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Safety First

Rule #1 -- Don't get hurt.

    Safety is the first priority. Er, or is it the second, after money.... Or the third after getting the trains out....



Webmaster's note:

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

You do the math.



Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 May 2013

I'll bet Pines printed out a copy...I'm sure the pages are all sticky
or stuck together now...you know, like that favorite issue of Playboy
when you were a kid!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 May 2013

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F54000-54499%2F54136%2F521038.pdf

Yep ole Trey and Nathan, the train running nincompoops, both had good
eyes according to them but yet neither seen like a half a dozen police
cars with the lights going full tilt boogie and connected that with
there might just be something going on ahead so get this train slowed
down. Is there like a you gotta be stupid test before you drive a
train?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 23 May 2013

The big problem with thinking all local chairmen are lusting for low
level management jobs is that these jobs are really not that good. Pay
is modest, hours not great, fringe benefits have been reduced, and of
course respect and status are nonexistent. Check the large number of
trainmaster trainee vacancies. The scary thing is that those people
that really view this as a step up are usually very marginal types that
are DESPERATE for the perception of success and will do anything to get
or retain it. That sort of person acts in a manner that - sooner or
later - will lead to giant lawsuits against a very prosperous
company.And, CSX now have an image as a wealthy company with money to
spare when they do wrong.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 May 2013

Robert:

Perhaps you should review the stopping distances for trains. I'm sure
the engineer made an emergency brake application when the truck and
trailer stopped on the crossing. But it would have been physically
impossible to stop that train. It seems that the one with the most
blame is the one that entered the crossing when the preceding vehicle
had not yet cleared. And it seems that the second most culpable were
the parade planners. They did not consider the imminent danger of
parade vehicles attempting to follow closely behind one another over a
railroad crossing. They were well intentioned, but apparently foolish.


Your post really does not deserve a response. But the train crew
deserves a voice to defend them against the hatred and ignorance you
display.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 May 2013

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F54000-54499%2F54136%2F519591.pdf
Cop...We were to travel in the procession with lights and sirens on
adding to the parade atmosphere...
So all these cops had their emergency flashers going full tilt boggie
and the morons on the train thought the parade was for them?

Then OUR morons doing the questioning never asked "How the heck did
you NOT SEE THE EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND STOP THE TRAIN"" You know the
101 in questioning thing.

Name: Shep
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 22 May 2013

Retired FRA Inspector,

Thanks for posting on this site.  Your post are both thoughtful and
informative.  Its nice reading something that ads value to the
conversation, verses useless dribble from people like Pines.

Thanks again

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 21 May 2013

I am not one to comment on todays rules as all of them do have a reason
behind them, but for all of you, i suggest you go to youtube, and type
in railroad safety, 1940,s, as there are some old saftey vids made by
the rr companys back in that time era, most of it blew my mind, guys
riding on tops of cars the safe way? guys riding on engine footboards
in the forward motion,, lots of that stuff which is now aginst the
rules today,, just take a look people its on there. Best 1 i seen on
those vids was how to board a moving flatcar the safe way, that made me
LOl, then the guys on top of cars with brake clubs to put the hand
brakes on riding down the humps,, i can just assume the corners had a
lot of calls to rail yards back in those good ole days.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 May 2013

Hey Penny:

Are you sure that the derailment was the train crews fault? Or was it a
track or equipment defect that the train crew had no control over?

Railroad employees that test positive are sometimes given a second
chance. But they are then closely monitored to assure that they stay
clean or sober. Now, is that follow-up scrutiny also applied to highway
motorists that are convicted of DUI? The answer is no! After they get
their license back, there is no more testing until they drive drunk
again and possibly get caught.

As NoMo suggested, I would also ask the FRA a few questions. Ask them
why their inspections reveal so many railroad track and equipment
defects. And ask them why they don't demand that the railroads perform
better maintenance. All FRA does is issue a few fines that are then
mitigated away at claims collection meetings with the railroads. And
then its business as usual again.

Before I retired, I was finding thousands of freight car defects every
year. What I found was repaired, but I was only able to inspect a small
fraction of the total number of freight cars in service. And during
follow-up inspections, it was clear to me that the railroads hadn't
made much of an effort to correct the same types of defects that I had
previously discovered. I submitted hundreds of violation reports
against the railroads during my career. But creating a good violation
report was so time consuming that it took away a lot my time that was
also needed to perform inspections. And, just prior to my retirement,
when a couple of CSX railroad managers were attempting to bully and
stalk me (even off of railroad property) I had to call the police for
protection. And the big eye opener was that FRA Deputy Administrator
Larry Kish took the side of the railroad managers and refused to
support me. That is the story of FRA today!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 May 2013

Hey Penny:

The question becomes why would you buy or rent a house that was
adjacent to a RR track? Did it ever occur to you that bad things could
happen?

Was the crew under the influence or are you just assuming that because
one or both of the crew had a prior failure? Why does the State
reinstate your driver's license? We don't allow anything, the FRA 
allows it, you might ask them.

I would suggest moving away from the tracks and taking that stress off
your mind!

Name: penny wills
E-mail: pennytwills@aol.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 May 2013

I want to know why you allow men to work on train  crews that fail
drug/alcohol tests so bad that they are pulled from service 1 year.
This 
crew almost killed my family and destroyed my home. derailing a train
in my back yard along with the trestle collapsing

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 19 May 2013

Hoyer:

Are you back to playing your cowardly games again?  Who is it in
Ashtabula that you have a hard on for?  People don't get away with
anything more out there than anywhere else.  They discipline and put
people on the street just like other yards, and YOU KNOW THIS!

Grow up retard!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 May 2013

I believe that rules testing is generally used by railroads to make it
appear that safety is their top priority. I also believe that rules
testing is often used to intimidate employees, and to further inflate
the enormous egos of most railroad transportation managers. But it
seems that managers avoid rules testing when production and schedules
might be compromised. And this is all being accomplished with the
heartfelt blessings of FRA.

Railroads would have everyone believe that 100 percent rules compliance
is expected of their employees. But those same railroads never came
close to 100 percent compliance with FRA motive power and equipment
regulations. When CSX Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett complained
that I was delaying his trains at Stanley Yard, the FRA non-complying
conditions I had been finding did not seem to be an issue with him. Nor
did it seem to be an issue with FRA Deputy Administrator Larry Kish and
others at the FRA Region 2 office in Crum Lynne, PA.

It all boils down to profits. Corporations care more about profits than
they do about God and country, period! And Federal agencies like FRA
seem to be right in the pockets of those corporations. This malfeasance
at the Federal agencies that are supposed to be protecting us is
downright sickening!

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 18 May 2013

If anyone wants to get away with breaking rules.Try the Great Lakes
Division in northeast OHIO. At CP 128 to CP 130 Ashtabula, Ohio. I have
 seen plenty of rule breaking violations that go on all the      
time.They have 1 yard job and 3 local jobs and Anything GOES!!!
Cleveland,Ohio might switch tag from time to time but that's it.But if
you work in Ashtabula,Ohio there are no rules there at all.It's a free
for all.Guys riding tank cars on shoves,no stretching after a tie is
made,getting on and off moving equipment,never doing any safety
stops,they walk behind cars all the time to open up the knuckle,never
asking for 3 step protection,they throw switches all day never once
looking at the switch points.It's crazy and the train master there
doesn't even got out and watch his employees,so he doesn't have to
discipline them for what there are doing.It's all about the money out
there and that yard makes a lot of MONEY.So rule breaking is OK it
makes the train master look good,profit wise to CSX. If CSX would go
out there and see what is really going on,that yard would be SHUT DOWN
PERIOD.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 May 2013

Not a good way to start your weekend...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18326778-49-injured-four-seriously-as-trains-collide-in-connecticut?lite

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 May 2013

Hey Dispatch 1-10:

Probably watching porn on his laptop and got distracted:)

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years
Posted: 15 May 2013

Inspector screwed up.   Asked for 704 covering him in one area and went
to a totally different area.   Hi Rail trucks are insulated so they
don't pop a track light on.  Signal came in for train since there was
NOT supposed to be a hirail truck there.  Needless to say, there was a
collision.


Why in the hell the guy didn't bail from the truck is beyond me.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 May 2013

Or within yard limits where a YM would protect the movement.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 May 2013

Also report was it was a single load of lumber.  This could have taken
place on an industry track and not the main line.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 May 2013

RRJ ... You are correct,  one of the three made a mistake.  But the way
the computer system is set up there are all kinds of edits when a 704
is issued when a train a hirail is involved so you cant really forget
the two are in the same block ..  It also could have been a 707 permit
where a dispr was not involved a work train maybe.   My guess the
hirail was out of his limits.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 May 2013

It looks like a local. A high railer doesn't set up signals his only
protection is the train dispatcher. Did the TD forget that a
local/switcher was in the territory? Even in dark territory only one
can have permission to occupy the block unless both are notified and
have a clear understanding which would be highly unusual. The local
would have to get permission to move in both directions within the
block. Even with signals they would have to get the TD's permission to
make a reverse move then proceed at restricted speed to the next signal.
Now that makes three possibilities for error 1) train dispatcher 2) high
railer 3) train crew.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 May 2013

Hey NoMo:

I forgot to mention that the lead locomotive on that coal drag was a GE
Model C39-8. NS still ran some trains with long hoods leading, but their
new policy was to avoid that if it was convenient to do so. They also
stopped ordering new locomotives that were configured for long hood
lead operation.

I believe the CSX locomotive that collided with the hi-rail truck must
have been making a light reverse movement for some reason. That may
factor in to why the hi-rail truck operator wasn't expecting a train.
Also, the track looks as if it hasn't been used much. Possibly dark
territory? Hopefully someone from that division will fill us in on the
details.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 May 2013

Hey NoMo:

Back in the late 1980's, when NS management required that lead
locomotives be positioned with the long hood forward, I was assigned a
union complaint alleging that heavy amounts of Diesel exhaust were
entering locomotive cabs due to that long hood positioning policy. I
rode several trains without noticing exhaust coming in the cabs. Then,
while riding a loaded coal drag just north of Portsmouth, the engineer
told me to bring my test tube pump over to his side. Sure enough, the
cab was filled with Diesel smoke. The test tube showed an extremely
high concentration of nitrogen oxides and my throat became sore for
several hours. This occurred on a hot July day when all cab windows
were open. The engineer had just throttled down from notch eight to
notch four, which reduced exhaust pressure and allowed a heavy cross
wind to fill the cab with smoke. I wrote a report on my observations
and it was forwarded to FRA Headquarters. I later heard that Ed
English, the Director of Railroad Safety, blew a gasket when he read my
report which detailed the sore throat I received. Apparently he did not
want any fault to be found with NS policy. But with the report I wrote,
NS had no choice but to reverse its policy and begin operating
locomotives in the short hood lead position.

Oh, I almost forgot, the engineer on that coal drag must have lost his
steering wheel. I looked all over but couldn't find it!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 May 2013

Whoops --had that one covered. They were both studying the FRA directive
on getting quality sleep.

9. Why the front of trains aren't required to have air bags or
something to soften impacts?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

Hey FRA:

Something else I didn't notice was the the rear of the engine was
hit.
They were backing up or has CSX gone the way of the Dark Horse and
begun running long hood forward?

Pushed the truck 100'-150'...they were light or not moving vary
fast.
Still don't know why the driver didn't bail?

Probably plenty of street time for everyone involved!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

Hey NoMo:

The side view photo of the hi-rail truck crash looks a lot worse than
the overhead view. The locomotive pilot plate, coupler and coupler
pocket would have caught the ends of the truck frame rails and the
engine, which would account for the short front end crush. So the
impact speed/speeds were likely higher than a first glance would
indicate.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

The truck had a steering wheel Pines. But it was connected to the
highway steering system and could not control the....oh hell, you'll
never understand!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

Hey L&N:

My favorite country couple, Doyle and Debbie will explain Robert's
life in the words of this song...

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6a8_2hfww

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 13 May 2013

Pines you have no clue how a car stuck on the tracks is reported and
what the Protocol is , nor do you know what a dispatchers duties are. 
I mean you still can't get it through your neanderthal brain of yours
that a train does not need a steering wheel.  So I know if it is more
complicated than that,  you really struggle to understand.  

Here is a simple question for you.  What the hell do you do for a
living,  it is obvious it is not rr related.   I bet a dollar to a dime
you will answer the question.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

Yep...looks like the impact was all of 10 MPH! I'd have to ask why the
dude didn't bail? I'm thinkin' the truck hit the train.

See Robert, his steering wheel didn't do him any good!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/1-transported-following-train-truck-crash-207235731.html

CSX training video ---WHY SHOULD NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT A STEERING
WHEEL!!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

The wind just keeps whistling through the pines!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 13 May 2013

Alright boys and girls, we've just seen what happens when you mix booze
with no tellin' what kind of proscriptions narcotics or other illegal
substances...it ain't pretty. 

If you don't believe me just read the three previous posts!

A mind is a terrible thing to lose!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

So BIG TUFF CSX starts the day killing a man like a bag of garbage in
WV
*** THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON
05/12/13 AT 0110 HOURS, HF TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED TRAIN Q30211 WITH
LOCOMOTIVES CSXT 7778, CSXT 7811, CSXT 6939 (ALL DVR), AND CSXT 2316
(NOT DVR) REPORTED A TRESPASSER WALKED OUT IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN AND
STRUCK THE TRESPASSER AT MP CA 505.2 ON THE KANAWHA SUBDIVISION. THIS
IS LOCATED AT 5TH STREET WEST IN HUNTINGTON, WV. CABELL COUNTY WAS
NOTIFIED AND ARE RESPONDING. UPDATE: AT 0123 HOURS, CABELL COUNTY
ADVISED THE TRESPASSER WAS STRUCK BY THE TRAIN AND HAS A WEAK PULSE BUT
NOT FATAL. UPDATE: CONFIMED FATALITY AT 0147

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

Playing pin the tail on the right track spot must be hard.

*** THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON 5/11/13
AT 0340 HOURS, DISPATCHER WEST PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT ADVISED OF A
VEHICLE ACCIDENT WITH THE VEHICLE ON THE TRACKS WITH ENTRAPMENT. THE JG
TRAIN DISPATCHER WAS NOTIFIED VIA AVTEC.
++++++++++++++++++++
TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED TRI RAIL TRAIN P68911 IS STOPPED AND ADVISED
THE VEHICLE IS CLEAR AND TO DOUBLE CHECK WITH THE LOCAL POLICE. FT
LAUDERDALE POLICE ADVISED THEY ARE CLEAR OF THE TRACKS. THE JG TRAIN
DISPATCHER WAS NOTIFIED.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 May 2013

So is it CSX dispatchers on crack or the coast guard?? A vehicle
stranded on the tracks and they can't even get the state straight.

***THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON 05/11/13
AT 2345 HOURS, AN ANONYMOUS CALLER REPORTED THEY HAVE THEIR VEHICLE
STUCK ON THE TRACKS AT MP CFP 12.9 ON THE RF AND P SUBDIVISION. THIS IS
LOCATED AT GWATHMEY ROAD IN ASHLAND, KY. THE BD TRAIN DISPATCHER WAS
NOTIFIED ON THE AVTEC. HANOVER COUNTY WAS NOTIFIED AND ARE
RESPONDING++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
***THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON 05/11/13
AT 2345 HOURS, AN ANONYMOUS CALLER REPORTED THEY HAVE THEIR VEHICLE
STUCK ON THE TRACKS AT MP CFP 12.9 ON THE RF AND P SUBDIVISION. THIS IS
LOCATED AT GWATHMEY ROAD IN ASHLAND, VA. THE BD TRAIN DISPATCHER WAS
NOTIFIED ON THE AVTEC. HANOVER COUNTY WAS NOTIFIED AND ARE RESPONDING.
+++++++++++++++++++++
*** THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON
05/12/13 AT 0025 HOURS, HK TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED TRAIN Q14611
REPORTED A OCCUPIED VEHICLE IN THE DITCH NEAR THE TRACKS AT MP CA 424.2
ON THE NEW RIVER SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS LOCATED OFF ROUTE 61 AND ADENA
DRIVE IN MONTGOMERY, WV. FAYETTE COUNTY WAS NOTIFIED AND RESPONDING.
+++++++++++++++++++++
*** THIS REPORT WAS RECEIVED VIA THE WEB REPORTING SYSTEM*** ON
05/12/13 AT 0025 HOURS, HK TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED TRAIN Q14611
REPORTED A OCCUPIED VEHICLE IN THE DITCH NEAR THE TRACKS AT MP CA 424.2
ON THE NEW RIVER SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS LOCATED OFF ROUTE 61 AND ADENA
DRIVE IN MONTGOMERY, WV. FAYETTE COUNTY WAS NOTIFIED AND RESPONDING.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 May 2013

Good evening Robert:

I see you followed my advice...you took your meds. However your should
have waited until the booze cleared your system!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 May 2013

Warren Buffett, owner of GEICO parent Berkshire Hathaway, has stated
that he would spend $2 billion on GEICO ads if he could

You reckon Warren Buffett would use the "How happy was he Ronnie"
'''Happier than a BNSF train driver with a steering wheel running up
on a steam roller Jimmy"!! in his $2 BILLION worth of Geico
commercials??

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 May 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

Why don't you take your meds and stop drinking.

100s of people? Who cares? You don't. You just like to bitch and
you're
really good at it...are you sure your name isn't Roberta? Maybe you
the bitch Freddie's singing about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxtd5Hj0yxo

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 May 2013

Well Kyle why don't you go to the UK and fascinate them with your vast
knowledge? Take this chart and tell them why CSX killed 100 people last
year and you mention that on THIS SAFETY THREAD.
http://csx-sucks.com/SiteDist.pdf

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 12 May 2013

hi to all rail heads, been looking at some stuff on rr in the uk, man
those guys think us peeps on us rr are strange, they call us odd for
calling a derail for what it is, they call them trap points, they call
rail cars-wagons? they call engineers, engine drivers,lol on that, how
do you drive a locomtive when it drives itself? they call signal
towers, not many left in the usa today but they call them signal box???
and they are still using that 1800 type link and pin coupler over there,
ya know were the trainmen have to go in between the cars to make a
joint. just wonder how many of them got crushed in there doing that,
thats ancient stuff bujt they still use that in the uk, big tunrover
for rr workers no doubt ha ha good way to boom up on the roster old man
janny saved a lot of lifes in the usa with his invention, and these
peeps over there call us backwards??? i seen the railroads in england,
they call a tonnage train 2000 tons, ha ha that is a lol, wonder what
they would do or think of handling a 12 or 16 k train like we run ever
day all over the usa & canada,, those peeps over thier have not a clue
how we operate in the usa, it would boggle thier minds if they had to
come here and run a 12 ton coal train... not saying this to diss on the
brits, they just dont know.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 May 2013

Hey NOMO and Fra inspire :  You are giving Pines way too much credit. 
The three stooges were brain surgeons compared to Pines.   Calling Dr
Howard, Dr Howard,  and Dr Fine.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 May 2013

Hey NoMo:

Obviously Pines is the one on the right. I believe the other two are
CSX trainmasters.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 May 2013

Hey Mike:

Guess which one is Robert?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxtW98VSegk

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 May 2013

Get off the track Pines, the Cannonball Express is due any minute!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 May 2013

So the Retired FRA Inspector writes up 1,000s of defects one year and
then the Retired FRA Inspector writes up 1,000s of defects the next
year
which has to mean the railroads do jack diddly to repair the defects.
Bet your a proud sob

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 May 2013

L&N dispr

you mean the law http://csx-sucks.com/SiteDist.pdf if you can't see
them --they can't see you--whoops no law and you idiots haven't
figured out why yet!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 May 2013

I'm sure glad I didn't have to deal with Pines while I was at FRA. I
investigated hundreds of complaints, but the vast majority were from
railroad employees. At least they knew that locomotives didn't have
steering wheels and vacuum brakes!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 May 2013

No pines we teach are children to OBEY the law.  You know like stopping
at a rr xing at grade and not trying to beat a train.  Obviously
something your family does not observe.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 May 2013

I was wondering about railroad family trees ---Do the railroad parents
like take off the vehicle brakes and steering wheel and lodge the
accelerator at notch 10 when they teach their kids to drive?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 May 2013

Good morning Robert:

Is that all you got?

I researched your family tree...I'm confused!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 May 2013

Looks like noMo and FRACluelessMO have their railroad hanging out.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 May 2013

Hey NoMo:

Your video made my day!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 May 2013

Good evening Robert:

Here's a little light listening that make me think of you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2q9VgS-Nk

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 May 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZcRU0Op5P4

Rail safety vs. Castros'

The Unions need this guy to kick the Feds doors out to free you
sissies.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 08 May 2013

Yes it is odd how the other side, the gop can get working people to vote
aginst thier own intrestes & family, the reason is the more they watch
the lieing assholes at fox is not news the more they believe in those
lies as the truth,, hitler himself got into power by saying to his
cohort gobbles, just keep telling the big lie and very soon most people
will believe it, all they do is mention god, guns & freedom and most
sucker up to that, when in the real fact thier real intentions are to
screw you over with lower pay & no unions, no ssi, no health care, no
nothing, just be a slave and work for 5 bucks a hr and thank them that
you have a job, for fact, most do not know that the koch brothers spent
millions the past 4 yrs to make sure 0-B would not get re-elected, so
now you know why a fat ass like rush limpballs gets payed 50 million a
yr just to sit in front of a mic all day on his fat ass and blow out
wing nut retoric out of his asshole, then you get the others, the
religion nuts like glen beck predicting the end of the world if the
dems are in power, just look at the past 2 elections, its basic, the
south bible thumping states all red, the north & west coast all blue
dem,and thats good as that is were all the electoral votes are,so let
the rednecks have the south, they deserve it.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 May 2013

The takers on this planet are the ones that thrive on feelings of
superiority. They enjoy looking down on the working class and the poor,
and would like for the middle class to disappear. They have no pity on
the sick, the hungry, the tired or the elderly. They hate unions, and
their pockets are filled with politicians that attempt to obstruct
union power. They will help no one but themselves. And they aren't
even willing to pay a little more tax to help ease our country's debt.
Instead, they would like to see Medicare and Social Security recipients
receive less. And for everyone to receive less, except for them. The
takers are just mean people that only care for themselves. 

The givers are the people that work every day to earn an honest living.
They are the ones that worry about supporting and caring for their
families. They are the ones that perform their jobs, even when they are
mistreated by management. And the givers are the ones that would like
for everyone to be as well off as they are. They have ethics and moral
character. The givers care about everyone.

Unfortunately the takers are winning the class war in our country. The
more wealth they amass, the more powerful they become. And the
politicians they bribe with campaign contributions protect them and
their money. So why would working people vote for politicians that only
protect the wealthy? They are simply being manipulated! These
politicians tell voters that they are supporters of family values and
the second amendment, when they could care less about either of those
issues. But it gets them elected. They then stab those in the back that
voted for them. Unless working people in our country wake up and demand
more, this Robin Hood in reverse trend will continue. Working people
need to quit watching the reality shows and start watching PBS. Charlie
Rose and Tavis Smiley bring out the truth with the guests they host.
Knowledge is power! Working people need to pay attention to what
politicians do instead of what they say. They need to learn how to cut
through all the bull shit. And then they need to vote for the
politicians that will best help them and their fellow workers. They
then need to demand loyalty from those they voted for.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 May 2013

Today's Charlie Rose TV PBS show points out people are takers, or
givers, or matchers. Interesting quote "working here is like wetting
your pants in a wet suit" you get a warm feeling but nobody notices. I
think he was discussing our favorite company.

Name: john doe
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 May 2013

Yes i use to work for norfolksouthern and let me tell you everbody
thinks that the rr makes good money thats bs. I dident make 40 a year
and i worked there allmost 3 years. The insurance is a little better
then most but not by far and you half to pay for it like every other
emp. They treated us like dogs and my boss or (bosses) the only time
you saw them is if smothing went wrong like a train that needed fuel or
was barly running and the crew shopted it to get one that would get down
the road. You try calling about vac. Or just simple stuff for get it
they were not bosses they were more like police. Talk about the union,
there a joke there in bed with rr also.  I have never been in a union
before but wean i came to the rr i new this is not how a union suppose
to be. I had guys that come from other jobs with unions and they said
this is no union just a branch of norfolksouthern.  To let you guys
know i am a good person and try to keep to my self about things but
they did me and hundreds of other people verry verry dirty. I would not
rec. The rr(norfolksouthern) to no body i mean no body. Like some people
said they are the hitler of rr. Verry verry true

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 May 2013

Hey APE 20-30:

Compared to some of the power I remember, it looks pretty good...
probably smell better too :)

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 02 May 2013

I'm sure someone will appreciate this. A web site called Daily Turisimo
features ads on interesting cars seen on other sources, such as e-bay
and Craig's list. Anyway, Carrol Shelby built some custom Mustangs for
Hertz, which used to go cheap and now are quite collectable. Featured
today, Thurs 2 May is the replacement, an Omni based 1987 CSX-T,
currently on Craig's list for $750? Perhaps we all chip in, restore
it, and give to M. Ward? Just a thought!I hope we are not infringing on
Shelby and Chrysler / FIAT copyrights. Maybe that's why our engines are
labeled HLCX? so no one will confuse us with the real CSXT?

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 April 2013

FRA's commitment to safety and regulatory compliance has been
questioned many times on this internet site. And as a former FRA
inspector, I have also questioned FRA's ethics. Now, with Republican
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood leaving office, perhaps FRA can
again become the semi-ethical Federal agency that it once was. I
believe that LaHood, who was appointed by President Bush, should have
been kicked out of office four years ago and replaced with a more labor
friendly person. For the last 12 years, it seems that FRA has been led
around by the nose by railroad corporations. 

Hopefully, President Obama's nominee for transportation secretary,
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, will be confirmed. But I'm sure that
railroad lobbyists will vigorously fight that confirmation.

Name: Collette
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years
Posted: 30 April 2013

Al Clown

O U C H.  That hurts.  I'm sensing no love for your former CSX
co-worker.   LOL

Name: Luke SkyWalker
E-mail: 
Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years
Posted: 28 April 2013

Gay Ward Vader’s Jacksonville Death Star is fully operational and used
to eliminate any Alliance worker slave if they resist to the Empires
operational desires.   There is little hope for the Alliance as long as
Gay Ward Vader is controlling the CSX Empire.  Most Alliance union reps
are assimilated into the Dark Side and will not come back since they
have acquired the Dark Side Immune Defiance Syndrome.

May the Force be with You

Name: ===Todd Novac==
E-mail: ==shit bag .com==
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 28 April 2013

HE ===TODD NOVAC ====    boy the truth hurts  maybe you should go back
to cooking !!!!! maybe you dipped one to many times in the secret sauce
!! or is that cum on you check from the train master . you       have no
shame showing you face at work  and we know what you realy think of your
fellow workers  May a herd of monkeys shit on your head===== Fat boy====

Name: Al Clown
E-mail: Al_Clown@csx.com
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 28 April 2013

JoAnn B:

The color of your skin is not the reason for your lack of promotion, 
your lazy work ethic, piss poor attitude and the falsified injury you
turned in are!  Everyone who has every worked with or around knows
that!  I am still waiting on you to do something I asked you to do in
2004.  

Safety First,

Alan F. Clown

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 April 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

Don't mix your med with booze, bad things happen to you when you do
and cause us all to worry!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 April 2013

So the railroads buy ya a little tail once in a while for bringing them
a case of cover up there NoMoRRHoe

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2001/har0103.pdf This was in the old
Internet Explorer hours to find jack schit days. I waited and watched to
see if the Ground Trains like planes order to hit but instead they hung
the bus driver caught in the trap. NTSB site searches still suck
---Purposely?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 April 2013

Good morning Robert:

According to the article, when Jones stopped his truck it was
encroaching on the tracks...everything else is BS. As far as the sight
triangle goes, take it up with the FRA if they'll talk to you. Just 
keep hangin' your hat on articles written by "Staff Reporter". The
one thing you should know by now is if the "reporter" is too
embarrassed 
to put his name on an article, the publication must be Mullet wrap.

Why are you jealous of the inmate in the Baltimore House of Deeds? Oh
that's right, he's getting more than you are and he has a better
paying job!

The NTSB Report you posted was from an accident that happened 13 years
ago...must have been a slow news day to dredge that one out of the
vault!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 April 2013

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20130426/NEWS/130426017/Man-serious-condition-after-train-strikes-Mack-truck

So that's like 1 killed and 12 injuries today because CSX are
murdering creeps too cheap to buy a brush whacker.

Google Map Lafayette Cove Road, Tallahassee, FL go two clicks south.
Tell me why the state /FEDS/railroad aren't in jail for a completely
sight obstructed POS private crossing that doesn't even get train
horns. How does Google mappers go on a private road one might ask
Because the state and railroad sleeping together have the inventory
wrong because private crossings don't get funding for signals
railroads hate to pay to take care of.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 April 2013

Hey NoMo:

Now wait a minute....me and this other guy that worked for FRA were
pretty smart. But I do wonder about the other guy sometimes.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 April 2013

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/313133/58/4-female-prison-guards-impregnated-by-same-inmate-at-Baltimore-City-Detention-Center

Hey NoMo  ---guards sleeping with the ones they are supposed to be
watching over---huge unauthorized gifts ---FRA sleeping with
railroads.
Get it? Not that hard to grasp.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 April 2013

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2001/har0103.pdf

Keywords CSX --bus---

Missing words DENSE FOG (ignored by NTSB)

Name: ===Todd Novac===
E-mail: I suck a Dick .com
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 26 April 2013

=======Todd Novac ======= updates . he has made a complant to CSX about
harassment  that this should be not talked about !!!!!! he claims he
only barrowed the money and as a union official he was allowed to do it
without breaking the law . LOOK at medina county criminal records . We
should all stand up against him Fuck the company And fuck the UTU for
letting him Back Fuck you ===Todd Novac

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 April 2013

Good evening Robert:

Not quite sure what female guards in the Baltimore City House of 
Deeds has to do with the "Federal Rail-bought Association" but okay.

No I don't play with matches...lighting farts is safer with a Bic and
always keep a positive pressure flowing and never ever try it without
your PPG (shorts) on!

After listening to the Coast Guard and MFD talk about Liquid Natural 
Gas, raw gasoline or natural gasoline...gasoline that hadn't been
through the refining process...I've concluded most government
employees are idiots.

Gasoline is a finished product when it leaves the refinery. Light
Straight Run is the feed stock for gasoline and a component for
aviation fuel.

I love the way the "community engagement specialist" with AL.com sit
around on their couches and report stories like this based 
on Tweets from know nothings and teenagers!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 April 2013

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/313133/58/4-female-prison-guards-impregnated-by-same-inmate-at-Baltimore-City-Detention-Center

Kinda a lot like the Federal Rail-bought Association

NoMoie you been playing with matches again down in Mobile??

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 April 2013

There was a situation decades ago where a union officer embezzled union
funds. The International HQ & general chairmen got involved with the
audit. Their conclusion the person had to make restitution of the funds
embezzled, he wasn't permitted to hold any office, had to seek
psychiatric help, and had to remain in the union paying dues for 3
years even if changing crafts to avoid criminal prosectution. In
reality all it takes is one union member to file charges with the
authorities to have them prosecuted. WE were mad but no one went that
far. The money was repaid. He begrudgingly accepted the terms even
while still denying it. The railroads won't fire the person it isn't
in their interest to do so. Why would the railroad care? As much as it
would appear to be a case of "behavior unbecoming of a railroad
employee" it's still Us vs Them.

Name: ==Todd Novac==
E-mail: scumbag .com
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 24 April 2013

TODD NOVAC  Yardmaster at Collinwood  In at Cleveland ohio . Fat fuck
with a pumpkin head . stoled money from our union BLE and was found
guilty !!!!!!!! and the came back as a yardmaster .It shows how weak
are unions are !!!!! No one should even talk to him .what happened to
employee un becomining !!!! what a piece of fat shit!! I am sure he is
a snitch for the trainmaster . stand up against him he is no good !!!. 
 And also he stated I was going to pay it back . like they all do
!!!!!!!!!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 April 2013

Political Action Committee.  That is good son, you are really starting
to ask some intelligent questions.  Now that is progress.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 April 2013

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?sort=A&cmte=C00163832&cycle=2008664&Page=12

What is PAC?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 April 2013

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flmdce/3:2009cv00379/226328/11

Who is Gary Gimbill?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 April 2013

Maybe instead of paying union dues like buy some Big Bird suits and have
a hoe down. A couple practice songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZSxyCtF1M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgyg_5FF_0

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 April 2013

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fbi-ricin-case-20130422,0,5679830.story

I wonder if the F.B.I. like puts these agents in a gas chamber and make
them remove their masks and sing the F.B.I. hymn till they puke like the
corp?

From the backroads of Quan ---tico to the halls of D.C.
We will put on our dog and pon --iee shows for all of the US to see..

Geez these plants are grown everywhere for the flowers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZSxyCtF1M

Name: JoAnn Brooks
E-mail: royaltyreigns09@yahoo.com
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 April 2013

RAILROADERS, PAST and PRESENT . . . 
I have been reading your comments and there definitely must be
"CHANGE" within the Railroad System.  I am a former CSX employee with
over thirty (30) years of experience.  I have also taken advantage of
the educational reimbursement program, earned a Master's Degree,
Facilitated training programs for management and union employees.  My
last position allowed me to work with the gentlemen in the field, SPG
and Maintenance of Way through the Human Resources Department in
Jacksonville, Florida.  I am currently fighting in COURT against some
of the very things you are upset about . . . bullying . . . retaliation
. . . discrimination . . . unfair treatment . . . safety violations and
much more. . . . I really want to know how many of you would be willing
to rally . . . stand together and really let your voices be heard
without sounding uneducated and WIN back  . . . what has been STOLEN
from US?  Profanity may relieve the hurt and disbelief temporarily, but
not intelligently get your point heard . . . MONEY RECOVERED and JUSTICE
REIGN!!!  WHAT SAY YOU???  Thanks  JoAnn   IS THE COURT SYSTEM
INEFFECTIVE?  MY GOD ISN'T!! HE RULES . . . Again, WHAT SAY YOU? TIME
TO ACT NOW . . . LET ME HEAR FROM YOU . . .

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 April 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

I see they let you out, they'll be disappointed you're not following
their directions in regards to medication.

No one cares what you did; or take credit for back in '05. That was a
lifetime ago. If it wasn't for Dave Nelson you would still be
scratching your ass. 

Now tell what you've done lately besides piss the FRA and other
regulatory agencies off.

Seems your nothing without Nelson...I think it's called a paper
tiger.
He's moved on...why can't you?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 April 2013

NoMoRRMole sez...Claire McCaskill said "who frequently writes
lawmakers". Sounds like she knows you, I wonder how?...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/national/18rail.html
...Missouri officials should not have been surprised. In 2000, Missouri
asked BNSF to repay $670,000 in overcharges on 43 earlier signal
projects, all financed mostly by the Federal Highway
Administration....

Where ya thing Bogdanich got this info?

Met with a couple of Claires illustrious auditors because this $670,000
never shows back up in the RR safety budget so Claire or someone stole
the $670,00. Their letter says ..."""The funds are there but are
really hard to find""" Thus Claire goes to DC rubbing shoulders wit
big wigs probably using these funds and Bogdanich gets a writing mnedal
for covering the theft up.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 April 2013

So I planted all my mole/castor plant seeds for a privacy fence. They
make pretty 10-12 foot tall plants. Of course CSX being cheap just
let's the brush grow at crossings for their privacy fences.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 21 April 2013

I also know of a few odd things that occured, A crew was taking a reg
freight from pittsburg to ft wayne indiana, a real dark foggy night,
they went in the hole out in the bondocks, the crew walked the train
and found a seperation, no big deal per say, coupled it back up and
went along thier way, the next day the conductor got a call from the
supers office, they were missing a tank car!! it pooped right out of
the train and rolled over a hill into a persons back yard, they never
knew it happened, they gave the big C 30 days for not checking his
consist list when he walked the train....

The other was when a crew got into a DED, they found a car--automobile
all rolled up in a ball under a hopper with a body inside, they had
dragged that car under the train for 15 miles! the dummy had driven
right into the train at a road crossing, dui was said to be the cause,,
yes you can expect some wierd things to happen on the rr.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 April 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

Where you at? AWOL...thought the po-po or butterfly men had you.
Admit it...we all had reason to be concerned when the story broke.
You're not that far from Memphis, Claire McCaskill said "who
frequently writes lawmakers". Sounds like she knows you, I wonder
how?

Castor Oil is made from Castor Beans and works better than bran muffins
when it comes to a good cleansing...and we all know you're full of it
and could use a little lightening up!

Enjoy the go!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 April 2013

NOMO must have castor beans in his dreams.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 20 April 2013

Retired FRA Inspector

I started working for the C&O in March 1977 then left Walbridge in May
1980 transferred to Virginia during the auto slow down in Detroit.
After every winter furlough first place I would work after recall was
2-3 weeks in Fostoria. I loved switching cars up there it was high
speed switching no one ever got hurt. If you were the pin puller you
rode the side of the cut then kick the lever up with your foot got off
and when the cars stopped you were at the next cut number on the list.
By 1978 I worked the skatemen jobs on the westend during the spring &
summers riding clear alleys off the hump. Railroading was fun back in
those days. Tried to stay away from Presque Isle or Lakefront Docks
humping coal to the piers was boring. Rossford on the B&O was a nice
small yard to work. Good times up there till 1980. It would of been a
few years to get back to work if I stayed. It was a big place to work.

Name: TurkeyShoot
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 19 April 2013

FRA Spec, that's a good one.  I recall a former conductor in Cleveland
that shoved back to get to the head-end, later down the line, a train
they passed reported they had no marker on the rear, but one in the
middle of the train.  The conductor had picked up several haz-mats when
shoving back.  That did not end well.

We had a train once that stopped for some reason I don't recall, and
after restarting and traveling 15 miles down the line, the air sets up
on the train.  The conductor walks back to inspect,    and can't find
the rear of the train!  Before they can figure out what is going on,
the dispatcher comes on and asks them where they are.  They give him
the milepost, and he doesn't believe them, again saying "Where are
you?!"   Turns out, the train cut itself, and when the cars came apart
both hoses flipped up and stuck- folded just tight enough that neither
end goes into emergency!  The following train came upon the rear end
and couldn't figure out why the train ahead wouldn't answer.   That
was the weirdest thing I ever heard of.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 April 2013

RRJ:

I enjoyed watching you guys switch out trains at Walbridge. That was
efficient railroading. And no one got hurt. Morale was a lot better
too. But a new management style and RCO's gone wild changed
everything.

Do you remember the eastbound train that departed Walbridge with air in
less than half of the cars? When the crew departed they had a good
pressure reading on the HED and were told by the yardmaster that they
were set to go. However, they lost communication with the RED after
departing. So when they stopped at Fostoria to do some work, the
conductor walked to the rear end. He then found that the RED was absent
and the rear angle cock was open. He then walked back toward the head
end and found a closed angle cock and uncoupled air hoses. It turns out
that the locomotives were taken from an inbound train and the HED was
still dialed in to the RED on the rear car of that inbound train. The
inbound train was placed on yard air when the locomotives were removed.
It wasn't the car departments fault as they had tested the cars that
were charged with air. The problem was that a yard crew had added the
locomotives and tested cars to another track that had not been worked
and were void of air. It seems that the yardmaster told the outbound
train crew they were set to go, without knowing that to be the case.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 19 April 2013

Kyle

I remember starting out at Walbridge Yard in Ohio. The early quits that
first couple of weeks I thought to myself I'm not going to make it with
only part-time hours. LOL! Then I got that first paycheck. You're
right, the YM use to send down the switch lists. We got on the lead
banged it out for that 2-3 hour quit. Today it takes hours just to get
a switch list. My last two years was spent in the yard mostly working
pusher jobs. I'd watch as the YM sent out a switch list to the printer
then cancelled it before the yard crew got out the door this happened
more than once each day. Out of curiousity I asked the YM about it.
It's micromanaging that's the culprit. The TM has to wait till
division HQ or Jax tells them what to do before he can give it to the
YM to send it to the yard crew. During this timeframe apparently things
change quite a bit. Of course reduced crew size is also a factor. Least
not forget the yards that have one-man RCO's.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 18 April 2013

Just a comment on the eq,s i well recall my 1 st day on a yard job 7 am
to 3 pm,, at about 12 noon the conductor said go home kid yer out of
here, i thought i would get fired for leaving so early and told that to
the conductor, he said hey kid take this quit now you might not get
another, it did not take long for me to catch on how these guys worked,
he he. and then i seen at many times that a yhm would give a switch crew
so much work and he would always say, no way can they do that work in
even 12 hrs, and by damm they would always get that work done and tie
it down for a 2 hr quit, plus a long coffee break. yes that is the way
the rr operated back then, managment was happy, the crew was happy, the
shippers were happy, and then came the mergers with the big pricks at
the helm. enough said.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 17 April 2013

Lloyd

LMFAO! Don't you know only the good die young. So, I guess both of us
are schidt out of luck. I post on here one time in the past 6 months
and some idiot has to be rude. I guess you never bothered to read the
post. I got mine collecting that RRB check every month guess I
shouldn't give a crap.

