course you lost track of them I got to sit 1 1/2 hrs. Waiting for work order because you couldn't trace it. I could have slept another 2 hours cause it took an hr. To show up anyway. JEEEZZZ! It's like a never ending nightmare out here that just keeps repeating itself! Oh...and you might teach your TM's how we protect shoves in the dark. It's not in their damn truck 2 main lines over. Next arss wipe who treatens me for walking a shove that had a bad rider and it was dark is going to get a report on your new safety page on the employee gateway. RETARDS!

Name: Quebec derailment 6 hours ago E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2018 https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/20-cars-derail-from-train-4-land-in-river-in-western-quebec-1.4016667

Name: To hogger E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 July 2018 Yes there are lots of CUCKS in the rr industry, I’m not preaching just telling you the facts of how we dealt with the Hh regime. Overall there is still solidarity in the industry, and they will fight back I hope the best way they can with the tools they have. There is just to much to lose to do nothing. And there will always be those weak CUCKS that ride the coat tails of the solid members and enjoy benefits, from there efforts. It’s the companies job to try and break down the member ship one at a time.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2018 Stick together......stand strong.....HA. Too many low-life selfish buttholes out here. The co. knows that too. Preach all you want.

Name: Union busting 101 E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 July 2018 Don’t fall for a manager saying an employee is willing to do others work. Managers like it when there is in fighting amongst union employees. It is a diversion of the issues of what management is really doing. Stick together and bury CSX in paper grievances and what ever else you have in the tool box, to make members whole again from bogus discipline and firings. Stand strong you will over come this corrupt regime.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 July 2018 CSX. SOMEONE NEEDS TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE HELL IS A UNIT TRAIN! No where In the bulletin does it say an empty or loaded pipe train is a unit train commodity. We keep getting different workorders for different directions running. One way says it's restricted to 50 and the other doesnt. Some TM say it is and some say it isnt. It's not a listed commodity. I'm running it 60 if my paperwork doesn't specify anything different. Conductors freak out and lose it. Tell them to read the new bulletin on unit trains. Someone needs to get this settled!

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 July 2018 Seems more than ever its darned if you do and darned if you dont.

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 July 2018 Seems more than ever....its darn if you do and darn if you dont anymore..

Name: Intimidated E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 July 2018 It might appear that people are crossing over to other crafts willingly. Well you said if they don’t they are sent home. They are under duress to do this forced or fired. Not willingly. It can be rectified threw the proper channels.

Name: Union meeting answers E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 July 2018 The shops that are craft crossing, if I was you guys attend your next union meeting and demand some answers on what is being done with all these, collective agreement violations. If you do nothing about this then the practice will continue by the company. We went threw this with Hh and won a majority of all our cases. The union reps. Came threw for us it took a bit of time. But the son of a bitch Hh paid up. The shares are slowing going up so CSX is going to keep doing more of the same at employees expense.

Name: Craft crossing E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 July 2018 At the least the union should be filing grievance for the laid off employees. If they are sitting at home and someone else is doing there job. Anyone that is filling these positions and guys are sitting at home for every hour of pay they are losing it should be recorded by union rep. It is violation of the collective agreement 100 percent winnable if goes to arbitration. We won our cases and the moneys where split between the laid off employees and who ever else was affected by this practice. The case is on file why is your union not addressing this. All this is a violation of the collective agreement they are flexing there muscles. They know they will have to pay if goes to arbitration. It’s been won before.

Name: ??? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 July 2018 DEKRA/CSX Ok, we're waiting for the results? Come on. Wonder how much influence you will have on the new availability policy or maybe you just washed your hands of this joke of an outfit like DuPont did!

Name: Trades doing others work E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 July 2018 If you are force to do other crafts work put in a grievance. Rr work under aar rules if your not trained for doing the work of others craft it is unsafe and a violation of the collective agreement. If you do not feel safe doing work your not trained for put in safety hazard report at once. If they get people to do this and someone gets hurt or worse killed , someone is going to jail. All these change the company wants to do has to be negotiated in the next contract. You will win these grievances if it goes to arbitration, your union should be filing grievances every time someone is doing other crafts work. All of affected people should be putting in grievance every time this happens. And safety hazard reports.

Name: To engine repair E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 July 2018 There are aar standards which is North American wide. If they are getting you to do work that you are not trained for it could spell trouble if something was not done to aar rules. If there was an accident or injury or worse fatality. The rr is in big trouble, and the supervisor could be criminally charged. Every time you are made to do work that you are not trained for. Do not hesitate to put a grievance in. For one thing it is against your collective agreement and you will win when it goes to arbitration. Everyone should be putting grievances in. We did at cprail and won most of them. That has to be negotiated in a new contract. Trust me it is a breach of your collective agreement some supervisor are pushing there wait around, but like I said if someone gets hurt and management knows that person was not trained for that job, someone will pay for it. You can even put in safety hazard report if you don’t feel safe doing a job your not trained for. All of you should be doing it every time your told to work outside your craft. Plain and simple it is not safe, leave a paper trail on all this. They forced over time on us and we won most grievances, guys that where fired where reinstated with full back pay. Your union should be telling you to do this.

Name: Been there E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 July 2018 Ape You answered your own question with the right answer. The crew charged could file ethics charges and bring this crap to their attention but then you risk getting called a rat and getting the other crew charged. Maybe get lucky and get their charge removed. The choices suck but if more people would say enough with the bullshit favortism it could put a stop to it. If you kiss arss you got a better chance of get away with murder!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 July 2018 I don’t know about cross training but In the locomotive shop we are forced to do all other crafts work,the company says do it now and grieve later or there’s the door!

Name: Certificates E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 July 2018 I retired last year from car department. My advice take all the training your rr company is offering. You would be surprised in other industries how hard it is to get a lot of the certificates that are provided by the rr companies. Like first aid, confined space training etc. Those certificates don’t seem to mean much, but when you apply for a job outside the rr it could make the difference of getting the job or not. A lot of the training we get at rr we take for granted. They seem trivial to us, but are valuable out side of the rr industry. Look at the bright side the rr is paying you to take these courses, they offered defensive driving course I took it and then got a reduction on my auto insurance. It is a win win to take all the courses you can.

Name: Skilled E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 July 2018 When I took my training to be carman to be journey man took 1044 days. Plus all my welding plates had to pass. Crane training, track mobile training 1A drivers license, i was paid to get all this training. And certified in many fields, if I would of had to pay for all that training out of pocket would of been thousands of dollars. When your fully trained and get pulled out of service and go else ware they hate it. Because the new guy is just a shadow for years, you can’t have the green guy do anything on his own till he is certified. By the time you have worked at the rr for years , most people are certified, they are coo coo, lol

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 July 2018 That cross training rumour is bs. This regime most likely won’t be around in 2020. Don’t listen to rr rumours. That one is old heard it for many years, if they want to train me to do other crafts cool I will sign up and then take my new skills else ware after they spend all that money to train me. Would look good on a job application to be multi skilled.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 July 2018 How can one crew get charged for something and a week or two later another crew does the exact same thing and nothing happens? I guess it all depends on who you are.

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2018 Anybody heard of 2020 being the year for cross training of all maint crafts ?

Name: Management E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 July 2018 The company puts cameras everywhere. If I was a manager and breaking the rules you don’t know if your being recorded by an employee or goverment agent. So if your a manager and stupid enough to take one for the team. Foote and friends you will have to deal with the consequences if you break federal law. And you are recorded doing it. I tell people in this day and age as soon as you leave your home, smile your on some form of recording device. And this is the world we live in now. So I would say to managers your are not ammune to prosecution and losing your job.

Name: legal E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 July 2018 Recording If you are in a situation where you are aware that a federal law is being broken and the only way secure proof of the incident is by recording the event then there are circumstances that allow the party to be recorded. The other party would cease the activity if they knew they were being recorded. That is why local authorities are allowed to use undercover recording devices in all states when proof of a felony is being committed. The question is whether or not the offense that supervisors are committing is one of unethical behavior or one of committing a federal offense by order or actually taking part in breaking an FRA code of law. It doesn't really matter once the cat is out of the bag. Turning in an anonymous recording or picture to authorities exposes the guilty party.

Name: Recording E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 July 2018 California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington are 2 party consent states. In the remaining states, you may personally record audio without the permission or knowledge of anyone else.

Name: Recording E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 July 2018 After reading the post about cameras and recording someone. In some states I think it is a felony to tape someone without there knowledge. I would be checking that out before doing it. FYI

Name: packing E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 July 2018 Proof You are absolutely right. There are already a lot of guys who carry a camera and a tape recorder too. They have for years, but after HH took over and everyone figured out what kind of wack job he was and how his devoted followers were brainwashed a lot more started doing it. Doesn't matter if you use either one if it protects you from something serious as hell that the FRA could find you thousands of dollars or someone could take you to civil court outside of the company. The union doesn't protect us from civil lawsuits especially if the company tries to wash their hands of us and put all the blame on the crew. Its real sad we have to work for a company that makes their workers feel like stepping stones and nothing but a replaceable warm body. No one wants to feel like a pansy that the company keeps around to use as a fall guy when their own mess up!

Name: PROOF E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 July 2018 CYA Take pictures every chance you get. Screw your no camera rule. The UP railroad as well as other allow the use of stand alone cameras. Don't use the one on your phone. Just go buy a disposable and carry it with you. It is a csx rule that you cant use a camera. It is not an FRA law. They just don't want anyone having proof. If something serious goes down because of management overriding safety issues you brought to their attention the last thing you need to worry about is pulling out a picture to blow them out of the water at an investigation! If they got the balls to charge you for using a camera and documenting their crap then they have to admit fault and they better be throwing the book at the supervisor who broke the rules/laws. If they want to retaliate let them. You just make sure the FRA has a copy of the picture! Look like real idiots in the public for going after someone who took pictures of deliberate violations because it was the only way to cover your butt and you were afraid of them! Especially when other class 1 railroads allow the use. They don't call them Chicken Shit Express for nothing!

Name: To help E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 July 2018 When we inspected a train, we would write all information in our handbooks. When we completed the inspection the supervisor would ask did you have any bad orders, and we would tell him how many bad orders we had and that would have to be set off the train. We would complete our paper work and enter everything into the computer, we would enter in the computer the bad orders and what they where bad for. And an hour later we would see the train leave without any cars set off. In cases the tm would call the traffic supervision and he would go into the computer and remove the bad orders from the system. But now been over ranked by supervisor it is all his responsibility now if something happens with that train. That is why I cannot state enough to write everything down in your personal handbook. Because if something should happen the first thing they will do is try and blame the union employee. You have management that are willing to take the risk to make everyone happy. But it is there ass if something really goes wrong. These type of people get the hero award from there bosses, if when things go wrong upper management plays stupid and always will say they never New this practice existed. I recorded every donejob I did and have a record of it all with dates. That’s how I have saved my ass when accused of missing something.a manager can go into the computer and change the information after you entered it. But there is a foot print on what he has done. But management will still try and cover it up. But if you have personal records of what you entered it would help in the event of an investigation.

Name: Folder walmart E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 July 2018 Walmart buy an according folder it will fit in your grip. And if you get into the practice of doing what the lawyer guy said. You have something to fall back on. When that folder is full just replace it. If all you train personal did this , you would have protection and management would be would taking chances. They are very cheap at any store. Protect yourself and your future.

Name: WTF!!! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 July 2018 Hey tech! The big question here is how in the hell did they get all of this work done in 12 hours!

Name: Legal E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 July 2018 X-rep is right You are right in your advice except your idea of just keeping a time book. That will not hold up in a court of law. Your entries are just personal information that you have written down. What all employees need to print out and keep is a copy of their time tickets. It is a known fact that your employee history can disappear and is only available for you to view for a limited amount of years. All time tickets are records that are provided to you by the company and have information that the FRA has a right to review at any time. I can not say it loud enough to all the employees. KEEP A COPY OF YOUR TIME TICKETS. If you do not know how to print them ask a co worker to help you. It will not take more than 5 minutes for a co worker to show you how. I have seen numerous time tickets used to settle law suits because they contain proof of the activity of your job and other valuable information. Your time books are worthless written hearsay. They may contain information that will help your attorney start his investigation, but the time tickets are more accurate and considered documented proof submitted by the company.

Name: X rep is right E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 July 2018 What I witnessed is under this regime, management does not care who’s name they put down on a job. Does not matter which department they just will take any short cut to get threw there shift and make there boss happy. How do I know this they tried to hang me for an issue, where my name was on the paper work of a train and I was on my days off. It was brushed under the table because they know they where busted. My advice and I have said on here before. Carry a personal log book and record everything in it with dates and times. On all your time you are at work. Because when the shit hits the fan they will try and blame you for there lies. You have to cover your own ass.

Name: Public outrage E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 July 2018 When Hh took over cn, there where more derailments from employee cuts. Than in past years, and record employee deaths. The only time the public was outraged was when a toxic tank car derailed into a lake and killed a bunch of fish. Hh offered a million dollars to clean it up. So that is the public attitude when these companies break law and rules time after time. If it affects wildlife it’s a big deal, if employees get killed he gave his life for the team.

Name: Honestty E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 July 2018 I read your article and under stand your frustration. Under Hh at cp we went threw the same things. The national union in all departments where on the news informing the public at least once a week for the whole time Hh was ceo. It was news no one outside the railway cared. There attitude was a bunch of over paid union employees. The only thing you can really do if you where scooped on a trip etc is put a grievance in and hope to get paid down the road. We won 87 percent of our return to work grievances and members where paid from being screwed out of pay. Hh refused to pay but had no choice. The goverment is not going to do a thing state or federal. They all look the other way. Been there done that, it is hard to take but you have to use the tools you have to be made yourself whole. Good luck frustrated.