Name: 
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Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 17 April 2013

yes I agree he needs to be got read of.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 17 April 2013

yes I know this is not professionalism, but it needs to be said FUCK
Frulla I'm glad the coal fields are finally sticking together and
putting csx in a bind with no one available.

Name: 
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Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years
Posted: 16 April 2013

Crane just got Burrus's job. Maybe people can not be so uptight now

Name: NoMo
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 April 2013

Nah, it couldn't be, could it? Do you think he flipped? Sounds very 
Pines like.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/04/letter_laced_with_poison_sent.html#incart_river_default

Check out his committee assignments...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wicker

Name: NoMo
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 April 2013

Hey Lloyd:

Where you at? Thought you bought the street...glad you're alive and
kickin' maybe just not quite as high.

The word down here is CSX is beginning to move back to supervisors
with ground/throttle time. Seems that the college boy experience
didn't pan out like the suits thought.

Yep, we've been talking about the union's shitty representation now
for a long time...you can lead a horse to water but you can't make
'em drink. It's up to the members to light a fire under them. The
problem is who is going to light the fire under the members.

Talk to a fella I came out with...my how things have changed. The Hill
was a full crew, Engineer, Foreman and long and short switchmen. 350-
400 cars and a couple of trains weren't all that unusual and a 3 hour
quit to boot. Today it's 1 man operation on a 12 hour turn. Maybe 200
cars if the cuts are right. He's runnin' now and say he thinks the 1
man line hauls are a lot closer than most think.

Probably won't have to worry too much longer about unions...have to
have members to have a union!

Name: Lloyd
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Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years
Posted: 16 April 2013

Long time no talk my fellow railroaders.  I see RRJ hasn't croaked yet
and NOMO is still alive and well.  Pines still thinks that you can
actually steer locomotives and thinks freight trains can stop on a
dime.  Time sure does fly.

Now let us get on to bigger and more important matters.  CSX and every
other class 1 railroad are taking our unions and members to the
cleaners.  Every new contract gives them more power and gives us less. 
Why is it so hard for us to get together and fight back against
contracts and policies that we know we didn't agree to and we know are
just flat out wrong!  Our unions are only as powerful their members.  If
we start demanding answers and we don't get them, I say we kick all
their asses out of their comfy positions.  Each and every union paying
member is sick of giving away their money for nothing.   We have truly
lost sight of what it means to represented and our leaders in the
unions have been bought and paid for.  This company craps on it's
employees and we have one if not THE most powerful union(s) left in the
United States.  Our union can be great if we make it one.  It's time to
get involved and make a difference.  If we don't we will all be paying
for it in the future.

Name: RRJ
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 16 April 2013

The BLE tried to merge with the UTU in the '90s. The problem was the
UTU refused to submit their finances. This was suspicious. If they
didn't have anything to hide it shouldn't had been a problem. Instead
the UTU merges with the sheet metal workers union a few years ago like
that makes sense. Every rail union can join the IBT Rail Conferance. So
far it's just the BLEt & BMWE even though other rail unions have
benefited from associating with it during contract negotiations. The
UTU is the only one on it's own forgetting strength in numbers. This
divide in the T&E unions isn't healthy for the members. Till the UTU
comes to it's senses this divide will continue.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 16 April 2013

Wake up it is time to consolidate our unions call your local Teamsters
office to get assistance with representation.  

Go to: https://nlrb.gov/forms download NLRB Form 502 – petition.

Download form and get signatures, let us end our differences and
consolidate for the benefit of the employee.

Name: NoMo
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 April 2013

"In 2020 it will be the UNION OF BUMS with Spock from Beging at 
the throttle"...I'm guessing that's Beijing not Beging.

"2021 wikipedia

Railroad engineer/conductors are the ones who use to run trains too
fast with sucky brakes and no steering leaving a trail of death and
destruction easily outdoing the Korean war. Now they sit in worn out
lawn chairs beside the track with their fellow bums wondering what hit
them.

How the scam works.
1. Feds trump state train horn laws.
2. Train horns whistle whip people into submission.
3. Railroad comes in and makes a fortune in overcharges and stolen
signal equipment (OURS).
4.Somebody (not railroads) has to pay for ridiculous priced liability
insurance so railroad is hold harmless.
5.The crossings for GPS crew-less trains hid behind the curtains not a
problem for railroads.
6. The railroad brass quadruple their ridiculous pay sheets and laugh
at the suckers."

"Retired FRA Inspector with 44 years burying FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
PEOPLE you must not be the sharpest in the world of rail heads.

Even the USMC has a defensive driving course."

I think it's safe to say Robert is on some heavy duty medication,
proscribed or otherwise!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 April 2013

And now we have entered...the Robert Pines twilight
zone...dada-dada-dada-dada

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 April 2013

Retired FRA Inspector with 44 years burying FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE
you must not be the sharpest in the world of rail heads.

Even the USMC has a defensive driving course.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 12 April 2013

2014-  Webster 's Dictionary - new definition for IDIOT,  same as
definition for a robert pines.,...

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 April 2013

Wow! Robert Pines has certainly enlightened me. During my 44 years of
experience with locomotives and freight cars, I never realized that
trains had vacuum brakes. Nor did I ever know to inspect the steering
systems on locomotives. I now have an extraordinary respect for
engineers. I can't imagine how they are able to keep those narrow
steel wheels in line with such narrow rails! Amazing!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 April 2013

2021 wikipedia

Railroad engineer/conductors are the ones who use to run trains too
fast with sucky brakes and no steering leaving a trail of death and
destruction easily outdoing the Korean war. Now they sit in worn out
lawn chairs beside the track with their fellow bums wondering what hit
them.

How the scam works.
1. Feds trump state train horn laws.
2. Train horns whistle whip people into submission.
3. Railroad comes in and makes a fortune in overcharges and stolen
signal equipment (OURS).
4.Somebody (not railroads) has to pay for ridiculous priced liability
insurance so railroad is hold harmless.
5.The crossings for GPS crew-less trains hid behind the curtains not a
problem for railroads.
6. The railroad brass quadruple their ridiculous pay sheets and laugh
at the suckers.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 12 April 2013

APE 1 yr and Nasty,

Unfortunate is the fact that there are bad apples in ANY industry,
however that being said I don't believe the casual and outside look
you present here represents Union Officers as a whole. Most aren't
"in it for themselves" as you claim. Most are in the job to better
the working conditions for the membership PERIOD. Perhaps if you had
more time on the railroad and didn't look at only what you want to
believe and are fed by our wonderful media, and took the time to show
up at your local union meeting you might start to view otherwise. 
Biased Opinions such as yours presented here are nothing more than
baseless misinformed bullshit and serve to do nothing else than prove
how baseless and misinformed you are about what REALLY goes on in the
union world. Try stepping up and serving others than yourself, do that
and then you might have a reason or rationale for some of what you
espouse, until then you're nothing other than a company troll on this
site.

Name: Stildragon
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 12 April 2013

For the folks near New Orleans familiar with him- Trainmaster Todd West
was recently seperated from the employ of CSX.  They should have done
it long ago.  Rots of Ruck todd.

Name: RRJ
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 12 April 2013

If the members think their LC is corrupt get rid of them by impeaching
them out of office. It only takes someone to make a motion at a union
meeting with someone to second the motion. Then the ball gets rolling
for a vote. If the motion is carried by the vote the first VLC would
step up as acting LC. If there is more than 6 month left on a term then
nominations would be necessary and another vote process for a new LC. I
don't get people discussing that LC's are corrupt when there are
actions that can be taken if the majority of the members also feel the
same. That LC won't drop out voluntarily so better have that majority
for backing cause it'll create an enemy. I've seen it in that case it
was just a handful of disgruntled members so the LC wasn't removed.
Also, I doubt if anyone heard a Division Manager say the unions were
bought out that statement has circulated on here before. Seems more
like a shanty rumor.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 April 2013

If I were a member of the UTU, I would demand a full disclosure of
expenses and salaries at the national office. Both unions and
government agencies will become bloated and inefficient if they are not
held accountable by dues paying members or taxpayers. A few years ago,
FRA held two back to back conferences that were a total waste of time
for the inspectors that attended. And the motel rooms cost over $200
per day! They also bought Blackberry devices for all inspectors when
cell phones were completely adequate. Then they said not to use them
while driving or on railroad property. Now where else should we be? If
FRA was as interested in enforcing regulations as it is in spending
taxpayer money, the railroad industry would be a lot safer.

As for the union officers mentioned a few posts ago, it seems that they
are rotten eggs. And rotten eggs need to be disposed of. If the upper
level union officers won't take action, then they need to be disposed
of. It is the duty of all union officers to protect the members that
pay their salaries. If they forget that, they should be reminded.
Possibly in the form of a class action law suit as was suggested by a
previous commenter.

I also believe that unions  should use the legal system more often to
protect their members. And with the amount of dues collected from union
members, a few good attorneys should certainly be within budget. And if
not, I'm sure that a few dozen union officers could be readily
dispensed with.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 April 2013

Pines,  be quiet son,  adults are posting.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 April 2013

In 2020 it will be the UNION OF BUMS with Spock from Beging at the
throttle

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 April 2013

Hey Frank:

I think there's a difference between corrupt official and an back
stabbing, ass kissers...sounds like Holman and Rolland fall into the
latter.

Best way to handle those guys is a tube sock with a bar of soap in it.

If they don't get the hint when they get back to work in 5 or 6
weeks,
they may need a refresher course!

Safety doesn't stop when you leave the property.

Name: Nasty company 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 11 April 2013

IT'S TIME TO STAND UP AGAINEST OUR UNIONS AND DEMAND MORE THAN B.S
...or face a law suit ..WE PAY THOSE FOOLS FOR NOTHING...I vote for a
class action lawsuit ...They love our union dues but do NOTHING FOR
US....

Name: Frank
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 11 April 2013

Nomo., Retired FRA

I agree with what you both of you have said about the unions.  I cringe
when it comes time to ratify a new agreement.  My biggest question is
what are we giving up this time, and what union official is benefiting
from what my family is losing?   It shouldn't be this way.

I work out of Avon where two of the three union local chairman view
their positions as a stepping stone to a company officer's job.  When
company officers openly admit that UTU Local Chairman Shawn Holman WILL
be a company officer az soon as his major comes off his record, there is
a problem.  Then there's Jason Rolland.  He flunked a drug test while
taking a physical to be a trainmen masters job on the Chicago division.
  Jason came back to work for a while, only to get hit with a rule G
AGAIN.  Some how he kept his job.

Its obvious when Jason has cut a deal to save himself.  For example
when Jason Rolland was working at Hawthorn Yards, and switching on the
lead.   Jason decided not to put the derail up on the lead.  The yard
master reminded Jason to put the derail up, Jason said he didn't have
much switching to do, and he wasn't  going to worry about it.   What a
shock, Jason got caught by the trauma master and the next three people
Jason Rolland represented were sold down the river.  When ever Jason
Rolland gets busted for something, you can count on it, three of his
members WILL be sold down the river to pay for his sins.  Here is
another example about UTU Local Chairman Jason Rolland's selling (his
member's) abilities.  Jason was just cleared to come back from his
SECOND rule G violation.  Jason had a hearing for one of his member's.
 Jason was asleep when he got a call from a train master, asking him why
he wasn't at the hearing for one of his member's?   An hour later,
when Jason failed to show up to represent his member, the hearing was
held with out him.  Way to go Jason Rolland.  The UTU gives you, as the
locial chairman, a portion of the $175 a month that the UTU collects
from its members at Avon, and you'd rather sleep in than show up for a
hearing.  One sold down the river.  How many more to go?

Shawn Holman isn't much better.  He openly cuts deals with management
against his members.  When Shawn Holman's vice local quit, Shawn
openly asked management to go after his Former Vice Local, because the
UTU wasn't going to put up much of a defense to save him, now that
he's pissed at him.   It gets better.  Shawn Hollman has sent text to
several of his members saying he doesn't get paid enough to deal with
their problems.  Then openly writes to them, what's in it for him if
he puts up a fight for them.   WHAT THE .....  when Shawn is confronted
on what he has written, if the soon to be former member is angry, he
either says he's joking or gets indignant with that person.  

I could keep going on Sell You Out Jason or Roll Over On You Holman,
but I have to get on with my day.  Both of these Local Chairman have
had calls made about their actions to the General Chairman's office. 
To quote Steve Mavity "well ....  we've had calls on these men, but
we wont address this matter until they become company officers.  When
they become company officers, we'll deal with the situation then" 
WHAT.  WHY WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE FACT?   Your taking money from my check
to provide representation.  Why isn't the UTU doing their job.   Last
time I checked, taking money for services, then not providing the
agreed upon service is called FRAUD.

Name: Screwed by the UTU
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 April 2013

Why belong to the UTU when you are going to be a engineer, so join the
BLET then there is no conflict of interest when promoted.  BLET keeps
you, UTU does not care... they will get a replacement and have no
conflict of interest in you since you are more likely to be moving on
to the BLET anyway.   Duh!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 April 2013

Hey NoMo:

I certainly agree with you regarding the UTU. It seems to me that its
members are paying far more in dues than what they are receiving in
benefits. I once heard that the UTU was top heavy with vice presidents.
Is that the case now? It also seems to me that the UTU is more
interested in gaining more members than it is with protecting the ones
it already has. Its promotion of remote control locomotives seems to be
a good example of that. Could it be that the more dues paying members a
union has, the more its officials collect in salary and benefits?

Transportation unions can and should be stronger than other unions in
today's United States of America. They can build locomotives and
freight cars in Mexico, but railroads must operate them in the U.S. The
railroads just can't threaten to take their trains to Mexico or China
for operation. Nor can they export track and signal jobs. So why are
railroad unions so timid?

I believe that unions are the only hope that middle class America has.
But middle class American workers must wake up and demand that unions
and politicians start working for them, instead of working for
corporations and the wealthy. Can't working people see how
disgustingly powerful corporations have become? Can't they see how
politicians have thrown us under the bus for corporate money? And for
the white collar workers who have always looked down on blue collar
workers and unions, can't they see how the sinking ship is taking them
down too?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 April 2013

I have long advocated a single union to represent the operating crafts.
Not everyone agrees with my view. The UTU is clearly so far out of step
with the other unions it's not funny, but then again they are promoting
their own agendas too.

I've said it before as have other people; the union is only as strong
as the membership. The problem seems to be the union leadership is
either lost at sea or has turned a blind eye to the plight of the
members,
Either way it's unacceptable. The problem with the membership is there

are so many greenhorns, they don't understand how to make the their
union work for them or they just don't care. Which is also
unacceptable.

I was thinking...you know what would really get the union's and CSX's

attention? I'll bet if the members filed a Class Action against the
unions, condition would get better instantly...and I don't think it
would cost anything to find out either!

Name: Nasty company 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 10 April 2013

Guys ..Here is the bottom line.CSX will indeed do anything and
everything to you.If it benefits the company.But here is some food for
thought.We pay our unions to protect our rights as laborers, and to in
force the AGREED CONTRACTS.I HATE CSX but the company can only get by
with crap if the PAID unions allows it..I believe that I hate the
unions  (BLET/UTU) more because I pay them to screw my eye balls
out..until the unions band together and fight then will we lose the
battle.. GUYS IT'S TIME THAT WE EXPECT MORE FROM OUR UNIONS..the fox
is in the hen house..A DIVISION MANAGER STATED " THE UNIONS WERE
BOUGHT OFF YEARS AGO"  Fact !!!!!!....if it walks like a duck AND ACTS
LIKE A DUCK THEN IT'S A FREAKIN DUCK BOYS!!!!!!!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 08 April 2013

Problem is Derek Gibson just moved to the Car Shop and got a promotion.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 06 April 2013

I for 1 week these so called tm,s & rfe,s would listen to what the men
out in the field suggest, this rr would operate at 100% more better but
thier ego will not permitt that ever happen, No one will ever change
them even if the truth is right in front of thier moronic faces, No
wonder moral is so low.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 April 2013

POOR ROGER ZIELGER of Rocky Mount, NC.  

The lastest trainmaster to get demoted back to your tools.  28 ethics
complaints in the last 30 days alone.  Now you can join your fellow
demoted A'HOLE trainmaster buddies like Philip Crous and Derek
Gibson.

Maybe you can go meet Tommy Bullock at the liquid house for some
advice.

What will Rocky Mount do without you ???

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 05 April 2013

WHAT A GREAT JOB! WHO CAN I FIRE TODAY? WHO CAN I TALKED TO LIKE SHIT?
OR MAYBE I WILL TRY TREATING MY EMPLOYEEES LIKE I WOULD WANT TO BE
TREATED! NO THAT WOULD GET ME IN TROUBLE GUESS I WILL TREAT THEM LIKE
SHIT BECAUSE THATS THE WAY CSX TRAINED ME TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 05 April 2013

CSX COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR SAFTY!!! JUST MOVE THOSE TRAINS OR WE
WILL FIRE YOU! GOOD JOB CSX HIRE MORE TRAINMASTERS OFF THE STREETS THAT
KNOW NOTHING ABOUT RAILROADING! BUT THEY SURE KNOW HOW TOO ACT LIKE A
BIG SHOT!READ MORE BOOKS THEN YOU MIGHT LEARN HOW TO GET TRAINS OUT OF
THE TERMINALS ON TIME!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 31 March 2013

All corporations suck! But some just suck harder than others.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 31 March 2013

Happy Easter!!!    March 31, 2013....and CSX STILL SUCKS!!!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Here's the NoMo safety quote of the day...

Stay off the railroad tracks if you want to live!

Evidently Lucinda had had enough life. I wonder why anyone would want
to suffer such a horrible death? She must have really hated you to
make
you suffer like that!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 March 2013

Well NoMo

CSX safety quote for today

CSX safety is like boiled eggs and cheeses in a grab-and-co cooler
held at potentially hazardous temperature that could lead to a noxious
situation

NoMo Cockroachconnoisseur

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 March 2013

Good evening Robert:

I see you're in rare form tonight.

Actually if you hadn't treated Lucinda like boiled eggs and cheese in
the the grab and go cooler, she might still be with you. However, you
made her choice simple, didn't you!

An eternity of peace and quiet or a lifetime of misery. Now shut up,
take your meds and go play with yourself!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 March 2013

The damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario described in the
previous post seems to reveal just how unfairly railroad employees are
being treated. Unreasonable demands for production, combined with the
expectation of total rules compliance, would also constitute unfair
treatment. While I was an FRA inspector, several one-person remote
control operators told me that it would be impossible for them to meet
production demands without taking a few shortcuts. I reported that to
FRA Region 2 managers and they totally ignored me. Instead, FRA
instructed its inspectors to closely scrutinize the rules compliance of
those employees, and to report any deficiencies to railroad management.
Cozy!

Another damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario involves
locomotive and freight car inspection. When I was a Chessie System
machinist during the mid 1970's, I took my job seriously and reported
all defects. And all was good until I reported a defect that would
delay the departure of a locomotive. I was then expected to overlook
the defect. But I could not do that. One of the foremen I worked for
would throw cups of coffee against the shanty door when I reported
defects to him. Another foreman would just sign off the defects as
being "serviceable." And the general foreman told me that I would
never be promoted to foreman unless I learned to "play ball." I knew
then that I would never become a foreman. My conscience would not allow
it. Management did not retaliate against me back then. But I believe it
would be different today with current management policies.

Name: Trigger
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 29 March 2013

Ethics,

       Do you really think that i would post 100% factual info?  You
must be a company man.  However the main concept of the post stands

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 March 2013

CSX safety quote for today

CSX safety is like boiled eggs and cheeses in a grab-and-co cooler
held at potentially hazardous temperature. That could lead to a noxious
situation


NoMo Cockroachconnoisseur

Name: Ethics....lol
E-mail: 
Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 29 March 2013

Re: Trigger

It's absolutely BRILLIANT to post your "version of events and
responsibility" here, on this, a public forum. No need to worry about
CSX's lawyers using it against you in a court proceeding. Geez. It's
no wonder they label us as pawns.

Name: Trigger
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 28 March 2013

To any high officials that reads these post.  I injured myself at home
last year.  Went to Doc on a Thursday and was told to go have MRI done
on Friday and to return on Monday to go over results.  Doc said dont go
back to work for one week due to injury.  Against doc orders i went back
to work that day and faxed my dr. excuse to correct personnel.  Since it
was not an urgent care and it was on a "WEEKEND" my excuse was not
valid and therefor put me in the attendance policy.  After speaking
with a train master about this, he seemed to be more concerned about me
coming back to work against my docs orders and said i could be
terminated for that.  So with all that being said, what would you do? 
I can heel up and get fired for attendance or i can come to work
injured and get fired for that.  so no matter what i do i risk being
fired just simply because i hurt myself at home.  So with this
intimidation of being fired either way i go, you can bet your ass i
will hire a lawyer or i will just simply come to work and slip and fall
as soon as i walk in the door so not only will CSX have to pay my dr
bill, you will have to pay me for everyday i do not work.  YOUR CHOICE
CSX!!!!!!!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 March 2013

If the 401K is such a good deal why do the directors get rid of
their's? Seems like the more $$$ in the plan the more interest.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 March 2013

NoMo on CSX safety definition


...My,my,my...● Boiled eggs and cheeses in a grab-and-co cooler
held at potentially hazardous temperature.

That could lead to a noxious situation...

I wonder if the cheeses had already been cut :)... :)

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 March 2013

Hey Goober...is that you?

Your Tin Foil Hat is kinda tight, isn't it?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 March 2013

Posted: 26 March 2013

To the conductor 20/30 years....
 Just because CSX does one thing right ( contributing to our 401k
plan)
doesn't mean that they need a big pat on the back..CSX will always
suck
due to poor management..have you ever the term "you have been
railroaded" or " I have been railroaded" this term has been used
for
over 100 years..why ? You ask... Because the railroad takes what they
want regardless of the consequences of the employee ...here is what I
truly believe....# 1 ...the employee's are only human and not
machines... # 2. The employee's need more family time..( railroad
divorce rate is at 85% ) # 3 The employee's need a more structured
job
schedule.( regular calling times) # 4 the employee's need to be
treated
as if they do matter, and not just a EMPLOYEE ID...upper management
needs to understand that if it wasn't for the employee's (the little
man and women) that their fat butts wouldn't have a job either.. I
believe that in order to be a manager for the railroad you first need
to have at least 10/15 years of experience... These young managers are
little punks that has never had anything ...If anyone ask me how to
apply for the railroad I really do my best to direct them somewhere
else..My God bless us as we try to make it to retirement ............
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Just a response to the above posting.

Dear employee the contribution to Your 401k is a benefit. It was
planned that way and happens every month that you are employed, and
comes from the profit that your CSX generates.

Divorce rate for RR employees is what? where on earth did you get that
number?

Regular call times can be addressed by your Union any time the union
decides that as a issue. Call windows are a nice option. Are you sure
that is what you want?

You want a more structured job? well guess what the entire RR has a
more structured job. Apply for one if you want, you have one of very
few on call 24/7. The reason you make what you make is the ON CALL
concept that the RR can not live without, and they pay for the right to
do it at will.

As for your comment of 10-15 years of experience to be a CSX Manager,
just look at what real life experience has done to the BLE and UTU.
Total lack of respect for their members, don't try to call them you
will be on the phone for hours.

Now your comment on the young managers that never had anything, you may
be right, however they went to school, and are trying to better
themselves, and most likely still have very little. I do not understand
trying to belittle a young person, or for that matter a older person for
trying to make their life just a little bit better.

Once your attitude get's in check, you may get the retirement check.

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 27 March 2013

Feedup,

   You are mistaken, what the health inspector found was not Roaches
but miniature Managers in training, in a few months they will be fully
trained to do banner testing, switch tag testing, misalligned switch
testing and other forms of Chickenshit testing. Not to worry the CSX
legal dept. had notified the health dept. of their mistaken identity
and Bob Sullivan will shortly issue a press release to resolve this
issue.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 March 2013

My,my,my...● Boiled eggs and cheeses in a grab-and-co cooler held
at potentially hazardous temperature.

That could lead to a noxious situation...

I wonder if the cheeses had already been cut :)

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

I certainly hope those roaches are wearing their reflective vests and
safety glasses!

Name: FEED UP
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

After finding nearly 100 dead and live roaches in the kitchen of the
downtown office building, a state inspector issued an emergency closure
order, temporarily closing the dining facility.

During a routine inspection Eurest’s corporate dining service for CSX’s
500 Water St. offices on Monday, March 18, the inspector found the pests
in areas of the restaurant’s kitchen, leading to the café’s temporary
closure to address the problem before reopening later in the day.

The following is a summary of the inspector’s March 18 report, a public
record.

Eurest

Address: 500 Water St.

Closed: 8:53 a.m., Monday, March 18

Approved to open: 2:42 p.m., Monday, March 18

Violations: 8 total, 3 high priority, including:

● Boiled eggs and cheeses in a grab-and-co cooler held at
potentially hazardous temperature.

● Dead roaches: 10-15 under and around dish machine; 40-50 around
grease trap; 10 in trap under prep table; 1-2 on floor in kitchen area.

● Live roaches: 20-25 on pipes under dish machine; 10-15 coming
up pipe under dish machine; one on floor by fryers in kitchen.

Inspection history: During visits in July 2011 and January 2012,
roaches (dead and live) were noted in the inspector’s reports.

According to the agency, High Priority violations are those “which
could contribute directly to a foodborne illness or injury and include
items such as cooking, reheating, cooling and hand-washing.

Name: Fed up
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 26 March 2013

Sorry but the name should say "fed up".

Name: Feed up
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 26 March 2013

To the conductor 20/30 years....
 Just because CSX does one thing right ( contributing to our 401k plan)
doesn't mean that they need a big pat on the back..CSX will always suck
due to poor management..have you ever the term "you have been
railroaded" or " I have been railroaded" this term has been used for
over 100 years..why ? You ask... Because the railroad takes what they
want regardless of the consequences of the employee ...here is what I
truly believe....# 1 ...the employee's are only human and not
machines... # 2. The employee's need more family time..( railroad
divorce rate is at 85% ) # 3 The employee's need a more structured job
schedule.( regular calling times) # 4 the employee's need to be treated
as if they do matter, and not just a EMPLOYEE ID...upper management
needs to understand that if it wasn't for the employee's (the little
man and women) that their fat butts wouldn't have a job either.. I
believe that in order to be a manager for the railroad you first need
to have at least 10/15 years of experience... These young managers are
little punks that has never had anything ...If anyone ask me how to
apply for the railroad I really do my best to direct them somewhere
else..My God bless us as we try to make it to retirement ....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

I was wrong...Robert, I mean Jon Braun and Horsewagled both had the same
comment. Amazing that two great intellects like that would think alike!

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/03/man_killed_by_train_at_howells.html

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Man-Killed-by-Train-in-Mobile/Tq7AMfwY_k6epkzSnaLENQ.cspx

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Better get to the Doc...your meds obviously don't work!

A legally blind man. was he deaf too?

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Woman-Chasing-Dog-is-Hit-by-Train/na9n3Fm4D0u6ecbZ7dzltA.cspx

Here's one you completely missed or was it intentional because it 
wasn't CSX.

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/MPD-Released-Identity-of-Man-Hit-Killed-by-Train/VaKG5lel1UuBOeWr5w1TGA.cspx

Heaven is full of dumb asses!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/legally-blind-man-struck-by-train/nW3x5/

CSX runs down blind man.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 March 2013

N 03/25/2013 AT 1715 HOURS,  JACKSONVILLE CHIEF TRAIN DISPATCHER,
ADVISED THE Stockholm syndrome struck CREW OF TRAIN G42921 WITH
LOCOMOTIVES CSXT 959 AND CSXT 305 (BOTH DVR  EQUIPPED) STRUCK A
TRESPASSER NEAR MP 00K 651.5 ON THE P&A SUBDIVISION. THIS IS  LOCATED
EAST OF THE 17TH AVENUE CROSSING NEAR THE DEAD-END OF PERRY STREET IN 
PENSACOLA, FL. JACKSONVILLE CHIEF TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED THE TRAIN
CREW WAS  REPORTED TO BE FINE, BUT INDIVIDUAL STRUCK NEEDED IMMEDIATE
ASSISTANCE. OPERATOR,  PENSACOLA POLICE, WAS NOTIFIED AND ADVISED UNITS
WERE ALREADY EN ROUTE.CSX SPECIAL  AGENT, WAS NOTIFIED AND RESPONDING,
MANAGER OF FIELD INVESTIGATIONS WAS ALSO  NOTIFIED.  

UPDATE: AT 1758 HOURS, OPERATOR, PENSACOLA POLICE, ADVISED OFFICERS ON
SCENE  REPORTED THE TRESPASSER INVOLVED WAS FATALLY INJURED. 
JACKSONVILLE CHIEF TRAIN  DISPATCHER AND CSX, SPECIAL AGENT, WERE
NOTIFIED. MANAGER OF FIELD INVESTIGATIONS  WAS ALSO NOTIFIED..

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years
Posted: 25 March 2013

CSX at its finest, what ever happened to hiring the best qualified
candidate for the job?
Is this a response to fines for reciprocity? Has this had any influence
on the process associated with the hiring processes?  To hell with EEOC,
hire the best qualified, it’s the right thing to do.  No special
considerations for anyone.  Let the best qualified candidate for the
job be the best qualified candidate hired for the job.
Check out CMC, EEOC at its finest. Definitely influential, first and
foremost they have the strongest case of any department influence by
EEOC policies administered by senior management to take advantage of
current department directive to influence the EEOC policies initiated
by CSX to promote the appearance of CMC compliance to reciprocity
directives associated with the current settlement factors with the
settlement conditions by the courts.
But for those of us who really know, it's all smoking mirrors. It is
all for appearance purposes, obligations for reprobation are being
orchestrated by a non-operational essential department of operations.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 March 2013

What is a cigar suppose to mean should be the question.

www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1255&bih=895&q=stop+paddles&oq=stop+paddles&gs_l=img.12..0i24.1596.6442.0.8585.12.9.0.3.3.0.69.507.9.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img.b7zoW-n3Wqk

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 March 2013

/www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1255&bih=895&q=stop+paddles&oq=stop+paddles&gs_l=img.12..0i24.1596.6442.0.8585.12.9.0.3.3.0.69.507.9.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.7.img.b7zoW-n3Wqk

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 24 March 2013

Again Pines,  now you know why the FRA TOLD you to leave them alone. 
You ask stupid ass questions.   Son,  you are never going learn.  You
just don't get it.  Stop paddles, what the hell are you talking about.
 Quote me the rule about having to use a stop paddle at a rr xing at
grade.  Son, the GATES where in the down positiion.  Jeeze you are so
cluless.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 24 March 2013

In the interest of safety, I have spent a great deal of time studying
Robert's videos. Copious notes were made and signal system manuals
were referenced. After all of that information was filtered and
condensed, my conclusion was obvious. The lights and gates at that
crossing were being activated by.....GHOST TRAINS!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Better take your meds; you're having temper tantrums again. That
happens every time someone calls a bull shit on you. You always come
back with a re-post and litany of smart aleck, dumb ass comments.

Grow up and act your age!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 March 2013

Let's see
No green lights
No yellow lights so gate coming down is yellow light.
Signals failing with a wind change
Amtrak guy littering with lit cigars
Amtrak guy missing second Amtrak guy for traffic control
Amtrak guy(s) missing stop paddle(s)
Signal masts missing 100s of lights
No remote monitor interconnection to police when junk signals fail
SLOW response
Extra gate pumping causing rear end collisions
So the FRA thinks flopping gates are fail proof ---Why don't they line
up and find out?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4k2Dt-wAFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=GAJlWyw7UoA&feature=endscreen
Millenniumforce 6 months ago
The railroad worker arrived and said it was over heating in the main
box that's why the gates were malfunctioning. He also seen me do it
and didn't care. Also you got to take a chance in life to get the
right video. There are so many laws everyone breaks one everyday of
there lives and you don't even know it.  LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFu0jHDg_FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zontfq92Vcc
$250,000 Gates stolen

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 March 2013

Pines has posted something worth while,  a person tampering with RR
equipment a Mr ALAN SMITH ( if that is his real name) .  If you notice
when he counts down, before the alleged xing gate malfunction,  he
looks down the track FIVE times.   Hmmm what do you think the odds are
his buddy is down the tracks shunting the track.  Sure is strange he
knows exactly when the gates will come down.  Pines good post.  Idiots
like this tampering with the signal system should be put in jail on
Federal charges.  

FRA inspr, maybe you can send the video to the right people in DC.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 March 2013

GayWard Focker    13+ Rating

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 March 2013

Well, the one thing that Robert's linked videos do prove, is that
railroad crossing protection is fail-safe! When something did go wrong,
the lights flashed and the gates went down. That is the fail-safe system
designed into them. Gates may go down when there is no train, but they
won't be up when there is. The other thing I noticed was all of the
idiots that were still driving over the crossings when the gates were
going down. That is what causes crossing accidents. And those same
idiots also run red traffic lights at highway intersections. I say they
need to install enforcement cameras at all railroad crossings. Now if
Robert would spend his time promoting that, he could actually start
saving lives.

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 23 March 2013

TIME TO RATE THE MANAGEMENT TEAM

RATINGS 1 TO 10

1 = KINDA SUCKS
2 = SUCKS SLIGHTLY
3 = MAN U SUCK
4 = U SUCK BIG ONES
5 = U BOTHER ME SUCKS
6 = U SUCK AS A MANAGER
7 = VERY HARD SUCKER
8 = U COULD SUCK START A HARLEY DAVIDSON
9 = U SUCK SO MUCH IT HURTS
10 = U SUCK SO HARD U CAN SUCK A BASKETBALL THRU A MCDONALDS STRAW 

FIRST RATING
BOB FRULLA = 11

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 March 2013

As I was watching the videos Robert posted, I couldn't help but think
these were like porn to him. I had this vision of him sitting at his
command post intently gazing at his 6 monitors with that goofy look on
his face...I will leave the rest to your imagination!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 March 2013

Retired FRA Inspector sez: ... But
failures to remove jumper wires after completing crossing signal or
track maintenance are extremely rare...About as rare as the railroads
can't hide the witnesses and need a excuse for junk signals killing
people.

I would think this guy stays in his little corner in Florida but yet he
has all kinds of flopping/hatcheting gates for ghost trains. Hmmm but
NEVER nobody killed by this junk illegally used crap signals.

Is there a FRA directive for coolers in the signal house?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4k2Dt-wAFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=GAJlWyw7UoA&feature=endscreen
Millenniumforce 6 months ago
The railroad worker arrived and said it was over heating in the main
box that's why the gates were malfunctioning. He also seen me do it
and didn't care. Also you got to take a chance in life to get the
right video. There are so many laws everyone breaks one everyday of
there lives and you don't even know it.  LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFu0jHDg_FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zontfq92Vcc
$250,000 Gates stolen

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 March 2013

The past incidents that Robert Pines rehashed were indeed tragedies. But
failures to remove jumper wires after completing crossing signal or
track maintenance are extremely rare, and are 100 percent
unintentional. It must also be considered that for every one of those
incidents, there were hundreds of other incidents when highway
motorists drove around gates or ignored crossing warning signs and
signals. Those incidents WERE intentional. And let me be perfectly
clear, they were intentional on the part of the highway motorists.


Hopefully there will be no more accidents caused by the failure to
remove crossing signal jumper wires after work has been completed. And,
I hope that FRA will heed the March 8, 2013 recommendations of NTSB.
Crossing signals are designed to be fail-safe, and FRA must force the
railroads to take every step possible to continue improving on an
already extremely safe and effective system.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you have forgotten your meds again... re-posting old news?

By the way, did they ever find that body down in Newport News?

Tell us something we don't know!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 March 2013

Who is indicting the FEDs?

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130308b.html  
NTSB issues recommendations to ensure safety while maintenance work is
performed on railroad signal systems
March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board today issued four
recommendations addressing safety issues related to ongoing railroad
accident investigations near Madison, Illinois, and Niles, Michigan,
involving the use of jumper wires during railroad signal maintenance
operations. As a result, NTSB recommends the U.S. Department of
Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Transit
Administration provide railroad employees with the best practices
regarding the use of jumper wires when performing signal maintenance
operations on active rails.
http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/305-death-on-the-tracks-bnsf-http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130308b.htmlrailroads-24-million-dollar-cover-up-part-i.html
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2496508/posts
Track crew accidentally turned off crossing gates, lights before fatal
crash, probes say
Chicago Tribune ^ 
Posted on 4/19/2010 9:28:45 PM by Chet 99
A track crew inadvertently turned off the gates and warning lights at a
rail crossing in University Park late last week, shortly before a deadly
crash in which a train blindsided an SUV driven by a Chicago woman,
according to the preliminary federal and state investigation disclosed
on Monday.
"This was human error,'' said an investigator, who asked not to be
identified.
Last week, the Canadian National Railway crew was working on signals
and electrical circuits connected to a track-switching mechanism being
built near the crossing when workers shut down all warnings to
motorists about approaching trains, the investigator said.
Also, a video camera aboard the four-car Amtrak train that struck and
killed Katie Lunn, 26, on Friday night corroborated the preliminary
findings, officials said. The video, shot from the train's locomotive
as it was traveling nearly 79 mph, clearly shows that the barrier
gates, flashing lights and bells at the Stuenkel Road crossing near
Governors Highway did not turn on, federal and state investigators
said.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/11267640-418/6-million-settlement-in-rail-crossing-crash-that-killed-naperville-dance-instructor.html
+++++++++++++++++++++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bourbonnais,_Illinois_train_accident
...However, the Illinois State Police investigation found Track Circuit
malfunction as the cause....
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-06-30/news/0006300045_1_maintenance-worker-federal-railroad-administration-amtrak
A Tribune investigation earlier this year disclosed that the Union
Pacific told the Railroad Administration that the warning lights, bells
and gates functioned properly before the accident.But six video cameras
positioned over the crossing showed that none of the signal warning
devices activated and the gates did not go down.

Name: Eddie Joe
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 March 2013

The Year of The Feds:

The Feds will be indicting Railroads for bribes and kick backs?

Stay tune for further details...

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 March 2013

***WEB REPORT*** ON 03/19/2013 AT 1954 HOURS, HG TRAIN DISPATCHER,
ADVISED THE CREW OF TRAIN E54319 WITH LOCOMOTIVES CSXT 806 AND CSXT 10
(BOTH DVR EQUIPPED) REPORTED STRIKING A TEENAGE FEMALE NEAR MP CA 18.5
ON THE PENINSULA SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY A MILE
SOUTH OF MULLER LANE CROSSING IN NEWPORT NEWS, VA. HG TRAIN DISPATCHER
ADVISED THE TRAIN HAD STOPPED NEAR MP CA 19.3 AND THE CONDUCTOR WAS
WALKING BACK. DISPATCHER 1748, NEWPORT NEWS POLICE, WAS NOTIFIED AND
DISPATCHING UNITS TO THE AREA. CSX SPECIAL AGENT, WAS NOTIFIED AND
RESPONDING. CSX MANAGER OF FIELD INVESTIGATIONS WAS ALSO NOTIFIED AND
CONFERENCED IN WITH HUNTINGTON CHIEF TRAIN DISPATCHER, WHO ADVISED THIS
WAS A PASSENGER ROUTE. UPDATE: AT 2034 HOURS, DISPATCHER LANCASTER,
NEWPORT NEWS POLICE, ADVISED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND POLICE
UNITS WERE ON SCENE, BUT UNABLE TO LOCATE AT THIS TIME. CSX SPECIAL
AGENT, WAS NOTIFIED AND ADVISED HE WAS ON SCENE ASSISTING WITH THE
SEARCH.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 March 2013

The following video is a tribute to Robert Pines, please enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIC94gEUuc8

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 19 March 2013

Pines,  comments just like that is why the FRA said to stop bothering
them.  That is why nobody takes you seriously and you are not
creditable. 