Name: TECH E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 July 2018 In the meantime while you discuss coal and oil the company continues to mislabel trains and cover up recrews and hide deadhead trips. If you have not read the article posted in the Jacksonville Business Journal dated July 6th then you should! The denial by the company is just one big joke and can be proven if the crew members were not scared to death of being fired for speaking to the press about everyday operating practices without their permission. The reporters have a right to protect their sources but there is no guarantee the names wont get leaked. There is also the problem of the company going back into the history of the jobs and looking at who worked those trains on the dates that the whistle was blown! A crew was called out of away from home terminal and was deadhead to home terminal to get a train and take it back to away from home terminal. They were deadheaded back to the home terminal and when they got back they were asked to put an outbound train together and take it out of the terminal to meet the outbound crew who was given a late call. It was running late so they wanted the signal out of the yard knocked down to show an on time departure. They were given a bogus J job ticket under a local jobs symbol to do the work and not a ticket for the actual train they were building. When they checked their tour summary page it never showed the J job ticket or tour of duty on that job. It disappeared. Their deadhead from the away from home the second time was combined in the pay of the fake J job so there would be no record of it. There was no dead head ticket created for the second trip back to the home terminal. In other words they didn't want to get caught paying the crew for so many deadheads. they created a bogus job symbol for them and added the pay into that job to cover the deadhead without ever creating one. They violated the union agreement by putting the crew on a job symbol that belongs to a local job and actually overpaid them on the trip rate of the train they built and delivered outside of the terminal by sneaking in the deadhead pay. They screwed a rested crew at home out of being called to work dog catching service which they were entitled to. The crew deadheaded form the away from home terminal to the home terminal, took a train to back to the away from home terminal deadhead to the home terminal, did a bogus Local J job and did all this on one reported deadhead and worked a trough freight road train under a job symbol that disappeared. So is this isn't mislabeling jobs and padding deadheads and just not calling jobs properly along with god knows what then what is? READ THE ARTICLE! This is a company you are investing your savings in to retire. Think long and hard on how you are doing this.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 July 2018 Trumpette I said the truth to bad your blind. Hillary's last job was Secretary of State. She didn't negotiate for pipelines etc... she dealt with matters of foreign affairs. I slept good knowing they weren't going to blow up the world. I can say that about every president going back to Eisenhower when I was born. With Trump we'll be lucky if he doesn't blow us all up. He's an egotistical idiot. Trump blames everyone to fool idiots like you from seeing how big a con artist he is. Trumps is just a Putin puppet. I want to see Putin's video he has on Trump getting a golden shower from a couple hookers in a hotel in Moscow. lol

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 July 2018 RRJim, you always sound like an idiot on here. I can't tell if you are joking a lot or just really dumb. Ever hear of lasting effects? Your logic is stupid! Hillary hasn't held office since 2012 but still gets blamed, lol. Abraham Lincoln hasn't held office since 1865 but slavery is still illegal here. Speaking of slavery, Snapple fact #364 Hillary Rodent Clinton and Barrack Hussien Obama are the reason slavery is thriving in Libya. Fact! Google it!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 July 2018 Hillary hadn't held any office since 2012 but she still gets blamed for everything. lol. As for the pipeline the price of oil bottomed out below $45 a barrel. Extracting Canadian oil needed a price of $50+ to be profitable. The pipeline was going to get done it just took time.

Name: Obama E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 July 2018 Obama and mainly Hillary did not want to approve the pipeline into the USA from up in Canada. Be cause they made some big promises to there Arab friends and they gave them lots of cash to keep oil flowing from the east. Now all as USA has to do is turn the tap on when they want oil. No more lives lost fighting in the east over oil countries. The railways are going to be the winners shipping oil products. I have done lots of oil trains, they are the Cadillac of trains in my view, good ride. In time it will come out how much volume of product will be moved.

Name: Oil trains E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 July 2018 Trump approved the pipe line from Canadian tar sand into the USA. Canada has more oil than the Middle East and will provide USA with all the oil it needs. So what the pipe line can’t deliver it will be shipped by train. A lot of raw oil and natural gas are shipped into the USA because Canada does not have the refineries to produce the finished products fast enough. The rr are going to pick up any slack that the pipe lines can’t deliver. We don’t need Middle East oil anymore. Future will see how this all pans out .

Name: Coal E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 July 2018 Coal is on its way out in North America. I know of three plants in Canada are done by 2020 hundreds out of work. Natural gas price is at an all time low in price. And with all the fracking there seems to be an unlimited supply of natural gas. And because of it we don’t have to depend on the Middle East anymore. Times are changing A i is replacing people,and the railroads are changing with new technologies. I seen it over my 35 years on railroad. The future of the railroader??!!??!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 Trucks kill 6 to 1 compared to the railroads.

Name: Trucks E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 Every day trucker break some kind of law and go past there hours with no sleep. Pushed by company owners to go that extra mile. Trucks kill lots of people in North America, you don’t hear much about it. The odd guys goes to jail for drinking and driving and killing some one. There is such a shortage of truckers they fast track them and give them a license to drive. With minimum training and hope for the best. The regulations sound tough but are not enforced like they should be. Lots of trucks running around that are junk and should not be on the road. But once a driver takes a defective truck he is now liable. When they find a defect they can by law refuse to drive it, but lots of drivers don’t care. The same people that monitor the trains are also monitoring trucks. Now they want to put sell driving trucks on the road, we will see how that works out

Name: The Grape Ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 This idiot gets on all the one train a day tracks csx tells me to, or else I can get in the unemployment line. Are you the idiot that would tell them no? and then inform them of all your bullshit your slinging? Lol Get real...