FRA inspector :  What you tried to explain to Pines is so for over his
head.  He can't comprehend that much, he has no idea what you are
talking about.  Hell, he thinks the answer to RR safety is to put a
steering wheel on an engine.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 March 2013

480 axles times 10 cents stopping surface = $48 bucks
360 axles times 10 cents stopping surface = $36 bucks

Mix in a few buckets of sand --- a quart of molasses---
some--parachutes--a reversed rocket ---three ding dongs --- and 18
outriggers.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 March 2013

Hey NoMo:

If Robert had lived during the late 19th or early 20th Centuries, when
brakemen were required to walk the tops of freight cars setting
handbrakes in order to stop trains, he might have been able to make
himself useful. Although air brake systems were available at the time,
courtesy of George Westinghouse, railroads would not spend the money to
equip their freight cars with those systems. And it took an act of
Congress to force them to do so.

Now, short of equipping all freight cars with electronically controlled
air brake systems, there doesn't seem to be much that can be done to
shorten train stopping distances. FRA spent a lot of taxpayer money
equipping a couple of trains with electronically controlled air brake
systems. By doing so, FRA believed they could persuade North American
railroads to equip all of their freight cars with those systems, and
thereby reduce the stopping distances for all trains. FRA even tried to
have Congress water down the Safety Appliance Law as an enticement to
the railroads. But FRA did not succeed in that venture, nor did it
succeed in convincing the railroads to spend untold millions of dollars
equipping freight cars with electronically controlled air brakes. It
seems to me that someone in FRA must have been smoking something a
little wacky for them to believe that railroads would make such a large
expenditure while getting so little in return. And just imagine how that
extra layer of technology would have increased maintenance costs and
train delays. Personally I thought it was a white elephant idea from
the beginning. After all, when signals and rules are obeyed, stopping
distances are never an issue. I don't know where those test trains are
now. But I last heard they had been parked for some time.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 March 2013

Hey FRA:

Anyone knows a 25,000 ton 120 car train is easier to stop than 25,000
ton 90 car train...except Robert...480 axles vs 360 axles! When it 
comes to trains, a long skinny one is better than a short fat one:)

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 March 2013

It seems to me that Robert must be viewing U.S. railroad operations from
some distant planet. Anyone who has actually seen the headlights and
auxiliary (ditch) lights of locomotives approaching highway-rail
crossings would describe them as anything but antique, or otherwise
insufficient. And the locomotive air horns that warn motorists can be
heard from miles away. I live five miles south of the NS Chicago Line,
and can plainly hear engineers blowing for crossings from this
distance. 

Compared to highway vehicle braking systems, train braking systems have
an extreme disadvantage. The amount of friction generated between rubber
tires and highway surfaces is very high. And the amount of friction
generated between steel wheels and steel rails is very low. That is
precisely why highway vehicles must always yield right-of-way to
trains. But keep in mind that train braking systems are engineered to
provide the maximum amount of braking possible, short of sliding the
wheels. And just like highway vehicles loose braking efficiency when
wheels are locked, trains also loose that efficiency. 

Although the design of today's train braking systems is a vast
improvement over those of the past, they aren't always maintained in
accordance with that design. During my last few years with FRA, I
discovered hundreds of freight cars with binding brake levers, which
created ineffective air brakes. Although my reports were received by
railroad headquarters personnel, I noticed no improvement in the
condition of the freight cars they operated. I also discovered the
failure to perform proper train brake tests on several occasions. Had I
not intervened in those cases, freight cars with inoperative air brakes
would have departed in outbound trains. However, two or three freight
cars with inoperative air brakes would have very little impact on the
stopping distance of a 120 car train. The problem here is that FRA will
not stand up to the railroads and demand regulatory compliance.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

I would be happy to Google the crossing at Thermal Rd. if I really 
cared and if I had time to do it. However unlike yourself, I have a 
life and more important things to do than worry about a couple of
staggering drunks headed home at 0330.

What's really pathetic is anyone that has nothing better to do or that
is so mentally or emotionally defective; they sit around the house
scouring the Internet for reports of train incidents. They so enjoy
spreading their toxic sputum at the RR, they forget that they don't
care either...if they did they would send flowers!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 March 2013

to opinion 
Pretty pathetic railroad safety in this country when a 25 mph train
can't get stopped for a obstacle on the tracks while the railroad
brass are paying themselves millions.

Google map this area and there's like 78KVolt power lines for lights
which probably would glow with no connection. Set the Google token
right on the crossing on Thermal Road and a train is just starting the
gates but yet with all the brush in the way of the crossing  and the
antique lighting on the train all you can see is a blob.


1085 0.011759 631384D CSX NC MECKLENBURG CHARLOTTE THERMAL RD 0 0 0 0
0 GT 6 1 25 YES 2 5,596

***WEB REPORT*** ON 03/17/13 AT 0335 HOURS, FC TRAIN DISPATCHER,
ADVISED TRAIN  Q69717 REPORTED STRIKING TWO TRESPASSERS AT MP SF 323
ON CHARLOTTE SUBDIVISION.  THIS IS LOCATED AT THERMAL ROAD IN
CHARLOTTE NC. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE  DEPARTMENT, NOTIFIED AND
RESPONDING. SPECIAL AGENT AND FLORENCE CHIEF TRAIN  DISPATCHER
NOTIFIED.
UPDATE AT 0357 HOURS, CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT, ADVISED
POLICE AND  EMS ON SCENE. POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED TRESPASSERS HAVE BEEN
FATALLY INJURED.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 17 March 2013

Pines asks 24 dumbass questions and get chops busted 24 times by the War
Eagle.... got to love it.  More than one site knows how clueless he is. 
He just changes his name. Pines, if your stove burns you I would sue GE
for making it too hot.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

Wow, Jon Brawn must have majored in railroading at some prestigious
university! He is blowing everyone away with his knowledge! FRA should
try to recruit him for a major position in its Headquarters office.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

Well Robert...didn't take you long to step in it...did it?

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/03/pedestrian_killed_by_train_nea.html

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

Good afternoon Robert;

The two women in Charlotte were suicides or may have been been murdered
and placed there to destroy evidence. 

The man in Morris was a trespasser and probably loaded.

Last thing I knew was there were a lot of mechanical parts and seals in
locomotives and reefers...a few gallons of diesel fuel or oil is the
least of the RR worries.

Are you saying CSX is the Carnival Cruise Line of the rails?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

Well NoMo the rest is a typical CSX safe weekend ---kill 1 here --kill 2
there ---dump a couple trains ---ooze crap all over the eastern US.

http://www.wral.com/2-women-killed-in-train-accident-in-charlotte/12233649/
http://www.njeffersonnews.com/local/x620876350/Body-found-near-railroad-crossing-on-Morris-Majestic-Road
ON 03/16/13 AT 1650 HOURS, TERMINAL TRAINMASTER REPORTED TANKCAR GATX
71839 (LOAD - TURPENTINE) WAS LEAKING FROM THE TOP AND DRIPPING ONTO
THE GROUND AT MP S 632.84 ON THE KINGSLAND SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS
LOCATED AT 1432 TALLEYRAND AVENUE ON TRACK X9 IN THE EXPORT YARD IN
JACKSONVILLE, FL. CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, WAS CONFERENCE CALLED
IN AND WOULD NOTIFY CONTRACTOR TO RESPOND. JACKSONVILLE POLICE WERE
NOTIFIED. ***THIS IS A WEB REPORT***
/////WEB REPORT///// ON 03/15/13 AT 2231 HOURS, SE TRAIN DISPATCHER,
ADVISED TRAIN Q12414 POSSIBLY HIT A TRESPASSER 200 YARDS SOUTH OF MP
000 374.3 ON S AND N A NORTH SUBDIVISION. THIS IS LOCATED AT MORRIS
MAJESTIC ROAD IN MORRIS AL. JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF, NOTIFIED AND
RESPONDING. SPECIAL AGENT, NOTIFIED. UPDATE AT 2244 HOURS, NASHVILLE
CHIEF TRAIN DISPATCHER, REPORTED FATALITY COMFIRMED, POLICE AND EMS ON
SCENE. SPECIAL AGENT AND CLAIMS AGENT, NOTIFIED.
[WEB REPORT] ON 03/15/13 AT 1829 HOURS, THE MANAGER OF OPERATIONS &
DATA CONTROL REPORTED LOCAL SWITCHER TRAIN J72615 WITH LOCOMOTIVES CSXT
7575 AND CSXT 7787 (BOTH DVR EQUIPPED) WAS HEADED EASTBOUND WHEN IT
DERAILED ONE EMPTY COVERED HOPPER AT MILEPOST QSC 25 ON THE
CRAWFORDSVILLE SUBDIVISION. NAHX 94102 (RESIDUE LIMESTONE) DERAILED UP
RIGHT AND IN LINE. INDIANAPOLIS CHIEF TRAIN DISPATCHER CONFIRMED THERE
WERE NO REPORT OF INJURIES; HOWEVER, STATE STREET AND LEBANON STREET IN
LIZTON, INDIANA ARE BLOCKED. HENDRICKS COUNTY 911 WAS NOTIFIED. THE
MANAGER OF FIELD INVESTIGATIONS WAS NOTIFIED
[WEB REPORT] ON 03/15/13 AT 1653 HOURS, ROAD FOREMAN, REPORTED CAR AOK
55239 (REFRIGERATED FLAT CAR) ON TRAIN Q11915 IS SPRAYING DIESEL FUEL
AT MP QD 172.5 ON THE CLEVELAND TERMINAL. THIS WAS LOCATED INSIDE
COLLINWOOD YARD IN CLEVELAND, OH
****WEB REPORT**** ON 03/15/13 AT 1342 HOURS, CONDUCTOR REPORTED
LOCOMOTIVE CSXT 8717 ON TRAIN B03215 LEAKED APPROXIMATELY 2 OR 3
GALLONS OF OIL BETWEEN THE RAILS AT MP QS 107.5 ON THE ST LOUIS LINE.
THIS WAS LOCATED NEAR THE SE 8TH STREET IN CASEY, IL.
***WEB REPORT*** ON 3/15/13 AT 0256 HOURS, THE HUNTINGTON WEST CHIEF
TRAIN DISPATCHER ADVISED TRAIN G91812 WITH LOCOMOTIVE CSXT 627 LEAKED
AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF OIL ONTO THE BALLAST AT MP Z 115.1 ON THE
KINGSPORT SUBDIVISION. THIS IS LOCATED NEAR FAIRRIDGE ROAD IN JOHNSON
CITY, TN. THE CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER AND WASHINGTON COUNTY WERE
NOTIFIED. HEPACO ENVIRONMENTAL WAS RESPONDING.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Is that the best you got? The air supply...no just the blood from those
three morons that bought the farm last week.

Your upset because there's just 1 car that uses the Will Ln. xing?
What's wrong with you...are you losing it? Any other time you be
bawling like a baby because it wasn't protected. Don't you remember
that it's your mission in life to see that all crossing are protected!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/03/mobile_fire_responds_to_minor.html

CSX cleaning air supply in Mobile. Quick NoMo go stick your finger in
the dam.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 March 2013

CSX clearing row in Kentucky.

http://www.14news.com/story/21660804/crews-on-scene-of-large-train-derailment-in-hopkins-co

Google map ---Will Ln KY

1702 0.001372 345309E CSX KY HOPKINS MORTONS GAP WILL LN 0 0 0 0 0 FL
28 1 45 YES 2 1.

28 trains a day with 45 mph speed limit.

Crossing signals for ONE vehicle a day?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 15 March 2013

Mr. Pines

Retired FRA Inspector said it right. The FRA is corrupt but, calling
your senator or, any other agency will only get you on the Terrorist
Watch List, which the railroads operate on behalf of Homeland Security
to protect the rail property. If a 5 year lod girl can be accused of
terrorist threats for threatening to shoot her teacher with a bubble
gum gun?

The government owns Amtrak you think they're going to let people know
that they have lost their constitutional rights to due process of law?
The FRA reports to the USDOT. The USDOT reports to the Secretary of
Transportation. The Secretary then to the Prez.  VP Bidens nick name is
Amtrak Joe. We have lost our nation already, may as well give up Mr.
Pines. Better stand in line at Wal-Mart to get first dibs on the next
shipment of ammo.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 March 2013

TenYearsPlus

You didn't give much information on what led to the 60 days out of
service that your ex-wife called the railroad about. Which is
understandable. In some situations they have to make a judgement call.
I'm sure local management had to report it to JAX. Did CSX get the EAP
involved? What did CSX do wrong? Sounds like you have a crazy ex-wife
who is the real perpatraitor. I would discuss this with your LC on a
possible claim for loss income. If you were exonerated it could be a
good claim. I had a similiar situation decades ago where I was taken
out of service over a situation off property before the facts became
known. There's a thing called protocol that has to be adhered to in
some situations. You're blaming CSX when it wasn't their doing it was
your ex-wife.

Name: TenplusYears
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 14 March 2013

To anyone who wants to know about cell phone use on trains:

Yes it is illegal for any person who is operating a train to use a cell
phone while moving.

If you should decide that it is necessary to do so I recommend the
following actions:

1.) Be sure that the other person riding with you is not a "Company
Man" "Snitch" "other form of back stabbing lowlife"

2.) Get a burn phone - Do NOT use the number anyhwere on the railroad
including to call crew management or anyone else related  to the
railroad. 

3.) Only use the burn phone while on a train and be sure that your
"Regular" phone is off and stored in your grip as required.


Happy Calling/texting/surfing ! :)

Name: TenPlusYears
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 14 March 2013

After being a loyal employee of CSX for over 20 years, there came a time
when I needed CSX to be on my team they betrayed me. I was accused by an
"Anonymous" caller (My Ex) of violating the covenant of my oath as a
locomotive engineer to never do anything that would endanger myself, my
crew or the public (besides the obvious doing my job). 

I had warned them prior to all of this that she would be calling and
even told them what she would say. Of course when it did happen I was
immediately removed from service and kept from service for more than 60
days. Of course when I went back they played "Dumb" like they had
nothing to do with it and they had no prior notice. (Not that I never
had a failed drug test EVER or anything) 

Long story short I feel betrayed by the company that I have given more
that a decade to so now that she is charged with Felony Extortion for
it (my Ex) I think I will forward this to federal prosecutors for them
to look into CSX's actions......

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 March 2013

Mr. Pines:

You seem to be an extremely bitter and hateful person. That, coupled
with your apparent failure to deal with reality, makes it imperative
that you seek professional help. And every day that you live without
this help, will be one more day of your life that is wasted.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 March 2013

Retired FRA Inspector sez:::I reported FRA to my Senator and
Congresswoman and you folks should too.::: 

Why not complain to the FRA?? You know the worthless outfit you make
believe you retired from.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 March 2013

Railroads have enjoyed a cozy relationship with FRA for years. And
recently it has only gotten worse. That's why I retired. At one time,
railroad unions used political channels to gain clout with FRA. Unions
need to start applying that pressure once again. FRA needs to be called
out for its cozy relationship with the railroads. Let them start hearing
your voices. I reported FRA to my Senator and Congresswoman and you
folks should too.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 March 2013

CSX is suppose to install shutdown circuits to prevent RC's from  going
outside it's switching limits. A friend/co-worker working a RCO job
recently had an incident of running a red board side swiping derailing
cars from a train sitting on the main waiting to come into the yard. At
first CSX charged him with the more serious charges which could of
terminated his 30+ year carreer. Then they dismissed them opting for
charges that lead to just some time in the street. Reason was they
hadn't installed circuits to prevent this from happening. This
protection was installed on the northend but not on the southend where
he was working. All these situations could of been avoided with two man
crews with head end protection. The FRA has to be bought out to have
allowed the cover ups an one man remote operations. The UTU failed
everyone by not making sure all the i's were dotted and t's crossed
when they rushed to get this agreement blinded by their hate for the
BLE. RC's might be good for small time operations and that's
questionable I don't think they were ever meant for large scale. To my
knowledge CSX is the only class 1 that has truly embraced it.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 March 2013

Now watch this video and imagine that Del is holding a remote control
box, or that the RCO at Hawthorne Yard is holding a guitar. Either will
work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yIaelSVhyM

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 March 2013

NoMo:

History has proven that no machine or device can be 100 percent
fail-safe. Some, including myself, believed that this would eventually
happen. But luckily no one was hurt. The problem is that no one was
aboard the locomotive to take action when the failure occurred. Perhaps
the "WARNING - UNMANNED LOCOMOTIVES" signs should be enlarged, with
the message also being announced over a loudspeaker and published in
the local newspapers. Hopefully the cause of the runaway will be posted
on this site. One thing for sure though, Stanley Yard still holds the
titles for distance and speed. Nothing can ever top the crazy eights.
That was one hell of a locomotive!

Thanks for the video link, Jethro Tull is one of the greatest! However,
that song brings back memories of when I was working in the Walbridge
Roundhouse back in the 1970's. There was so much Diesel smoke at times
that I could hardly see. Imagine starting up a very cold locomotive
inside a closed building. One of the roof exhaust fans may have been
working, but it sure didn't seem like it. Oh, and the only thing that
kept the diesel sparks from burning that roundhouse down was the wet
ceiling. The roof leaked so bad that it was nearly always soaked. But I
do remember a couple of fires that started during long dry spells. We
put the fires out, but due to low water pressure, we had to stand on
the tops of locomotives for the water to reach the fire. And you
guessed it, none of the fire extinguishers worked either. But it was
fun railroading back then. Completely different than today.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 March 2013

How does a RC engine get away? It's suppose to be fail safe. It use 
to be just about impossible to couple an air hose without the 
"man down" feature blowing the air and having to reset the
motor...obviously CSX has tweaked the system; with potentially dire
consequences!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 March 2013

In honor of the GLD...

For your listening pleasure, live from Avo, I think the N fell off the
wall, Please welcome Jethro Tull...

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76pxiPlxHs

Name: 1800hurt
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 09 March 2013

The bid system is horrible.We are not machines..WE ARE HUMAN,WE WIL
BREAK DOWN AND HOPEFUL ON YOUR PROPERTY!!! CSX's NEW MANAGEMENT HAS
SET THE STAGE FOR COMPANY FAILURE...EMPLOYEES will start dropping ..so
sad...God bless each employee and there family's..

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 March 2013

Billy Bob:

I would contact the national news media. Knowing how FRA was when I
retired last year, I doubt they will do much. They will probably just
try to keep the incident as quiet as possible, and blame it on the
operator. During my last month with FRA, it became clear to me that FRA
now believes that its sole purpose is to cheerlead for the railroads. It
seems that safety is now only a sideline for FRA. I would also contact
members of the U.S. House and Senate. If pressure isn't put on FRA,
they will do nothing. I'm not trying to be funny, but Ralph Nader
should also be made aware of this incident.

Name: billy bob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 08 March 2013

Congratulations CSX, Troy (Boy Toy) Donaldson, and the Great Lakes
own....Scott Conners on another successful cover up that Jacksonville,
the public, and the FRA hasn't been notified of.

At the start of the third trick yard job, on the evening of 03/07/13,
Hawthorne Yards had a Remote Control train with 43 loaded cars get
loose.  The unmanned Remote Control train headed out of the yard, and 
down the Prospect Heights. The Remote Control train and its 43 cars
went over a derail, derailing several of the cars trucks.  The derailed
trucks rerailed themselves when the trucks hit a frog as they headed
towards tens of thousands of unsuspecting people in downtown
Indianapolis. 

While the Remote Control train was on the loose, two trains were headed
back towards Hawthorne yards.  One train headed to Hawthorn was a yard
job, and lined into the Prospect Heights when the Remote Controlled
train got away from the crew.  The yard job heading into Hawthorn had
to be stopped by the IC Dispatcher.  The second train, a local, was
close by, and awaiting its turn enter Hawthorne Yards.  An unknown
source notified the IC Dispatchers that there was a run away train
headed towards downtown Indianapolis.  The quick thinking 3rd shift IC
Dispatcher stopped the 2 trains, and lined the switches for the runaway
Remote Control train. (to keep the Remote from derailing, or tearing
anything else).  The runaway Remote got up to 12 miles an hour before
gravity took hold, and eventually stopped the runaway train as it
started up hill.

Thank you IC Dispatcher for your quick thinking, and averting yet
another Derailment on The Great Lakes Division this year.

Congratulations Scott Conners on another successful cover up.  I'm
sure you're doing CSX proud by not getting the FRA, or local media
involved.  Hopefully CSX has another promotion is on its way for you.

Way to go CSX.  Your successful cover ups of incidents like this help
keep the public and the FRA in the dark as to how dangerous unmanned
Remote Controlled engines really are, even if they do get loose only a
few blocks from Downtown Indianapolis.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 March 2013

Welcome to....the twilight zone....courtesy of Robert Pines.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 March 2013

Fired

A little more information then thinking you were fired because of the
CSX Welness Program. Being unhealthy might lead to a person being taken
out of service it isn't grounds for termination. Personally I never got
involved with company sponsored programs the less they know the better.
Even when they put in gym equipment at one of the terminals there were
cameras installed. Is it that you think by participating it put a
target on your back? Being unhealthy most people I know would be out of
service after 10 years with the lousy diet, lack of proper rest,
breathing in fumes ect....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Where have you been...blacked out? It received plenty of press, almost
as much as the "Turdtanic".

Lots of comments, mostly from assholes who have no idea of what
they're talking about...family members in denial and guys like Jon
Brawn, Bob Todd and Horsewagles.

Thew got exactly what they deserved! Oh, Reggie, the idiot with the
crushed foot says he can hardly wait to jump another freight, yep
nothing like livin' free and easy, no job, now education, no 
financial worries.

Well anyway, there's three spaces available in Britt, IA. They thought
they were bound for Florida, the train they caught was bound for glory!

You know, now that I think about, you have a lot in common with them,
No job, no money and a shitload of mental and emotional issues. Why
don't you swap your shanty for a bedroll and join them for a life of
adventure...just remember, you want a Boxcar, not a Gondola loaded with
scrap iron!

Name: out of the game  
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 March 2013

hey folks?.........is it still illegal to use cell phones on the train? 
and if you have an incident? does the official have the right to use the
cell phone on your train?............not !  your in charge its your
train  , same rules apply to all !  the conductor is in charge and
should have it known !  no cell phones at all !     if need be ? report
the officer  to the  fra  ! pronto!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 March 2013

So the CSX Mobile yard crew thought it would be funny to take something
and ram the 5 people in the rail car scaring the beejeegers out of them
killing three and injuring one.

CSX did a bang up job of squelching the media on these killings down in
sweet potato pie land.

Name: Fired 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 07 March 2013

I'm not in the best of health 5'6" 260.

I was fired not long after participating in the Wellness Program.

Now this article comes out I think I have a strong case.

Has anyone else been fired? If you have been, think back if you
participated in the program?



http://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx_transportation/article/At-CSX-a-healthier-employee-is-a-safer-employee--35437#

Name: evie1958
E-mail: suthrnrazd@msn.com
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 March 2013

Rest in Peace dear Brother to many..M.W.C.gone since June 10,2010 but
never forgotten.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 March 2013

Take your meds Robert, your losing it!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 March 2013

Retired FRA Inspector

..So let me get this straight. Pines believes that warning people
about
the dangers of trespassing on railroad property is a bad thing? And
that people have absolutely no control of their destiny? This could
possibly be the weirdest conversation on the internet!...Guess you
didn't read the UP engineers step-son was ran down like a cricket
yesterday. Probably giving his killer co-engineer counseling right now
with high 5s and the works. GOOD KILL MAN
Guess railroads are too cheap to pay for real counselors.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 06 March 2013

What is really scary is that Pines is still allowed to have a driver's
license even in his mental state.  He puts everybodys lives in danger
when he gets behind the wheel of a car.  This is a disturbed individual
who does not understand laws, personal responsibly and most of all
common sense.  He is one big NUT case.  The state of Missouri needs
investigate this guy and pull his drivers license.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 March 2013

So let me get this straight. Pines believes that warning people about
the dangers of trespassing on railroad property is a bad thing? And
that people have absolutely no control of their destiny? This could
possibly be the weirdest conversation on the internet!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 March 2013

The most basic rules of rail safety are "stop, look and listen, and
always cross at the crossing."

"And don't try to beat the train," he said. "A coal train can be
10,000 tons, and there is no game to it -- you get hit by that, and it
will tear you apart."

Read more here:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/03/05/4662974/father-of-boy-killed-by-train.html#storylink=cpy

Where do the railroads find these brain washed Patty Hearst bitches or
do they form them in a cricket barrel?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 March 2013

Thank God for morons...they have managed to keep Pines busy spewing his
Bullshit all over the local electronic media in Mobile the last day. 
Or, is it Jon Brawn, or Horsewagled? Probably see Bob Todd and Missouri
before he's finished!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 March 2013

Mr. Pines:

FRA Inspector applicants must pass an extremely difficult exam. But due
to the many hours I spent with my Lionel electric train, I was able to
ace it! And the rigorous training I was provided with after being hired
allowed me to become an expert accident investigator. Becoming
conversant with state highway laws also honed my investigation
techniques. After my first few investigations, I devised a way to
streamline the process by purchasing a large rubber stamp. And that
rubber stamp said, "this motorist failed to yield right-of-way to the
train, so the population of planet Earth was reduced accordingly."

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 March 2013

Hey other:

That's easy, he would spend his days posting on sites like the one 
below under one of his numerous aliases!

Maybe now that we're faced with sequestration he'll lose his crazy
check and other entitlements and have to get a job or end up like those
five guys!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years
Posted: 05 March 2013

Nomo,

POOR POOR PINES....What is he going to do if this site ever gets shut
down. No life, no friends and too much time on his hands. What ever
will he do. You give him hope every time you reply to him. He owes you
big time!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 March 2013

Here's three Cockroaches...

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/03/mobile_fire_rescue_responding.html#incart_river_default

You just have to be ignorant to get hit by a train...guess this is
dying in your sleep!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 March 2013

So the FRA trains their inspectors to treat victims like mower chopped 
bugs? Geez no wonder you passed the exam. Your IQ is less than a cock
roach.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 March 2013

Individuals that drive or walk in front of trains are no different than
crickets that jump in front of lawn mowers. They all get mowed down.
And it is just as ridiculous to blame the engineers as it would be to
blame the mower operators.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

"...hide in their bohemith train cabs and mow down 100s of people a
year."

You know what Robert? If they weren't on the tracks or they moved, 
they wouldn't be mowed down, now would they?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 March 2013

NoMo ---yep the same book the railroads tell all their Stockholm
Syndrome struck Patty Hearst bitches it's OK to hide in their bohemith
train cabs and mow down 100s of people a year.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 March 2013

L&N Dispatcher:

Pines just bought a new set of wheel spinners. So his trailer now looks
like it's doing 60 when the wind is blowing.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

"...thou shall not kill 100 to 1 is still in a lot of books." Which
books would those be; The Book of Pines?

I'll betcha that "stay off the tracks" is in even more books!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 01 March 2013

Pines maybe you can round everyone in your trailer park community that
think like you and have them checked for Dumbass Syndrome.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 March 2013

NoMo you need to round up all CSX employees and have them checked for
Stockholm Syndrone. You know the RR might threaten you might end up
under the train but the thou shall not kill 100 to 1 is still in a lot
of books.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 March 2013

Good morning Robert:

Nice of you to post those Highway fatality stats...not sure they are
germane to RR stats because you're comparing apples to oranges.It's
nice to know anyway, just in case you play Trivia Pursuit!

Now remember, we discussed the "100 murders" you suggested CSX
committed? Actually 98 of them were suicides, either intentional or
accidental...remember?

Just take your meds...it will all be better!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 March 2013

CSX 2012 

TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: 869   
Number of fatal accidents/incidents 97 
Total train miles: 98,231,811
Total fatalities:100     
Total nonfatal conditions: 437      
Employee hours:58,233,574

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/12/2011-safety-numbers-show-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-but-dots-work-continues.html#.UOVfum-TrTo
The updated Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data shows 2011
also saw the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, with 1.10 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011, down from 1.11 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010. (1 fatality per 90,909,091
miles traveled)

So instead of the soooo safe CSX killing one person they kill 100. 
Where's the big sign on WATER Street?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 February 2013

Good evening Robert:

Forget to take your meds again?

I didn't see anywhere in the two articles the word murdered
mentioned.
Again...prove it if you can!

The next time you intend to use a direct quote from a story the entire
statement needs to be within the quotation marks...just not the words
you want highlighted.

There's nothing here based on these articles...when you can find
something, get back with us!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 February 2013

So CSX murders two more in Tampa

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/troopers-identify-two-killed-when-car-train-collided-in-bartow/1276897
Anthony Martin Young, 24, of Mulberry was heading west in a Nissan
Pathfinder on Ewell Road about 11:30 p.m. when lights """began to
flash""" at a railroad crossing.

http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2013/feb/28/troopers-id-victims-in-polk-county-suv-crash-with-ar-645930/
The train's horn was blaring and """lighted railroad gates were
activated""" at 11:40 p.m. when the 1998 Nissan Pathfinder driven by
Anthony Martin Young, 24, of Mulberry, and Eren Randall Askew, 25, of
Lakeland, crossed the tracks on Ewell Road, west of State Road 37, the
FHP said.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years
Posted: 27 February 2013

@ DieHard:

Hey kid, save yourself alot of future heartache and aggravation, take a
pass on the Intermodal thing. They don't pay for s*%t, you'll work for
a lousy company, and be hounded by managers who are of low moral
character, corporate greed-hounds, and will do anything they're told
to, just to climb one rung up the corporate ladder, just to fall back
three rungs and never learn the lesson. Anybody who has any decent
amount of time working for CSX will tell you the same thing. Honestly.

Name: diehard
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 February 2013

hey guys. Can anyone tell me what is the average starting salary for
Intermodel service worker. I seems like it is a big secret! Because I
can not find out anywhere on line not even on the CSX website.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 February 2013

Note: There were no share repurchases during fourth quarter 2012 to fund
the CSX Company's contribution to a 401(k) plan that covers certain
union employees.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

Hey Other:

Nope...just trying to give the readers a little perspective that's
all.

As far as anonymous goes, if they know something, bring it on. 
I made a post about that 7 or 8 weeks ago and no one said anything 
about it. I figured they were too scared to talk...glad to hear there
have been some consequences for forcing false reporting added to the
mix.

As far as the restraining order...it's a she said, he said deal. Did
she have any  witnesses. Things now will get very hard on her, there
will certainly be a bulls eye on her back. She needs to go straight to
the DoL and file a complaint, perhaps even the DoJ. In the meantime she
needs to document everything to the point of buying a micro-recorder
to tape any conversations she has with any salaried employee. She never
need to be in a position where there isn't another contract employee
that she trusts nearby.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

Hey FRA:

Jeannie Nichols, who I think had something to do with AOT and Dave
Nelson who was a CSX signal engineer use to be regular posters up until

3 or 4 years ago. Nelson quit posting, I think he has a section of land
up in Tennessee somewhere. About that time Pines disappeared for 18
months and he has only been back for a couple of years...the
electroshock threrapy obviously didn't work!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

NoMo:

Wow! I now see that Robert has been putting comments on this site for
years. Also a lot of comments on news media sites where crossing
accidents were reported. I suspected that he had lost someone in a
crossing accident. But it is not fair for him to blame the train crews.
He will never get any sympathy doing that. He and "Angels On Track"
must have given FRA Headquarters an enormous amount of headaches. I
Have no soft spot for those in DC. But it must drive them crazy getting
the constant complaints of too much horn, and not enough horn.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 26 February 2013

NOMO


Letting robert get under your skin again? Ok, you lost track again of
your important story? Looks like anonymous is taking the lead...False
reports....maybe on-board reports? For your info...that restraining
order was shot down by the judge. Another on bites the dust!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

Hey FRA:

Forgive Robert, he's in his own little world...his wife Lucinda, met 
her fate on a fall evening at a lonely crossing on the BNSF.

That was 14+ years ago and Robert has never been able to forgive 
himself; so he rationalizes her action by blaming the RRs, FRA, DoT 
and other agencies at the state and federal levels.

He has been kicked off all other rail fan web-sites. Not too long 
ago he bragged about being so persistent that the FRA assigned him 
a handler.He then made the mistake of posting a email he got from an
official with the FRA that said in essence that his unfounded
accusations were taking so much of the agencies time and money that
they were unable to do their job and they would no longer respond or
investigate his "issues".

Pines hates the RR, their employees, The FRA, DoT, DoJ, lawyers ad
infinitum but he hates himself most of all; he just won't admit it!

Google him...Robert T. Pines, Sullivan, Mo. Maybe that might help!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

It is a fact that people make numerous mistakes during their lifetimes.
And oftentimes those mistakes end their lives. It doesn't matter if
the life ending mistake was falling off a cliff, drowning in water,
failing to stop at a stop sign, failure to have smoke detectors in
their homes, pissing off Leroy Brown or failure to stay off a railroad
track when a train is coming, those individuals caused their own
demise. And you can't blame the cliff, the water, the stop sign, the
fire, Leroy Brown or the train. I just don't understand how these
truths can be so difficult to understand.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

Did you that if a dog gets in the gauge, they will not step out to 
avoid getting hit until they can find the spot they got on the tracks
at? Pretty dumb...in all my time I've see one dog make it, less a leg
but alive. Cats on the other hand, just step out. Deer stand around and

wait until the train is on them before the even try to get across. The
first one usually makes it, the second one usually dies.

The moral of the story is if you're dumb and/or reckless around RR
tracks, odds are you'll die.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

NoMo Because I can (could) be. Huh that's what I think every time CSX
ran down 100 people like dogs last year. Your agenda is you just want
to be a goofy clown or it pays??

Name: Anonymous Operations
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 February 2013

Breaking news!

Feds crack-down on railroad managers for falsifying trip events.
Any false reporting of point shaving (lowering TE&Y efficiency score)
by railroad mangers is a "one and done" event for an early
termination!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

Why am I here? Because I can be.

Besides, based on 98% of your posts, this is actually the fiction
section!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 February 2013

Name: NoMo

Posted: 24 February 2013

...Well that means there 100 less dumb dogs we have to worry about. I
suppose if the could read or reason, they wouldn't be run down!...

My point exactly. If you """could read or reason""" you would see
your are in the CSX safety section. Why exactly are you here???

Name: Douche bag
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 24 February 2013

Yes ..Trainmaster Shiloh Campbell is a douche bag fag..Bob Frulla's
little rat ...He was caught screwing a taxi driver withCell phone
pictures...don't turn your back on this prick...

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 February 2013

Hey FRA;

Actually there is a RR in Afghanistan...Parsons was hiring for it
several years ago.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 February 2013

Perhaps it would help Robert's mental state if he moved to a location
where there are no trains. May I suggest Afghanistan!

Name: Nat King Coal
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 24 February 2013

Does anyone know a Trainmaster named Shilo, what an idiot he is at his
new terminal and already screwed it up and it only took 2 freaking
weeks. He changing things around like a retard, what used to take 3
crews at a mine now takes 5 and instead of 11 hours to load no takes 24
plus. why is this idiot even around we have 26 employees and 2
trainmasters and a RFE, please trim the top of the tree instead of the
roots before it falls over.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you've been off your meds again...you're delusional. The MBS is
affecting you, better visit Hanna.

Besides being obsessed with Ms. NoMo, I see you're still concerned
about how much money the CSX executives get paid...worry about
something you have control over.

"Did you hear---CSX ran down 100 people like dogs in 2012." Well that
means there 100 less dumb dogs we have to worry about. I suppose if the
could read or reason, they wouldn't be run down!

"Railroaders ever notice there is no DANGER or state statutes on the
very few keep out signs because that would be notice the railroads
ignore and the signs are meaningless???" I see the booze had kicked in
with that erudite statement. The only thing meaningless are some of your
bombastic statements.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 February 2013

http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-sec&secCat01Enhanced.8_rs=1&secCat01Enhanced.8_rc=10

See the dirty dozen running the company amuck got their $150K bonuses
last week.

See BNSF cut their dirty dozen to dirty seven and gave them manager
titles. Hmmm CSX being half that size should have how many tokens?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 February 2013

I was looking to do MsCoWNoMo but found out she too busy doing all of
Mobile and Monroeville while NoMo was chilling with his favorite
railroad whores.

Did you hear---CSX ran down 100 people like dogs in 2012.

Railroaders ever notice there is no DANGER or state statutes on the
very few keep out signs because that would be notice the railroads
ignore and the signs are meaningless???

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 February 2013

SICKOUT FEBRUARY 26 FOR CONDUCTORS
        FEBRUARY 27 FOR ENGINEERS 
Heard the rumor... Anyone else heard about this? Atlanta Division

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 February 2013

IDK. I have a pay stub on the gateway that is dated 3-1 but that is my
regular ole paycheck we get every two weeks. I haven't gotten a new
one for our bonus. Had one but it disappeared today. Jax said the
bonuses were figured incorrectly and that payment was stopped. Also
said some people will be getting more and some less than what your 1st
stub said. So who knows.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 February 2013

Yeah just looked the one dated 2-22 is gone but the 3-1 is my regular
pay check not bonus.  The word is they are supposed to have it fixed
Monday but who knows. By agreement it has to be paid by 3-1. Guess we
will see.....

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 February 2013

BONUS CHECKS

Yes they screwed them up.  Some of us got check stubs in mail(we have
direct deposit) that were dated 2/22 and no other stubs dated 3/1. We
all assumed we had the right checks since we didnt get the bad dated
one. It even showed up in the employee gateway under pay as check dated
2/22. It was in there for at least 4 days. Now all of the sudden its
gone as of today and replaced with a check date 3/1.  MAKES NO SENSE.
This check date of 3/1 was supposed to be wrong from our understanding
in the first place!  So now its in our pay history? So far none of us
have received a stub in the mail for the 3/1 check either.  ITS A
STINKING MESS!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 February 2013

Did any of my fellow CSX employees get their bonus Friday, Feb 22, 2013?
I got my pay stub emailed to me Friday and it was supposed to be
deposited yesterday but has not been. After talking to local chairman
comes to find out CSX stopped pay on most of the deposits because many
people were overpaid and many were underpaid and some didn't even get
one.  They (JAX) have had three months to get the bonus stuff figured
out yet they still can't seem to get it right.  Suprised? Not
me....The word on the street is that there is a "sickout" Tuesday,
Feb 26 for conductors and one for engineers on Wednesday.  Just to let
em know that we are ultimately in control.  Its not just because they
screwed the bonus up but its just everything that has been happening on
the Atlanta Division lately.  Hope to see you off sick!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 February 2013

Good evening Robert:

A little testy are you...since you brought up the subject of pussy,
when was the last time you got some?

Try some, it might change your attitude!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 February 2013

Perhaps Robert believes that locomotives have steering wheels and can be
steered off the rails, or that trains can stop as quickly as
automobiles. Anyone that had a toy train when they were a child will
realize that neither of those scenarios are possible. Could we all
donate to a fund that would buy Robert a toy train? Then he might be
able to see the error of his beliefs.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 22 February 2013

Yep, I suggest if you are a dog stay away from rr tracks.  People who
get themselves killed by a train usually have the brains of a dog. 
Some people on here do not understand the laws.

Remember 98% of all rr xing accidents is the fault of the driver.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 February 2013

Yep it takes some pussy sobs to run 100 people down like dogs while all
hid up a big train. Almost as big as the pussies on here covering up
for them.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 22 February 2013

Yep,  98% of all crossing accidents is the drivers fault.  Do not play
around rr tracks it is against the law.  Yep,  if you are trespassing
on rr property and get killed, according to Pines you will have the
stigma of being called some kind of breed of dog.  Ruff ruff.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 February 2013

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/
Yep CSX ran down 100 people like dogs. Shown in NRC reports that CSX
reports make up 80% of the railroad spills in the country. 80% of the
reports for 600 railroads.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 February 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

Good post until you chimed in with your two cent worth..."Yet the
railroad killed over 100 people last year Carla."

The railroad killed over 100 people? Prove it or shut up. 95 plus
killed themselves by suicide or breaking the law and you know it!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 February 2013

http://www.vancnews.com/the_warren_record/news/article_7ed52e0c-7b62-11e2-8038-001a4bcf887a.html

...“Safety is our first priority at CSX,” Carla Groleau, the company’s
communications director, told the newspaper last month when asked about
whether CSX planned to check the condition of the poles in Norlina...

Yet the railroad killed over 100 people last year Carla.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 20 February 2013

lol .... old Rick is a pretty good size man from Nebraska.    Know him
well.

Name: lol
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 20 February 2013

Pfeffer, you are real tough, lol. Better lock your door ya little pussy.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 20 February 2013

LOL! I also had a cough while visting Grandma. Seems they all had the
same remedy whiskey, honey, and lemon in their medicine cabinet. 

The whiskey & honey blend has been around for while. I think the first
one I tried was the Wild Turkey. It wasn't bad.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 February 2013

Hey L&N:

Sounds like my Grandmas cough remedy...Funny thing though, every time
we went to Kansas City for a visit, I always seemed to have a cough.

I loved Grandma, she always made me feel better:)

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 19 February 2013

Tennessee Honey is my choice of sipping whiskey.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 February 2013

Hey RRJ:

Cherry flavored Whiskey...what's the world coming to?

Don't believe I would have told that one:)

Name: who cares
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 19 February 2013

I was sitting here reading and thinking about all the comments
posted.Here is the facts #1 who cares that someone is screwing
around!!!! CSX is screwing your eyeballs out every single day. And a
upper end manager stated "The unions where bought off years ago" and
the unions have proven it.So heres the bottom line.Which do you hate
the most? THE COMPANY OR THE UNION? I HATE THE UNION BECAUSE I PAY THEM
TO SCREW MY EYEBALLS OUT.BLET/UTU = unless .... bought off punks

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 19 February 2013

NoMo

I haven't a clue. Distillers are going nutz. It started with all these
flavored vodkas. Now the bourbon market has ones that are flavored. I
remember trying the Jim Beam with the frigging cherry flavor. It hit
the taste buds but my body wouldn't let it go no further I spit it
back into the shot glass. LOL!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 February 2013

Hey RRJ:

It sounds like Devil's Cut is made the same way Drambuie is extracted
from Scotch barrels...the dregs, nothing but stems and seeds. Well one
man's trash is another man's treasure.

It got me thinking that I might have to have a Dram-boogie or two
later!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 February 2013

Perhaps Robert was deprived of a toy train when he was a child. That
could explain his bitterness!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 18 February 2013

Pines

STFU! You didn't even read the frigging post. I don't get into your
insanity so don't put me in it. Idiot!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 February 2013

So the whiskey company does a play on word marketing scam they are
actually doing something different and the railroad goobers swallow the
whole crock. Hmmm ---a lot like the OLI BS huh???

Name: NY Area Commuter RR Conductor
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 February 2013

I look at some of these posts here, and notice people using people's
real names on here. This is just not right, and you all who do this
should chill out!! Not only does it lead to further degradation of what
seems to be already subterranean morale, but it can lead to tons of
legal issues. 

Let's keep names out of this!! No one needs to be knowing all that.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 16 February 2013

BARR YARD - manager experience measured in minutes as opposed to
years!!!
the employees are getting everything they deserve, after their years of
"ME ME ME" antics!!!
but always remember, in the immortal words of KIM MILLER "they CAN'T
close barr"
just like they couldn't run it without him!!!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 February 2013

Goober...is that you?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 February 2013

NO MO must mean.

No more- please. Kinky at the least.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 15 February 2013

Hey RRJ:

It's a new brand...I guess it's like when you're in Ireland and they
say
leave a "bit of the creature for the leprechaun"!

Leprechaun be damned...if I'm paying, I'll get my ration...when I get
that Pot of Gold, we'll talk!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 February 2013

NoMo

I had to go to the Jim Beam site to understand what is the "Devils
Cut". It's whiskey extracted from the wooden barrell after it is
emptied then blended with 6 year old aged bourbon. They say when
whiskey is aging some evaperates the "Angels Share". Interesting
still haven't had a taste.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 February 2013

Hey RRJ:

I didn't realize Jim Beam had "Devil's Cut"...sounds like it might
be aged 12 whole hours. I can imagine that it make you feel like hell
if you over indulge.

Mardi Gras is done, so is my Liver. Thank God it regenerates. When
it's had sufficient time to re-cooperate, I'll track some down. Think
I'll go downtown and watch the Carnival Triumph get towed in.

The CSX ML sits between the terminal and the road...CSX has been known
to block the road in/out...probably not a good idea today!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 13 February 2013

Bob Todd or aka Pines it does not matter they are both morons. I love it
when he spews his bs on other sites and still gets called out on it.  It
does not take much to figure out this guy is a lunitic.  

98% of all xing accidents are the drivers fault.

Name: NoMoi
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 February 2013

Good afternoon Robert, or should I call you Bob Todd?

You just can't help yourself can you? Now your commenting on subway
safety?

When you can explain what CSX, NS, BNSF, UP have to do with subways
maybe you can comment...there is already a dearth of knowledge on your
part of RR ops. 

Don't venture where there is no light!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 February 2013

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/whos-afraid-being-hit-subway-train/4649/

...In the next few weeks, New Yorkers will start to see a
different-looking Metro Card. The familiar blue letters on a burnt-gold
face will appear mottled with drops of blood. On the back side, the
friendly PSA makes way for an image of the Grim Reaper cloaked in the
Metropolitan Transit Authority logo. "Use at your own risk," it
warns...

A rail union showing a little spine unlike the sissy BLE-UTU-and the
REST

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 13 February 2013

NoMo

My son bought me a bottle of Jim Beams "Devil's Cut" for Christmas.
I haven't drank JB in a few years preferring a better sipping whiskey
like Eagles Rare. I guess that happens with age it's more about the
taste then the buzz.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 February 2013

Welcome to our little world...thankfully it's nothing that four fingers
of devil in a  bottle won't make better!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 February 2013

Robert Pines makes annoying man seem like a prince!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 February 2013

Son, I would rather be goofy than a dumbass like you.  98% is driver
error, now that is a FACT.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 February 2013

Good morning Robert (I ain't got nobody) Pines:

Alright, so what are you going to do about it? Nothing except sit
around and bitch. No one cares so it's up to you to vindicate these
poor misclassified souls. Good luck...

I saw this and it's soooo you!

      http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi4183268377/

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 February 2013

Yep---17 false trespass reports in 11 months by CSX. HoMoQueeroNoMo
maybe you should be on the choking cheeseburger safety site along with
the goofy dispatch clown and the Bozo FRA clueless nincompoop.

1	CSX	January	04	2	000099241	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BARTOW	80
On Jan 04, 2012 a FREIGHT TRAIN operated by CSX Transportation [CSX ]
hit a CAR at approximately 10:51AM in Georgia in B
ARTOW county  on CASSVILLE WHITE R road.  The incident occurred in/near
WHITE city. The rail equipment was reported to h
ave been traveling at 058 Mph with  2 locomotive(s) and  17 cars(s). 
The CAR had been traveling in an easternly direction at 025 Mph. The
railroad was operating on main line track over a public road crossing.

5	CSX	January	31	2	000100238	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	KNOX	83
On Jan 31, 2012 a LOCOMOTIVE(S) operated by CSX Transportation [CSX ]
hit a CAR at approximately 12:30PM in Kentucky in 
KNOX county  on CUMBERLAND AVE road.  The incident occurred in/near
BARBOURVILLE city. The rail equipment was reported to have been
traveling at 040 Mph with  4 locomotive(s) and   0 cars(s).  The CAR
had been traveling in an easternly direction.The railroad was operating
on main line track over a public road crossing.
18	CSX	February	29	2	000101188	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BRANTLEY	59
The incident occurred in/near HORTENSE city. The rail equipment was
reported to have been traveling at 039 Mph with  2 locomotive(s) and
110 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in an easternly direction.The
railroad was operating on main line track over a public road crossing.
20	CSX	March	08	2	000101501	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 037 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  85 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
northerly direction. The railroad was operating on main line track over
a public road crossing.
26	CSX	April	06	2	000102418	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	ROCKCASTLE	29
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 034 Mph with 
8 locomotive(s) and   0 cars(s).  The PICKUP TRUCK had been traveling in
a westernly direction at 025 Mph.The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing. 
27	CSX	April	08	2	000102438	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	HENRY	24
 The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 012 Mph with
 3 locomotive(s) and 112 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
southernly direction at 005 Mph.The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing. 
33	CSX	April	24	2	000103031	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	FL	HILLSBOROUGH	71
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 022 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  48 cars(s). The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing.  
34	CSX	April	30	2	000103234	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	HOPKINS	76
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 044 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  38 cars(s).  The PICKUP TRUCK had been traveling in
a westernly direction at 005 Mph. The railroad was operating on main
line track over a public road crossing. 
37	CSX	May	06	2	000103443	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	SC	WILLIAMSBURG	46
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 050 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  72 cars(s). The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing. 
38	CSX	May	07	2	000103468	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	JEFFERSON	53
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 019 Mph with 
3 locomotive(s) and  28 cars(s).The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing. 
45	CSX	June	15	2	000104874	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	COOK	29
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 005 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and   0 cars(s).The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing. 

48	CSX	June	23	2	000105182	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	CRAWFORD	53
 The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 038 Mph with
 3 locomotive(s) and  15 cars(s).The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing.
62	CSX	August	02	2	000106566	Trespasser 
Fatality
Highway-rail collision/impact	PA	ERIE	81
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 047 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  90 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
southernly direction. The railroad was operating on main line track
over a public road crossing. 
82	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
83	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 060 Mph with 
3 locomotive(s) and  16 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
northerly direction at 015 Mph.The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing.
91	CSX	November	15	2	000110206	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	ST JOSEPH	64
 The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 047 Mph with
 2 locomotive(s) and  87 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
southernly direction.The railroad was operating on main line track over
a public road crossing.
93	CSX	November	28	2	000110532	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Collision/impact - auto, truck, bus, van, etc.	KY	HOPKINS	26
The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 043 Mph with 
2 locomotive(s) and  95 cars(s).  The CAR had been traveling in a
northerly direction at 010 Mph. The railroad was operating on main line
track over a public road crossing.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 February 2013

The railroad trespasser fatalities that are reported to FRA only include
non-employees that are killed on railroad property when they are not
authorized to be there, and most generally involve people that are not
in a motor vehicle. However, on rare occasion, a motor vehicle is
driven onto a railroad track at a location outside the boundaries of a
designated public or private crossing. In that case, a fatally injured
person would be considered a trespasser. Trespassing is not involved
when a motor vehicle crosses a railroad track at a designated crossing
location. Fatalities at designated crossing locations are considered to
be highway-rail crossing accidents because the individuals were not
trespassing. A lot of railroad trespasser fatalities appear to have
been "suicide by train". There have also been highway-rail crossing
accidents that were believed to be suicides or attempted suicides.

Anyone who attempts to demonize the railroad engineers and conductors
that are forced to endure trespasser or highway-rail crossing
fatalities are extremely misinformed, or just plain ignorant. Those
accidents are no different than if a small child ran into the path of
an automobile driven by Robert Pines. Would he then label himself with
the same nasty words he had for "train drivers?"

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 February 2013

What can you expect from an idiot that thinks you drive a train ( hint
no steering wheel)  He gets confused about dates and ordinance numbers
and has no idea about trespassing laws.  At least try to act like you
know something about the rr.  Hell the FRA will not even listen to you
any more and they have to listen to every idiot out there.  That tells
me where you rank on the idiot meter.

Explain why it 98% driver error.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

Do I detect a hint of anger in your last two posts? You really
shouldn't mix your meds with alcohol, that might lead to serious
problems.

17 false reports...how would you know that? Were you there? Did one of
your operatives from the paranoid society call you up and tell you?
Prove it if you can, quit ranting about it and act...sue the 
FRA and CSX or shut up.

In the grand scheme of things, this doesn't make a one on a scale of
ten. More people chock to death eating a cheeseburger every year.

Lent stars Wednesday...maybe you can give up bitching for lent!

Now excuse me, I have to go downtown and start drinking...it's hard to
drink all day if you don;t start first think but you already knew that,
didn't you?

Laissez les bons temps rouler...

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 February 2013

I count 17 false trespasser reports that were crossing collisions.
How's that read NoMoLowLifeScumbo


1	CSX	January	04	2	000099241	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BARTOW	80
5	CSX	January	31	2	000100238	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	KNOX	83
18	CSX	February	29	2	000101188	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BRANTLEY	59
20	CSX	March	08	2	000101501	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH
26	CSX	April	06	2	000102418	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	ROCKCASTLE	29
27	CSX	April	08	2	000102438	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	HENRY	24
33	CSX	April	24	2	000103031	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	FL	HILLSBOROUGH	71
34	CSX	April	30	2	000103234	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	HOPKINS	76
37	CSX	May	06	2	000103443	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	SC	WILLIAMSBURG	46
38	CSX	May	07	2	000103468	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	JEFFERSON	53
45	CSX	June	15	2	000104874	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	COOK	29

48	CSX	June	23	2	000105182	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	CRAWFORD	53
62	CSX	August	02	2	000106566	Trespasser 
Fatality
Highway-rail collision/impact	PA	ERIE	81
82	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
83	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
91	CSX	November	15	2	000110206	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	ST JOSEPH	64
93	CSX	November	28	2	000110532	Trespasser 
Fatality 
Collision/impact - auto, truck, bus, van, etc.	KY	HOPKINS	26

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 February 2013

Or NoMoRRHo does it read 94 chicken shit csx train drivers ran down 94
civilians like dogs because they are chicken shits?

Name: GayWard Focker 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 09 February 2013

Hey Railroad Fans

Do I detect some unhappy Railroad Campfire rumblings

Tiss tiss   you got a bigger boneus that the Nazi Southern    John 
or Johna  you are unhappy with me and the guys I hired to get your lame
asses to do some work. 

We needed the Stalag to be named after Tony  so he would be happy !

I get tired of hearing about the Great Lake drama  there are too many
drama queens still working up there.    Scotti might need to do some
more investigations to get things all lined up.   

do not lay off or your 2013 bone US will be smaller than 2012


ex railroader of the year   

Gayward

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 February 2013

Good evening Robert:

Your last post reminds me of the old SNL/John Belushi skit that
immortalized the Billy Goat Tavern. "Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger"

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guQzlA86BJA

Trespasser, trespasser, trespasser...

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 09 February 2013

WHEW!!!!!!  The cut and paste king strikes again...WHEW!!!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 February 2013

John, 

If a railroad employee is ordered to violate an FRA regulation, he or
she may report that violation to FRA in several ways. I would suggest
contacting a U.S. House or Senate representative and ask that they
submit the complaint to FRA in your behalf. Nothing gets the attention
of FRA like a letter from a congressman or a senator. You may also send
a letter directly to FRA Headquarters in Washington, DC, or to one of
the eight FRA regional administrators. And remember that numerous
voices garner more attention than a single voice.

During my last few years with FRA, it seemed to me that contract
employees were being directly blamed for their accidents and injuries
without taking into account production pressures placed on them by
railroad management. And because of that, railroad employees seemed be
placed in "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situations.
Employee fatigue is another issue that FRA does not seem to be
addressing. I believe that FRA will only address these inconvenient
truths if forced to do so by members of Congress.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 February 2013

TA=Type Accident/Incident: 1 = Train Accident (form 54), 2 =
Highway-rail (from 57), 3 = Other (form 55a)

Selections: Railroad - CSX Transportation [CSX ]
State - All States County - All Counties
All Regions
All Job Types / All Locations / Fatalities Only
Type of Person - All
January through November, 2012
Report Sort Sequence - Date
Obs	RR	Month	
Day	TA	Incident
Number	Type
Person	
Condition	
Event	St	County	
Age
1	CSX	January	04	2	000099241	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BARTOW	80
2	CSX	January	09	3	000099402	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MI	KENT	 
3	CSX	January	10	3	000099594	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	FL	OSCEOLA	39
4	CSX	January	31	3	000100228	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	WV	PUTNAM	16
5	CSX	January	31	2	000100238	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	KNOX	83
6	CSX	February	05	3	000100395	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NC	LEE	44
7	CSX	February	09	3	000100554	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	OH	LAKE	 
8	CSX	February	10	2	000100616	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	TN	HAYWOOD	22
9	CSX	February	10	2	000100616	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	TN	HAYWOOD	29
10	CSX	February	22	3	000100987	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Caught Between Equipment	OH	CUYAHOGA	24
11	CSX	February	22	3	000100991	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	FULTON	31
12	CSX	February	22	3	000101011	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	OH	BUTLER	04
13	CSX	February	22	2	000101041	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	CLARK	04
14	CSX	February	22	2	000101041	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	CLARK	02
15	CSX	February	22	2	000101041	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	CLARK	23
16	CSX	February	22	2	000101041	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	CLARK	23
17	CSX	February	28	3	000101182	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MA	BERKSHIRE	45
18	CSX	February	29	2	000101188	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	BRANTLEY	59
19	CSX	March	07	2	000101524	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	FL	POLK	51
20	CSX	March	08	2	000101501	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	WOOD	48
21	CSX	March	09	3	000101542	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	OH	WAYNE	42
22	CSX	March	10	3	000101584	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	TN	POLK	44
23	CSX	March	13	2	000101608	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	HENDRICKS	25
24	CSX	March	31	3	000102224	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	TN	BLOUNT	18
25	CSX	March	31	3	000102224	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	TN	BLOUNT	17
26	CSX	April	06	2	000102418	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	ROCKCASTLE	29
27	CSX	April	08	2	000102438	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	HENRY	24
28	CSX	April	08	3	000102443	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	WV	KANAWHA	31
29	CSX	April	12	3	000102786	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MI	WAYNE	 
30	CSX	April	19	2	000102911	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	WOOD	71
31	CSX	April	22	3	000102948	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IL	VERMILION	22
32	CSX	April	23	3	000103028	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	SC	GREENWOOD	26
33	CSX	April	24	2	000103031	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	FL	HILLSBOROUGH	71
34	CSX	April	30	2	000103234	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	HOPKINS	76
35	CSX	May	02	3	000103382	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	FULTON	55
36	CSX	May	03	3	000103383	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MI	WAYNE	41
37	CSX	May	06	2	000103443	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	SC	WILLIAMSBURG	46
38	CSX	May	07	2	000103468	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	KY	JEFFERSON	53
39	CSX	May	11	3	000103659	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	NIAGARA	29
40	CSX	May	15	3	000103787	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	DE KALB	37
41	CSX	May	15	3	000103880	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	AL	TALLADEGA	35
42	CSX	May	18	3	000103936	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	FL	BROWARD	45
43	CSX	May	30	3	000104322	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MD	PRINCE GEORG	17
44	CSX	June	01	3	000104545	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Slipped, fell, stumbled, other	IN	PUTNAM	16
45	CSX	June	15	2	000104874	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IL	COOK	29
46	CSX	June	20	3	000105085	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	ROCKDALE	54
47	CSX	June	20	3	000105141	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NC	ROBESON	68
48	CSX	June	23	2	000105182	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	OH	CRAWFORD	53
49	CSX	June	23	3	000105186	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	ROCKLAND	54
50	CSX	June	30	2	000105425	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	TN	ROBERTSON	62
51	CSX	July	07	3	000105677	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	TN	GIBSON	26
52	CSX	July	07	3	000105895	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	SC	MARLBORO	51
53	CSX	July	08	3	000105693	Trespasser 
Fatality 

On track equipment, other incidents	NC	UNION	19
54	CSX	July	08	3	000105700	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IN	SULLIVAN	68
55	CSX	July	08	2	000105702	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	SC	FLORENCE	32
56	CSX	July	10	3	000105785	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	PA	BEDFORD	22
57	CSX	July	13	3	000105898	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	AL	MONTGOMERY	32
58	CSX	July	16	3	000105984	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	WV	KANAWHA	43
59	CSX	July	20	3	000106176	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	FL	PALM BEACH	 
60	CSX	July	28	3	000106420	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MI	ALLEGAN	62
61	CSX	July	31	3	000106496	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	FULTON	48
62	CSX	August	02	2	000106566	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	PA	ERIE	81
63	CSX	August	05	3	649005	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IN	SULLIVAN	47
64	CSX	August	18	3	000107178	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	PA	ALLEGHENY	50
65	CSX	August	20	1	000107254	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Derailment	MD	HOWARD	19
66	CSX	August	20	1	000107254	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Derailment	MD	HOWARD	19
67	CSX	August	28	3	000107566	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	PA	DELAWARE	22
68	CSX	August	29	3	000107582	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	ULSTER	 
69	CSX	September	03	3	2012SEPT1	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	KY	MCCRACKEN	 
70	CSX	September	12	3	000108088	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	PA	ALLEGHENY	36
71	CSX	September	12	2	000108098	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	GA	FULTON	63
72	CSX	September	23	3	000108389	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	KY	HENDERSON	 
73	CSX	September	30	3	000108665	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	MS	HARRISON	40
74	CSX	October	02	3	000108748	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	GA	CLARKE	51
75	CSX	October	04	2	000108860	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	VA	SUFFOLK	37
76	CSX	October	21	3	000109361	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	ST LAWRENCE	20
77	CSX	October	22	3	643864	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Other (describe in narrative)	IN	MARION	20
78	CSX	October	23	3	000109569	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IN	MARION	20
79	CSX	October	27	3	000109605	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	KY	MADISON	14
80	CSX	October	27	3	000109618	Nontrespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	ULSTER	22
81	CSX	October	28	3	000109614	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	TN	CAMPBELL	49
82	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
83	CSX	October	28	2	000109617	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	RANDOLPH	17
84	CSX	October	30	3	000109684	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	NY	MONROE	23
85	CSX	November	01	3	000109780	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Thrill seeking	GA	BARTOW	48
86	CSX	November	01	3	000109854	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IL	COOK	56
87	CSX	November	02	3	000109800	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	PA	BEAVER	12
88	CSX	November	10	3	000110052	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	IL	EFFINGHAM	17
89	CSX	November	10	3	000110064	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	WV	PUTNAM	20
90	CSX	November	11	3	000110077	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Slipped, fell, stumbled, other	KY	FLOYD	38
91	CSX	November	15	2	000110206	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Highway-rail collision/impact	IN	ST JOSEPH	64
92	CSX	November	15	3	000110241	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	OH	SHELBY	77
93	CSX	November	28	2	000110532	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Collision/impact - auto, truck, bus, van, etc.	KY	HOPKINS	26
94	CSX	November	29	3	2012NOV1TI	Trespasser 
Fatality 

Struck by on-track equipment	KY	JEFFERSON

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

November ? to November ?, 2012?

Post the link so we can see for ourselves...no one trusts you. Not that
anyone really cares. 

Murders? More like suicides! The others don't have walking around
sense and you know it. You have to either want to die or be really
stupid to get creamed by Big Bertha. Just another crackhead or junkie,
Bertha doesn't care, she'll lay 'em all low!

Name: john
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 09 February 2013

Hey WTF,

I agree with you completely.  I hate what Michael Ward's leadership
has done to this company.  What all of us need to remember is that it
was Michael Ward that brought Tony Ingram and David Brown over from the
NS.  It was Michael Ward that knowingly allowed Ingram to install the
current form of management.   It was Michael Ward that encouraged and
continued Ingram's "Nazi Southern" style of management by promoting
David Brown after Ingram retired.  It was Michael Ward that named the
CSX training center in Atlanta AFTER TONY INGRAM.  As the leader of
CSX, and the man that hired Ingram and Brown, and has embraced their
"management by fear" style of leadership, all of this falls back on
Michael Ward.

Today I hear the new hires, with 6 months or less, say what we older
employees think, "I like my job, just hats the company I work for." 
I'm sure if the economy were better, they wouldn't be the only one
racing for the door in droves.  

Managers on the Great Lakes Division order their employees to lie about
their departure time, under the threat of insubordination daily.  Kate
Pappe, Great Lakes Chief orders crews under the threat of
insubordination to violate FRA rules while train masters, for example
Michael Justice stand by and say "I know its wrong, but this is what
Kate ordered".  Danny Jerrell's, Scott Conners hand chosen Division
Road Foreman stays in a company paid for hotel while in Indianapolis,
vs following the rules, and living with in 50 miles of the Great Lakes
HQ.  While Danny's staying in the company provided lodging  (in
Plainfield, Indiana) Danny returns from his nightly jaunts from the
strip clubs intoxicated and is belligerent to the crews.

Michael Ward promotes "right times, right results".  Its hard to get
anything right when your management is running wild and unchecked, and
placing all of the blame for all their problems on the crews doing all
of the actual work.

Its to bad the days of the union representing the employee no longer
exist.  If it did, most divisions would of had a wild cat strike across
the system by now.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 February 2013

Mr. Pines must have copied those statistics from the FRA web site.
Remember, creative statisticians can make anything possible.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 February 2013

Perhaps you can explain why 98% is driver error.   Why idiots commit
suicide by deliberately breaking the law and try to beat a train.  With
all of the technology out there why can't automakers make idiot proof
cars.  What is really scary are people like Pines are issued a
driver's license.  Who are these bought off agencies that allow this
to happen.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 February 2013

The key word NoMoRRHo is November. All new numbers. In the Federal
Railroad-bought safety system for every 10 kills the railroad gets 1
free...Perhaps you care to explain how there are 11 fatal accidents and
only 10 fatalities?..."""Only""" 10 fatalities is kinda a bottom
dweller statement wouldn't ya think? 10 fatalities in 2012 with all
the technology available is only 10 murders by train.

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / November TO
November,2012
TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:60   
Number of fatal accidents/incidents 11     
Total train miles:7,979,887
Total fatalities:10
Total nonfatal conditions:23 

1 killed per 798,000 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 125 people not 1.1 people.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 06 February 2013

chicogo divison sucks !  bunch of mis managed dumbasses

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 06 February 2013

How about that RFE Randy Patterson from Grand Rapids, MI!  Looks like he
got caught in a FRA audit...  Doing Engineer check rides from his bar
stool instead of from the locomotive...  How about that?  Think Senior
RFE Dennis Beigel with throw him under the bus to save his own ass? 
Sure!  Remember what happened at DeKalb, IN on August 19th, 2011?  That
was the straw that broke the camel's back with the NTSB and compliance
with Restricted Speed..  All on Dennis Beigel's watch..  Couldn't do
the job, so he plays arm chair quarter back and fails at that, too! 
Way to go, Chicago Division...

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 February 2013

Good morning Robert:

Perhaps you care to explain how there are 11 fatal accidents and only
10 fatalities?

It also looks that the ratio of deaths per miles traveled remains the
same...so your point is?

I think making the same post 4 times in a month is slightly redundant
and anal retentive!

Here is your Feb. 5, 2013 post...

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / November TO
November,
2012



TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:60   
Number of fatal accidents/incidents 11     
Total train miles:7,979,887
Total fatalities:10
Total nonfatal conditions:23 

1 killed per 798,000 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 125 people not 1.1 people.
----------------------------------------------------------

Here is an excerpt from your second Jan. 4, 2013 post...

CSX- Total fatalities: 86     
Total nonfatal conditions: 399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:  83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 103  people not 1.1 people
-----------------------------------------------------------

Here is an excerpt from your Jan, 4, 2013 post...

CSX- Total fatalities: 86     
Total nonfatal conditions: 399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:  83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 103  people not 1.1 people.
--------------------------------------------------------------

Here is an excerpt from your Jan. 3, 2013 post...

CSX- Total fatalities:       86     Total nonfatal conditions:     
399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:      83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 February 2013

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / November TO November,
2012



TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:60   
Number of fatal accidents/incidents 11     
Total train miles:7,979,887
Total fatalities:10
Total nonfatal conditions:23 

1 killed per 798,000 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 125 people not 1.1 people.

Name: Hater
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 03 February 2013

I hate Frulla !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  2013

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 03 February 2013

Please help me understand how in the world the railroad has become a
very very bad placed to work. It's terrible to love your job but  you
hate to come to work. It's not the T&E employeess it's upper
management. We at CSX used ,yep used to be proud of our company.  Those
days are long gone thanks to the bad attitudes of employees who are sick
of the upper management, (the Frulla's,Vierlings, Connors,
Jarrells,Burriss,) and I suppose other
ones I can"t think of. I remember crews taking pride at getting a
train from point A to point B safely and without delay ,now all they
want to do is go to work get on a train and get off the train in 12
hours without getting fired or charged with some bullshit and they
don't care if they ever turn a wheel. There is no pride left.
Thank You Upper Management

Name: JohnnyO
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 February 2013

Hey, Ray-Dar, why don't you give up and move to Chatt, or Cincy or
Louisville, you don't think NS is going to change it back to the way
it was, do you?  Having been through a terminal shutdown myself that
was rumored to be coming back and now, almost 28 years later, it's
safe to say it's never coming back, we gave up and moved.  Can only
think of one NS terminal I ever saw come back after near shutdown and
that was Columbus, OH, on the old N&W side.

Name: It's coming 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 01 February 2013

Bob FRULLA's accident report can be recieved from the state police
barracks at post 9 in pikeville ky.Pictures of the accident will be
posted.Anyone that needs the information for the class action law suit
on the grounds of discrination due to CSX firing people for small
violations and letting this clown by with his numerous rule violations
without any discipline action for his failures.....

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years
Posted: 01 February 2013

Concerned


Still waiting on those pictures of frulla accident that you said would
be posted on here.  Well?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 February 2013

higher management on the huntington division disregard union agreements.
 they do as they please and are never held responsible.  the contract
states that after an X-amount of extra jobs are called with in a week.
there will be a regular call time job put on for bid.  but the jobs are
never put on for bid.  i guess you could blame the unions too.  because
it seems they arent doing anything about it either. 

also we are left out there to load trains at mines with no recrews for
12 to 14 hrs everyday.  they say they dont have the man power to recrew
us.  well guess what they would have the man power if they didnt have
every one with less than 12 years service furloughed.

CSX treats there employees as only a number.  they dont care about us
or our families the way their website says.  Its all just PR.  all they
care about is cutting jobs so they can get a bigger bonus.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 29 January 2013

I see JJ or whatever he wants to call himself is back. I don't get into
the petty nonsense. I just look read and think some people need some
serious help.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 January 2013

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 January 2013

Ray-Dar

LOL! CSX modeled itself after Norfolk Southern by hiring some of the
NS
top echilon back in the 2005. CSX use to be a good place to work. Then
they hired Tony Ingram from the NS and the nazi storm trooper BS
began.
I guess NS is going back to their old ways. In all reality it was
about
a frigging award called the Harriman that NS usually
wins.----------------
Csx was never, anything but the same as NS. They were the same. Both
companies are good places to put your time in. Take it back a few
hundred years and see how hard it is to make a buck on the RR.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 January 2013

We have a Jewel on this site that we need to learn from. 
Move him to the less operating spot like, a sleep at the wheel.
We can all learn a bunch from RRJ.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 27 January 2013

I - HATE - CSX!

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 27 January 2013

Attn: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+

   I don't think everyone is worried about Management's cheating
habits, they are merely stating what kind of Morally Bankrupt Managers
CSX hires.  Kinda funny how these managers hold contract workers to the
highest levels of accountability and will write us up for the most
Chickenshit failures, but yet they are leading double lives when they
are away from home. Speaking of uneducated douche bags, what's your
level of education?

Name: Lol
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 January 2013

I love how everyone is so worried about everyone's cheating habits.Take
this crap on Jerry Springer.This web site was designed to show how
corrupted CSX really is.You idiots are showing how retarded you really
are.Uneducated douche bags.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 January 2013

Good evening Robert:

I never have said you are over the top. I've called you a liar, 
manipulator, user, loser, prick, dick head and asshole.

The reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said that based on the
emails they received from you, you seemed "beyond the pail"; which is
why you weren't interviewed for his series of articles you posted.

Now take your meds and quit talking to imaginary friends that post as
Corporate...no one from CSX corporate would support anything you said,
let alone address a post to you. 

It's just JJ, he has a crush on you because you're his hero...god
only knows why!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 January 2013

RE: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year

NoMoHoMo says I'm over the top. Well under the top hasn't worked in
160 years with the propaganda master NoMoHoMos' out there.

Dave Nelson said years ago ...anything railroad --follow the money
trail...which always works.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 January 2013

Dear Corporate office, less than 1 year:

You are right. Determining whether or not a highway vehicle failed to
yield right of way to a train borders on rocket science. And we all
know that FRA employs no rocket scientists. From now on I'll just
stick to bent handholds, oil on locomotive walkways and broken sill
steps.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 January 2013

Ray-Dar

LOL! CSX modeled itself after Norfolk Southern by hiring some of the NS
top echilon back in the 2005. CSX use to be a good place to work. Then
they hired Tony Ingram from the NS and the nazi storm trooper BS began.
I guess NS is going back to their old ways. In all reality it was about
a frigging award called the Harriman that NS usually wins.

Name: Ray-Dar
E-mail: kd.entertainment2002@yahoo.com
Employed as: Conductor, for N/A
Posted: 25 January 2013

Tho i dont, never have, and wont work for CSX, i do work for a company
who as of late is greatly taking after them, Norfolk Southern! We had
at once, worked out of Danville KY, to Oakdale TN. Now, we work from
Burnside KY, to Chatt TN, or Cinn Ohio, or L-ville KY, or Knoxville TN!
They eliminated our home terminal, as we now have 'conditional home
terminals'. This means, though our family and actual 'home' is near
Burnside or Danville KY, majority of our time is spent in on of the
fore mentioned locations, namely Chatt TN. Our detention time is payed
@ home, not in the lodge, meaning, you guessed it, they want us on a
train and away from our family asap. Meals are done the same way! I
tried claiming meals and detention time at away terminal, they paid it.
Then took it back 6 months later, all $3,000 of it! We work in co
mingled pool, which means a Burnside Conductor(us) must work with 1st
availble engineer, usualy a Chatt TN Engineer. Our pool and extra board
conductors and engineers(Burnside) who are comprised of former Danville
men, spend an average of 10-16 hours @ home(Burnside). We average 30-50
hours in a 'company provided lodge and resturant'(MSI & Tracks End
Resturant) where, by design, we reset our rest due to such long period
in their 'lodge facility'. Id liken this place to a prison, tho im
sure the food is better, and free for inmates! The doors on ALL rooms
in lodge are monitored by front desk, they know everytime you enter or
leave your room. Camera's abound the halls, work our room, the
attached resturant(which is actualy open to public, tho only discounts
arn't for us, there for police, fire, EMS, NS officials and Gov.
officials). Cameras and card required doors monitor the small slab of
concrete out back, they call the rocking chair area(2 rocking chairs
and love type double swing, so conductor and engineer can hold hands
after a hard nites work). Its disgraceful, and to beat that, the
majority of the staff and workers @ the lodge and ajoined restuant
either dont speak any english, or are gay as $2 bills! Give me a damn
break. Wait, it gets better!(it always does, rite?) MSI(motel services
incorporated) is owned and operated by former NS and CSX managment,
hell bent on revenge for all the years of old head crews 'calling and
bugging' officals and officers. This is ran similar to PTI railroad
taxi service. Amazing! Beware, conductors jobs are next, and what they
did to us at Danville KY is only the start, crew co mingling is what
they want. Happy trails to all, and Viva-Co-Mingle!

Name: The
E-mail: smart one!!!
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 January 2013

I have been out of this crap hole company for 4 years.  I STIIL SEE IT
TRUELY SUCKS!!!  Damn, now there are men with perfectly looking
Christian wives cheating with defensive tackle material looking company
woman!!!LLLMMMAAAAOOOOO I love it!!: keeping it going!!  Hey Christion??
 Did he at least hit the "BROWN EYE" when he bent it
over???lmmmmaaaooo

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 January 2013

Yep...that was JJ alright.

Anybody with less than a year at 500 Water St. still hasn't found all
the shitters yet let alone know anything about grade X-ing accident
investigation or even know who Pines is.

Pines made the posts under his name...he's like reading a Robert
Ludlum novel...even if you don't know who the author is the style is
instantly identifiable after a sentence or two.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 24 January 2013

JJ, redblock, Corp office what ever you want to call yourself this week
how the hell do you know what classes this pines nut has taken.  You
can tell by his posts that he does not even own a toy train.  Besides,
who do you think teaches the classes ahhh maybe FRA Inspectors.  Pines
has no clue at all.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 24 January 2013

CRUD

I see that JJ has found a way back on this site.  I'm guessing after
Nomo busted JJ, when JJ posted under Redblock, and pretended to be
Pines, JJ found a new name to post under.  

JJ, we all know you wrote the post below.  Get a clue, get a life, and
get off this site.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 24 January 2013

Retired FRA Inspector

How would you know? You were never trained in crossing accident
investigations and if you did receive training it was by OLI.
Mr. Pines has received classes in crossing accident investigations and
has forgotten more than any FRA agent, save the higher ups, will ever
know.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 24 January 2013

Hey Mr. Pines

Good to see you are still alive!
I know at times you think your efforts posting on this site has little
value but you're wrong. Not only do you post realative articles but
also documents that few know even exists.
As a result the railroads must continually monitor CSX-SUCKS making
sure their evil deeds are covered. It would be cheaper to waste a
nickel on you and be done with it but, there must be a lot of respect
for you in the upper ranks. The ranks that most of these idiots don't
know exists. I can promise you! The FRA also have to monitor the site
to do damage control. Think about your important role. It is vitally
important that information you post doesn't expose the agencies
collusion with railroads. Gotta love it!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 January 2013

NoMo, 

I enjoyed the linked video. It brought to mind so many memories of the
railroad transportation managers that I had to deal with over the
years. And yes, memories of several FRA managers also flooded by. 

As for the inebriated truck that parked too close to the track, I
believe its ethanol level may have been too high. The many years of
experience I had with FRA has led me to that conclusion.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 January 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

Still not back on your meds? You forgot you already posted that
incident yesterday...or did you just want to tell other you posted it!

By the way, just how stoned was Cindy when she parked on the tracks?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 January 2013

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1036326

651 0.017710 235048D CSX MI KENT GRAND RAPIDS BRIDGE ST. NW 0 0 0 0 0
FL 4 1 10 YES 2 12,276.

Just how stoned was the CSX crew that they couldn't get a 10 mph train
stopped and where is the train vehicle assault charges?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 23 January 2013

NOMO


Pines didnt post that. He might be nuts but he is not totally stupid.
Looks more like something JJ would do. Wouldnt put it past him to use
pines ID to sneek back in!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 January 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you were up late again last night...still not back on your meds?

I hate when a perfectly good vehicle gets drunk and parks in the path
of a train...oh the carnage. Yep the rails have oil on their
hands...probably pay the owners oil money to make it go away too.

None if this would happen if the vehicles just used some common sense
and obeyed the "no parking" signs. Alas, just a thinning of the
herd...one less dumb SUV to deal with!

I heard this song and thought of you...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i6OrOZwtmA

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 January 2013

Guess the CSX  RN TRAIN DISPATCHER idiot along with the whole lot of
rail industry idiots haven't figured out it's MURDER for not having
the DVRs' out on the tracks where they belong.

***WEB REPORT*** ON 01/22/2013 AT 1920 HOURS, THE CREW OF TRAIN Y29722
WITH LOCOMOTIVE CSXT 2639 (DVR EQUIPPED) REPORTED STRIKING AN
UNOCCUPIED GREEN CHEVY TRUCK THAT WAS PARKED TO CLOSE TO THE TRACKS
NEAR MP CGE 1.05 ON THE GRAND RAPIDS SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS LOCATED
NORTH OF THE BRIDGE STREET CROSSING IN THE EL SOMBRERO RESTAURANT
PARKING LOT IN GRAND RAPIDS, MI. RN TRAIN DISPATCHER ALSO ADVISED NO
DAMAGE WAS DONE TO LOCOMOTIVE, NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED, AND THAT THE
OWNER OF THE TRUCK INVOLVED WAS AWARE AND ON SCENE. OPERATOR , GRAND
RAPIDS POLICE, WAS NOTIFIED AND ADVISED A UNIT WAS ON SCENE WITH
ANOTHER EN ROUTE AND PROVIDED CASE # 13-0006086 FOR REFERENCE. AT 1950
HOURS, RN TRAIN DISPATCHER PROVIDED TRAIN CREW INFORMATION AND ADVISED
THIS ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE MAIN LINE WHICH IS USED FOR PASSENGER
SERVICES. OPERATOR , GRAND RAPIDS POLICE, WERE NOTIFIED AND REQUESTED
STATUS UPDATE, IF THE TRAIN WAS FREE TO RESUME OPERATIONS, BUT REPORTED
NO RELEASE FROM UNITS ON SCENE AT THIS TIME. AT 2023 HOURS, OPERATOR,
GRAND RAPIDS POLICE, ADVISED TRACKS WERE CLEARED AND TRAIN TRAFFIC WAS
FREE TO RESUME. RN TRAIN DISPATCHER WAS NOTIFIED AND ADVISED NO OTHER
TRAINS WERE DELAYED DUE TO THIS INCIDENT.