Name: Goverment pupets E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2018 If the goverment want to find out any wrong doing by CSX it would be so easy to make a case. The goverment are putting there heads in the sand , just like transport Canada did. They do the minimum to keep there jobs, and they know exactly what is going on at CSX. CSX is not the first railway to fudge the books and paper work. And if there is a disaster and there is a loss of life. They make it go away with money. I will be surprised if there is any kind of goverment interference with CSX. Money talks bullshit walks into days businesses. If the goverment did there jobs CSX would be answering for a lot of things. CSX and goverment are in bed together and is not likely to change. Seen this show to many times.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 July 2018 Gaveup Rail unions don't have the luxury of the Teamsters, UAW etc... they are bound by the Railway Labor Act. Which is very confining. Nothing is fast. People need to stay on the unions ass to get things done at times. Sure I came from another time starting out but retired 8 years ago so a lot of this BS was going on. I never knew anyone complaining about working to much. When I was a young railroader those Oldheads never marked off. We didn't have guaranteed extra boards it was feast or famine. There were plenty of times we had to claim unemployment for not getting in 10 days a half. Getting furloughed was part of railroading. Times haven't changed the people have when it comes down to having to work. It's never been a job that is family oriented. Your friends will forget you after a while. It's the price to pay.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2018 So what idiot gets on a ONE train a day track and goes 50 MPH when the track is open 23 hours 58 minutes a day? Name: Grape ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 Robert Pines, nobody here gives a shit about that bullshit. Whoops, that would be $840,000 missing in Georgia matching funds missing not $400,000. So add four sets of gates you ignorant air heads don't have protecting you. https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/railroad-crossing-safety-dos-and-donts-before-driving-across-the-tracks So take the state transportation improvement plan for the next four years and search RRX (railroad crossing) and get 60 hits. This year I see $4.8 million missing altogether and the 21 crossings for signals the next four years (only 5.25 crossings a year) look like the plan was made by cross eyed baboons and winos. 5.25 crossings is $1.4 million so more millions just walks into the robber barons or the state holding hands pocket. http://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Documents/STIP/FY18-21/FinalSTIP-FY18-21.pdf 1. 2018 $4,000,000 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510819/n4510819_t1.cfm Revised Apportionment of Federal-Aid Highway Program Funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 GEORGIA gets $8,441,467 for railroad safety in 2018. So $4,441,467 is missing from the plan PLUS the $400,000 state match required by law. 2019 $5,250,000 2020 $5,250,000 2021 $5,250,000 ================= GSFR #620181T IN STATESBORO $ 265,000 654 0.022889 620181T GS GA BULLOCH STATESBORO ZETTEROWER AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 XB 4 1 10 YES 3 11,670 ================= NS #723164N $ 225,000 328 0.038317 723164N NS GA COOK SPARKS 0 0 1 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 1 30 ================= NS #723175B IN LENOX $ 375,997 4209 0.001865 723175B NS GA COOK LENOX SHERMAN AVE 0 0 0 0 0 05/18 GT 12 2 60 NO 2 150 ================== NS #723009J IN CORDELE $ 225,000 334 0.038008 723009J NS GA CRISP CORDELE 14TH AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 16 2 60 YES 2 1,383 =================== GSFR #723004A IN CORDELE $ 250,000 391 0.033111 723004A NS GA CRISP CORDELE 19TH AVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 YES 2 335 =================== HRC #717472F IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2705 0.007980 717472F HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON BOWERS ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ==================== HRC #717473M IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2333 0.009507 717473M HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON HARTWELL ST 0 0 0 0 0 FL 2 1 25 YES 2 6,180 ==================== HRC #717474U IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2729 0.007980 717474U HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON COLLEGE STREET 0 0 0 0 0 SS 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ===================== NS #726701W $ 250,000 933 0.017655 726701W NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DANIEL RD 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 79 NO 2 140 ===================== NS #726718A $ 200,000 1569 0.013076 726718A NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DOE VALLEY DRIVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 2 80 ===================== NS #726715E $ 250,000 4111 0.002521 726715E NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA LINER RD 0 1 0 0 0 05/18 GT 6 1 79 YES 2 158 ====================== NS #726712J $ 250,000 462 0.029144 726712J NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA S KELLY ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 60 YES 2 239 ====================== CSX #848518D $ 218,000 4482 0.000341 848518D CSX GA JACKSON ARCADE ROCK FORGE ROAD 0 0 0 0 0 SS 0 1 25 YES 2 814 ====================== NS #718224K IN MILNER $ 250,000 2051 0.010736 718224K NS GA LAMAR MILNER CEDAR ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 463 ====================== NS #718225S IN MILNER $ 250,000 3486 0.005017 718225S NS GA LAMAR MILNER BIRCH ST 0 0 0 0 0 GT 2 1 40 YES 2 592 ALREADY HA GATES ====================== NS #718226Y IN MILNER $ 250,000 1767 0.011941 718226Y NS GA LAMAR MILNER ZEBULON ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 640 ====================== NS #718329Y $ 255,000 18 0.133129 718329Y NS GA MONROE FORSYTH SOUTH CROSSOVER 0 0 0 1 2 SS 6 1 40 YES 2 1,010 ====================== NS #718345H $ 250,000 80 0.072467 718345H NS GA MONROE SMARR RUMBLE RD 0 0 0 0 0 05/17 SS 6 2 40 YES 2 930 ======================= CSX #279552N IN CRAWFORDVILLE $ 250,000 421 0.031361 279552N CSX GA TALIAFERRO CRAWFORDVILLE LEXINGTON ST 0 0 0 0 1 SS 1 1 50 YES 2 341 ======================== CSX #279522W $ 140,000 3071 0.006595 279522W CSX GA WARREN CAMAK BAKER ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 1 3 35 YES 2 578 ======================== NS #729100X $ 250,000 306 0.039991 729100X NS GA WAYNE JESUP MORNING GLORY 1 0 0 0 0 SS 9 1 49 YES 2 67

Name: Truth E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 July 2018 Other. FRA doesn't care about time slips but they sure the hell do about the HOS INFO! That's what the post was about. Read it again. Just read one of those articles another poster was talking about. Written by Jacksonville business journal. Csx claimed they weren't hiding recrews and mislabeling trains. BULLSHIT! Not only can the TM's prove different but many have complained about being caught up in the middle of the farse. I personally have Seen some of the worst cover up of recrewed train information ever! They can't keep this game up for ever. I know others who are keeping copies of the falsified information. They better come clean soon or our hands will be forced.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2018 Did I just read about let the FRA know right away about filling out a timeslip? Keep it up guys. I laugh daily on this site. FRA does not care about CSX time slip problems.

Name: Company stock E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 When Hh took over cp rail stock was about 79 bucks a share when he left stock was 247 a share. Yesterday it hit 249. We went threw hell working with Hh as ceo. My point being if your an employee at CSX hang on there will be move cuts and BS to come. To the share holders Hh was a hero. To employees he was Satan,as long as CSX stock keeps going up. There will be more of the same business tactic till the stock has peaked in the minds of board of director and ceo they are doing the right thing. No one is going to interfere, with CSX not the goverment etc. Put in your time get your pay don’t expect much more. That’s the way it was at cn and cp. the only choice you have is pack it in if stress gets to be to much.