Name: GL Disp
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years
Posted: 23 January 2013

Re: L&N dispr

I was in the process typing something up this morning for Pines.

I finally gave up because of the stupidity of the content...

Thank you.

GL

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 22 January 2013

Looks like the DVR'S need to be placed at the beer joints where the
real idiots are.  Why would an idiot even park that close to the tracks
anyway,  can you say duh.... I would love to see the insurance agent
face when this idiot puts in a claim but I bet he does not have
insurance anyway.  I can see his wife saying " honey where is the door
to our car. "   answer, " I don't know ."  You have got to love
tourists from Missouri.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 January 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you're still not taking your meds.

Thank you for the laugh...a truck door is closed by a train. I guess
there's idiots in Cumberland too.

The Police can't find the truck...try the body shops!

Name: United 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 22 January 2013

This web site was created to open the eyes of
employees,families,customers,and the public on how CSX really is.The
harassment,discrimination,courtesy,lack of customer needs, this
"company" cares for no one.This includes your families.your life..Why
do you think that the company gives use ID #? Outside people looks at
this site to be educated on how Csx really does treat there employees
and customers.So with that being said I want to say this "THIS SITE
WASN'T DESIGNED TO BASH EACH OTHER". Every time a CSX Suck gets on
here and sees employees cutting each other,those clowns smile real big
and say to themself "We're winning there breaking down" so please it
you have a problem with someone and need to release it, go them or put
it on "TOPIX" thanks .....

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 January 2013

Guess the CSX  BB TRAIN DISPACHER idiot along with the whole lot of rail
industry idiots haven't figured out it's MURDER for not having the
DVRs' out on the tracks where they belong.

***WEB REPORT*** ON 01/21/13 AT 0813 HOURS, BB TRAIN DISPACHER, ADVISED
TRAIN Q26120 WITH LOCOMOTIVES CSXT 467 (DVR EQUIPPED) AND CSXT 8123
COLLIDED WITH A RED PICK-UP TRUCK PARKED TO CLOSE FOR CLEARANCE AROUND
MP BA 178.6 ON THE CUMBERLAND TERMINAL SUBDIVISION. THIS IS LOCATED
NEAR BALTIMORE STREET IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND. CREW ADVISED THE TRAIN
COLLIDED WITH THE DOOR THAT WAS AJAR ON THE PICK-UP TRUCK CLOSING THE
DOOR. THE TRAIN IS STOPPED AT MP BF 181.0 ON THE KEYSTONE SUBDIVISION.
THIS IS A PASSENGER LINE AND TRAIN P03021 WILL BE IN THE AREA WITH AN
HOUR ETA. NO INJURIES REPORTED AT THIS TIME. UPDATE: AT 0845 HOURS,
CUMBERLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TRAINMASTER HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO LOCATE
THE VEHICLE AT THIS TIME.

Name: pine nut
E-mail: duh duh dot duh
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 21 January 2013

mike ward v. john snow in the harbowl. francis oh francis, where have
you gone?

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 20 January 2013

How is a DVR going to stop someone from trespassing and breaking the
law.  A DVR will not tell an idiot not to walk down the middle of the
rr tracks.  What is this pines guy smoking.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 January 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you have missed your meds.

..."for not having the DVRs' out on the tracks where they belong."
It was 0019, you wanna bet he was seriously impaired

I'm sure everyone will agree that the only idiot here is YOU!

I think perhaps our fellow readers might enjoy reading some of your
other work...

http://www.mysullivannews.com/2010/11/a-%e2%80%98true%e2%80%99-veterans-day/

Now take your meds!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 January 2013

Guess the CSX YARDMASTER idiot along with the whole lot of rail industry
idiots haven't figured out it's MURDER for not having the DVRs' out
on the tracks where they belong.

ON 01/19/13 AT 0019 HOURS, CSX YARDMASTER, ADVISED THE CREW OF
EASTBOUND TRAIN T33615, WITH LOCOMOTIVES CSXT 590 AND CSXT 150 (BOTH
DVR EQUIPPED), REPORTED THEY FATALLY STRUCK A TRESPASSER AT OR ABOUT MP
CA 459.24 ON THE KANAWHA SUBDIVISION. THIS WAS LOCATED AT OR NEAR THE
CHESTNUT STREET CROSSING IN SOUTH CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA. THE RAIL
LINE IN QUESTION CARRIES PASSENGER SERVICE. AT 0055 HOURS, CSX
PASSENGER SERVICES, ADVISED THE INCIDENT HAD NOT AFFECTED ANY PASSENGER
TRAINS, AND WOULD NOT POSE A PROBLEM FOR PASSENGER SERVICE. ***THIS IS A
WEB REPORT***

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 19 January 2013

I hate his place. Its like i work for Joe the plumber down the
street,have to fight and haggel over $$$

STUPID.....THIS COMPANY SUCKS A FAT ONE

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 19 January 2013

ha ha ha yea i recall that a few yrs back, ie sweep switches, was on a
yard job waiting for the ds to throw the switch for us, he let a
eastbound go by first and wich piled the snow up in the points, then
when he tryed the switch it would not lock up on his board, so out i
went, the points were packed with snow and ice, took 3 hrs to get it
open, made the 1st mistake by not telling the ds, do not try the switch
untill i cleaned out the points, cuz when he tryed to throw that switch
several times, all that did was pack the snow and ice up real good, and
that switch did not have switch heaters, and that night it was 5 above 0
with wind blowing, ha ha ha for those good old days...

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 January 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you were up early this morning...nice post!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 January 2013

http://www.galesburg.com/news/x1233667911/BNSF-signs-accord-with-OSHA-regarding-safety

 ...“It also sets the tone for other railroad employers throughout the
U.S. to take steps to ensure that their workers are not harassed,
intimidated or terminated, in whole or part, for reporting workplace
injuries.”...

http://www.whistleblowers.gov/acts/bnsf_accord.html

Name: Concerned
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 16 January 2013

For the comment on "Bob FRULLA's  on track accident " pictures and
police report will be posted on here within the next week. Frulla did
not receive any discipline for his non csx rule compliance.Anyone on
CSX PROPERTY THAT HAS BEEN FIRED FOR A MINOR VIOLATION AND RECIEVED
TIME OFF NEEDS TO LOOK INTO A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT AGAINEST CSX ON THE
GROUND OF DISCRIMINATION.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 January 2013

Redblock, while it is a tragedy the man was killed and the warning
device didnt work. You are wrong on one account. The man did not have
the right to drive drunk. If you are in a accident and are legally
impaired the accident is your fault. And im sure this will be ruled
that way.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 January 2013

Hey Other:

It's Tactical Nuclear Penguin...It's a kick ass beer from Scotland
I think. At a $100 a bottle it better be! It's 32% ABV which converts
to about 65 proof. Wish I had it back in high school, I'm sure it
works better than Southern Comfort! 

Yep, RedBlock and Other are JJ...their logic, Midland and unhealthy
man love for Pines gives them away.

I can think of no reason a 30+ year groundhog would even mention
another grade crossing fatality in Midland, let alone search for it.
According to him..."The driver was reportedly intoxicated and his
truck stalled on the crossing." That will do it every time. Then he
uses words like "manslaughter or homicide" again.

Like JJ he fails to post the link to the story of the latest accident.
I did see however where the Grand jury no billed the charges against
the driver of the truck that pulled the float!

I hope Atom collects his grand before he gives him the boot again!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 January 2013

JJ, I told you that you could not bs me and you are not doing now by
posing as redblock.  The web master is regulating this site by deleting
your violent posts.  Son, you can wear as many hats as you want but your
posts are all the same.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 January 2013

NOMO

Isnt tactical nukes a beer? I thought you went to Miami? Since when did
csx move there? Looks like redblock has a hard on for you. If its JJ he
wont be around long. Mr Smasher will see to that. Got facts to post
fine, but adding pot shots for no reason at all just wont cut it! This
is csx sucks so whats the UP accidents got to do with site...

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 11 January 2013

Hey RedBlow


"This is a "Safety" issue site, so here is a safety issue. I see
that
other "safety" posts are run off of here, or deleted, or ridiculed.
"


I did not find anywhere on this site that states it is a safety site. 
Get a clue it is csx-sucks.com and if it is any shit on csx then it
works.  

you are no moderator nor do I see any on here      UP might get a hard
on for your ass  putting stuff up on here about them. 

So becareful  you might get rear ended at a UP rail crossing just
before a train crosses your path.   You going to call the feds out on
that one.  

Nuke your typing fingers to pertain csx-sucks.com stuff   We are tired
of your sissy long winded posts about all that road crosssing stuff

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 January 2013

Hey Other er is it RedBlock...I mean JJ!

I see you slithered back on here...don't unpack your bags because you
won't be staying long!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 11 January 2013

RedBlock,
You are truly a fresh breath of air. It is absolutely wonderful to have
a person like you on this site. I am going to donate $1,000 to Atom
Smasher just for your post.  Hope to see more. God Bless. 

Support our Troops. Thanks.

Name: RedBlock
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 January 2013

This is a "Safety" issue site, so here is a safety issue. I see that
other "safety" posts are run off of here, or deleted, or ridiculed. 

Atom Smasher needs to regulate this site better, or it will go by the
wayside, especially if idiots like NoMo and RRJ continue to bash users
on here who are attempting to discuss safety issues.  Otherwise it is
merely a site for former disgruntled terminated railroad worker to bash
their former employers and that gets really old. Talk about not being
able to get over it....these guys take the annual 2013  Annal Retentive
Award for Constipated Personal Supervisor (v) subordinate issues. 

Here is a safety issue - sure to turn NoMo and RRJ purple with
dysfunctionalism....

Midland Texas has had another crossing fatality (Jan. 7, 2013) at the
same crossing that killed military veterans during a Veterans Day
parade. This time there were eye witnesses that reported seeing NO
bells ringing and NO flashers flashing as the vehicle was attempting to
cross the tracks and then stalled out on the tracks.  Once the Union
Pacific train hit the vehicle, THEN the bells started ringing and the
flashers started flashing.  

This is definately a defective crossing signal warning system. And it
has now killed people in November 2012, and now in Jan. 2013 - not to
mention numerous other crossing accidents at this same crossing in
prior months and years.  Hmmmmm. You would think the UP would check it
out...guess they would rather slaughter people at crossings and pay the
money than correct anything defective. Sounds like reckless disregard
for human life to me. Which sounds like manslaughter or homicide. But
then, this is the big bad railroad, and as everyone knows, they are
above the law. 

The driver was reportedly intoxicated and his truck stalled on the
crossing.  However, there were no bells or signals going off to warn
him. Crews can't stop freight trains on a dime. The company is
responsible for ensuring signals and bells are in working order. It is
no more the driver's fault that it would be if an intoxicated worker
were walking across the street at a pedestrian walkway on the "walk"
light, then gets his by a car. Just because he is drunk does not mean
he did not have the legal right of way to cross the street - same as
the driver of a vehicle has the right to drive across tracks - or
stalls out on the tracks - especially when the signal and bells are NOT
on,  

UP definately has some signaling problems that that crossing. 

P.S. NoMO,  if your going to go to Florida for a "vacation", best not
to mention you are acquiring "TACTICAL NUKES" before leaving, you
idiot....might make the Feds a little more than just passingly
suspecious - especially since your going to the very location of the
very company that you hate so much..... Duh....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 January 2013

Good evening Robert:

"WGAF" about the bonus situation? Why Robert, you do. You have made 
dozens, maybe hundreds of posts over the last year specifically
mentioning Ward's $2 million plus house and his compensation packing 
including LTIP, stock options and bonuses.

Either you care or did it just provide you a bitching point?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 January 2013

Here's my take on the bonus situation...WGAF

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 January 2013

LE 20-30

You mean to tell me you needed someone to tell you how to vote on a
contract? You can't blame the LC or even the GC's that came around
dunning it. I preferred pay increases seeing they are forever not
speculative. Once it was voted in people took the good with the bad.
Can't cry over spilled milk. The SSA change everything gone were a lot
of penalty claims, work rules ect....I think most people never read past
the first couple pages. Then to think only 51% bothered to send in the
ballot.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 10 January 2013

The BLE done a swell job of negotiating the prescription care benefits
for it's members.  Just renewed my kids Asthma inhaler with Express
Scripts for a 90 day supply, the co-pay went up to $90.00 this year for
Flovent.  If they can't do any better that this on their contracts
maybe they should take a BIG pay cut.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 January 2013

I think you mean the blizzard of 1978. When it hit I was furloughed from
the railroad. The railroad called asked if I wanted to sweep switches at
the Arrival Yard in Walbridge. Turned out to be a bad idea seeing we got
trapped for over 72 hours till the Ohio National Guard dug us out. The
positive I got paid continious time. Nice pay check but my sweeping
switches days after that ordeal were over. LOL!

Name: Bobalou
E-mail: 
Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years
Posted: 09 January 2013

Anybody remember the midwests Great Blizzard of 1977? I was working
crossing watchman at South Hamilton Ohio that winter and the January
temp hit record 26 below zero with 27 inch record low barometric
pressure and snow on the ground for 6 weeks. Trains in Lima got stuck
in snowdrifts and B&O hired barflies out of taverns to shovel trains
out.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 09 January 2013

NoMo   so you mean that slimy GayWard Flocker and his higher up Flockers
will be getting 95 percent of the whole pie.  Then we get Boned up the
yazoo for the other 5 percent.     

How much do the LC's get under the table for telling up to sign the
BONE-US PROGRAM.      That GayWard is a real freaking crook like Jesse
James.  He robbed trains.  Just one at a time.   GayWard robs the whole
damn railroad year in and year out.  Simply amazing like wall street.  


You would think the old timers would derail his damn gold trains
somehow.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 09 January 2013

NOMO


Band 6??? Are these the guys who go on the team building excursions
every year and get the "Pocket spending money" while they are there.
Anywhere from 5 to 10,000 bucks to cover their trip expenses?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 January 2013

Here's my take on the bonus situation...

Bonuses should be paid for "outstanding" performance; not has part
of day to day salary structure. Which in CSX's cases appears to be
what has happened. The contract employees have the SSA...if I remember
correctly, they voted to approve it, excepting the L&N and I think the
SCL.

Supervisory and low tier management personnel have had it dangled in
their faces like a carrot to get them to act in a manner they might not
otherwise (like cut throat assholes).

You get what you reap, greed begets greed. Unfortunately being bottom
feeders you're left with the crumbs that fall to the bottom.

Over the last 10 years CSX has sold assets, cut employees, put in place
other cost saving initiatives, to what avail? Is CSX a more competitive
company? Has customer satisfaction improved? How about
the financial performance and stock price? Are the employees happier
and is morale high? You be the judge.

In business, not just CSX, it's a fact that 95% of the bonus money
goes to 5% of the employees. That means the other 95% of the employees
get to share the remaining 5% of the bonus money. Bonuses should either
be awarded to everyone or not awarded to anyone...you
win or lose as a team!

CSX's problems over the last 10 years are the result of leadership.
The economy has just exposed the flaws in the business plan. They have
cut everything there is to cut except executive salaries, bonuses and
dividends. Guess what boys and girls, that's next.

You lead by example...if Michael Ward is a man and leader he will
decline to accept the generous bonuses the BoD will grant him. If he
accepts any bonus he's not worthy of your respect or continued
support.

I'm afraid CSX has painted themselves into a corner and getting out
will leave quite a mess!

Name: Bone-US
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 08 January 2013

Bonus

Think you mean Band 6 and above...they get a "secret" bonus called
the LTIP...as in Long Term Incentive Plan.  Its calculated on Stock
Price, Operating Ratio, and Revenue.

The Local TMs and RFEs do not get it...the have nots include  SR RFEs,
DTOs, Chiefs, Asst. Supts. Smaller Terminal Managers...

Its reserved for Large Terminal Managers(directors level aka Band 6)
and up.


Rumor is that due to the Domestic Coal Business being down, we were
maybe lucky enough to get to the lowest bonus level for 2012... 48%.

If not we will get 0% thats it.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 January 2013

NOMO


THAT WAS FUNNY!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 January 2013

Good afternoon Robert:

I see you've been a belligerent little prick. I think I was wrong,
maybe you are a Dick Head after all.

This is for you, your own theme song!

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnhZt73_d-I

Name: Company greed
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 08 January 2013

Attention ......band 7 and above will be getting there bonuses..Still
unsure about anyone below band 7....SCREWED AGAIN...

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 06 January 2013

Pine - Nutz.  The Sullivan Missouri Sucker.

How many times are you going to post the same incomplete crap that no
one wants to read.   FOUR times posting such useless, incomplete
dribble is enough.

Pine - Nutz, doesn't Sullivan, Missouri have a mental health facility
that you could permanently check into?  You're not wanted on this
site.  You post half truths that are slanted towards your views.  You
alter the facts by omitting the points that you don't agree with, heck
you don't even list a working email address.  Time has come for you to
move on.

Name: suzannah
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 06 January 2013

ATOM SMASHER


Time to clean house again. Wipe out the repetitive garbage that pines
or his imposter is posting..... Looks like 2013 is going to be another
year of this site being ruined by worthless dribble. Going to have your
work cut out for you again!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 January 2013

The interesting fact all these people were ran down like dogs by brain
dead  railroad crews going too fast on trains with sucky brakes and no
steering!!! Has to be the Junior Richard Craniums fault because a
responsible person wouldn't run a train bomb too fast without brakes
or steering.


http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/12/2011-safety-numbers-show-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-but-dots-work-continues.html#.UOVfum-TrTo
The updated Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data shows 2011
also saw the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, with 1.10 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011, down from 1.11 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010. (1 fatality per 90,909,091
miles traveled)
January TO October, 2012
AMTRAK -Total fatalities: 97   
Total nonfatal conditions:  1,463
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-64
Killed Passengers-4
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-137
Injured pedestrians-31
Injured workers-572
Injured passengers-576
Total train miles: 33,814,976
1 killed per 348,608 miles traveled
In 100 million miles Amtrak kills 287 people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
BNSF-Total fatalities: 73  
Total nonfatal conditions: 608
Killed crossings-32
Killed Pedestrians-37
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-77
Injured pedestrians-46
Injured workers-397
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:     159,783,002
1 killed per 2,188,808 miles traveled
In 100 million miles BNSF kills 46  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
CSX- Total fatalities: 86     
Total nonfatal conditions: 399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:  83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 103  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
Norfolk Southern-Total fatalities: 73      
Total nonfatal conditions: 391
Killed crossings-17
Killed Pedestrians-55
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-89
Injured pedestrians-44
Injured workers-183
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 73,999,677
1 killed per 1,013,694 miles traveled
In 100 million miles NS kills 99  people not 1.1 people.
+++++++
Union Pacific-Total fatalities: 114     
Total nonfatal conditions: 770
Killed crossings-44
Killed Pedestrians-61
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-5
Injured crossings-149
Injured pedestrians-80
Injured workers-384
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 140,664,592
1 killed per 1,233,900 miles traveled.
In 100 million miles UP kills 81  people not 1.1 people.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 05 January 2013

Some interesting facts that were conveniently left off the fact sheet
that was posted unnecessarily 3 times were that 98% of all of the
accidents were the driver/pedestrians FAULT.  Why was that interesting
fact left off.  How many of those idiots that got themselves killed
were trespassing, committing  suicide, trying to beat the train,
drinking, drugs, texting, talking on a cell phone, not paying
attention,  hey the list goes on and on.  How many of those idiots cost
the tax payer millions with frivolous lawsuits.
 
Hey, don't worry if you missed this post I will post it 2 more times.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 04 January 2013

Pine - Nutz  aka the Missouri, Sullvan sack of $#!π

You've posted this article 3 times.  It doesn't have any new
information.  What are you thinking?  Third time posting the same
useless dribble is the charm.  Guess again.  Same useless dribble from
the same piece of Sullivan $#!π…

Please Pine Nutz..... put your time to use doing something else, vs
wasting your time posting on a site where no one wants to read what
you've written.  If you're going to post your useless dribble, post
something new and truthful.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 January 2013

The number that sticks out is Amtrak employee injuries. Is it?
A. Amtrak employees milk it? OR
B. The other railroads hide employee injuries.

The five finalists in the 2013 I.B.A.Richard Cranium Railroad Operator
contest with 60 days of reports missing yet.

So far Joey Boardman --Amtrak is way ahead with Mikey-CSX a distant
2nd. Warren who is old as dirt is way behind.

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/12/2011-safety-numbers-show-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-but-dots-work-continues.html#.UOVfum-TrTo
The updated Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data shows 2011
also saw the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, with 1.10 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011, down from 1.11 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010. (1 fatality per 90,909,091
miles traveled)
January TO October, 2012
AMTRAK -Total fatalities: 97   
Total nonfatal conditions:  1,463
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-64
Killed Passengers-4
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-137
Injured pedestrians-31
Injured workers-572
Injured passengers-576
Total train miles: 33,814,976
1 killed per 348,608 miles traveled
In 100 million miles Amtrak kills 287 people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
BNSF-Total fatalities: 73  
Total nonfatal conditions: 608
Killed crossings-32
Killed Pedestrians-37
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-77
Injured pedestrians-46
Injured workers-397
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:     159,783,002
1 killed per 2,188,808 miles traveled
In 100 million miles BNSF kills 46  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
CSX- Total fatalities: 86     
Total nonfatal conditions: 399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:  83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 103  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
Norfolk Southern-Total fatalities: 73      
Total nonfatal conditions: 391
Killed crossings-17
Killed Pedestrians-55
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-89
Injured pedestrians-44
Injured workers-183
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 73,999,677
1 killed per 1,013,694 miles traveled
In 100 million miles NS kills 99  people not 1.1 people.
+++++++
Union Pacific-Total fatalities: 114     
Total nonfatal conditions: 770
Killed crossings-44
Killed Pedestrians-61
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-5
Injured crossings-149
Injured pedestrians-80
Injured workers-384
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 140,664,592
1 killed per 1,233,900 miles traveled.
In 100 million miles UP kills 81  people not 1.1 people.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 January 2013

Good morning Robert:

I see you survived the Holiday...too bad!

You made that post yesterday...I don't see any new information or to
you just like being the first post out.

I might think about your awards...I don't think you're a Dick Head,
so why do you, "I.B.A.Richard Cranium". You're just a lonely,
pathetic old fool with nothing to do except try and atone for your past
life.

I'll talk to you next week...have to wing my way to Miami!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 January 2013

The number that sticks out is Amtrak employee injuries. Is it?
A. Amtrak employees milk it? OR
B. The other railroads hide employee injuries.

The five finalists in the 2013 I.B.A.Richard Cranium Railroad Operator
contest with 60 days of reports missing yet.

So far Joey Boardman --Amtrak is way ahead with Mikey-CSX a distant
2nd. Warren who is old as dirt is way behind.

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/12/2011-safety-numbers-show-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-but-dots-work-continues.html#.UOVfum-TrTo
The updated Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data shows 2011
also saw the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, with 1.10 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011, down from 1.11 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010. (1 fatality per 90,909,091
miles traveled)
January TO October, 2012
AMTRAK -Total fatalities: 97   
Total nonfatal conditions:  1,463
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-64
Killed Passengers-4
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-137
Injured pedestrians-31
Injured workers-572
Injured passengers-576
Total train miles: 33,814,976
1 killed per 348,608 miles traveled
In 100 million miles Amtrak kills 287 people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
BNSF-Total fatalities: 73  
Total nonfatal conditions: 608
Killed crossings-32
Killed Pedestrians-37
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-77
Injured pedestrians-46
Injured workers-397
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:     159,783,002
1 killed per 2,188,808 miles traveled
In 100 million miles BNSF kills 46  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
CSX- Total fatalities: 86     
Total nonfatal conditions: 399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:  83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
In 100 million miles CSX kills 103  people not 1.1 people.
++++++++
Norfolk Southern-Total fatalities: 73      
Total nonfatal conditions: 391
Killed crossings-17
Killed Pedestrians-55
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-89
Injured pedestrians-44
Injured workers-183
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 73,999,677
1 killed per 1,013,694 miles traveled
In 100 million miles NS kills 99  people not 1.1 people.
+++++++
Union Pacific-Total fatalities: 114     
Total nonfatal conditions: 770
Killed crossings-44
Killed Pedestrians-61
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-5
Injured crossings-149
Injured pedestrians-80
Injured workers-384
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles: 140,664,592
1 killed per 1,233,900 miles traveled.
In 100 million miles UP kills 81  people not 1.1 people.

Name: KYLE
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 04 January 2013

Let me put it this way for all class 1 roads,,You will never change them
in managment, they don,t want to hear what is wrong & what is the right
way to run a rr as they have been this way since i first hired on, they
will not listen to the men-women out in the field and when you do make a
suggestion on what is wrong, they right away think you are trying to
screw them over, and this if a real fact, now just from my point of
view, now who knows what is really going on in the field,, the managers
or the peeps who are out there doing it? there is a old saying on the rr
as far as managment, if its on paper then we in management are correct
and all the rest of you are wrong, Its been that way ever since i came
on with this company, if these rr officials would just listen a few
times on what we the workers say,, damm they could save millions of
dollars, but thier ego will not permitt a thing like that,. as a old
head hogger told me 1 time when i first got on, he said, do not make
any suggestion as if you do that they will think you are just trying to
shaft them, just sit there and let them pour the money into your bank
account cuz kid you will never change them, and by damm that hogger was
100% correct and that was 20 yrs ago when he said that, I have lived it
and seen it first hand.

Name: 
E-mail: freepress.info
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 January 2013

Good Day Rails:

2013 is the year of containing corporate greed! Why is it that every
Tom Dick and Sue; that's in senior management, making $$millions and
millions of dollars at our peril? It seems like the only thing 
they're good at is lobbying our elected officials and bribing union
officers with "Safety Captain" positions to contain dissent!

Went to yahoo finance and symboled the rail companies. Every major
carrier's CEO has accumulated at least $100,000,000.00 in earnings
(insider transaction). Think about that when you can't layoff for
your
daughter's graduation.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 January 2013

Oh that is funny.   

You hit the nail on the head with that video.  I can see that being a
Pines family Christmas.  Outstanding.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 January 2013

Since it's pick on Pines...here is how he celebrates Christmas with his
friends and family , if he has any, in Sullivan!

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlI9cV6AvBE

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 January 2013

Pine - Nutz.  aka Missouri babbling idiot, or what ever you go by now.

It has been so nice without you here on this site.  Please crawl back
under the rock from which you came.  But if you insist on posting on
this site, be truthful, have facts that everyone can check, and be
verified.  Not altered to suit your needs.

One last thing, your lame "attempt" of creating a knock off of
Nomo's Brown Banana is, like you, SAD.  Did you not see the effort
Nomo went through to listen to to the voice of the people?  You don't
listen to anyone, except your little alter ego friends.  (Even they,
are probably few and far in between, and don't want to claim to know
you.)

Pines, please just go away.  There are other areas where your
"talents" would be appreciated, and its not on this site.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 January 2013

Santa,

From reading the post below, I'm guessing you gave Pines a new
computer, or while he was locked up, someone accidently allowed him
access to the community computer at the mental facilities his family
put him in.  Please, please please please,  consider crashing Pines
computers and blocking him from this site.  It has been so nice
visiting this site once again, and not reading or being distracted by
Pines useless dribble.  

If you do this, I promise to be good all year, even when I'm awake.  I
know what a fan you are of Amazon, and how you love thank you gifts from
this site.  I will remember this when I'm making my list, and checking
it twice.  If you ban Pines, that would be nice.

Thank you Santa

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 January 2013

The five finalists in the 2013 I.B.A.Richard Cranium Railroad Operator
contest with 60 days of reports missing yet.

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/12/2011-safety-numbers-show-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-but-dots-work-continues.html#.UOVfum-TrTo
The updated Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data shows 2011
also saw the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, with 1.10 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011, down from 1.11 deaths per
100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010. (1 fatality per 90,909,091
miles traveled)
January TO October, 2012
AMTRAK -Total fatalities:       97   Total nonfatal conditions:   
1,463
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-64
Killed Passengers-4
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-137
Injured pedestrians-31
Injured workers-572
Injured passengers-576
Total train miles:      33,814,976
1 killed per 348,608 miles traveled
++++++++
BNSF-Total fatalities:       73  Total nonfatal conditions:      608
Killed crossings-32
Killed Pedestrians-37
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-77
Injured pedestrians-46
Injured workers-397
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:     159,783,002
1 killed per 2,188,808 miles traveled
++++++++
CSX- Total fatalities:       86     Total nonfatal conditions:     
399
Killed crossings-28
Killed Pedestrians-57
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-2
Injured crossings-119
Injured pedestrians-72
Injured workers-184
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:      83,610,301
1 killed per 972,213 miles traveled
++++++++
Norfolk Southern-Total fatalities:       73      Total nonfatal
conditions:      391
Killed crossings-17
Killed Pedestrians-55
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-0
Injured crossings-89
Injured pedestrians-44
Injured workers-183
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:      73,999,677
1 killed per 1,013,694 miles traveled
+++++++
Union Pacific-Total fatalities:      114     Total nonfatal conditions:
     770
Killed crossings-44
Killed Pedestrians-61
Killed Passengers-0
Killed workers-5
Injured crossings-149
Injured pedestrians-80
Injured workers-384
Injured passengers-0
Total train miles:     140,664,592
1 killed per 1,233,900 miles traveled.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 January 2013

2013 the year of the first annual I. RICHARD CRANIUM RAILROAD OPERATOR
awards.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 02 January 2013

Alex

You're absolutely right those old GP's give everything they got no
computer to limit power. I remember when the GP38's, GP40's, and the
GP40-2's came out they were workhorses put a smile on our faces when
we got them in consist. I remember having 3-4 units in a consist half
of it junk hoping at least 2 stayed running. Every 10-15 miles there
were water hoses in case one needed it. Working on locomotives on the
road was common. Draining govenor oil out of one to put in another,
using fuses to block the oil/water buttons to keep things running
ect....those were good days. We earned our money. We also had
roundhouses at every terminal so power came off then inspected before
being dispatched back out. Now they just run them till they puke out.
These bigger locomotives today the only advantage I noticed was better
traction which allows to make grades that we never could before without
pushers. They don't shut down if low on water ect....they just readjust
themselves to limit power. A negative they're slower and sluggish
taking longer to get up to max speed. Anther positive note would be
using the computer to correct problems enroute that normally we
couldn't. I guess it's a give & take situation.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 January 2013

Santa Clause

Thank you for giving me my Christmas wish.  It is so nice to visit this
site and not see the endless vulgar, and false dribble from Pines and
JJ.  Just people on this site talking about legitimate concerns and
problems with CSX.

Thank You for making my, and many others wish come true, and returning
this site to its former importance, as the place where we employees can
go to express our legitimate concerns.

Thank you Santa

Name: Alex
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 January 2013

RRJ

When I run an old conventional engine, and I ask for power, I get horse
power.  On today's new engines, I ask for more power, the computer
thinks about if for a while, to decide if I really need it or not.  Its
frustrating being in notch 8, and seeing your only being given 4 kg of
traction.  The same amount as if I were in notch 1.   I wouldn't be
asking for power if I didn't need it, but CSX doesn't understand
this.

As much as I hate getting the crap beat out of me on a conventional
engine, at least on those engines, when I'm asking for power, I get
the power I'm asking for.  The old 4 axle 1500's, they'll beat the
heck out of you too, but unlike today's engine's they'll pull their
guts out.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 01 January 2013

SpongeBoob

That's the biggest problem with your generation no respect. You're
self centered an ignorant. I haven't been retired long enough to not
have been part of the changes that occured. Didn't matter how I felt
it's their railroad it's about overcoming an adapting. It's all part
of the game. They pay you a decent wage if they didn't you would of
left long ago. They're other railroads best one by far to work for
BNSF or even Amtrak. Put in applications make the move someone with
active railroad experience has the advantage. If not get use to it.
Once again it's their railroad. Unions can't do anything on how they
decide to manage it. That's not a contractual issue. The NS ruled with
an iron fist for decades then CSX decided to bring it over to their
side. It's more about a stupid little award called The Harriman then
anything else NS is always first with CSX second. All the changes CSX
still can't win it. I was hoping after they got rid of Ingram & Brown
it would get better for ya'll seems that didn't happen.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 December 2012

Hey conductor.  That is what happens when a dispr gets old, he can't
see and hits the wrong key.  Loads -mty -tonnage -length

Name: Q113-27 v Y290
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 31 December 2012

there is a 16 hour 31 minute delay at "NORWESOHI" for the Q113-27.
Reason: Derailment Delay Y290 sideswiped Q113-27.


And the winner is_______________________________?

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 31 December 2012

RRJ,

   Maybe you didn't understand the first time, nobody gives a F#$k
about the way things use to be when you were working. We are interested
in today's problems with CSX, not how things use to be, you can't quit
living in the past, let it go man.  Maybe you should hire back on with
CSX and see how things are on today's railroad, maybe then you will
have some respect for the people working under today's conditions.

Name: Sad division 
E-mail: 
Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A
Posted: 31 December 2012

Myself and other CSX customers "WILL NOT ADAPT" to BOB FRULLA's
statement "THAT THE CUSTOMER WILL ADAPT" our business WILL GO
ELSEWHERE !!!!!   That is a fact BOB!!!!!!!!!!!' Good luck Huntington
Division

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 December 2012

LE 20-30

We didn't see many if any 6000 hp motors most were 4400's. I just
threw it in for effect. CSX hasn't been able to run trains since they
centralized dispatching. I retired right after they broke it up to 4
dispatching centers. Unless the milage ate away at the OT I didn't
mind 12-14 hour days that was money in the bank. My last road run was a
sweet 72 miles most times we got down with loads & turned back on
empties. That's all changed from what I've heard. Since I retire now
they're trying a new ID run which might slow things down running
trains in both directions on the same subs. They got away with running
ID's for along time because loads would head east on one line and they
ran empties on another line. Most of the TD's in my area haven't had
to deal with traffic meets ect...Back in the day trains ran like
clockwork. That's for you SpongeBoob! LMAO!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 December 2012

SpongeBoob

It wouldn't of been a good end of the year without one of your
assinine remarks. Sonny, I got mine collecting that nice RRB retirement
check every month. People like you will never have anything because
you're a defeatist. Poor Poor SpongeBoob CSX is mean to him. BOO HOO!
Quit you little sissy.

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 31 December 2012

RRJ,

   Nobody cares how things used to be back in your day on the CSX. 
Things have changed a lot for all of us, mostly not for the good, deal
with it.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 31 December 2012

L&N
You can have a coal train that is 90-0-4800? What does that mean? I
have never seen anything like that on any work order or engineers
tonage graph. Just length, tones and axles lds and empty. What are you
referring too? Do you mean 90 empties, 0 lds and 4800 tons?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 31 December 2012

RRJ


I dont know where you were working but you guys must have been spoiled.
I havent seen a 6000 hp engine in 10 years or more and most are 4000.
Occasionally you get a 4400, but 3000 to 4000 is the norm. Second, its
an everyday thing to run 10-15 miles under in certain area on our
terrain because the hp just doesnt get it. Third, everybody who knows
anything about mechanics knows that a car doesnt get the same gas
mileage or run the same after 10 years even if you do maintain it
properly. Something that csx doesnt like to do. Go ask any engine house
foreman and he will tell you he cant fix anything properly because the
company wont give them the money to order the parts and their hands are
tied too! Saving fuel has become 100% more important than moving
freight. Everything is moved with as few engines as possible with as
little fuel as well. Tm's dont give a shit about your power. They want
you out of their yard as quick as possible so the powers to be dont call
them and breath down their necks for their trains not departing on time.
You could be blowing smoke and oil along with flames out your power and
they wouldnt give a shit. They want that signal knocked down so they
look good. Thats all that matters. Road people are in the way of their
yard jobs.They want you out and gone so your not their problem anymore!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 December 2012

3 locomotives on 10,000 tons? I was running 2 locomotives on 22,000
tons. The 4400/6000 hp AC's are pretty good making grades that use to
require pushers on heavy coal trains. If I had 3 locomotives on 10,000
tons it would of been a wet dream. We were running 190 car coal trains
with 2 GP40-2's back in the day getting a 6 axle was unheard of if we
did it was in trail heading to a shop.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 December 2012

Just a matter of time until the power will be set and sent from HQ (The
plan) and not on the Locomotive.

Power today is set by hp, tonnage and terrain. That is changing,
technology will allow the hp to change by terrain.

The trucking industry has it now, Request from the truck back to (The
Plan) and a few more hp kick in. They know where you are and what you
need.

Do the truckers like it, not at all. However it is the future.

Name: Alex
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 30 December 2012

Yellow Hat

Yes putting three locomotives on a 10,000 train would make sense and
save fuel, BUT..... we're talking about CSX here.   I'm sure you've
heard the different acronyms about what CSX stands for, one of them
being Common Sense eXempt.  They will punish an engineer for not
isolating his additional engines when he cuts away from the cars of his
train, or not shutting down the engines when he's stopped for more than
15 minutes.  But there are no reprecussions when a train master sends
out a train that is under powered, and excessive fuel is needed to move
freight.

Common Sense eXempt

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for N/A
Posted: 30 December 2012

4 Ol Yellower

What part do you not get?   This is GayWard’s Railroad and he will run
it how he sees fit. Or let his lil Managers run it so they can get a
trinkle bonus.    It don’t matter you are in 8th Notch and barely able
to Make that hill but when you hit the apex you can feel it kick you in
the butt and you can start in Dynamic.
But do not use any damn air  save that when you got to use it as last
damn resort.   Since it is never used who knows if it will work to save
your butt then.    Cheap Scape Xpress or not it is GayWard’s way or the
highway Charlie.  There is no Comparision to this 7th best class one
railroad to the others  It is in a league by itself.   Don’t You Know
Dicks are 4 Chicks.

BNSF & CN know it and NS Nazi Originators even UP gets it some too and
KCS.   CP just passed you know who.

Name: yellow hat
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 30 December 2012

@ other and all coerned


Wouldn't putting 3 locomotives instead of 2 on a heavy long train save
fuel?
Maybe my theory is wrong put three engines on a 10,000 ton + train
would save fuel instead of burning more with 2 when it comes to grades
etc etc...also velocity would increase isnt this one of the things the
company depends on to compare itself to other railroads?

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 28 December 2012

Also it depends if it is a hump train or a run thru train and which
direction it is going on determining the tonnage.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 28 December 2012

The length of a train does not determine the tonnage of a train.  You
can have a coal train that is 90-0-4800 and have 8500 tons and an
intermodal train that is 8500 ft long and have 3800 tons (which cannot
be shoved)  It is up to the POCO Dept to monitor the tonnage of a train
and make sure it has enough power.  Sub divisns will have strict
restrictions for trains that are over tonnage account trains stalling
with no pusher service.  Yards are responsible for building trains
according to the tonnage rating for that subdivn.  Having to double a
train on a sub will kill a RR.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years
Posted: 28 December 2012

Other


Sorry to hear that your son was exposed to anything that might be
vulgar on the side of a csx car, but that is out of the companies
control. Vandals are a 24 hour a day problem and it would take too much
time and money to stop and paint every car they vandalize.

As for too many cars on the trains, that happens when
power(locomotives) are short in supply and they use what they have
available. There is also a very strict rule on conserving the use of
fuel. If the freight can be moved with two locomotives instead of three
then it is done, even if the speed of the train in way under and it
takes too long to get to its destination. Unfortunatley the situation
you witnessed happens when the freight is too heavy for the locomotive
horsepower. Alot of times terrain is not considered in the building of
the trains. Thats when trains stall and another helper locomotive is
needed to push the freight to level ground. A waste of time, manpower,
fuel and locomotive use. Thats just how the railroad works.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 December 2012

CSX Puts way too many cars Per train. I was stuck at a station for
2hours because the train got stuck from too many cars! They needed to
bring in another train just to push the CSX up the VERY small hill. 
Also they need to protect the cars. my son was reading the Grafitti and
and several times i needed to cover his eves before he could say
anything 'Wrong'

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 December 2012

Ed,
Nice post, you are going the right way, however the part about (some)
of your dues going to the LC may not hold water. The LC normally does
not get paid by the Union??? Who know's. Your $175.00 per month money
is thrown out the window money. $2100.00 per year for 30 =$63,000.00 IF
IF your dues stay the same? It will be much more Plus a little red board
insurance, simply because it is for sale and will give you a comfy
feeling.

Thanks to the state of Michigan for the right to work, now time to make
that happen on the rails.

 
 Name: Ed
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 December 2012

I read Jake's comment about his local chairman being marked off today
for Union Business today.  If I have to use vacation time, or burn my
personal days in order to be home with my family for the holidays, why
shouldn't the UTU local chairman that receives a portion of my dues
to
represent me, do the same?   When my local chairman is off on the
holidays, is he turning in the days to the treasurer to be compensated
with money from MY DUES so he can be paid to spend time with HIS
FAMILY
while I'm rotting on a train out in the middle of no where?

I actively encourage each and everyone of you to anonymously post your
local chairman's name and how long he's been marked off.  For
example:  UTU LC 12345 Erik Shawn Marked off 12/18/12 at 0600.   Its
12/25/12 and 7 days later, local 12345 eagerly awaits his return.  No
wonder the UTU dues at local 12345 are $175.00 a month.

There has got to be some accountability for the way or union raises
our
dues, then fails to represent us.  Those in charge of our union today
are only looking out for themselves, lining their pockets with OUR
EARNINGS AND WHILE WE ARE OUT WORKING, THEY'RE WITH THEIR FAMILIES
FOR
THE HOLIDAYS, VACATIONING WITH THEIR FAMILY, OR OFF AT A CONVENTION ON
OUR DIME.

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.  THE TIME HAS COME THAT WE TAKE BACK OUR UNIONS,
AND OUR LOCAL CHAIRMEN BE REMINDED JUST WHO THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE
FIGHTING FOR.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 27 December 2012

Jake

Unless the agreement has changed and I missed it, it states the company
cant lay jobs in on the holidays in order to get away with not paying
the holiday gift. As long as you are available the day before and the
day after the holidays you are entitled to the holiday gift. Thats what
the paid holidays are for. Of course you arent getting overtime because
you arent working. Read your agreement again. If they laid the jobs in
and you were available then you are entitled. I cant remember exactly
what the wording said about being off on compensated days the day
before and the day after, but I believe you are still entitled. It was
a perk agreed upon having 14 paid holidays a year. Of course road crews
dont get it, just yard crews!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 December 2012

Hey Rob:

Let it go...Pines if he posts will post under his name. He wants
everyone to know it him; it's an attention/ego thing.

I don't know if it was Atom Clause or Santa Smasher but next year
I'm leaving chocolate cover pretzels and a six pack of Tactical
Nuclear Penguin on ice for him!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 26 December 2012

What's up Pine - Nutz, aka JJ?  I read your post below.  Are you afraid
to post anything with your name on it, for fear Adam Smasher will pull
it too?

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 26 December 2012

Adam Smasher

Thanks for removing JJ's post where he advocates violence towards
train crews and trains.  I was both shocked and appalled when I read
what he wrote.  JJ's recent comments, whether it be against Nomo,
trains, or train crews have over stepped any boundaries of decency, and
need to be addressed in some way.  Thanks again for removing JJ's post.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Mr NOMO: Good that you are doing that. I am having lunch next week with
two friends of mine,  one is a state inspector the other works for the
FRA.  I have expressed my concern to them about JJ 's disturbing
posts. Especially the ones about shooting you and T&E employees.  They
have asks me to start making copies of his posts so there is a paper
trail since they cannot monitor the site 24/7.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 December 2012

Hey L&N:

JJ has left the building but I have saved several of his latest
Opus Magmum which I will forward to a former classmate who is an high
level administrator with the NSA, he'll get them where they needs to
go!

JJ has been erased!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

JJ you might want to your sources again.  YOU posted another lie.

The Department of Homeland Security has been ordered by a federal
district court in Nebraska to cease assessing fines against Union
Pacific and seizing its rolling stock following discovery of illegal
narcotics on trains originating in Mexico and delivered by Mexican
railroads to UP at the Mexican border.

The court said U.S. Customs and Border Protection — an agency of the
Deparatment of Homeland Security —exceeded its authority in assessing
the fines and seizing the railcars in which the illegal narcotics were
found.

UP, which sued the federal government, said it had been wrongly
assessed more than $37 million in fines and penalties by Customs and
Border Protection after the illegal narcotics were found in rail
equipment delivered to UP at the Mexican border crossings at
Brownsville, Texas, Calexico, Calif., and Nogales, Ariz. The court
cancelled the $37 million in fines and penalties.

Earlier this year, UP agreed to spend some $50 million to improve its
border- crossing security, and to work more closely with Customs and
Border Protection. UP has assigned railroad police, K-9 teams and
private security contractors to its border crossings in an effort to
find those narcotics when the railcars are delivered by the Mexican
railroad. UP also paid to construct an office and observation towers
for use by Customs and

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

NOMO, I hope you saved JJ post before it is removed because what he said
about you is a personal threat.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

JJ views tragedies as a source of entertainment.   He thinks they are
funny and makes jokes about them.  He thinks he is clever with his
little post.  Son, for you to make threats like you have done is very
stupid.  Similar comments just like you have made on a public forum has
put a 19 year old boy,  just like you in jail in Columbia, TN on 750,000
bond for making terrorist threats.  He could face some serious jail
time.  I think you better thinks twice before doing it again.  Homeland
Security may not think your little post are as funny as you do. T&E
crews,  I think you guys should maybe try to find out where this sick
young man lives because if he is serious, your life could be in
jeopardy.

Name: Gayward Flocker
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Jake
Well I never.... hmmmmmm. I Just don't understand you bottom dwellers

always on here complaining and criticizing the management who are
working for us share holders.  You can buy you some CSX stock and quit
complaining.    If you can not beat us join us.  

GayWard Flocker

Railroading the easy way.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Hey JJ. / Pine - Nutz

Are you making threats against train crews and trains?  Are you
advocating homeland terrorism against the railroads, and interstate
commerce?   You are aware that the CSX police, who happen to have
federal law enforcement powers, do check out threats made against CSX. 
Let me guess, you're lonely and want the CSX COPS to visit you?

Name: Ed
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 December 2012

I read Jake's comment about his local chairman being marked off today
for Union Business today.  If I have to use vacation time, or burn my
personal days in order to be home with my family for the holidays, why
shouldn't the UTU local chairman that receives a portion of my dues to
represent me, do the same?   When my local chairman is off on the
holidays, is he turning in the days to the treasurer to be compensated
with money from MY DUES so he can be paid to spend time with HIS FAMILY
while I'm rotting on a train out in the middle of no where?

I actively encourage each and everyone of you to anonymously post your
local chairman's name and how long he's been marked off.  For
example:  UTU LC 12345 Erik Shawn Marked off 12/18/12 at 0600.   Its
12/25/12 and 7 days later, local 12345 eagerly awaits his return.  No
wonder the UTU dues at local 12345 are $175.00 a month.

There has got to be some accountability for the way or union raises our
dues, then fails to represent us.  Those in charge of our union today
are only looking out for themselves, lining their pockets with OUR
EARNINGS AND WHILE WE ARE OUT WORKING, THEY'RE WITH THEIR FAMILIES FOR
THE HOLIDAYS, VACATIONING WITH THEIR FAMILY, OR OFF AT A CONVENTION ON
OUR DIME.

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.  THE TIME HAS COME THAT WE TAKE BACK OUR UNIONS,
AND OUR LOCAL CHAIRMEN BE REMINDED JUST WHO THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE
FIGHTING FOR.

Name: jake
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Hey engineer 30 +

I don't think anyone is working this morning calling crews.  I have a
personal day in for tomorrow.  The IVR won't give me an early lay off,
and of course CMC isn't answering the phone.  Neither is my union local
chairman, even though he's marked off Union Business.   (I'm guessing
CMC must have left Shawn in charge of answering the phones.  He openly
laughs and brags about putting people on hold for extended lengths of
time.  Worthless piece of $π!™)

On the Chicago Division management said, per Jacksonville, all locals
and yard crews were to be annulled to save money.  CSX wants to show a
profit for this quarter, and one of the ways they can do this is by not
paying the yard crews and locals double time and a half.  If they can
run a train with a road crew, then do it, but absolutely no one is to
be paid the holiday gift.  

Nice to know that its the crews that CSX cares about, and not about the
crews spending the holidays with their family.  By the way in case you
are not aware of this yet, our caring management will be giving the
locals and yard crews off the 30th, 31st, and the 1st off.  Once again
to avoid paying the holiday gift. 

Thanks CSX.  No wonder you're the only class one with a website where
your employees openly discuss how much they hate the way management
treats them, and how incompetent the Management is under Michael Wards
leadership.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Just once I would love to come on this site and see nothing but
brotherly love for all of us, especially for the brothers and sisters
that are working today. Pines and JJ give your BS a rest for just one
day.....PLEASE..... Merry Christmas to all.....

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 December 2012

Pine - Nutz.  AKA jj

I read, then reread your comment about arming your vehicle with
different weapons, and various ways to attack trains.  Did I understand
you right, are you advocating violence against all trains and train
crews?  If so, are you aware that you are advocating a form of homeland
terrorism?   I just wanted to know if this is what you actually meant,
before the FBI knocks at your door, sometime soon.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 December 2012

Hey JJ:

Calling you an Imbecile might be a complement.

First and foremost, shooting at a train could be considered an overt
act of terrorism and if you were convicted, you could be put to death.

You stated, "Wonder if those vets killed by that UP train felt like
they had been ambushed by assassination.". My seven year old
granddaughter can compose a better sentence than that...the only thing
those Vets felt as shear terror and excruciating pain if they were
lucky. You state further that..."Yesterday it's CSX killing a little
boy in Chicago.". CSX didn't kill anyone. The boy ran back into the
track, that's an accident. Finally you state..."so why
not arm all vehicles with 100 mm cannon or grenade rocket launchers to
blow those speeding trains off the tracks before they crush you to
death at A crossing.". If you were paying attention and weren't on a
crossing when a train came by, you wouldn't go splat.

You and Pines are psychos and should be dealt with accordingly by the
authorities!

Name: The Grinch
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 24 December 2012

Merry Freaking Christmas all you CSX Flockers.   I know you are looking
forward to the end of the year Bone US and lots of time off work on the
Holidays.   Maybe you will get your wish and get fired soon because it
is that time of the year.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 December 2012

"He was a bright young man with a bright future but he was taken
away," Harris said...can't be too bright if you get hit by a train in
a neighborhood that you have lived in your entire life.

Nowhere in the article does it say "CSX murders 8 year old
neighbor".
What the article does say is..."Jaylen Harris was struck and killed by
a CSX train in East Chicago, Ind. Saturday."

No where in the article does it say "When CSX were asked why they said
Mikey needed more bloody Christmas decorations at his new $2.7 Million
second house." What the article does say is..."Freight train company
CSX did not comment about this case. A spokesman told ABC7 that it's a
police investigation."

A perfect illustration of the "Pines Affect", distortions,
misrepresentations and fabrications.

Right now he typing a poison pen email to the FRA, Indiana DoT, and
City of East Chicago, demanding action!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 December 2012

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8930067
@BP
CSX murders 8 year old neighbor at it's E. Chicago yard. When CSX were
asked why they said Mikey needed more bloody Christmas decorations at
his new $2.7 Million second house.

Name: Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 December 2012

Good morning Robert:

Amazing how the same posts keep reappearing, isn't it?

So how do they do railroad safety? Hard to do anything when they
fruitcake like you they have to assign a handler to because you're a
whiny bitch.

Often, Pines reports are preliminary in nature and may not
contain all of the relevant information regarding a particular
incident and the information it does contain is distorted
misrepresented and fabricated.

Weird, how all Pines posts favor his personal agenda.

Where's the tax on ignorance, Pines would be a national treasure.

How many times has Pines been asked a direct question and he either
deflects or has a smart ass reply?


------------------------------------------------------------------

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

Good morning Robert:

Ghosts posts? Seems you caught it to and just had to ask..."covering
up on ghost posts?".

Now you're worried about how much Young is making on his stock
options.

Looks like the FRA told you in no uncertain terms to FUCK OFF!

You have plans for the Holidays? Of course not, You have no family or
friend so it looks like you'll be spending it alone, again. Just you
and your 6 computers...trolling, trolling, trolling!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 December 2012

"""Given that FRA has limited resources"""
So how do they do railroad safety?
"""Often, media reports are preliminary in nature and may not
contain all of the relevant information regarding a particular
incident."""
Weird always favoring railroads?
Where's the railroad safety tax on the railroads?
How many others have been shit answers?

++++++++++++++++++

http://www.streetinsider.com/Insider+Trades/Union+Pacific+(UNP)+Chairman+Young+Sells+$7.5M+Shares/7955451.html

Union Pacific (UNP) Chairman Young Sells $7.5M Shares

According to a Form 4 filed with the U.S. SEC, Chairman James Young
sold 60,000 shares held indirectly by his trust on December 17, 2012.
The shares were sold for an average price of $124.9973 per share for
gross proceeds of $7,499,838.

Following the sale, Young holds 13,281 shares in his Trust. He also
holds 418,380 directly.
++++++++++++++++++

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590
DEC 19 2012
Dear Mr. Pines:
This letter is in response to your repeated complaints to the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) regarding highway-rail grade crossing
incidents and railroad track conditions during the last year. You have
made these complaints using the Alleged Violation Reporting Form on
the
FRA Web site. FRA staff members have been diligent in their efforts to
investigate your complaints and in communicating our findings;
however,
FRA has consistently found the complaints to be without merit.

It appears your recent complaints were made without first-hand
knowledge of the incidents that you referenced, but, instead, were
based solely on media reports regarding incidents that occurred in
various locations around the country. Often, media reports are
preliminary in nature and may not contain all of the relevant
information regarding a particular incident. Addressing complaints has
consumed a disproportionate amount of FRA's regulatory oversight
resources.

It is FRA's longstanding practice to investigate any safety complaint
irrespective of its origin or source. To that end, FRA receives and
responds to numerous credible safety complaints each year. Given that
FRA has limited resources, we must necessarily focus on addressing
those complaints that reveal actual safety conditions necessitating
timely FRA oversight and/or enforcement action.

FRA appreciates your concern in railroad safety;however, to most
effectively fulfill our  safety responsibilities, we cannot commit to
investigate any further complaints that you raise.
Sincerely,
Jo Strang
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety/Chief Safety Officer

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

Hey L&N:

JJ's modus operandi is to throw anything against the wall and see 
what sticks. Like Pines he puts the spin (Pines affect) on it and
doesn't mind distorting the facts to fit his desired outcome.

He's full of bull shit...he been coming on here over the last 4 years
and has posted under several dozen screen names, He's nothing but a
foamer. He's in school but will be out until after the first so we can
look forward to more of his BS for the next ten days

I think he (and Pines) were neglected as children or even worse and
have a need to be the smartest man in the room, which ain't happening.
They just want attention!

I think the web master thinks he may have a liability problem with all
the bull shit JJ has posted on the Midland event.

It's been a good day...Pines was blown off by the FRA. I really
question why Pines would post that...we all knew he didn't have any
credibility, now he published it to the world. He'll say the RR bought
them off like they did the AP. I wonder just how many
AP articles Pines has cited over the years while spinning his tale
of deception and fraud? 

Here's what Pines and JJ can expect Tuesday...

     http://www.poddys.com/jokes/xmas_005.htm

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 December 2012

NOMO : That is a good idea.  Did you notice that all of three of the
post that JJ claims were from the (AP) were different.  He cannot keep
all of his lies straight.  He lies about his lies.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

Hey L&N:

I noticed that...either the webbie is deleting them or JJ is requesting
they be deleted.

I am going to have to start copying his posts and incorporate them into
mine or copy them to my note pad so there will be no question of ghost
posts!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 23 December 2012

JJ posts disappear faster than a twinkie on ebay.....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

Hey JJ:

CSX Sucks is a double agent? That's the your most asinine statement 
yet. If you suspected it why bother to post on it?

The only things I can think of with less credibility than the AP is you
and Pines. If you understood how the AP is organized you might not be so
quick to cite them as Gospel.

No where in the articles I read did the UP even come close to making
any statement admitting to "criminal homicide" or any other felony or
misdemeanor.

That strong wind you felt the other day was you buddy Pines being
blown off by the FRA in case you didn't bother to read his last post.

If you're going to cite articles or statistics just post a link to the
site, or have you figured out how to do that yet?

In the past, I have referred to you as a moron, I gave you credit
you're not entitled to, I apologize to all the morons I may have
offended...you're an imbecile. From Wikipedia..."Imbecile was a
medical category of people with moderate to severe mental retardation,
as well as a type of criminal. The term arises from the Latin word
imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. It included people with an IQ
of 26–50, between "moron" (IQ of 51–70) and "idiot" (IQ of 0–25)."

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

Good morning Robert:

Ghosts posts? Seems you caught it to and just had to ask..."covering
up on ghost posts?".

Now you're worried about how much Young is making on his stock
options.

Looks like the FRA told you in no uncertain terms to FUCK OFF!

You have plans for the Holidays? Of course not, You have no family or
friend so it looks like you'll be spending it alone, again. Just you
and your 6 computers...trolling, trolling, trolling!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 December 2012

"""Given that FRA has limited resources"""
++++++++++++++++++

http://www.streetinsider.com/Insider+Trades/Union+Pacific+(UNP)+Chairman+Young+Sells+$7.5M+Shares/7955451.html

Union Pacific (UNP) Chairman Young Sells $7.5M Shares

According to a Form 4 filed with the U.S. SEC, Chairman James Young
sold 60,000 shares held indirectly by his trust on December 17, 2012.
The shares were sold for an average price of $124.9973 per share for
gross proceeds of $7,499,838.

Following the sale, Young holds 13,281 shares in his Trust. He also
holds 418,380 directly.
++++++++++++++++++

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590
DEC 19 2012
Dear Mr. Pines:
This letter is in response to your repeated complaints to the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) regarding highway-rail grade crossing
incidents and railroad track conditions during the last year. You have
made these complaints using the Alleged Violation Reporting Form on the
FRA Web site. FRA staff members have been diligent in their efforts to
investigate your complaints and in communicating our findings; however,
FRA has consistently found the complaints to be without merit.

It appears your recent complaints were made without first-hand
knowledge of the incidents that you referenced, but, instead, were
based solely on media reports regarding incidents that occurred in
various locations around the country. Often, media reports are
preliminary in nature and may not contain all of the relevant
information regarding a particular incident. Addressing complaints has
consumed a disproportionate amount of FRA's regulatory oversight
resources.

It is FRA's longstanding practice to investigate any safety complaint
irrespective of its origin or source. To that end, FRA receives and
responds to numerous credible safety complaints each year. Given that
FRA has limited resources, we must necessarily focus on addressing
those complaints that reveal actual safety conditions necessitating
timely FRA oversight and/or enforcement action.

FRA appreciates your concern in railroad safety;however, to most
effectively fulfill our  safety responsibilities, we cannot commit to
investigate any further complaints that you raise.
Sincerely,
Jo Strang
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety/Chief Safety Officer

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 December 2012

So CSX-Sucks is joining the railroad whore club or just making NoMO look
like a moron covering up on ghost posts?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 December 2012

As usual JJ makes wild accusations and can't back it up. He doesn't
even bother to link to the article he's spinning.

The Midland tragedy occurred 5 weeks a ago...the latest I could find
are as follows...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50271533/ns/local_news-dallas_fort_worth_tx/t/union-pacific-adjusting-rr-crossing-where-vets-died/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50271533/ns/local_news-dallas_fort_worth_tx/t/union-pacific-adjusting-rr-crossing-where-vets-died/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50223866/ns/business-press_releases/t/union-pacific-train-accident-midland-tx-prompts-mcdonaldworleycom-safety-outcry/

I see where JJ's post has been deleted/removed.

Robert...please post your proof that the AP is in the railroads pockets
and has been for years!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 22 December 2012

Looks the the web master has been deleting JJ post.  

THANKS

Mr Pines,  if the AP is in the pocket of the RR then I will look
forward to you posting the facts to back up your statement.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 December 2012

Why are real posts disappearing? AP has been in the railroads pockets
for years.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 22 December 2012

There nothing I despise more than  is a LIAR and JJ that is what you
are.  This is the second time you have tried to pass off a fake AP
article in less than 24 hours.  Either you pulled the first one or it
was pulled for you.  Son, you can't BS me.  You have a lot of growing
up to do.  

FACT : the train was not speeding, it was doing time table speed.
FACT : The engr put the train in emerency and tried to stop.
FACT : The driver of the float attempted to to cross AFTER the crossing
protection activated.
FACT : The driver stopped on the crossing.

Name: Assoc. Press
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 December 2012

JJ

Once again you are twisting the facts in your little word games to
favor your agenda. Try reading the article again. Where was the word
"MURDER" used. NO WHERE! It also stated the lawyers for the victims
stated the crew failed to brake or attempt to stop. BULLSHIT. I dont
know any engineer that would not attempt to take any action what so
ever when they see they are getting ready to plow into the side of a
flat bed trailor. Its a natural instinct to throttle off when you think
you may be in danger or getting ready to collide with an object! The
gates were working at required fra activation time(20 seconds) but
there are questions according to the article as to whether or not they
should  be reset for an earlier activation time(activate 40 seconds
before the train enters the crossing

Leave the news reporting to the professionals. WE ARE READING EVERY
ARTICLE THAT COMES OUT. 
MURDER PER WEBSTERS DICTIONARY:UNLAWFUL PREMEDITATED KILLING OF HUMAN
BEING! Nobody murdered anyone. You would make a horrible lawyer!

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 22 December 2012

I agree,
    The Huntington Division is a real bad place to work, low employee
morale, crappy attitudes, and employees who dont give a shit about the
company. When i first started at CSX T&E employees took pride in
getting a train from point A to point B and making money for the
company we work for NOW the crew gets on a train and doesn't care if
they turn a wheel in 12 hours as along as they can get on and off the
engine without getting charged with something or even fired.You sucked
at football at Virginia Tech and suck even more as a GM on the
Hutington Division I wish the company would give you a
promotion/demotion the company is famous for. PS the NFL called and
said you wouldn't make a pimple on a real football players ass.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 21 December 2012

NOT AGAIN!!!


GREAT! Looks like we have lost the safety thread and we are back on the
Pines/Springer show again!

PINES! Why dont you just stick to your usual posting of rr crossing
accidents and quit acting like a csx mole and encouraging everyone to
play your stupid little word games. Now I know why 3 fra inspectors
told me you were informative but a major pain in the ass!


Real safety question... Why do the supervisors get away with starting a
new testing procedure, like the new white strip they are placing in the
rail in front of switch points to simulate an improperly switch, but
they dont have to do proper briefings with all employees about the
device. They show a few people on one safety feed day and then want us
to do their work of gossiping about it to get the word out. NO NOTICES!
NO VIDEOS! The unions sent out some info to some of their members, but
its NOT THEIR JOBS to do the training on these things. ITS THE
COMPANIES RESPONSIBILITY but they always toss it in our laps. Why
doesnt the fra step in and tell them to do their jobs! Rumor has it
someone already ran over one and backed up to see what the hell it was.
Wasnt sure what it was since they were never briefed on it and there is
so much trash in the yards your not sure what anything is!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 December 2012

Good morning Robert:

Come on, Linda Lovelace? Is that all you got? The best you can do?

Well now we know why you need 6 computers and have no interest in
women...porn, probably got one tuned to the kiddie channel!

Is that why Cindy left you? She wouldn't play your perverted games!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 December 2012

Oh HoMoNOMO i can see it now---
ACT 1 Scene 1 ---HoMoNOMO all dressed up in his usual Linda Lovelace
costume crawling under Mikey's desk with all the CSX train crews
walking around like zombies with their I'M A TRAIN KILLER tee-shirts
and stupid stripped hats on. CSX trains with flying skeletons and blood
dripping off. Mikeys millions glittering with speckled blood in the back
ground. Ms. Oliy dressed up as the cheer leader.

Whoops the HoMo NoMo 7 dwarfs would have to be there for the ninesome.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 December 2012

Hey L&N Dispr.

Great minds think alike...stage play, screen play, TV series, books,
video games, action figures. I'm thinking casting Danny DeVito as
Pines. I'm having my attorney check into copyrighting the name
"Robert Pines". That would be sweet, he couldn't even use his name
with paying me a royalty.

It might be as big as Bond or maybe even Star Wars. On second thought
I'll make my CSX series along Star Wars...maybe Ward as the evil
emperor and Frulla as a Darth Vader type. With the cast of characters I
could come up based on CSX employees, the possibilities are endless!

This is so far over that moron JJ's head he's clueless!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 20 December 2012

Oh man, Mr NOMO did I get a good laugh on that one.  What is really
scary,  is that I do not think you are too far off from the truth on
our boy pines.  Keep up the good work.  I see your nightmare as a
script for a movie, maybe the title could be "The Savant from
Sullivan.  Hey, just a thought.

Name: No one cares
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 20 December 2012

Huntington division is now the most unhappiest division that CSX has
....Frulla has destroyed it....I would hate to be the person that
follows him...It WILL take years to fix what he has done....so let me
get this straight ....he does one thing right and screws 10 things
wrong..CSX WAY...

Name: Scared
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 December 2012

Please help!!!!! What is going on with management not wanting a lot of
starts? This company is working there crews to death with  people are
laid off...killing the crews that they have.....transportation dept!!!

Name: Grinder
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 December 2012

http://www.break.com/video/landslide-vs-train-fighting-dirty-2398197/

Was this a csx train in this video anyone know?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 December 2012

Good Morning Brother & Sisters:

I had a dream last night; no, nightmare was more like it. I dreamt I
was in Sullivan, Mo on the trail of the rare and elusive creature,
Robert Pines. I found him unfortunately and will always think of him
like this…and so the story goes.

I located him at what I guess was his house.  A small humble wooden
structure with peeling paint and rotting clapboards, on the roof was
rusted bike frame and several empty beer cans and bottles. The yard
hadn’t been cut in years and stank of putrid meat probably from the
numerous dead animals left rotting in the sun. As I made my way to the
front door I noticed several rusted out cars behind the house. Walking
was treacherous due to the empty beer and whiskey bottles and beer cans
littering the yard. Judging by the cans and bottles it appeared Pines
had a propensity for Pabst, Mogen David and J.W. Dant.  After
struggling mightily I made it to the front porch. As I stepped on the
porch dozens of Norway rats scurried about, their squeals were
deafening and their tails like a pit full of snakes. As I made my way
through the open door, I could see the tribulations I had getting this
far would seem like a cake walk compared to what was awaiting me
inside. It was packed so densely with what appeared to be newspaper and
magazine articles of train accidents, old railroad rule books and
Volumes of Federal and State Code Books, that not even light, could
escape. 

As I made my way down the hall I came across some mummified remains. I
wanted to bolt but knew I couldn’t because my morbid curiosity got the
best of me. I had to know who this poor soul was. I carefully looked
but couldn’t find a clue, until something shiny caught my eye, an ID
bracelet around the mummy’s wrist. I peered carefully at it, it read
Dave Nelson. Not to be deterred from my mission, I pushed onward.
Shortly I came to a dimly lit room stinking of balls and old farts. Had
I made it? Dare I even consider the possibility? I peeked around the
door frame and there it was... the lair of the elusive Robert Pines.
Beer, whiskey bottles and stacks of empty Pizza boxes everywhere. And
there, with his back to me, feverishly typing on a keyboard was the
beast himself. His eyes intently staring at six computer monitors
waiting for the algorithm to cycle; and see if the murdering railroads
had claimed another unsuspecting victim.

I called his name, Pines I yelled. As he stood up I could tell he was
60ish, white, male, grotesquely obese, male pattern baldness with the
comb over and a long sinewy ponytail. He reeked of B.O. and was wearing
a dingy white undershirt; the thick hair on his back protruding from
around the collar and arm holes. By now he was fully erect, a short man
at best, he was wearing dingy grey boxers, a broad brown stripe from
just below the waistband ran down the back and disappeared between his
monstrous thighs. He had on black mid calf socks held up by garters and
flip flops. As he smiled, I could see his rotten teeth and unshaven
face. He had skin like leather and his breath was hard as kerosene.

As I prepared to vanquish the fiend he extended the index finger of
hairy left hand, grabbed it with his right and pulled. All I could see
was a brilliant flash of light and hear a thunderous roar; I awoke in a
cold sweat to a hellacious thunder storm.

Thank god it was only a dream…or was it? Sweet dreams…

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 December 2012

Go for it NoMo ---You and Ms. Oliy can hold hands/skip/ and you can tell
her of your messy knee prints under Mikeys desk.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Hey Robert:

Since when did you become an expert on rail safety? You know nothing
and could care less...so why are you criticizing her. Does she make you
thingy twitch or did you just want the job?

She has everything you need...poontang and a job that pays money!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Hey Robert:

That's the third time in 18 hours you've copied a pasted that
comment.

The better question is when are you going to get laid? 172 months is a
long time to do without...probably shouldn't have pissed her off, 
and you thought you could wait her out...I guess she showed you!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Yep NoMo RRHo ---CSX has a school shooting about every 85 days. Heck
in 5 years CSX wipes out the whole school. Who educates the idiots on
the trains?

Now the math questions
How long does it take CSX towel head pilots to take down the 3rd twin
tower?
How long does it take CSX Kamikaze pilots to equal Pearl Harbor?


SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO
September,
2012

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      699   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 71  10.2%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.31   Total train miles:     
75,114,842
                  Total fatalities:       74     Switching miles:    
11,218,799
         Total nonfatal conditions:      358      Employee hours:     
43,767,169

Name: safety
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 19 December 2012

King James,

If you really are a yard MASTER as you claim and you are the one who
put that post then you better pay real attention.

You stated that you and your family need that safety money more than
the other poster needs his trinkets. Let me educate you. The safety
committees where never developed for the sole purpose of you or anyone
else padding their pockets with extra income. They were put in place
for people who really give a crap about everyones safety and those
people should be on the committees, and ONLY THOSE PEOPLE. You get paid
a basic days(well, more than that)which is 8 hours. You better be using
those 8 hours to be out in the fields identifying safety issues and
documenting them. You better not be running errands, sitting in a
resturant for 4 hours eating and drinking or anything else that doesnt
relate to safety. The program is not your personal bank roll! 8-10 days
a month, you better have a book written by now and the fra on speed
dial! Even better, why dont you share some of the issues that you have
reported. With that much time in the fields you should have plenty!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

http://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20121201_213000_Future_of_Amtrak#

About 16 minutes in. Meet the new Operation Lifesaver head talkin'
head. A office pogy out of DC who knows nothing about rail safety and
could care less. Why do the railroads financing this brain wash scheme
want her? Well the tax-payers get ripped for a few $$$MILLION$$$ also.
Where were the job applications?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 19 December 2012

NOMO

YEAH! YEAH! MAN! YOU SAID IT RIGHT MAN! Loud mouth snot nosed ym with
an attitude. "Im the boss in the chair now even though I was just a
carknocker or conductor for a year"! Then when they get in trouble
they go crying like little bit... to their LC and want protection. Like
posted before, they shouldnt be fellow union members. They want to be
big boss in the chair then let them go play with the big boys. Get out
from under the skirt of the union. I think it might be time for some of
the "old head" ym's to start smacking these snot noses in the head
alittle. They will be the ones suffering if they lose their union
protection and get thrown to the wolves because barney doesnt want to
play fair! Prime example..KING JAMES

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 19 December 2012

Nomo,

Thanks the post below.  I never get tired of seeing you bust the chops
of Pine - Nutz, and his imagery friends.

Hey Pine - Nutz. B-U-S-T-E-D AGAIN.....    CLOWNOS.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Hey Robert:

You must be slipping or sipping, you already made that post once
yesterday!

BTW, where are the statistics on the NS, UP, KCS, CP, CN and especially
the BNSF!

Y'all have to excuse Robert...he suffering from a treatable disease,
MBS. That short for a Massive Buildup of Sperm which occurs when
there's an intentional retention of product. After 14 years, 4 months
and 6 days, at least, without getting laid, it has effected poor Robert
both mentally and physically. See how easily he forgets, his lack of
reasoning and the distorted view of reality?

The problem is easily solved for a few dollars but when you never leave
you house or "6 other computers"; spends all you time trolling the
Internet for RR "stories" and spinning them to fit your twisted view
of reality, trying to justify his miserable existence, the problem
never gets solved.

I really think the only reason he posts on this site is because no one
else will talk to him except JJ, a figment of his vivid imagination.

Where's Touchstone when you really need someone to handle the dirty
work?

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Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Yep NoMo RRHo ---CSX has a school shooting about every 85 days. Heck
in
5 years CSX wipes out the whole school. Who educates the idiots on the
trains?

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO
September,
2012

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      699   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 71  10.2%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.31   Total train miles:     
75,114,842
                  Total fatalities:       74     Switching miles:    
11,218,799
         Total nonfatal conditions:      358      Employee hours:     
43,767,169

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Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Yep NoMo RRHo ---CSX has a school shooting about every 85 days.

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO
September,
2012

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      699   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 71  10.2%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.31   Total train miles:     
75,114,842
                  Total fatalities:       74     Switching miles:    
11,218,799
         Total nonfatal conditions:      358      Employee hours:     
45,737,169

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

If a 63mph speeding freight train creams a school bus full of 20 grade
school children at a railroad crossing you can bet your boots the
railroad would run like rats    
and completely deny ALL responsibility. 
NoMo and the clowns would be on here telling everyone it's a good
thing to 'weed out the population'. 
A million dollar campaign donation and misinformation via the media
will seal the deal.  Sad, but true. We have a double standard ~ one for
railroads and one for psychos.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Hey Robert,
I pity RRHOs like NoMo who live in denial. How can any moral person
look in the mirror and say 699 railroad murders in one year is not
worse than a madman killing school children.  How do these people live
with themselves?  Murdering veterans and  mothers and children at
railroad crossings is different????  Wow. Poison millions of East coast
residents is not murder?  Really?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 December 2012

Yep NoMo RRHo ---CSX has a school shooting about every 85 days. Heck in
5 years CSX wipes out the whole school. Who educates the idiots on the
trains?

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO
September,
2012

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      699   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 71  10.2%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.31   Total train miles:     
75,114,842
                  Total fatalities:       74     Switching miles:    
11,218,799
         Total nonfatal conditions:      358      Employee hours:     
45,737,169

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 19 December 2012

Nomo

Thanks for saying the same thing many of us say, and believe.  

Pine - Nutz alter ego's name is JJ.  Don't forget Pine - Nutz other
alter ego names, The UP dispatcher, NS Customer, The Yard Master, help
me out here Pine - Nutz.  Who else is in your alter ego world?  I know
there is someone else, I'm missing someone here.  

Either way.  Thanks Nomo, I appreciate you pointing out what a waste of
humanity Pine - Nutz really is.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey King James:

Aren't you the one they call Biscuit and are a Yard Master in
Lafayette, IN?

Last time I checked a Yard Master was just another name for a clerk
and was a contract employee. Like Loco 20-30 said...lay pipe. I had one
down here that pissed me off. Instead of getting his 400 cars and 2
trains built that night, he got 48 cars switched and no trains built.

Probably wouldn't have been a big deal except the day crew didn't get
their usual 1100 quit, the had to stay until 1500. They weren't happy
and expressed their displeasure to the GM. The next night the YM was in
the shack apologizing. I think I was at home by 0300.

Shit rolls down hill and Yard Masters are at the bottom of the hill!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

People

Not all of us yardmasters are like KING james. We DO NOT THINK we own a
trainmaster. We dont act unprofessional and threaten people with
retaliation because we got our feeling hurt. Some of us know we are
union brothers and need just as much protection. A tm who plays puppet
to a ym is just using the idiot in the long run...So dont judge all of
us by this one ego maniac. I saw a yard almost come to a complete
standstill because of a ym with his attitude and when jacksonville
showed up, he had an attitude adjustment real quick. Give it time.

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey Suzannah:

Don't waste your time on these pieces of shit...ever notice how 
JJ comes out of the closet and says something so offensive it pisses
everyone off?

I think JJ is just Pines in disguise. JJ says the really offensive
and stupid shit like comparing Newtown to rail xing accidents and takes
the heat and Pines sits back and watches until he feels he can make one
of his smart remarks. And like Pines he makes wild accusations without
backing them up. His recent Paulsboro comment is just such an example,
he commenting on a story that's nearly three weeks old and offers
nothing to back it up...classic Pines.

JJ is just a pseudonym for Pines!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey Wolfie:

No need to worry about Danny boy...he slid back into the ranks, he
ineligible. Has he had the shit beat out of him lately?

Tell us, wasn't he in Montgomery about the same time Touchstone 
and Angie Everett were there? That had to be the biggest Gloryhole
on the RR!

Name: Suzannah
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

JJ


For you to come on this site and even breath one word about those poor
children is just way beyond me. You are not sick my man, you are evil.
How dare you disrespect their memories in such a horrible way. You have
come on here and posted your personal opinions and had your fun starting
fights, but now you have gone too far. Nomo was right in blasting you. I
tell you now, I will do whatever it takes to get it through Atom
Smashers head that you do not belong on this site. Your lucky Im not
the mother of one of those poor children. Shame on you. You keep it up
and I will make it my mission to hunt you down and identify you, where
you live and what your number is and post it on this site.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Terrorist railroads' toxic spill in Paulsboro, NJ.....

If the RR is not murdering us at crossings, they are poisoning us by
the millions.

CSX/NS and Conrail dumped 1.2 million pounds of concentrated vinyl
florid, ,PCBs and more into the Deleware River via  the  Mantua Creek.

It takes only 4ppm in a gallon of water to give you cancer. Which means
you will die ~ some quick, some slow.

1.2 million tons of these toxics dumped  into the Deleware River, THE
source of drinking water for 30 million residents of  New Jersey and
New York , is enough to give cancer to MILLIONS of people.  

Congratulations CSX.  You have successfully condemned more people to
death than school shooter Lanza could have done in a thousand
lifetimes.

Better send another million in campaign donations to seal the coverup.

Name: Jack
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Does CSX have any openings for conductors in Alabama?  I've been trying
to hire on forever, but can't get a response from them.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

I love "Boss" he gives me 8-10 safety days a month and we are bestest
buddies off the clock. In return, I tell him what the crews are saying
and I help him run crews thru terminal.  If it wasn't for me I think
CSX would shut down.


He stated the above  reread it and come back and tell us why he said
all that?    Threaten us with your lil tricks and we will shop engines
before we make it in the yard then tie your yard up in a big knot that
you will not untie until you learn never to screw with anyone.  You are
a lil puppet in the tower.   He said you love BOSS  what you do off the
clock with him is your business but be aware it might get out on the
railroad main line and travel system wide.

Name: Wolfman
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

Nomo,

No need to nominate Danny Spencer for anything, he's a great guy.  The
people on this site had it all wrong about Danny.

When Danny was a Company Officer, he ran the less desirable people off
this railroad.  We need more company officers like him.  If more
company officers saw what Danny saw, this railroad would be a better
place to work.  More men, less of the undesirable slackers out here.

Name: King James
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

To the worthless piece of crap that made a comment about the Train
Master letting me have 8 to 10 safety days a month.  I know who you
are, and I will make sure you rot on your train when you try and get
into MY yard. My faminly and I need that safety money more than you
need a trinket that says CSX on it.  What you're forgetting is that as
the YARD MASTER, I am the first line of management here at CSX.  If you
want something, you go through me first.  Piss me off, and I will have
MY train master go Pit Bull on you.  I tell MY train master how YOU
pissed me off.... when he goes after you, he'll make Joe Berry look
like a whimpering pup.   You need to keep that in mind the next time
you decide to imitate me on this site.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Yep NoMo RRHo ---CSX has a school shooting about every 85 days.