Name: Gaveup E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 July 2018 RRJIM Your living in days gone by. I have gone to so many meetings I lost count. Enter all the comments and complaints you want in the meeting minutes you want. It's a waste of time. The same crap continues day after day, year after year. I'm done going. I'm just like the rest now. Pissed my hard earned money is just pissed in the wind. Maybe it's the best thing they are putting everyone on the street. The less workers out here the less money the union thieves can put in their pockets. In fact I'm to the point I hope they reduce the crafts so low the damn union's go bankrupt. Make us so short we get 7 starts every week and get 72 hours off. Would love a 3 day weekend every week! I'm sick of being f $*^@ked by the company and the agreements raped on a daily basis while the union allows the carrier to break laws and falsify reports, lie about recrewing trains and departure and arrival times. Break clearance bureau laws and sneak undocumented hazmat cars across the system. They lose the location of their trains and make bogus work orders. Encourage violation of HOS laws and the list give a on. If the union's had any back bone or a real set of balls they would have moles in the company collecting as much proof as possible of their unethical business practices and use it to encourage proper behavior! The carrier doesn't play fair why should the unions! There is no fair game with them . Hard ball and threats are the only thing that will get their attention. You don't place nice with evil! Time for exposure. Who cares if the stock drops. Who cares if they lose backers on walk street. Who cares if they become the joke of all railroads. Those of us who are using our brains and saving money elsewhere will survive. Maybe they'll get dumped by their investors and another railroad will take them over. It couldn't be any worse.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 July 2018 Alert Third personality? lol. Pines real or not has been posting with or without NoMo & myself. I don't post much anymore because it's an employees fight these days. I'm retired. I see a lot of belly-aching but no action. A lot of grumbling over the unions by people who don't take the time to go to union meetings to bring up their concerns and get involved. This venue doesn't do it. Crew room banter doesn't do it. Union meetings are where you bring up concerns. They are entered into the minutes of the meeting and should be addressed. Then there are follow ups at the next meeting etc... it's the way the system works.

Name: Retired conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 10 July 2018 Here is one of the stories https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2018/07/06/csx-customers-employees-skeptical-of-progress-that.html We all knew for years that departure times were changed.

Name: Grape ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 July 2018 Robert Pines, nobody here gives a shit about that bullshit.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2018 Whoops, that would be $840,000 missing in Georgia matching funds missing not $400,000. So add four sets of gates you ignorant air heads don't have protecting you. https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/railroad-crossing-safety-dos-and-donts-before-driving-across-the-tracks So take the state transportation improvement plan for the next four years and search RRX (railroad crossing) and get 60 hits. This year I see $4.8 million missing altogether and the 21 crossings for signals the next four years (only 5.25 crossings a year) look like the plan was made by cross eyed baboons and winos. 5.25 crossings is $1.4 million so more millions just walks into the robber barons or the state holding hands pocket. http://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Documents/STIP/FY18-21/FinalSTIP-FY18-21.pdf 1. 2018 $4,000,000 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510819/n4510819_t1.cfm Revised Apportionment of Federal-Aid Highway Program Funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 GEORGIA gets $8,441,467 for railroad safety in 2018. So $4,441,467 is missing from the plan PLUS the $400,000 state match required by law. 2019 $5,250,000 2020 $5,250,000 2021 $5,250,000 ================= GSFR #620181T IN STATESBORO $ 265,000 654 0.022889 620181T GS GA BULLOCH STATESBORO ZETTEROWER AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 XB 4 1 10 YES 3 11,670 ================= NS #723164N $ 225,000 328 0.038317 723164N NS GA COOK SPARKS 0 0 1 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 1 30 ================= NS #723175B IN LENOX $ 375,997 4209 0.001865 723175B NS GA COOK LENOX SHERMAN AVE 0 0 0 0 0 05/18 GT 12 2 60 NO 2 150 ================== NS #723009J IN CORDELE $ 225,000 334 0.038008 723009J NS GA CRISP CORDELE 14TH AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 16 2 60 YES 2 1,383 =================== GSFR #723004A IN CORDELE $ 250,000 391 0.033111 723004A NS GA CRISP CORDELE 19TH AVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 YES 2 335 =================== HRC #717472F IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2705 0.007980 717472F HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON BOWERS ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ==================== HRC #717473M IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2333 0.009507 717473M HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON HARTWELL ST 0 0 0 0 0 FL 2 1 25 YES 2 6,180 ==================== HRC #717474U IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2729 0.007980 717474U HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON COLLEGE STREET 0 0 0 0 0 SS 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ===================== NS #726701W $ 250,000 933 0.017655 726701W NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DANIEL RD 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 79 NO 2 140 ===================== NS #726718A $ 200,000 1569 0.013076 726718A NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DOE VALLEY DRIVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 2 80 ===================== NS #726715E $ 250,000 4111 0.002521 726715E NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA LINER RD 0 1 0 0 0 05/18 GT 6 1 79 YES 2 158 ====================== NS #726712J $ 250,000 462 0.029144 726712J NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA S KELLY ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 60 YES 2 239 ====================== CSX #848518D $ 218,000 4482 0.000341 848518D CSX GA JACKSON ARCADE ROCK FORGE ROAD 0 0 0 0 0 SS 0 1 25 YES 2 814 ====================== NS #718224K IN MILNER $ 250,000 2051 0.010736 718224K NS GA LAMAR MILNER CEDAR ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 463 ====================== NS #718225S IN MILNER $ 250,000 3486 0.005017 718225S NS GA LAMAR MILNER BIRCH ST 0 0 0 0 0 GT 2 1 40 YES 2 592 ALREADY HA GATES ====================== NS #718226Y IN MILNER $ 250,000 1767 0.011941 718226Y NS GA LAMAR MILNER ZEBULON ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 640 ====================== NS #718329Y $ 255,000 18 0.133129 718329Y NS GA MONROE FORSYTH SOUTH CROSSOVER 0 0 0 1 2 SS 6 1 40 YES 2 1,010 ====================== NS #718345H $ 250,000 80 0.072467 718345H NS GA MONROE SMARR RUMBLE RD 0 0 0 0 0 05/17 SS 6 2 40 YES 2 930 ======================= CSX #279552N IN CRAWFORDVILLE $ 250,000 421 0.031361 279552N CSX GA TALIAFERRO CRAWFORDVILLE LEXINGTON ST 0 0 0 0 1 SS 1 1 50 YES 2 341 ======================== CSX #279522W $ 140,000 3071 0.006595 279522W CSX GA WARREN CAMAK BAKER ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 1 3 35 YES 2 578 ======================== NS #729100X $ 250,000 306 0.039991 729100X NS GA WAYNE JESUP MORNING GLORY 1 0 0 0 0 SS 9 1 49 YES 2 67 ========================

Name: Proof E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 July 2018 Retired conductor Where did you see those articles on CSX false reporting? Be real interesting to see what they would have to say about our recrews and train delays. Have some interesting reading for them!

Name: Alert E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 09 July 2018 HMMMMM funny how RRJIM AND NOMO show up after forever then out comes Pines! Of course it's the fake pines but apparently they woke the dead or their 3rd personality. Lol...lol...lol.. Now for important news!!! Today a crew member who asked not to be identified could not tie up his 3rd HOS ticket because the times were put in wrong by crew management on attatched Dh's or the honest to God's truth could not be reported. Refused to take honest information of services performed. You can only have 8 HOS REPORTS LEFT UNDONE before you could be pulled out of service. When the crew member had CMC on speaker phone their exact words were...there have been so many calls about HOS problems that they have turned their phone's off. You have to send an email which you can find on the HOS screen and they have 2 to 3 business days to respond. If you are having this problem CALL THE FRA AND REPORT IT! DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE PULLED OUT OF SERVICE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS TO BE HAPPENING. SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT. NOTIFY YOUR UNION REPS ASAP! Make sure the FRA knows you are attempting to get it fixed. Put the ball in CSX'S court. Do not attempt to fool the HOS program with bogus information to try and bypass the problem. Only submit factual information and nothing but the whole truth. There's more going on here than just a computer program. There is a pattern developing and the FRA needs as many notifications as possible. CYA!