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO September,
2012

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      699   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 71  10.2%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.31   Total train miles:     
75,114,842
                  Total fatalities:       74     Switching miles:    
11,218,799
         Total nonfatal conditions:      358      Employee hours:     
45,737,169

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey Spongebob:

Your nominations have been duly tallied...first time this year Danny's
name has come up. I thought he went back on his seniority? Joe has made
a mad dash here at the finish butt like the saying goes, if you ain't
the lead dog, the view never changes. Joe's view ain't changing much
between now and then.

Excuse me for my tirades but they really torqued me. Anyone that
would even dare to compare a rail xing accident to the deliberate 
massacre of 27 innocent people doesn't have the common sense or
decency to breath air. These two Nematodes can crawl back into the dung
heap they were spawned in. Neither have nor will they ever serve
a useful function except generating fertilizer!

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 18 December 2012

NoMo,  

   Why do you waste your time even responding to Pines and J.J.?  These
two whack jobs are Fucked up in the head and they will be that way till
the day their pathetic life ends, (hopefully sooner than later).   I
have been on this site for years and I read most posts on all sections,
with the exception of J.J. and Robert Pines, don't even bother reading
them anymore.  They have nothing useful to add, so why bother with
these fools.  The more you respond to them, the more they respond back.


   On a brighter note, can't wait to see who wins the Brown Banana
awards for 2012.  My vote is for Joe (Lardass) Berry and Danny Spencer
Jr.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey Robert,

You know what? You're fucked up too and have been for years. That's
why your Cindy committed suicide so she would have to listen to your
woe is me bullshit anymore.

You truly deserve ever thing you got. You're a sorry, selfish piece of
shit just like JJ. JJ has an excuse, he's a idiot!

I hope your two sons didn't turn out like you, if they did, they're
probably as sorry as you are.

Anyone that would compare the Sandy Hook massacre of 27 innocent
helpless people to a xing accident that that was 100% avoidable is
mentally defective.

So why don't two mental giants...shut the fuck up!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 December 2012

Hey Robert,
Yeah, I think NoMo is in denial. Panties in a wedgie....that's
hilarious. 
Murder by train  is legal .....those drivers never should have got in
front of those trains just like the kids should not have got in the way
of those bullets?  Talk about tortured reasoning. If Lanza was a
locomotive engineer he's a hero for weeding out the population
according to GonZoNoMo. Another million for the election fund on the
way.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 17 December 2012

For people to compare a school shooting to a xing accident  shows how
stupid and irresponsible people can be.   It makes me sick to think
people have that type of mentality.  Just how in the hell is a poor 5
year old getting shot by a deranged sick person compare to an idiot
pulling a float that made a stupid decision to try to beat a train and
then stop on the rr tracks is beyond me.

Congress has already recognized idiot drivers by making it mandatory
for cars to have black boxes in them starting in 2015.  Hopefully then
it will put a stop to the frivolous lawsuits that are instigated by
bottom feeding ambulance chasing lawyers who represent idiot drivers
who are guilty of gross negligence,  especially at rr xings when it is
the fault of the driver 98 % of the time.  It is costing the tax payer
millions.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 December 2012

http://www.stltoday.com/news/special-reports/rails/

Hey JJ ---Looks like you got NoMo all wedged up in his whitey tities.
Such language NoMo ---Hard week-end of cover uping?

At least the school shooter didn't hide up in a train cab and buy
politicians to say it was OK like the railroads do.

Name: James
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 17 December 2012

I love "Boss" he gives me 8-10 safety days a month and we are bestest
buddies off the clock. In return, I tell him what the crews are saying
and I help him run crews thru terminal.  If it wasn't for me I think
CSX would shut down.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 December 2012

Hey JJ

Shut the fuck up, you piece of shit.

A crossing accident and the Newtown massacre of innocent children
are in no way alike, If you think for a second they are, then you're
as fucked up as Lanza!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 December 2012

Murder at Midland,
Railroad Crossing Murders = School Murders.

Looks like Midland is the railroad murder capitol of the world. At
least 17 collisions at that same crossing.   As recent as 2012 there
have been three serious accidents  resulting in  one serious brain
injury and two deaths.  Texas had over 210 reported train crossing
accidents last year alone. ...almost one every day. Railroads kill more
people every year than all the school massacres combined. So why
doesn't congress call for a special investigation on that???

Name: Tony
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 15 December 2012

RRJ,

THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS.

And here I thought, after listening to Joe speak that he was born with
a golden reversed in one hand and was God's gift to engineers on the
other.

Whoever wrote that Joe is better than most of the worthless train
masters Avon has, is correct.  I completely agree with you, and when I
see that, I realize how far the standards have fallen to be considered
a good company officer today.

Thanks again RRJ.  Your comments about Joe gave me one great laugh
today.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 December 2012

Tony

Joe started out of Richmond, Va in engine service before transferring
elsewhere. I think daddy was instrumental in his various moves most
likely to keep as eye out for him so he didn't screw up to bad. We
were talking years ago still had cabooses so at least pre-1991. I
don't remember Joe ever working the ground here so I think he
transferred just for engine service.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years
Posted: 14 December 2012

Robert Pines,
Amtrak is not too worried about the people it slaughters. These
railroad companies are like inbred hillbillies, they get more and more
stupid as the years and decades go by.  As the old saying goes, you
can't reach an old dog new tricks.
Best you can do is shoot the old critters and get us some new ones. 
Then they need to be trained.  Sit, lay down, roll over.....simple
stuff at first, then more complicated like 'fetch' and 'play
dead'.
Everything else from the foaming gangbongers is just smoke and
background noise that's not worth listening to, or reading. Your on
the right track Robert. . You got the entire NoMo clownso gang in the
bag so I'd say you are definitely getting you point across.

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 14 December 2012

Tony,

    I would suggest getting a response from a CSX manager via text or
e-mail regarding these new engines inability to perform a hand-brake
test.  As you know with Mr. Berry he speaks with a forked-tongue and I
would not put it past him denying he ever said that.  Just saying,
I've heard of some of the stuff Berry, Summers, and Benton have failed
guys for and this would be right up their alley to start failing people
for.

Name: Tony
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 14 December 2012

RRJ,

Thanks for the laugh. 

Did Joe try and ride his Daddy's coat tails when he was at Danville,
or was he his own man?

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 14 December 2012

Nomo,

It looks like you've done a lot of work into posting the..... Pine -
Nutz Post Inconsistencies.  Good work Nomo.

It looks like Pine - Nutz has been B-U-S-T-E-D yet again.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 14 December 2012

Joe Berry looks like a Einstein compared to these new dumb shits the New
CSX has working out here.     


I bet Joe has CSX-Sucks alerts on his phone   He knows you are talking
about him.


Buffett knows Risk Management   CSX does not know SHIT!!!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 14 December 2012

Tony

I knew Joe Berry back when he was an engineer trainee. He was dumb as a
box of rocks back then. I knew his father Tom Berry who was a RFE then
TM nice man. We figured Joe was safer becoming an official. When he was
with me while training we were running empties on straight double track
had a clear signel on to single main still had at least 1/3 mile. All
of a sudden he jumps up panics throughs the train in emergency while in
full throttle running 50 mph. I asked WTF you doing, he was sweating
heavily could hardly talk afraid with his weight he was having a heart
attack but he finnaly managed to say the track wasn't lined for us.
I'm puzzled at this point don't know what the hell he saw then told
him I could give a schidt if it wasn't lined we had the signal run the
SOB that most likely he shook up if not hurt the conductor & brakemen on
the caboose. Chewed his arse out good told him to run back to daddy tell
him how you screwed up before I do. Refused to take him after that one.

Name: Tony
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 14 December 2012

RRJ

Let me tell you what I was told by Joe Barry, road foreman of engines
out of Avon.  "Yes I am aware that the new engines won't load when
you have the brakes tied. You've got to attempt to do the (brake test)
test anyway."  

Dumb answer from a dumb guy.  But what do you expect from CSX's rocket
science managers?   Warren Buffett said it correctly when he said "CSX
is going to bankrupt itself to safety ".  He obviously knows CSX well.

Name: chad
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for N/A
Posted: 13 December 2012

A few things people, to ATL u really think after doing LBT that u r not
also to blame for not having your family now? That gives new meaning to
doing the nasty! Man what u had had to be better than that. You people
are stupid like Cornwall lost his family too and Barrett hit that nasty
shit and his wife is leaving him for it too he's country ass stupid his
wife is a model. Wth are yall looking for in the garbage can.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 December 2012

Good evening Robert:

I said no such thing, the article you linked to did or do you
remember?

If some of you think you have seen some of the links Pines has recently
posted...you have, several times, The only thing that
changes is the smart ass comments and the spin, the "Pines Effect",
he puts on them.

Well here are a few thing you have posted in the recent past, in case
you forgot!



Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 September 2012

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F501758.pdf

So in Nevada ---The Amtrak locks it's brakes over a 1/2 mile away
---doesn't blow it's horn and stops 208 feet before the truck
broadsides it.
The NTSB is a bunch of CoHoNoMos or what?
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 September 2012

2814 feet =.53 miles

Why would the Amtrak going balls to the wall t8 go to neutral and lock
up brakes 1/2 mile from the crossing when the 65 mph truck would have
been 1/2 mile from the same crossing?
------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 September 2012

Hey JJ ---Looks like UP used a CoHoNoMo in Nevada acting like a UP
track
inspector. He's sitting out in the middle of the desert eyeing the
coyotes to see if could chinga da madres and NEVER sees a humongous
truck with locked up brakes coming right at him sitting at the
crossing.

http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=51359&CFID=151580&CFTOKEN=48406090
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf
...And then I grabbed my job briefing book and then I heard the bells
for the crossing sign things. So, that tells me the train is coming.
The track is occupied...And when I was there watching at the train, I
wave at the train, just like we usually do. He wave at me and then --
and then, as he was going by the crossing, I heard the impact and I
saw
the car almost tips over. He moved a lot. And I saw a fire under the
car, the wheels..

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 22 September 2012

So the NTSB takes pictures of the UN-damaged unit that was too damaged
to get information off of. OK WE'RE STUPID.


http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F479241.pdf
Signal Attachment 11 GCP 3000 Unit Undamaged 

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F505192.pdf
Grade Crossing Signal System Event Recorders: 
Due to the extensive damage to the signal bungalow on-site
investigators were unable to retrieve any signal data from the
GCP-3000
or the HCA unit.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 September 2012

No names and dead-head fred need to go to meaningless dribble for
foamers section.

So the NTSB takes pictures of the UN-damaged unit that was too damaged
to get information off of. OK WE'RE STUPID.
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F479241.pdf
Signal Attachment 11 GCP 3000 Unit Undamaged 

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F505192.pdf
Grade Crossing Signal System Event Recorders: Due to the extensive
damage to the signal bungalow on-siteinvestigators were unable to
retrieve any signal data from the GCP-3000 or the HCA unit.
Hey JJ ---Looks like UP used a CoHoNoMo in Nevada acting like a UP
track inspector. He's sitting out in the middle of the desert eyeing
the coyotes to see if could chinga da madres and NEVER sees a
humongous
truck with locked up brakes coming right at him sitting at the
crossing.

http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=51359&CFID=151580&CFTOKEN=48406090
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf
...And then I grabbed my job briefing book and then I heard the bells
for the crossing sign things. So, that tells me the train is coming.
The track is occupied...And when I was there watching at the train, I
wave at the train, just like we usually do. He wave at me and then
--and then, as he was going by the crossing, I heard the impact and I
saw the car almost tips over. He moved a lot. And I saw a fire under
the car, the wheels...
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 September 2012

No names and dead-head fred need to go to meaningless dribble for
foamers section.

Dead head Fred ---get a panel truck put big CSX-Sucks signs on the
sides and drive around Mikeys new $2.3 million second house he bought
with part of his $27 million salary.

So the NTSB takes pictures of the UN-damaged unit that was too damaged
to get information off of. OK WE'RE STUPID.
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F479241.pdf
Signal Attachment 11 GCP 3000 Unit Undamaged 

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F505192.pdf
Grade Crossing Signal System Event Recorders: Due to the extensive
damage to the signal bungalow on-siteinvestigators were unable to
retrieve any signal data from the GCP-3000 or the HCA unit.
Hey JJ ---Looks like UP used a CoHoNoMo in Nevada acting like a UP
track inspector. He's sitting out in the middle of the desert eyeing
the coyotes to see if could chinga da madres and NEVER sees a
humongous
truck with locked up brakes coming right at him sitting at the
crossing.

http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=51359&CFID=151580&CFTOKEN=48406090
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf
...And then I grabbed my job briefing book and then I heard the bells
for the crossing sign things. So, that tells me the train is coming.
The track is occupied...And when I was there watching at the train, I
wave at the train, just like we usually do. He wave at me and then
--and then, as he was going by the crossing, I heard the impact and I
saw the car almost tips over. He moved a lot. And I saw a fire under
the car, the wheels...

Name: Hot2Trot
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 13 December 2012

Things will be different after the revolution.


"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get
me."

Name: JT
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 13 December 2012

HAVERSTRAW — Police today identified the 33-year-old man who was killed
by a train Tuesday night as Sean Humphrey, whose father was a village
and Ramapo police officer.

Humphrey died when he lay across the tracks near the Little League
fields on Coolidge Street where he lived.
His father, Frank, worked about 10 years as a part-time officer when
Haverstraw village had its own police force before moving onto a
full-time job with the Ramapo Police Department. He worked for Ramapo
for 17 years before retiring in 2003. He died the same year.
“It’s a shock to many people,” Haverstraw Police Lt. Martin Lund said
of the young man’s death. “Haverstraw, as large as its gotten, is still
a small place. People know the family. His father was a police officer
in the village.
“He’s 33 and most everybody in that age group knew him,” Lund said. “He
was a sports guy, played hockey.”
Police ruled Humphrey committed suicide, lying across the CSX tracks.
No evidence has been found indicating what led the man to cause his own
death, Police Chief Charles Miller said.
Miller called the death sad and tragic, making the investigation that
much tougher, emotionally.
While Humphrey was unemployed, he had worked for the Highway
Department, Miller said.
“I knew the family from growing up in town,” Miller said. “I knew his
father.”
His mother lives down south and his traveling back to Rockland, Lund
said. He has two brothers living in the village.
CSX Corp., which operates the trains traveling along the line, reported
the incident to police at 9:48 p.m. Tuesday.
The train was traveling from Chicago to Kearny, N.J., CSX spokesman
Robert Sullivan said. The train had three locomotives pulling 45
inter-modal cars, Sullivan said.
Sullivan said none of the crew members was injured. He referred all
questions about the victim and the incident to the police.
“Obviously, we work hard to try and prevent these events from
happening,” Sullivan said. “A train cannot stop quickly and can’t evade
whatever’s in front of it.”
Sullivan said he didn’t know if the engineer saw the man lying on the
tracks, saying the police took statements from the crew.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 13 December 2012

December 13, 2012.....and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 December 2012

Now we have 

POLTY Graph ---More precisely..."With the whistle blaring, the
train's engineer initiated the emergency brakes about 450 feet from
the crossing..."


http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf

NoMo sez 5. The train was in Emergency when the truck struck it.  

SAFETY BOARD
Interview of: ARMANDO VILLANUEVA
We're at the Sparks Union Pacific Yard office and we're interviewing
a Union Pacific employee who observed the accident alongside the
tracks.

One could make a whole ARMANDO board game out of these nincompoops
statements.

Why don't trains make weird noises when brakes are locked up?
Why didn't you see a 90 foot truck coming?
Why would you run when the train would have already zipped past?
Why would a Amtrak driver wave while in emergency stop.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 13 December 2012

On the subject of non-loading locomotives while doing a test of the hand
brakes. Has anyone asked the Road Foremen of Engines? That's the person
I would ask. If they don't have an answer then they would get one. If I
had any questions that couldn't immediately be answered or doubts in
this situation I'd write it up on the locomotive report then leave the
locomotive running. I left plenty of locomotives running when it didn't
hold in #1 throttle position. My protection was writing it up also
notified the yardmaster if one was around in a yard. I didn't assume
anything.

Name: Pollt Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 13 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

Nomo didn't say and such thing, he just pointed out what the article
YOU posted said...

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22168398/ntsb-meeting-what-caused-emeryville-bound-amtrak-crash

More precisely..."With the whistle blaring, the train's engineer
initiated the emergency brakes about 450 feet from the crossing..."

Now shut up, it's too early in the morning to listen to your bull
shit.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 December 2012

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf

NoMo sez 5. The train was in Emergency when the truck struck it.  

SAFETY BOARD
Interview of: ARMANDO VILLANUEVA
We're at the Sparks Union Pacific Yard office and we're interviewing
a Union Pacific employee who observed the accident alongside the
tracks.

One could make a whole ARMANDO board game out of this nincompoops
statements.

Why don't trains make weird noises when brakes are locked up?
Why didn't you see a 90 foot truck coming?
Why would you run when the train would have already zipped past?
Why would a Amtrak driver wave while in emergency stop.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 December 2012

Hey Other:

Forgive Robert...he probably forgot to take his meds today. He gets 
awful cranky when someone doesn't agree with or challenges his
interpretation of events and reports!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 12 December 2012

NOMO

Im not sure I understand pines last post. Is he saying he was there
with armando waving at this train and the engineer(driver) was waving
out the window at them that he is in emergency? He was standing there
like he always is? Another distracting foamer distracting the engineer?
A foamers whos wife died at a crossing but still hangs out and waves at
the engineer? Or did he hear it on a radio that listens to the
railroads traffic. so much for homeland security. Did I read that
right.  If so, thats just sick to act like a foamer and hang out at
crossings after your wife gets killed at one.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 December 2012

NoMO ---Here's the facts we know...

1. A 300 pound robin might or might not be heavy.
2. Railroad Unions are a bunch of sissy little girls and should be all
over this fabricated hogwash like a bad rash. Besides being the
laughing stock of the country.
3. There are millions of Christmas trees right now with better lighting
systems.
4. ARMANDO VILLANUEVA And when I was there watching at the train, I
wave at the train, just like we usually do. He wave at me and then
--and then, as he was going by the crossing. Train driver """I'm in
emergency right now Armando but hey I'll wave. """
5. The Nevada desert sun isn't as bright as nOmOrrHO THINKS HE IS.

Name: suzannah
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 12 December 2012

NOMO


Rep is correct. I dont get these engines every week but several times a
month. He is also correct that it would not be a legal test.  However, I
would think that if your engine was downloaded that the computer would
be able to reveal that you put your reverser in forward and triggered
the unit alarm that warns you that your brakes are on. I dont know if
it would show that you put the throttle in forward if it didnt load. I
will have to do some research on that now! In defense of the company,
they cant control how these units are designed but on the other hand
they shouldnt buy or lease them if they know the problem exist. There
is a simple solution to the problem. Make the engine house inspect and
test these engines for operative handbrakes before they leave any house
and document it in writing in the calendar day book and enter the info
in their computer program that they are working properly. This is their
job anyway. By rules, we are supposed to accept their inspections.(ha, I
know what you are thinking.) If the train is handed off to you and its
not documented in the books then call mechanical and find out when the
test was put into the computer. They didnt do it, then its their butts
on the line!

When securing units with the train, the engines should be tested first,
making sure the brakes will hold the cars in place just in case some
little vandals decide to play with the cars and remove the brakes and
for some unforseen reason the air on the train bleeds off. There would
be no reason to put them under load since they have already been
inspected and cleared by the engine house. That solves your problem
with engines that wont load! The brakes can then be removed to test the
cars. That way if our little vandals board the engines(you know little
boys love engines)and manage to knock off the brakes or the power is
removed, the cars will hold. Doesnt matter what model of engine it is,
you cant do a legal standing handbrake test on engines tied to a cut of
cars that are tied down with adequate brakes to hold them. They do not
have the ability to move freely if the brakes arent holding properly.
Now, the only problem with all of this? What happens if your units
handbrakes arent good enough to hold the cars in place. HHMMM, thats a
whole new ball game to be addressed!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 December 2012

Referencing the Mercury News story, Pines' bottom link, I find this
statement troubling...

"NTSB investigators said the truck driver killed in the crash
apparently didn't notice the train because he was fatigued as a result
of inconsistent sleeping patters, was suffering from ankle pain or
possibly could have been checking messages on his cellphone. But the
panel decided there wasn't enough evidence of any of those things to
include in the formal probable cause finding issued in Washington."

Then why even bring them up. Exactly how would they know he was
fatigued? Did the ME autopsy the ankle? And the cell phone records from
his carrier would be definitive, he either was or was not on
his cell.

These reports should be based solely on facts, assumptions like he was
fatigued, suffering from ankle pain or on his cell shouldn't even have
been mentioned.

Here's the facts we know...

1. Amtrak was 3 hours late leaving Reno.
2. Amtrak was travelling at 77 MPH.
3. Weather conditions and time of day weren't involved.
4. The crossing protection worked as designed.
5. The train was in Emergency when the truck struck it.     
6. The truck skidded 300'.
7. The brakes on the truck were worn beyond acceptable limits.
8. Six people died.

The conclusion of the report based on those facts should have been the
accident was avoidable had the driver been more attentive but the
brakes on the truck were a contributing factor.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F505192.pdf
Grade Crossing Signal System Event Recorders:
Due to the extensive damage to the signal bungalow on-site
investigators were unable to retrieve any signal data from the
GCP-3000 or the HCA unit.
Investigators recovered the GCP 3000 recorder modules (module 80015
card, UP identification number 0113519 and module 80115 card, UP
identification number 0113511) and the HCA unit and shipped the
equipment to the NTSB Recorder Laboratory for recorder data event
recovery efforts.
Due to the extensive damage to the recorder modules no usable data was
retrieved.
Exemplar train detection data for a GCP-3000 unit was obtained from
the Lovelock Yard grade crossing at MP 343.8 and from a HCA unit from
a crossing in Walthway, Nevada at MP 258.27 on the Nevada Subdivision.
_______________________
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22168398/ntsb-meeting-what-caused-emeryville-bound-amtrak-crash
NTSB's preliminary findings in September offered conflicting accounts
of whether the guard crossing arm operated properly or whether the
truck driver just wasn't paying attention. But the photos showed the
gate was in place 4 seconds before impact and monitoring equipment
indicated the warning lights were flashing and the gate in place 18
seconds before the collision when the truck was still 900 feet away
from the crossing.are two key things we know about what happened,"
NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said during Tuesday's hearing in
Washington.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

Hey "Rep"

Per your 12/4 post in the Attendance thread you stated..."The industry
is putting out several models now that will not load after the
handbrakes have been applied. It is a new safety feature that is built
in so the engineer can not take off with the brakes on and burn up
brake shoes. The engineer is required to do a handbrake test on the
engine before he leaves it unattended. However the engine will not load
and allow him to do his standing handbrake test. So, the test has not
been done properly by operating rules standards. So what are you
supposed to do? Per one supervisors directions, you just go through the
motions so you are protected if they download the box and check your
run. In other words,just pretend you did it."

If CSX was really interested in safety, why would they invest in
engines that can't be properly tested and then instruct the engineers
to essentially lie by doing a sham standing brake test?
Do I have it about right and wouldn't that be a violation of the CSX
operating and FRA rules and against the law?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

Hey Rob:

It's the railroad, don't believe anything you hear and only half what
you see!

Engineers getting hurt? Okay if they say so, but if that's was the
case, what about the seats? It's a convenient plausible excuse.

As far as the nutcrackin' goes...if they can't pump the lever
without
crackin' the boys, it way past time to retire. they probably even
forget to move them out of the way!.

The Conductor you mentioned was Fred Gibbs UTU Local 535 here in
Mobile. Gibbs was shot at Marconi, the UP interchange behind the LSU
School of Dentistry in New Orleans...

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/06/victim_in_train_shooting_was_a.html

The robber came in the door behind the engineer. Cameras to protect the
crew? Again, convenient and plausible. I wonder which way the cameras
will point. Door locks that work and a rule requiring the cab doors be
kept lock at all times would work better and cost a whole lot less.
Homeland Security? That's complete bull shit. They said that 10 years
ago when they started wiring the yards...did it keep
those assault rifles from being stolen from Tilford? It sure makes it
easy on those TMs to lay up in bed and O test the yard crews though.

Jerrell's escapades have been duly noted on here before. The reason he
hasn't been charged is because Connors' approves his expenses, which
means Connors is incredibility stupid or Jerrell has something he can
use to hold over Connors' head. I'll guess both. Isn't that Pimp Joe
Berry up there somewhere...I heard he was in the running for the Div.
RFE position...the conniver got out connived, or maybe he just didn't
have the juice on Conners that Jerrell did. They'll both be gone when
the become a big enough embarrassment. If they can't fire, they'll
promote them to some meaningless desk job in Operating Rules, where
they will live out the rest of their career safely tucked away where
they be seldom seen and rarely heard!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

NTSB covers up 6 killed and 100 injured in Nevada ---Ignore gates being
magically jumped over and the SUN.

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2012/miriam_nv/index.html

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

Railroads ordered to use out-riggers instead of the dime surface per
wheel slippery slope brakes being used.


http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1032802
Railroad Milepost: TB22.5
714969K	VA	NS	Public	At Grade	Open	002240	LEE	ST
CHARLES	POCAHONTAS	CLINCH VALLEY	ST CHARLES	BONNY BLUE ROAD
Maximum Time Table Speed: 15

So Bonny Blue Road right across from grade school on Virginia 352. All
kinds of track loop de loops --- a small RR bridge---and a parking lot
within the 50 foot X 250 feet sight distance triangle of the crossing.

http://www.timesnews.net/article/9054934/kentucky-man-killed-in-lee-county-train-derailment

Kentucky man killed in Lee County train derailment

...The van is owned by J&K Transport and was used as a “transport
taxi”
to shuttle railroad employees back and forth from train destinations...

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 11 December 2012

Nomo,

One more thing.  Danny Jerrells, the new division. Road Foreman on the
Great Lakes division comes to Indy every Sunday, and leaves on Tuesday.
 When Danny comes to town, he stays in the same Holiday Inn that the
Evansville crews stay at when they have a lay over at Avon.  Danny is
known to visit several of the gentleman's clubs with a few of his
fellow company officers, then come back to the hotel heavily
intoxicated.  Danny attends the Monday morning meeting at the Great
Lakes head quarters, visits any company official that will buy him a
meal (on their pro card).  Then goes back to the hotel, and gets ready
for another night of drinking and visiting the gentleman's clubs.

Several crews have mentioned repeatedly of seeing Danny stagger into
the hotel with the strong smell of alcohol on him.  What I don't
understand is that PER CSX rules, Danny is required to live with in 50
miles of the Great Lakes HQ. (And he doesn't)   Also, I've always
been told that you can not be drunk in a company paid for hotel.  I've
also heard many a train master and RFE state that you must be more than
50 miles away from your home terminal in order to bill your meal to
your pro card.

As a stock holder in CSX, I would like to know why is Scott Conners
allowing his hand picked pet to openly and flagrantly violate the
rules, when if anyone else used their company card inappropriatly, or
was found in the hotel intoxicated, they would be charged with conduct
unbecoming.

Sorry Nomo. I'm just getting tired of hearing about Scott Conners and
his double standards for company officers, and his Pet Danny.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 11 December 2012

Nomo,

When it comes to electronic brakes on the new engines today, I was told
that the electronic brakes were installed because several engineers had
turned in injuries related to their use.  The injury could be anywhere
from a back strain, to a hand injury.  I'm guessing with the
requirerement that we keep our hands on the outside rim of the wheel,
this has to do with the hand injuries.   (We don't even want to talk
about how many tired engineers I've seen crack themselves in the nuts
cranking the lever on the older engines.)

As for the cameras on engines today.  I do know for a fact that NS does
install microphones on the inside of the box, that houses the camera,
that faces out.  When Ingram came to CSX, he had CSX install
microphones inside of the cab.  In the old cabs, in the nose,
engineer's side, if the wall was metal mesh or if there was this same
metal mesh beside the engineer's seat..... chances are, there was a
microphone in the wall.  I was told by a mechanical person that works
on the engines, the new engines with this logo,  [CSX] have 5 or 7
microphones inside the cab, and are wired for cameras to be installed
inside the cab at a later date.  If you happen to get a dash 3 engine
(the rebuilt 4000 series engines) look up.  Over each door you will see
a oblong silver thing on the ceiling.  When the train goes into an
emergency a light comes on from inside the opening.  Look closely at
the mesh surrounding the light.  According to mechanical, inside of the
mesh there is a mic inside of it, but its wired to accept a camera when
they are approved also. 

I thought this was just a bunch of talk until I spoke with a UTU Safety
Rep that goes to the division meetings.   He said that the UTU saw no
problem with having cameras or microphones inside of the cab, if it
protected the crews.  He then went on to state that he did not
understand why the BLE would be fighting this, it made sense to him
that this was a safety issue.  (He referenced the incident where the
conductor and engineer were shot in the South, inside their cab)  I
wonder if he would feel this way if they put cameras up in his office.

The reason the railroads are saying that this technology is needed
inside of their cabs is for our security, and homeland security.  God
forbid we hire CSX police to protect us in known areas of danger.  That
wouldn't be any fun, because management would be unable to fire us for
a rules violation.  Have cameras inside the cab, and the engineer asks
the conductor to watch the engine when they went to the head to take a
leak.....  Got ya.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

Hey Rob:

Based on what you said, it sounds like they just added a motor to the
the wheel rod and the lever on the wheel disengages the electric motor.
the motor must be hell on torque or goes through a gear compound to
generate the torque necessary to fully apply the brake.
The manufactures have just added something else that can fail and
create additional maintenance expense.

Having thought about it, the carriers could care less if the engineer
has to get wet tying the handbrakes and the system in use now is
probably only a Beta test system. Now stay with on this...first the
carriers introduce Remote Control technology, their reasoning is it's
safer but we all know it's not. It adversely impacts production and
reduces the crew size by at least one but more likely two men.
Secondly, the carriers introduce video technology in the cabs. One
forward looking camera to record grade crossing and pedestrian
accidents, so we were told. I think they also placed a camera with a
inside view to monitor the crew. Thirdly, after the FRA approved PTC
the carriers have moved rapidly to install and integrate it into their
systems. The carriers and unions have been in discussions for years
about reducing line haul crews to engineer only. 

This I know for a fact, Rio Tinto, a enormous mining operation has
recently come on line with "Auto-Train"...Google Rio Tinto auto-
train, this technology is currently in use in Australia. Rio Tinto
has substantial holding in North America. It is my believe that this 
technology will be introduced in Canada on Rio Tinto's operations in
the maritime provinces. Rio Tinto also has vast holding in the western
U.S.

Do you still think the electronic handbrake is for safety or because
CSX is concerned about the engineer getting wet? Based on the above, I
think CSX, the other carriers and the manufactures are trying to design
a handbrake that can be engaged remotely.

Once the Auto-train technology is introduced in Canada, it wont take
long for Rio Tinto to introduce it in the U.S. and since it will be
used solely on private property,I'm not sure the FRA has any
jurisdiction. Think the unions might raise a fuss? It's hard to when
you're busy handling terminations at a record pace. In fact, the
expenditure of resources it takes the union to appeal these
terminations will eventually destabilize the unions finances to the
point where they cease to exist.

As far as the engineer being fired for throwing a switch is total bull
shit. Isn't the GL Div., Connors' and Jerrell's? I don't think 
that's the intent of the rule...but if you kick up enough dust, nobody
can see what's really happening. T think I'll give both those
pieces of shit a tally mark on the "Turd Watch" list, just because I
can!

Have a safe and ethical CSX day...

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 11 December 2012

PineBox 

I put in a Deadhead ticket for you to travel up there for a
investigation of another problem.


LEE COUNTY, Va. -

Virginia State Police say one person is dead after a train accident in
Lee County, Virginia.
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We learned the incident happened just after midnight Monday at Turner
Siding in Lee County, that's on railroad property.

According to troopers a CSX rail car derailed, overturned, and landed
on a railroad transport taxi.

One person in the transport taxi was killed.

No names have been released.

The state police say the accident remains under investigation by both
CSX and Norfolk southern.

VSP released the following statement about the incident Monday
afternoon:

"VIRGINIA STATE POLICE INVESTIGATE DEATH FROM TRAIN DERAILMENT IN LEE
COUNTY

ST. CHARLES, Va. – Virginia State Police are investigating a death that
resulted overnight from a train derailment in Lee County.

At approximately 11:45 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 9), a CSX train car loaded
with coal derailed at Turner Siding near the intersection of Routes 635
and 636 in St. Charles. Virginia State Police Trooper M.C. Munsey
responded to the scene and is investigating the death and injury that
resulted from the derailment.

A 2003 Ford Windstar was parked in a gravel lot adjacent to the train
tracks. The minivan is owned by J&K Transportation and use as a
“transport taxi” to shuttle railroad employees back and forth to the
train destinations. 

When the railcar derailed, part of it overturned onto the Windstar. The
driver of the Windstar, Jamie Collins, 31, of Baxter, Ky., was
transported to Lee Regional Medical Center, where he died later Monday
morning (Dec. 10).

The passenger in the Windstar, Jason H. Williams, 33, of Viper, Ky.,
was flown to Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn., for
treatment of serious injuries.

The investigation into the incident remains ongoing."

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 11 December 2012

Nomo,

I don't have all of the answers you're looking for, like the
mechanical parts, but I can tell you what little I know.

On CSX'S new engines, when I push the button to apply or release the
brakes I can hear the chains being released or tightened.  I can also
see if the chains are tight or slack when I walk past the engines on
the ground.  

Before the engineer gets off the train for any reason, the engineer is
required to test the hand brakes on the engine.  The engineer must show
that the amps did go up to prove the test was good, should there be a
download.

The days of the engineer getting off the engine to throw a switch for
the conductor who is 50 car lengths away are over.  I've heard that
the Great Lakes Division recently had a hearing for an engineer that
threw a switch for a conductor that was at the rear of the train.  CSX
found the engineer guilty of leaving his train unattended for throwing
the switch, and put him on the street for awhile.  Part of the evidence
that CSX used against the engineer was the video feed from the camera
that was on the engine.
.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1032802
Railroad Milepost: TB22.5
714969K	VA	NS	Public	At Grade	Open	002240	LEE	ST
CHARLES	POCAHONTAS	CLINCH VALLEY	ST CHARLES	BONNY BLUE ROAD
Maximum Time Table Speed: 15

So Bonny Blue Road right across from grade school on Virginia 352. All
kinds of track loop de loops --- a small RR bridge---and a parking lot
within the 50 foot X 250 feet sight distance triangle of the crossing.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 December 2012

http://www.timesnews.net/article/9054934/kentucky-man-killed-in-lee-county-train-derailment

Kentucky man killed in Lee County train derailment

...The van is owned by J&K Transport and was used as a “transport taxi”
to shuttle railroad employees back and forth from train destinations...

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

Hey L&N Dispr.:

Thank you for your kind words...I've been known to step in a pile
every now and then. After being married nearly 34 years I've grown
accustom to eating Crow with some Humble Pie for dessert!

Hey Rob:

Okay, but what happens if the motor is unattended? Also, after I
thought about it a while longer, the old handbrake worked on a ratchet
or wheel and chain setup. The only way the brake could fail
was if the chain or ratchet broke. How does this setup work
mechanically? There has to be a lot more parts involved that aren't
nearly as stout as the ratchet or chain were?

I saw the discussion in attendance which got me to thinking. I brought
it up here because it's a safety issue and not an attendance issue. We
need to stay on point and not get distracted by things we don't have
any control over.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 December 2012

Mr NOMO

We have seen something from you that we will NEVER see from Pines.  A
man that admits he made a mistake and then apologies for it.  That
tells me a lot about a man.  One that is honest and shows integrity. 
That is a man that earns my respect, something Pines will never get. 
You are a stand up man.  

On to safety.  First why would a 22 year old woman take a 4 year and
play on a RR bridge.  The question should have been, what the hell were
you thinking.  Lets see what do you think runs on those tracks.    Hmmm
maybe a train.  I guess she did not give that much thought.  Commom
sense and person responsibly goes a long way in life and sometimes just
might save your life.  This is a very tragic thing.  I hope the crew is
okay.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 December 2012

Nomo,

The new engines have electronic brakes.  You push a button that says
apply, the light flashes, and the brakes on th engine apply.  Hit
release, the light flashes, and the brake releases.  If the electronics
fail, there is a lever on the wheel you use to apply the brake.  If the
electronics fail, move the lever to the manual position, and it will
allow you to apply the brake manually. 

If you go over to the attendance policy forum, they've been talking
about engines, and how their brakes work for weeks.

Welcome back Nomo.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

Hey Con 1-10:

Every one of these incidents has a story, that's the one that gets
reported which consists of accidents reports, eyewitness accounts,
interviews with grieving family members and statements from the
carriers. Then there's the Pines effect. Seems the only story that
matters is the one that isn't told, the crews story.

I seriously doubt that any reporter has any practical knowledge of the
RR or the complexities of the problems of crossing safety and
trespassers. Mr. Frankel seemed to be genuinely interested in the
issue and took a lot of heat from the readers about his story. He seems
to think the carriers could be doing more to prevent these accidents. I
made several suggestions that I hope he looks into. They would
certainly give him a different prospective on the issue. I asked him to
visit our little community and ask questions...he might have a different
opinion when he finishes.

We shall see...only tine will tell!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

Someone help me out here...am I to understand that the some of the
motors are now equipped with electronic handbrakes? They must be new
because I don't remember ever seeing them.

How do they work...they must be tied into the on board computers.
We know computers never fail ;) but what would happen if the computer
did and released the electronic handbrake on say a consist of light
engines and they roll off or, is that even possible?

I can remember engines that wouldn't load, how do you test those and
what would happen if the impossible happened and the computer released
the electronic handbrake?

How does an engineer CYA on a deal like that...what does the rule book
say? Are there any system bulletins/notices say about? How about
the unions and the locomotive manufacturers? Talk about a safety issue,
what does CSX intend to do about it...how about the manufacturers? What
are the other carriers doing about it?

Fellas, make sure your fire insurance is maxed and just follow the
beaten path out of the yard...there maybe some seniority moves being
made!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 December 2012

NOMO


Just watched the link that pines posted on his last blow hard blah blah
about the mother and son killed on the bridge at the park..Great big
sign that any person who can read and knows how to follow the LAW
wouldnt miss. NO TRESPASSING. PRIVATE PROPERTY!
So the woman breaks the law and not only gets herself killed but her
son too. There is a real good way to solve this problem. The railroads
can start putting more pressure on the federal rr police to hire and
put them out in the fields. Start arresting these stupid idiots and get
the word out that if you dont want to follow the law then you are going
to jail. Put more cops at the gates and start busting these gate
runners. Let this crap get out in the headlines and watch how fast
things change. That has always been the problem. People understand that
you cant run a red light or stop sign anytime you feel like it. No
trespassing private property means just that. What, she think she was
above the law? Start enforcing the laws and start busting these people.
Its real simple. Doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure it out!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

I retract my guarantee...too bad nobody took me up on it!

After some FBI type investigating, Pines had nothing to do with the
Post-Dispatch articles. My humble apology Robert.

They know his name, he favors them with emails and as the man said,
have seen his same comments posted on numerous sites. They even
considered calling him but he seemed way out there..."beyond the
pail".

I invited them to visit our little community and was told they had
already and that it seemed awful "intense". They must have visited
on a good say.

Hopefully, there will be more to the story...they need to come for a
visit, put their feet up and stay for a while. Perhaps they can learn
something and get a different perspective on these tragedies!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

So the kid walks up to the edge of a cliff and the railroad guy
goes--"here kid you want some water". 

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/rail-safety-group-shrinks-as-danger-grows/article_3369e0af-16f7-5d1b-acb0-a5f306757ce2.html

Rail safety group shrinks as danger grows

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/railroads-have-fought-efforts-to-identify-problem-spots-for-pedestrians/article_1b638d67-72f7-5f5c-80fd-def0b0de3d26.html

Railroads have fought efforts to identify problem spots for
pedestrians

..Even though the (CSX) officer was only in the area performing
surveillance of the tracks on an unrelated investigation, he said he
feels compelled to stop people who are trespassing when he sees it..

Where the railroads find these morons?
“What did you assume made those paths?” he was asked by Marc Wallis,
an
attorney for Jesse’s family.

“I don’t assume anything. I don’t really pay much attention to them,”
the engineer replied.

“OK,” Wallis said. “They don’t mean much to you?”