Name: Re: m of w 10-20 yrs E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 July 2018 How long till Radnor is up and running and anyone hear of any other yards getting some work done?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 July 2018 https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/railroad-crossing-safety-dos-and-donts-before-driving-across-the-tracks So take the state transportation improvement plan for the next four years and search RRX (railroad crossing) and get 60 hits. This year I see $4.8 million missing altogether and the 21 crossings for signals the next four years (only 5.25 crossings a year) look like the plan was made by cross eyed baboons and winos. 5.25 crossings is $1.4 million so more millions just walks into the robber barons or the state holding hands pocket. http://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Documents/STIP/FY18-21/FinalSTIP-FY18-21.pdf 1. 2018 $4,000,000 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510819/n4510819_t1.cfm Revised Apportionment of Federal-Aid Highway Program Funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 GEORGIA gets $8,441,467 for railroad safety in 2018. So $4,441,467 is missing from the plan PLUS the $400,000 state match required by law. 2019 $5,250,000 2020 $5,250,000 2021 $5,250,000 ================= GSFR #620181T IN STATESBORO $ 265,000 654 0.022889 620181T GS GA BULLOCH STATESBORO ZETTEROWER AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 XB 4 1 10 YES 3 11,670 ================= NS #723164N $ 225,000 328 0.038317 723164N NS GA COOK SPARKS 0 0 1 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 1 30 ================= NS #723175B IN LENOX $ 375,997 4209 0.001865 723175B NS GA COOK LENOX SHERMAN AVE 0 0 0 0 0 05/18 GT 12 2 60 NO 2 150 ================== NS #723009J IN CORDELE $ 225,000 334 0.038008 723009J NS GA CRISP CORDELE 14TH AVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 16 2 60 YES 2 1,383 =================== GSFR #723004A IN CORDELE $ 250,000 391 0.033111 723004A NS GA CRISP CORDELE 19TH AVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 YES 2 335 =================== HRC #717472F IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2705 0.007980 717472F HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON BOWERS ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ==================== HRC #717473M IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2333 0.009507 717473M HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON HARTWELL ST 0 0 0 0 0 FL 2 1 25 YES 2 6,180 ==================== HRC #717474U IN ROYSTON $ 200,000 2729 0.007980 717474U HRT GA FRANKLIN ROYSTON COLLEGE STREET 0 0 0 0 0 SS 2 2 25 YES 2 620 ===================== NS #726701W $ 250,000 933 0.017655 726701W NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DANIEL RD 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 79 NO 2 140 ===================== NS #726718A $ 200,000 1569 0.013076 726718A NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA DOE VALLEY DRIVE 0 0 0 0 0 SS 25 1 60 NO 2 80 ===================== NS #726715E $ 250,000 4111 0.002521 726715E NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA LINER RD 0 1 0 0 0 05/18 GT 6 1 79 YES 2 158 ====================== NS #726712J $ 250,000 462 0.029144 726712J NS GA HARALSON TALLAPOOSA S KELLY ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 25 1 60 YES 2 239 ====================== CSX #848518D $ 218,000 4482 0.000341 848518D CSX GA JACKSON ARCADE ROCK FORGE ROAD 0 0 0 0 0 SS 0 1 25 YES 2 814 ====================== NS #718224K IN MILNER $ 250,000 2051 0.010736 718224K NS GA LAMAR MILNER CEDAR ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 463 ====================== NS #718225S IN MILNER $ 250,000 3486 0.005017 718225S NS GA LAMAR MILNER BIRCH ST 0 0 0 0 0 GT 2 1 40 YES 2 592 ALREADY HA GATES ====================== NS #718226Y IN MILNER $ 250,000 1767 0.011941 718226Y NS GA LAMAR MILNER ZEBULON ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 2 1 40 YES 2 640 ====================== NS #718329Y $ 255,000 18 0.133129 718329Y NS GA MONROE FORSYTH SOUTH CROSSOVER 0 0 0 1 2 SS 6 1 40 YES 2 1,010 ====================== NS #718345H $ 250,000 80 0.072467 718345H NS GA MONROE SMARR RUMBLE RD 0 0 0 0 0 05/17 SS 6 2 40 YES 2 930 ======================= CSX #279552N IN CRAWFORDVILLE $ 250,000 421 0.031361 279552N CSX GA TALIAFERRO CRAWFORDVILLE LEXINGTON ST 0 0 0 0 1 SS 1 1 50 YES 2 341 ======================== CSX #279522W $ 140,000 3071 0.006595 279522W CSX GA WARREN CAMAK BAKER ST 0 0 0 0 0 XB 1 3 35 YES 2 578 ======================== NS #729100X $ 250,000 306 0.039991 729100X NS GA WAYNE JESUP MORNING GLORY 1 0 0 0 0 SS 9 1 49 YES 2 67 ========================

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 July 2018 Hey Con... The Brown Banana was deposited on New Years eve every year for seven or eight years. That makes it a shit hole, doesn't it? :)

Name: Benefits E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 July 2018 In my thirty four years as a rr, when it was contract time most people just wanted to know how much of an increase they would receive. At the same time that the company gave something every time they took something out of the collective agreement that benefited the company. And the members where not aware of the changes to rules. In the long run the company saved money from rules changes. And members would say when did that change happen. But all as most people see is the prize two three percent increase a year. And the company removes rules that really benefited members. Look at the changes that are there now. Benefit the company not employees but members vote for these changes and don’t even know it.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 July 2018 NOMO I hope your not calling this site a shit hole. I remember a day when you were on here constantly. Even took the time to read it all year long and post your brown banana awards. Find it interesting now that your gone and things are 10 times worse you would call this a shit hole.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2018 When guaranteed extra boards were established the unions had to give up control of setting caps to CSX. People voted for it. When there wasn't any guarantee the railroads didn't care how many were on it. It was feast or famine. It's like rest days once people voted for establishing them life changed. No longer could they mark off for anything. The railroad response "you have rest days". I heard that quite a bit on doctor appointments etc... Us Oldheads tried to warn people on what would happen. WE were out numbered.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2018 NoMo Glad to see you're still around. I'm like you I read more than post these days. I did see Goober made a comment on here recently. It's been 8 years since I retired from CSX. Time flies! I volunteered at the VA the first 3 years. Then got a part-time job through Manpower working with another railroad as a flagger on a short line. I use to run that line when it was the C&O then CSX. It was only working with outside contractors like VDOT etc... they replaced a lot of the old overpasses over the tracks a lot of them were wooden. After 4 1/2 years I gave that up last November. Time to start doing some serious traveling. Hope life is treating you good?

Name: Elmer E-mail: no@nope.com Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 July 2018 chicago yard crews have earned every CUT that they have received!! protect a shove? SURE, drop a groundline and release the handbrakes, SURE, anything to help the carrier, what a bunch of pussies. chicago used to be a place where management feared to tread. NOT ANYMORE. plenty of do-gooders willing to help the master. very sad to see.

Name: Sucker words E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 July 2018 I have always asked why national reps. Leave sucker works in the collective agreement, gives company an out that’s why. Should say will provide, not say will provide when available. And the morons that climb up on defective equipment and don’t write it up or say they are taking under protest. They just want to be that good old company boy. But when something happens because you took bad order equipment and they hang you for it. Your so surprised!! Rules and regulations are written for a reason. I would not give this company an inch, I would on the radio or in writing always inform them about there own rules.

Name: sick!!! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 July 2018 SICK OFF CSX is up to their stupid tricks again with ghost trains popping out of no where that aren't on the line up. Everyone knows why they do this crap. Try to trick people into thinking they might actually get a whole days rest and not have to mark off sick because they are getting out on their rest every damn day. We all know there is no way in hell this company doesn't know where these trains are and if they are planned. Maybe we should be calling home land security and reporting that CSX cant keep tract of where their trains are therefore they cant put them on a schedule until they show up. Why else would trains just pop up out of the wood work and not listed anywhere or cant be found on the TMCI profile. This is a serious issue losing trains. Sounds like we need a red alert. Better just mark off sick and not get caught up in this mess! Its safer to stay at home.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 July 2018 Each & every forum on this website has some interesting reading. RR cos. are not & will never be..... employee friendly. Here & there will be a decent supervisor, crew caller, etc., etc. Those people are the minority, not the majority. The way it is & has been for a long time. Unions lame? Maybe. Be worse out here without 'em.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 July 2018 RRJ, Good to see you're still hangin' in there. I visit this shit hole about every 3 months, nothing ever changes. It's the same bitches there were 20 years ago only now I can enjoy a four finger and fatboy whenever I want. Glad I'm gone but I do feel sorry for the new guys. I use to look forward to going to work...this crew dreads going to work. I wonder what ever happened to Goober?

Name: Well said E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 July 2018 Well said .... Name: Ha! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 July 2018 RRJIM. deadhead by caboose. You are older than dirt. This compnay has gotten so bad no one gives a shit anymore. Mark off any way you can. These bastards have kept boards so short and people on the street to the point it's a damn nightmare. They reduced caps to a ridiculous level for over a year now and the union's are just sitting on their worthless asses doing nothing. Getting on the computer and fighting for a personal day before vacation time is a frickin joke. On the computer at midnight fighting with everyone else for it. They violate the agreement like it's no big deal. Always have. Supposed to keep enough people hired and xbd full to cover agreed caps and days off. Just another frickin stab in our backs.just like the availabity policy. So Mark off sick at hotel, redblock or what ever you can do to take care of yourself and your plans. Screw this company and their back stabbing lying chiefs and their favortism to their pet crews. karma is a bitch. Their trains can sit and rot! View This Article

Name: Ha! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 July 2018 RRJIM. deadhead by caboose. You are older than dirt. This compnay has gotten so bad no one gives a shit anymore. Mark off any way you can. These bastards have kept boards so short and people on the street to the point it's a damn nightmare. They reduced caps to a ridiculous level for over a year now and the union's are just sitting on their worthless asses doing nothing. Getting on the computer and fighting for a personal day before vacation time is a frickin joke. On the computer at midnight fighting with everyone else for it. They violate the agreement like it's no big deal. Always have. Supposed to keep enough people hired and xbd full to cover agreed caps and days off. Just another frickin stab in our backs.just like the availabity policy. So Mark off sick at hotel, redblock or what ever you can do to take care of yourself and your plans. Screw this company and their back stabbing lying chiefs and their favortism to their pet crews. karma is a bitch. Their trains can sit and rot!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 July 2018 I never saw anyone mark off at the AFHT unless it was an real emergency such as death in the family, illness etc... in those cases even CSX would DH the entire crew home. If CSX didn't then someone came to pick the person up. CSX didn't usually go that route seeing now they had to DH someone down as a replacement. Someone marks off over rest days & vacation at the AFHT? If they did and had airline reservations etc... why not have the wife or a friend drive down and pick them up. Back when we deadheaded by caboose every now & then someone's wife/girlfriend/friend would drive to pick us up or one of the crew had a car at the AFHT instead of having to ride the train. Every railroader knows when you get that call no telling when you'll return. It's always been that way. If your rest days fell into that time frame you just called to start it when you got back. If you're going on vacation mark off or set up a PL day. It's always been a game even before CSX. I don't know any railroad that liked people marking off at a AFHT.

Name: Retired conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 July 2018 Hogger: I worked at a terminal that had CSX and Conrail yards. Before the merger the Conrail guys bitched just as much as we did about stupid management. Face it, it's built in to our job. I did chuckle a little reading nostalgia on here for Ward and Sanborn. Unfortunately now it's 10 times worse. All you can do is watch your back and your buddies'. Wall street and the media are catching on. I have seen two articles this week about the phoney measurements CSX publicly puts out.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 July 2018 First things first. There's a lot of illiterate RR workers who post on here and many who know very little about rr life or give 2 damns about how much you sacrifice for your family and yourself for doing a non-thankful job on a daily. We forgive you. To my fellow union members, make this labor day a day that you send a message to the people who think they own you. Make this a turning point in history if you have to. Make it a day that unites the RR worker that tells these companies you/we stand together as a whole. Put your co-worker before your selfish need and stand together and lay off. Make them know you truly stand as one. I cannot stress enough that if you aren't with your brothers union strong you will fall. They cannot replace our knowledge as hard as they might try. Lets make this year and next year as a time when we finally bind together. There is no other message they understand. Please lay off Monday September 3rd no matter what the reason and stand in unity just one time. Losing your stock award shouldn't be an excuse. Getting 3 or 4 points shouldn't be an excuse. If this company already has you that afraid then you no longer have a right to complain. If our union leadership had any backbone they would have already sent you this message but they don't! I know you don't know me. But I know you. I know many of you who read this website. I care about you. Put it on a bathroom wall. Put it on the door you open up you hit your head on. Put it on that label that tells you not to undo the latches thats always scratched out. Brothers you know what I'm talking about. Enough is enough.

Name: To hogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 July 2018 My last four years at cprail was working with Hh as ceo. Before Hh the management where pretty desent people that you could work for. Once Hh came and made management drink the Kool aid it was like they got a brain virus they where robots for Hh. You could not trust one word that came out of managements mouth h. They turned on us all it was unbelievable. They all sold there soul to the devil Hh. They where so scared of being fired that management turned on management. Some ended up in the mental hospital on stress leave. Some resigned before they got fired. The nonsense goes on and on. But the guys never forgot the treatment we recieved. Hh is gone but creel the ceo that Hh appointed is the same deal as Hh and Foote. They work out of Hh rule book. What I have learned is the good old days of trust and work ethic is gone. If your a long service employee just try and get to the finish line. If your a new guy run like he’ll and get out before the rr destroys your life. The money is ok but that is all. There are good jobs out there with less money but you can have a normal life. You only walk threw life once, the call is yours.

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 July 2018 Wake up!!! this kind of mismanagement has been going on since day one of the conrail take over. Over 20 years for us and there is no doubt in any old heads mind it has been the standard practice for CSX everywhere. No one is shocked or surprised. It's always something new and stupid with this company. However what is not acceptable is the unethical behavior that is getting out of control with the chiefs and self appointed yms who think they are management. They are raping the hell out of the agreements as usual but now they are totally destroying rest days and vacations. Our agreement was written so people could be home on their scheduled rest days and home for vacations. In the last 2 months 3 men have missed flights because the chiefs wouldnt flip them home on their scheduled vacation times. They are refusing to flip engineers home when they mark off at their AFHT on their rest day. They say no one is to flip but then turn around and flip those who aren't starting their rest days. LC and their favorites get flipped. Promises are made and lies are told. It's time to record every single conversation with management and file charges against those that blow you smoke and lie to you. If you have to, mark off sick before vacation time to make your flights. Mark off sick at the hotel if need be. Mark off redblock. this blatant disregard for our agreements and quality of life is out of control. It's time for the ax to fall on the opposition. Total disrespect for the crews is at an all time high. Enough is enough. If the General chairmen won't listen and do something soon it will a battle from hell. Nip this crap in the butt now. It's bad and only going to get worse if you don't take a stand now!

Name: Competance E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 July 2018 With Hh now Foote the name of the game is to fire people that know what they where doing to show employees headoffice has big teeth. Now you replace these people with yes men that don’t have a clue. And you do this in every department and you end up with what you have now. The. The people that don’t have a clue and resign and they replace these people that know absolutely nothing. Put in the time get the checks if you sit in yard or siding think of it this way. Easy money let the management figure it out, only move when told!

Name: Disgusted E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 July 2018 Hey csx It's bad enough you pull ghost trains out of your rabbits hat and screw crews to death who weren't expecting a call for several hours, but then we get to work and it's a relay train and you screw the paperwork all to hell as well! How could you people in Jacksonville not find the profile to issue a second work Order to the next crew? Itsbeen running on your system for over 8 hours and nothing's changed. What happens to the profile. It took 45 minutes to trace the damn thing and that's not the best part of this story! We outlawed and the next crew went through the same shit! Couldn't get a work Order to take it on the rest of the way to another division. How the hell does this happen. The profile is already in the system. The final destination is in the TMCI screen. WTF! One work order was already issued. I just don't get it!

Name: Train romance E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 July 2018 The general public have a romance with trains, they know nothing about the RR life. The only time in north America any thing is news worthy is when something blows up on a train. Or a train takes half a town out. Then you get the rr suits, and goverment suits do a song and dance show in front of the cameras. The public could care a less about issues of rr

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 July 2018 Lloyd CSX hasn't had a decent line up since they did away with Crew Callers at each terminal. Every step into new technology it got worse. Crew Callers in JAX put the responsibility on Train Dispatchers, TD's shifted it to Yardmasters, YM's put it on management etc.... one big circle jerk. There are those who know that CSX isn't doing their job, the customer. CSX is basically being run by a hedge fund today that only cares about stock price. That only lasts so long.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 July 2018 It's July of 2018 and CSX still sucks. They even treat their employees worse now than before...can you believe it? These dumb shits dont even care to have a train lineup right so you can get an idea on when to sleep. How about that attendance policy did it get any better? Where are the people who care about a company totally abusing the fuck out of their employees? How about someone finally doing a tell all and exposing that place? We all know the stories out here. I can't wait until enough of the general public knows how bad it is to work for csx that you idiots have to offer a 10k bonus to every swinging dick you hire. Don't forget, karma is a bitch.

Name: The Grape ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 July 2018 We need 3 extra boards for to cover each shift so a person can sleep.

Name: unsafe E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 July 2018 CSX Im marking off sick. 4 points, six points I don't care! Havent had a descent night sleep in a week thanks to American idiots letting their kids shoot off fireworks for a week now. Its my right as an American citizen to work safely and in a safe environment. I need some sleep. Im stressed. I urge everyone to take a rest day. Its our right!

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 06 July 2018 AI, RRs have dealt with state crew manning laws & union crew consist agreements in the past & have done OK. They'll figure it out. May live to see it. Hell, in early 1993 we boarded a shuttle train out in the automobile parking lot boonies at OHARE airport in Chicago to be taken to the terminal(s). All automated. Lots of real human being passengers, no live person operating the shuttle. As far as educating the public on dangers: most people are lame until something affects them directly/individually.

Name: AI E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 06 July 2018 The next big threat to railroad workers and people in related industry is artificial intelligence. Some company somewhere in the world will figure out how to drive trains with little human intervention.. and the only thing that will slow it down is public outcry for safety of the public. So I believe when this shit starts that the union and people affected better educate the public of the dangers of not having bodies on the train during movement. Where they have long miles of track, they are all ready using this technology in Australia and other countries. Will not be long before they try it here. The trucking and railway union better start a campaign to educate the public on the dangers of this technology..

Name: Curious E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 July 2018 Crews So what happened with that Dekra survey? I know some YMS did them but what about anyone else. Saw one LC trying to get guys to fill them out but said hell know. I heard an ex superintendent did one and marked everything negative! Anyone heard anything?

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 July 2018 Almostburned JEEEZ! Hope you never have to work with that one again. That is a good reason to mark off sick if you are lined up with that one. Claim mental stress and endangerment!

Name: almostburned E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 July 2018 retired Had one of those "I want to get out of here now" punks who in my book is just a worthless idiot. Had to add a cover car to the head end to make a clean train because of hazmat cars. we picked up a car out of another track and tagged it on. We had 10 units so I didn't see the head end of the train due to curve etc. Get down the damn road and get dispatch call of train discrepancy 2nd out. 2nd out????? WTF!!! Extra hazmat car not on our list and we had to take waybill for it. 2nd out!!! The punk coupled the head car into it. How the hell could he not see the numbers on the second car? WTF!!! Not even going to say what I told the stupid punk besides check the head six you moron instead of worrying about getting the hell out of dodge because you got plans at the hotel. What if it had been an alert car and we had to switch this crap out on line of road! If anyone deserves observation testing its this one! Thank god dispatcher was too busy that day with a ton of 707s and crap to figure it out and call him on it!