“No.”

“They still don’t mean much to you?”

The answer, again, was no.

Today, the paths are still there.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/in-maplewood-how-many-people-does-it-take-to-get/article_d7bd54ae-ba24-5863-bf87-e4e3865fdbd5.htm
In Maplewood, 'How many people does it take to get killed before they
take action?'

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/railroads-avoid-responsibility-for-pedestrian-deaths/article_b9c8bbcc-f424-559a-a0c4-bee46f8d4fe7.html

Railroads avoid responsibility for pedestrian deaths

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-mother-killed-her-son-injured-yet-the-railroad-refuses/article_c265aa31-53ee-55e3-b86b-8fd77650fa3d.html

A mother killed, her son injured, yet the railroad refuses to whistle

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

Pines


I think maybe the family of Jesse should be charged for failure to
teach their family members to look both directions before crossing the
street. And as for the engineer you are taking a jab at, is not the
engineers responsibility to make sure every idiot that crosses a  track
gets across safely. Their job is to run the train. Your rants wont make
anyone pay more attention to where they are walking or driving. How in
the hell could anyone not see a train if they slow down or stop before
they cross the track or maybe just pay attention. Turn the radio down,
turn off your headset, stop texting while your walking and all the
other stupid stuff your doing that keeps you from looking where you are
going. Im really surprised you have been ranting and raving about every
death that has come from someone hitting a pedestrian with a car while
trying to cross the street. Guess it would have to be their fault too!
Guess maybe the highway departments should have to put up signs across
the entire U.S. that says cross at your own risk. Dont see them because
it would be stupid. You cross at your own risk!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 December 2012

Missouri Pine - Nutz,

Here you go again.  You old fool.  Did you forget to drink your Ensure,
or take your Gerital?  You're regurgitating old information AGAIN.

What you posted below about the train accident in Midland, you posted
on November 27th and December 8th.  In fact weren't you B-U-S-T-E-D
for, and admitted to the fact that you actually never spoke to anyone
at Midland?  Are you trying to mislead us into believing that you did
speak someone at Midland again, when you never did, and you were caught
lying about it the first time.  

Come on Missouri Pine - Nutz.  Come up with something new.  Check your
facts.  We are, (given your past lies on this site and other railroad
websites)  and back up what you're saying with proof that the rest of
the world can confirm.

By they way, when are you going to show the rest of us where the United
States Constitution says No-No, Naughty-Naughty, Shame-Shame as you
allege?    Or do you want to admit what we all know.  YOU ARE LYING
.... AGAIN.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 10 December 2012

WTF

You should by know we have a darn good retirement. If I take out the
dividends that's just vacation money, new car ect.... Dividends have
nothing to do with the price of stock not all stocks give dividends it
part of the redistribution of profits. CSX stock might be down but
they're making a profit.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

Please read the comments following the story...with the exception of
family members they are all critical of the Post-Dispatch for even
publishing the story and the victims.

I'll guarantee Pines badgered them into doing the them and like Pines,
the family members are rationalizing and won't accept the premise of
personal accountibility. Unlike Pines, the all will eventually get over
it and move on!

Oh, did I mention that there are Plaintiff Attorneys coaching the
victims' family members!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/rail-safety-group-shrinks-as-danger-grows/article_3369e0af-16f7-5d1b-acb0-a5f306757ce2.html

Rail safety group shrinks as danger grows

This fruit Rick Mooney and the railroad bozo come to city hall with
safety glasses on and there OLI badges all spified up. The state
didn't have a lawyer so they use the railroads goofball lawyer. 

I ask this railroad bought jerk "Why wasn't the three sets of lights
moved to the next three un-signaled crossings when gates were added on
Main Street." He says "Because they have cracked wiring". I tell him
something like "Well I have a soldering gun and some electrical tape
you no -----8^%$%*(*#)&^$#

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 December 2012

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/railroads-have-fought-efforts-to-identify-problem-spots-for-pedestrians/article_1b638d67-72f7-5f5c-80fd-def0b0de3d26.html

Railroads have fought efforts to identify problem spots for
pedestrians

..Even though the (CSX) officer was only in the area performing
surveillance of the tracks on an unrelated investigation, he said he
feels compelled to stop people who are trespassing when he sees it..

Where the railroads find these morons?
“What did you assume made those paths?” he was asked by Marc Wallis,
an
attorney for Jesse’s family.

“I don’t assume anything. I don’t really pay much attention to them,”
the engineer replied.

“OK,” Wallis said. “They don’t mean much to you?”

“No.”

“They still don’t mean much to you?”

The answer, again, was no.

Today, the paths are still there.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/in-maplewood-how-many-people-does-it-take-to-get/article_d7bd54ae-ba24-5863-bf87-e4e3865fdbd5.htm
In Maplewood, 'How many people does it take to get killed before they
take action?'

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/railroads-avoid-responsibility-for-pedestrian-deaths/article_b9c8bbcc-f424-559a-a0c4-bee46f8d4fe7.html

Railroads avoid responsibility for pedestrian deaths

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-mother-killed-her-son-injured-yet-the-railroad-refuses/article_c265aa31-53ee-55e3-b86b-8fd77650fa3d.html

A mother killed, her son injured, yet the railroad refuses to whistle

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Hey Rob:

Those links are just a repost from the ones I made earlier. I just
reposted them for Pines' benefit (so he could read them). 

I just linked to them and they seem to work...you can always copy and
paste them into the address bar.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Hey Robert:

We all already know about Jon Braun, your Facebook page and 
Horsewaggles and god know how many others.

I'm not checking out your Facebook page because I'm not interested
in being you "friend", buddy, chum, pal or anything else!

Why don't ask CSX if they're interested in shutting this site down.
or you could ask the web master or read the facts here...

   http://www.chillingeffects.org/domain/notice.cgi?NoticeID=18

   http://csx-sucks.com/agreement/

Keep on deflecting...your hole is getting deeper!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

Nomo. The links you have listed, are not working????   Would you please
realist them? 

Missouri Pine - Nutz did the doctor slapped you momma when you were
born?  You know the spot on your birth certificate where they list your
father's name, did your daddy insist that they put unknown after seeing
you? (if he bothered to stick around after you were born)   Just
wondering.  One thing I do know.   You would make a fortune giving
speeches to high school students on the importance of using birth
control, and practicing safe sex.  One look at you, and after reading
your bio......This would scare students every where into buying
rubbers, and having parents rushing in droves to put their daughter's
on birth control.  When someone says waste of sperm and egg, they're
thinking of you.  Its my opinion though.  

One last thought, why  are you obsessed with Nomo and Corn Hole?  Are
you looking for someone to play corn hole with you?  Do you like the
game corn hole?  Aren't you getting corn holed enough?   Just
wondering, after all you think I'm a UP engineer in San Quinton
prison, in jail for doing coke in the head, and letting my engines run
wild killing families as I went over railroad crossings.  With the
statements you've made against J.C. Watts and Mr. Breaux, I was
wondering if you're wanting to go to prison yourself, so you can have
your own corn hole partner Bubba, since you can't find one outside of
the prison system.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

So why HOMoNomoqueenofqueers would a corporation care if there is a
railroad safety site?

CSX give a reason for trying to shut this site?

By the way I do ---http://www.facebook.com/jon.brawn.12

Seems like the St. Louis posts are showing up here but not my 6 other
computers. Hmmm am I blocked?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Hey Loco 20-30:

Drop down two.

Name: John Holmes 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

Huntington division will be experiencing a huge employee turn over in
the next year or so.....Thanks to Bob "Mr Ego" Frulla ....Employees
are tired of this monster....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Hey Robert:

Prove it, start digging but before you start you might want to shut
up long enough to read the two links I posted and you ignored:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-19-cybersquatting_x.htm

   http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/01/10/001918U.pdf

Purdy was a fruitcake, like you, because the BN fired him. The board
you were posting to had nothing to do with the BN..."Purdy started
using the service mark, “BNSF,” an abbreviation for “Bringing Now
Safety First,” to promote railroad safety"...He was nothing but 
deceiver and a liar, a man like you with a hidden agenda. 

The feds didn't shut him, the corporations did. Oh by the way,
that was your message board...you can go back to network 54 right now
and get your very own message board. You could then rant, rave, lie and
mislead all you want and nobody would challenge you.

This would make a great story..."Gullible's Travels"!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

Nomo!!!!!!!   

Awesome research you did on Trojan Man Missouri Pine - Nutz.  (Poster
child for birth control)

So Missouri Pine - Nutz,

Did bad ole William Purdy trick you into believing that you were
posting on the website of the railroad that your wife used to commit
suicide to get away from you?   Then did mean ole William ban you from
his website for what he believed was bad behavior on your part, making
threats of physical violence against train crews, and making false
statements on his website?    Did he trick you for a whole big 8 days
while you spent your valuable time posting on his site, then ban you
for an additional 10 days?   COOL!!!!!!!! 

Adam Smasher.  PLEASE take note, and set some limitations on Missouri
Pine - Nutz.  I'm not asking that you restrict his outrageous lies or
freedom of speech.  I'm asking that when Missouri Pine - Nutz becomes
excessively abusive with his racial and homophobic slurs, that he be
given a time out, like he has been given on other websites.   I
understand this site is a place to vent, but time and time again
Missouri Pine - Nuts has a well known history of excessively bad
behavior.   At this time, I'm beginning to wonder if Missouri Pine -
Nuts is not on CSX's payroll, and actively working with railroad
management to run people AWAY from this site.  PLEASE SET LIMITS ON
MISSOURI PINE - NUTZ, and his alter ego buddies.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Wow NoMo--BrainSoSlo how many years did it take you and your 7 dwarf
NoMo--BrainSoSlo-CoHos to get past the Run Spot Run ---See Spot Run
parts in the first grade?

Think about it real hard but don't blow a gasket. WHY would a BNSF
engineer from Minnesota have a site called Missori's Railroad Crossing
Discussion Board??? Why would the FEDS gag him?

I still have all (most) the posts (pages upon pages) from PURDIES
discussion boards which all had BNSF in them as part of a stock holder
proposal. There was BNSF.org ---BNSFKillers and maybe more. Since the
SEC makes them public documents I'll dig them out and maybe have the
web-master here have a BNSF gagged part.

This site was donated to me from somewhere in cyber-space ---don't
know where from. I had no control of it.

So you and your cockroach budidies just was RAIDED. Bye-Bye.



http://www.network54.com/Forum/95442/

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

For your reading enjoyment. 

The first 35 pages (at least) are the same...skip to pg. 200 and work
your way backward!

   http://www.network54.com/Search/?term=%22Robert+Pines%22

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

NoMo 

You should be brings up a different bunch of birds of feather flocking
together ...... ie   The Stinking Buzzards Chickens and Turkeys in
Jacksonville who are squeezing our Bonus Plan they promised.   

2 Big Buzzards got thrown from the nest were Ingram and Brown.  They
devised the dastardly plan and Mickey is playing it out to feather his
old Buzzard Nest with Millions.  

more damn chicken shit for this almost scab outfit

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

how does this website get by the cyber squatting the likeness of csx

or is it is because this site is active and has a definite addenda to 

expose corruption or such

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

RRJ

 If you are depending on dividends which are paid off of stock prices
then I suggest signing up for welfare and food stamps now for your
retirement. Good luck with this

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

As a note to my prior post and to validate the expression " birds of a
feather flock together" some interesting info on William S. Purdy
the webmaster/moderator of the BNSF board pines was posting on...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-19-cybersquatting_x.htm

    http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/01/10/001918U.pdf

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Upon further review...

Seems as though old Pines (Missouri) actually had a little longer
career than we gave him credit for. He was fairly active until
04/15/01. Had a post in May and two in Sept. One post in Jan. 2003 then
he disappeared until his last post dated Oct. 25, 2007. Here's a post
he would have preferred we didn't see. Please read it very carefully!

  http://www.network54.com/Forum/95442/message/984503744/HAHAHAHA

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Good morning Robert,

I see you were up late last night again.

I asked you to tone it down, not ratchet it up by making threats
against federal employee and LEOs. But threatening people is something
you have done for at least the last 12 years. It's easy to be a bully
from behind a keyboard, isn't it?

Why weren't there any posts after Jan. 12, 2001? That was one hell of
a career as a blogger on Purdy's board...8 whole days.

The other post is meaningless, one link didn't work and the other two
stated the obvious...if you don't want to get hit by a train, stay off
the tracks. The worlds full of idiots until one get in the way, then
there's one less!

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years
Posted: 09 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

Defence Exhibit # 583,,,disallowed.

It proves that were allowed to post on that site for 8 days back in
2001 Nothing more, nothing less. Except that you extortionist by
threatening the engineer and conductor of the BNSF train your wife
drove in front of.

The other post, one link doesn't work and the other prove the world is
full of idiots.

By the way, I took your response to NoMo's post as a threat also.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 December 2012

Defendants exhibit #583.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/95442/page-3

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

Where the railroads find these morons?
“What did you assume made those paths?” he was asked by Marc Wallis, an
attorney for Jesse’s family.

“I don’t assume anything. I don’t really pay much attention to them,”
the engineer replied.

“OK,” Wallis said. “They don’t mean much to you?”

“No.”

“They still don’t mean much to you?”

The answer, again, was no.

Today, the paths are still there.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/in-maplewood-how-many-people-does-it-take-to-get/article_d7bd54ae-ba24-5863-bf87-e4e3865fdbd5.htm
In Maplewood, 'How many people does it take to get killed before they
take action?'


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/railroads-avoid-responsibility-for-pedestrian-deaths/article_b9c8bbcc-f424-559a-a0c4-bee46f8d4fe7.html
Railroads avoid responsibility for pedestrian deaths
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-mother-killed-her-son-injured-yet-the-railroad-refuses/article_c265aa31-53ee-55e3-b86b-8fd77650fa3d.html
A mother killed, her son injured, yet the railroad refuses to whistle

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

Well Coke Ennyday reads to me like you need reading comprehension
lessons before you go mouthing off. Who needs a weapon when there are
IP links? Now cockroach go crawl back in your clueless hole.

Name: Coke Ennyday
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

"That would be so much fun. But think how it would really play
out..."

Reads to me like a threat. Since you don't have the balls to eat lead
sounds like you're willing to kill a postal employee, cop, process
server or commit suicide by cop if CSX or Misters Breaux or
Watts attempt to serve you. 

You sir are a very disturbed individual and have almost certainly
guaranteed a visit from the authorities on account of your last post. 

CSX and the other carriers take statements like that very seriously
and will pass it on to the proper authority.

You need to seek immediate help.

Sorry NoMo but this is  safety issue...nice to see you posting again.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

...I'm afraid but I hope I'm wrong that Pines will be leaving us due
to
his recent post concerning the Bribery Statutes and Mr. Breaux and Mr
Watts...
That would be so much fun. But think how it would really play out
HoMoNoMo.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

Hey APE, Rob & L&N Disp.:

Thank you all for the warm welcome back, I'm humbled by your
confidence,

I can see now nothing changed while I was gone...that means we have
work to tend to. So now is the perfect time to start. I'll start by
saying that during the early days of this site and my participation,
there were actually some very good discussions about safety. On the 
lead safety page you can hit the link right above the top post that
says...All 17663 articles on one big page. It may take a few minutes to
load, but it should be like a time machine, might get you back to 2004.
I did it just now on another tab and visited Sept. 20, 2004. 

There were several others that posted regularly, perhaps you might
remember Allman Brothers, Dave Nelson and Jeannie Nichols to name a
few.

It was apparent then, that Pines was out of his league but some of his
posts were topical, well thought out and made sense. When Dave Nelson
quit posting several years ago Pines' contribution deteriorated to
regurgitating old accidents, news articles, accusations, misleading,
deceptive, fabricated and perceived accounts of grade crossing
incidents and business practices by CSX.

We all know why he's here, we all know he has been booted off the
other RR and RR related web sites and that the Web-master is and has
been very tolerant of not only Pines but numerous other posters as
well. In my opinion Pines has a right to be here and speak his piece,
he does not however have the right to mislead, deceive and lie about
these unfortunate incidents. It's really unfortunate because Pines
is capable of being a eloquent advocate on the issue.

Are the carriers straight forward about all these incidents? No. Will
the lie? Yes. In reality however, 98% of the incidents are the result
of the driver's actions or lack of action. We need to be concerned
about that 2% and the other safety issues Pines ignores.

I'm afraid but I hope I'm wrong that Pines will be leaving us due to
his recent post concerning the Bribery Statutes and Mr. Breaux and Mr
Watts. Will CSX et al act? They really have no choice. If it were me, I
would. I suspect Pines will get a knock on his door next week 
or the following week at the latest from the Sheriff or Mail Carrier
wanting his autograph. The only reason CSX wouldn't go after Pines is
out of the kindness of their heart and as we all know, according to
Pines, the carriers don't have a heart.

Bring the issues up including crossing incidents and lets try to stayed
focused on safety on this thread. I have been as guilty as the rest of
you about staying on topic. That's one good thing about Pines...I've
seen him leave this thread once in eight years, at least hes
consistent!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 08 December 2012

Is that Brown Banana like Eddie Murphy's Banana up the tail pipe trick
in Beverly Hills Cops?

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 December 2012

WTF

As long as CSX keeps paying the quarterly dividend I can live with the
low stock price. I keep reinvesting the dividends. If everything works
out by 3rd quarter 2014 or early 2015 I'll use the dividends to
supplement my retirement. It's a long term investment. NS isn't doing
that great either both east coast railroads are to heavily dependant on
coal. The other plan once my investments get to a comfortable spot I'm
getting out of the stock market move it over to a comfortable safe
investment savings account. Luckily we have a good retirement. The
middle class was never suppose to be linked with the stock market like
it is these days.

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 08 December 2012

Bob Frulla is the worst thing that ever happened to the Huntington
Division, he has destroyed it, they say the power plants are turning to
natural gas, that may be true. But why is it you drive by AEP in Louisa
KY power plant you see 3 maybe 4 sets of coal cars rusting to the rail
but there is 40 or 50 trucks delivering coal daily or AEP's Mitchell
power plant in Northern WV that at at the end of the year is done
shipping by rail. I know for a fact 3 or 4 years ago they got 2 loaded
trains a day with 2 empty trains being pulled daily now none. I'll
tell you the problem is Bob Frulla lack of customer service he and his
drones are out there doing whatever it takes to slow down the railroad,
keep up the good work Frulla and upper mangement becuase our stock, yes
ours, will be about 10 dollars a share soon. IDIOTS How about some
cutomer service instead of a bunch of EGO minded assholes running the
show.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 08 December 2012

been there

He's still a RFE been one since 1977. He'll never change. CSX moved
him to his present location in 1992. He'll be there till he retires or
dies one or the other. I'm sure it pisses him off to see these newbie
TM's advance to better jobs and he's left behind. The move in 1992
was because at his last terminal there were death threats against him
those boy's in WV don't mess around. LOL! You just got to the point
nothing was surprising on his tactics. He cut out the MU hoses then
after I corrected it he made his presence known. I'm surprised he
didn't try to get me for intentionally delaying a train by walking
around the consist. If you questioned him it would've just ended up
being a point-counterpoint leading nowhere. I didn't take it personal
that was just his nature. It didn't matter if a person had 6 months or
30+ years experience he was and still is out to set traps. CSX at times
has scolded him and sent him to classes for behavior adjustment. It
works for awhile then old habits creep back in. LOL!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

Good morning Robert:

Looks like you had a late night based on the times of your posts.

Columbia is a nice town...grown since I was last there. It wasn't
a very nice day though...glad I was sitting in a suite in the 45
yard line. Our host was quite gracious, top shelf liquor and a spread
of hor' dervours fit for a royal reception. You'll be glad to know I
didn't get a drop of rain on me nor did I get arrested thanks to the
Limo driver.

Ugly is a relative thing...I may be ugly but I own more pine trees
than you can count, the land they're on and all the mineral rights.
I can assure you being ugly and having big wood is a good thing.
You wouldn't know that though, you're just ugly and have dead wood!

Your grannie use to hide dominoes in her apron pocket! Are you sure
that wasn't your grandpa and it was a domino?

Now that we have the niceties out of the way on to the matter at hand,
your post. Is that you new plan of action, now that you've
screwed up here...to troll the Internet seeking stories of crossing
accidents and your misleading statements, inaccuracies and fabrications
to other sites, Missouri.

Hear what I say, I can assure the RRs monitor all these stories and 
pay close attention to what is said and who says it. hiding behind a
screen name won't do you any good. Tone down your rhetoric and just
post the facts as reported to the authorities. The RRs can't argue
with that. Nix the Newspaper and TV reports, they are more often wrong
than right and to base your future well being on them is absurd!

Oh, by the way, Is Mizzou going bowling, I hadn't paid much attention,
been too busy arranging my trip to Miami. I'll be thinking about how
cold it is in Sullivan in January as I sit on South Beach, drinking Rum
drinks with tiny umbrellas in them 
watching scantily glad women in string bikinis strut past!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 December 2012

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/dyer/dyer-man-taken-to-trauma-center-after-train-vehicle-crash/article_3c6a8d67-36af-5a84-89e1-3225aeb84dde.html

Another treed out CSX piece of donkey dung crossing mis-inventoried and
failed signals.

Dyer man taken to trauma center after train-vehicle crash

Current inventory
CSX
IN DYER
Street or Road Name: 77TH STREET

Crossing 341141A
Effective Begin-Date of Record: 01/01/11
Avg Passenger Train Count: 0
Total Trains: 1
Maximum Time Table Speed: 60
Annual Average Daily
Traffic (AADT): 3084
AADT Year: 1995 (last time state got off their lazy ,railroad bought
---and counted.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Corporate


He was never kicked off. No one "LET" him back on. Im guessing he
left for a very good reason. Cant wait to see what he has uncovered on
his expeditions. As for the brown banana award, he's doing the right
thing by watching every post on this site for the entire year and
seeing who is being deemed as some of the worst csx employees of the
year. I cant wait to see who gets the #1 worst voted csx manager(or
want to be manager) for the year. Dont think it doesnt get talked about
outside of this site, because it does!


LET THE COUNT DOWN BEGIN!

Name: NS 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Northfolk Southern is considering bring back the OK to get on and off
moving equipment at low speeds.    

I wonder how long this copy cat chicken shit express follows us so they
can try and compete with our stock price.   

Maybe Ward can give you guys a better end of the year bonus by saving
on brake shoes and fuel.  I heard you are getting boned real good this
year on that carrot n stick engineer bone us award.

Oh well maybe next year!!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Holy Shit, NoMo is back to punish us CSX management with his Banana
Cream Pudding Awards.    Who let him back on here ??

Name with held for good reason.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

NOMO!!!!!!

I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK.

Yes several of us are jumping on Pines when he makes comments that
appear to be untrue.  

When you were going at it with Pines and his alter ego JJ the last few
months, I avoided the Safety Site.  I chose to read and post on the
other areas, avoiding the Safety Site completely.   I found the racist
and homophobic comments Pines and JJ made revolting.  I repreatedly
made open pleas to Adam Smasher on this site, asking that he either
ban, or place some restrictions on Pines and JJ.  I made these pleas to
no avail.  I have no issues with the use of profanity when its needed,
but Pines and JJ's racial and homoaphbic comments to you, or directed
towards you, went above and beyond what is acceptable. 

Welcome back Nomo.  Hopefully you'll choose to stick around for a
while, and Pine and JJ will learn to play nice before the VA cops come
to visit Pines again.  (come on VA cops).

Name: YEAH YEAH YEAH!
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

NOMO!!!

WELCOME BACK....IT'S ABOUT TIME. I WAS STARTING TO GIVE UP ON YOU.
PLEASE GIVE ME A LITTLE HINT...DID ATOM SMASHER TALK SOME SENSE INTO
YOU? READY FOR A NEW ROUND FROM THE IDIOTS NOW THAT YOU HAVE RESTED?

You want a nomination for the brown banana awards?  Who should be #1?
Wont say his name. Dont want to ruin the suspense. You know who he is.
The wolf that has all his little sheep doing his bidding. The false
prophet. The king of the turn over rate and the ruler of fear. His
subordinates quiver at his feet in constant fear of being shipped out
if they dont chop of more heads....OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! 
You know who it is!

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Mr NOMO let be one of the first to welcome you back.  I look forward to
your Brown Banana Award and the knowledgeable post you bring to this
site.

This Pines guy just does not listen.  He really does not care about
safety or the truth.  He has the perfect opportunity to ask questions
to people about the RR so he can learn how it operates but he refuses. 
He views railroaders as the enemy when in actuality we could be his
greatest allies. He makes up his own fabricated stories and calls them
facts.  When he questioned about one of his post he will not answer it.
 When he is wrong about something he will not admit it and tells me a
lot about a man's character.  He tries to baffle people with his
double talk an bs and expect people to believe him.  He is not
creditable.

Welcome back

Name: been ther
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

RRJ

An rdf actually cut out the mu hoses while it was sitting in the diesel
shop. Sounds like he might have had a beef with one of the shop foremen.
Wanted to make him look stupid and maybe not supervising his men enough.
Hate to think he was trying to sabatoge your units or set  you up
somehow. Wouldnt tampering with the engines like that in an area thats
not really his authority be considered an fra offense? Bet oh mickey
ward wouldnt even find that one very funny! Contributing to a late
departure! What happened to that rdf. Please tell us hes not still
around!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 December 2012

Well NOMORRHO I heard you drowned in the dribble you spew after you were
arrested in Columbia for being ugly in public.

You know my grannie use to hide dominoes in her apron pocket.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 December 2012

Holy Cow...Robert, what did you do?

When the phone starts ringing in the middle of the night and your inbox
is full and all the calls and emails say...you gotta see this on the
CSXSucks site under Safety First, I just had to look. I'll deal with
my Sponsor later!

Robert, how many times have I ask you to tone it down? Why didn't
you listen? I'm afraid you DOA...you better spend whatever money you
have and stake out an overpass because you won't have a pot to piss in
or a window to through it out of when CSX, Breaux and Watts get
finished. Here's an even better twist. Since you chose to make your
remarks on the "wire" and they were delivered across state and
national boundaries, this falls under the Feds jurisdiction. You may
have been right all along, there is a conspiracy out to get you.

Where's your little buddy JJ? He not defending you, even he knew
to distance himself...especially after some of the comments he made.

Yep, reminds me of an episode of the Rebel where Johnny Yuma steps in a
big pile or the cartoon of the mouse in the trap and all his buddies
lined up behind him tapping their feet and checking their watches, wait
for their shot, I think the caption read "everyone wants a piece of
your ass, when you down and out".

What I want to know is where were all your admirers when I needed 
them? I pummeled you for six years, leave for a couple of months and
these guys come out of the woodwork to finish you off. Actually, 
the poster that said it was you ego and attitude that got you was
right. Maybe it's for the best, time to move on and enjoy what time
you have left.

Now, for the rest of pieces of shit...I'm back and I'm goin' to tell
it like it is. If you want sympathy go cry to momma or tell it to the
Padre. In the meantime, tell me who deserves to be the "Brown
Banana". I spent the last three hours getting caught up, so get those
nominations in, time is short. There will be one new award this year
"The Lifetime Achievement" award...remember, only
management types no contract employees.

Maybe I'll upgrade this year...can it be a "Brown Banana" if it's
gold?

 
http://now.msn.com/pill-promises-to-turn-your-poop-into-glittering-gold

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Mr. Tweedle Dumb(est).

Nice post, it will take you a while to scrape that off your shoes.

I'm glad you reminded me about that question, I had completely
forgotten about it. However the question I posed concerned influence,
not bribery. You know there is a difference? One is illegal and the
other one is a normal course of business. 95% of all business deals
are the result of influence and occur on the golf course, over
cocktails, dinner, sporting events and even trips.

In the accounting world it's called client development and is
perfectly legal. In politics, it's called campaign contributions.
In both cases, you can claim a deduction on your taxes.

Now, would you like to try again to find the law concerning the
illegality of influence. I'll give you a do over, I don't think CSX 
will.

Your enormous ego and smart ass attitude got you busted...is there a
Skid Row in Sullivan?

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 07 December 2012

been there

I always did a walk through wether it was an initial boarding if they
came out of the shop or a recrew no matter who the engineer was telling
me everything is alright. I found plenty of mistakes out of the shops.
Recrewing a train anything could happen they might not be aware of
during their run. Tagged locomotives in the consist found plenty that
didn't have a tag on the lead locomotive or wrote up on the calender
day. I did it for my own protection. Even had a RFE who had cut out MU
hoses in the diesel shop track which I didn't have to inspect seeing
they had a current calender day but I walked around them on the ground
and found it. Never know whose out there. Needless to say the RFE & I
got into some heated words. He violated CSX's own rules. Of course I
would of found it anyway on the initial move but it was the principle.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Pine - Nutz

From reading the post below..... it sounds like you've been
B-U-S-T-E-D yet again for LYING Clownos.

It doesn't matter what you write on this site, if you develop a
reputation for lying.

As you've stated that the United States Constitution says   No - No,
Naughty - Naughty, Shame - Shame.   By the way when are you going to
show us where in the Constitution says this Pine - Nutz?

Name: Coke  Ennyday
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years
Posted: 07 December 2012

Tweedle Dumbest,

Had you taken time to read Breaux's and Watts' bios, they clearly
state they are both former members of the Senate and House
respectively...

http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-govBio&ID=166545

http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-govBio&ID=211750

Nice try at deflecting though...better break out you tap shoes
because you'll be dancing around that comment for the next several
years!

By the way, former means one time or past and is the same as EX, as in
ex-wife!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 December 2012

Name: Rob ...Ex - Senator John Breaux and Ex-Congressmen J.C. Watts?...
Name: Coke Ennyday ...the Bribery statutes and then telling us to ask
Ex-Senator John Breaux and Ex-Congressman J.C. Watts about it. Both of
whom sit on the CSX Board.
http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-govboard
That would be fun. CSX could explain the false advertisement of a
active Senator and Congressman on their board.
Now why did you two Bozos both show up screaming EX???

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Pines

Thanks for posting 18 U.S.C. 201.  The US Code -Section 201 Bribery of
Public Officials and Witnesses.  I looked at the link you provided, and
it was nice to see that the link you listed, actually worked.  Thank
you.

Why do you believe I should speak to Ex - Senator John Breaux and Ex -
Congressmen J.C. Watts?  Have you spoke to them yourself?   Do you
think they are be guilty of Bribery, and it might involve CSX?  CSX is
always quite to point out that they are an ethical company.  If there
are ethics violations going on, per the CSX Code of Ethics book all of
its employees received earlier this year, Pines, CSX employees are
required to report this information.

Pines if you know of any ethics violations by anc CSX Company official,
and can prove it....Please let me give you the CSX Ethics Hotline 1 800
737 1663.  CSX has subcontracted the ethics hotline to Well Point, and
I'm sure they would be very interested in what you have to say.

Name: Tee
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Been There:
I agree that a recrew is not the same as a calendar day inspection. But
it does not take more than a few minutes to walk through your engines. I
did when I was an engineer and would expect that any one with a brain in
their head to do so as well. Walk through, see if there's an obvious
issue, see if a calendar day is due, and notify the appropriate party.
If an inbound engineer failed to do his job he is basically hanging you
and you have to cover your ass. By hanging him if necessary. It's all
about communicating the issues with all involved. Cover your ass. But
it doesn't take more than a few minutes to do so.There are too many
who drag their asses intentionally.

Name: Coke Ennyday
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Hope you boys have your slickers and a face shields on...the shit is
going to hit the fan.

I can't even begin to believe that Pines is that stupid to post a
comment on a public forum referencing the Bribery statutes and then
telling us to ask Ex-Senator John Breaux and Ex-Congressman J.C. Watts
about it. Both of whom sit on the CSX Board.

Pines, while you at it, look up the statues for Defamation of
Character, Slander and Libel. The next visit you get from a cop
will be to serve you.

Pour youselves four fingers of your favorite Devil in a bottle 
boys and watch the shit fly...if CSX, Breaux and Watts don't jump
on this they don't have a hair on their cod sacks.

Other had it about right, Tweedle Dumb; I think Tweedle Dumbest is
a better description though.

Name: been there
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

TEE


Read that post. He was talking about a recrew. I almost lost my job
trusting a crew when I had to recrew their train on the main. Took
their word that everything was okay. Jumped on it and took off. It was
dark so I didnt notice anything wrong with the third unit(had 4). I was
met by the FRA when I got to my destination and when I heard "who the
hell is the engineer on that train that just came in" I knew something
was wrong. We had a unit that wasnt even supposed to be out of the
repair house. It had 4 major defects and was blowing oil out of it
everywhere. No tag on the leader to notify me, but there was one on the
bad unit. I would have seen it if I had went back. Nothing in the
calendar day book on the leader either. I had a finger pointed in my
face and was told I could be fired on the spot. Had to write
statements, call home terminal supervisor and report everything. FRA
said,"When you took control of those units, they became your
responsibility. You didnt get them out of an engine house, you had them
handed off to you by another crew. You dont trust anyone you work with.
You check your units before you move them. Make sure everything is
signed or tagged properly. I did hear that the foreman where it came
out of got fired.

So, sick of it... you ever get badgered by a dispatch again who is
trying to rush you when you take over a hogged train on the main, just
let him rant and if he keeps it up just ask him if hes going to take
all the responsibility for anything that might be wrong or illegal on
that train if you get boarded or a surprise inspection from the fra. If
he wont then he can just sit down and shut it until your done. Those are
your motors not his! Even if he did say he would take all responsibilty
Im not sure you wouldnt get suspended anyway. Hes not a supervisor, hes
a union contract employee. Better get the DTO on the radio!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 December 2012

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/11/201

18 U.S.C. § 201 : US Code - Section 201: Bribery of public officials
and witnesses

Just ask Senator John  B.  Breaux and Congressman J.C Watts, Jr. listed
on the CSX board of directors

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Mr. Tweetle Dumb,

I think you the one that's anal retentive...the question wasn't about
murder, the still unanswered question is...cite the law making the
projects listed, illegal?

  http://www.dvrpc.org/Freight/longrange/pdf/freight_rail_summary.pdf

I also asked you to show us where in the U.S. Constitution the phrase
"no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame" is found. To refresh your
memory,
you said..."These law-makers ever read the US Constitution that says
that is a no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame".

You continue to evade the answer and deflect the conversation. By
refusing to answer, it shows you're a man without any integrity and
will stop at nothing to promote your twisted agenda.

You're no better than the politicians, regulators and RR executives
you bitch about!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Rob:

You say Tweedle Dumb's email address is bogus? Try this one

from 04/28/2005.......pino40@fidnet.com

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 December 2012

RE: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
You NoMowannabeRRHos a might anal retentive or what?
I cite the Federal statute to murder and walla one of you bozos says
...You sited the statute and code for Murder...DUH some things are
given. This clown think people can't read or what?

Wadda ya thunk ---was the NS driver delivering first grade reading
materials to the Catholic church when he was cremated because of
missing signals ---slow orders ---company tight wadiness?

...The driver of that truck, a Norfolk Southern employee who had been
moving equipment around the tracks in Glade Spring’s town square, was
killed when the engine slammed into the truck...

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Alright Tweedle Dumb,

What is the significance of your last post and what does it have to do
with a work zone?

Deflecting again to distract the readers from your outright lie.

Time now for Tweedle Dumber to chime in!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 December 2012

Let's see. NS and state had the crossing illegally under private for 20
years and like 5 different names since then.

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1032426
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1032438
DOTCrossing Number: 469788F
BOXWOOD ST 
07/21/04 HEMLOCK ST. 1 injured
06/28/84  TOWN STREET 1 injured
Total Trains:  16
Maximum Time Table Speed: 45
TOWN ST
HOULOCK ST
BOXWOOD
BOSWOOD ST.
Private to public in 1996

http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Samples/Frequency%20of%20Crossing%20Collisions%20(D-2).html

22	469788F	Virginia	WASHINGTON GLADE SPRING

Name: Tee
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Sick of it:
If you are referring to a calendar day inspection you have to secure
authority to perform the inspection.  Rule 5303.

Name: Kloostra
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Bummer we can not upload pictures. I love my job at CSX Rail Road in
Grand Rapids. Go to Google Images and put in Patrick Kloostra. The
first picture that pops up will be me enjoying my ride on a CSX
locomotive.I have the best job in the world. I got promoted because of
this picture. CSX, Where every ride is a joy ride!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

If it isn't Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber... 

Mr Pines,

Exactly where in the article does it say "work zone"? I read it twice
and what it said is "The driver of that truck, a Norfolk Southern
employee who had been moving equipment around the tracks in Glade
Spring’s town square". Nor did it say anything about a stop paddle on
a 20' pole.

I suggest you take your safety cone and put it on your head because
that is the danger zone!

And JJ chimes in with this remark, "Railroad security is an issue in
toxic spills like the recent one in New Jeresy."

Perhaps you would care to explain exactly how it's security issue?
I think most people think it's a maintenance issue!

The rest of the post is complete bull shit!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 06 December 2012

Pine - Nutz

Its nice to know that you've read my post in the past.

Now has come the time for you to pull up you're baggy Depends.  Adjust
your I Wants Ta Be Da Engineer thinking cap and FOCUS.  Take a few
additional Prozac pills if necessary to assist you.  

Contrary to what your delusional mind may be telling you, I want to
verify a few of the statements you've made.  I'm sure you wouldn't
be lying on this site now would you Pine - Nutz?   So when someone is
is taking the time to read your post and ask you questions about what
you've written, they've thought about what you've said and would
like further information to verify your statements.

So Pine - Nutz..... Please state where the United States Constitution
says No - No, Naughtily - Naughtily, Shame - Shame.   Also you stated
that using undue influence is illegal, but didn't state the Statue, or
where you found this information.   You also said that the railroad was
receiving funds for illegal projects.  Where did you find this
information?  If you're correct, why haven't you contacted your
Congressman?  Also you stated that I"m a UP Engineer in San Quinton
Prison.  I'm in jail for killing people while I was in the head
snorting coke, and the engines I was in charge of ran through a
crossing killing a family.  I'm not an engineer, yet, but if someone
is using my identity and drugs, along with killing people, maybe I
should look into your allegations further. 

So Pine - Nutz start talking.   Time has come to put up or shut up and
state where you're getting your "unique" information that no one
else can seem to find or verify.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 December 2012

http://www.tricities.com/news/local/article_94ff3892-3f28-11e2-a141-0019bb30f31a.html#facebook-comments

I still have safety cones if the idiot railroad don't know how to slow
down in work zones. Ya think a stop paddle with a 20 foot pole smacking
the train windshield would wake them up?

NS VS. NS

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 December 2012

Railroad security is an issue in toxic spills like the recent one in New
Jeresy. 

With thousands of gallons of extremely toxic chemicals spilling out of
tank cars and migrating to one of the largest waterways in New Jersey,
presently affecting the lives of hundreds or residents including nearby
businesses and schools,   should the spill enter the main acquifer water
supply, the security issue of terrorism is definately a question -
potential acts of terrorism on railroad property definately falls
within the railroad responsibility of "security'.  Railroad security
to prevent acts of terrorism has definately been a big concern since
9-11.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 December 2012

Brilliant ---I need to told exactly when my post was made by two
railroad clowns that never say nothing about safety. I made the post so
you monkeys could talk safety---security---or just VENT.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 05 December 2012

Pine - Nutz

It sounds like Employed in Other Capacity 10-20 has your number.  He
hit the nail on the head when it comes to describing an old shrived up
piece of garbage like you.

PINE - NUTZ in your own words....  YOUR B-U-S-T-E-D  Clownos.

Now answer the questions, or admit openly what we all know.  YOU ARE
LYING. (And a worthless piece of $#!π)

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 05 December 2012

The only thing it looks like, is when Mr. Pines is lack of answers;
he changes subjects when he at a loss.

Mr Pines...this story is several days old. It made the national media
on 11/30 and was posted on this thread ob this site on 12/01.

Quit changing subjects (deflecting) and answer the questions!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 December 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/atlanta-train-car-robbery-rifles_n_2217171.html

Boy oh BOY ---Looks like CSX is lax in security.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 December 2012

NS and CSX are 50/50 responsible for maintenance of the bridge. NTSB has
determined the bridge either collapsed or moved .
It was a CSX train.  Conrail owns the track and bridge. They also
supply the crews..  Damages from the spill are large and getting
larger. All the roads will end up paying....some more than others.  CSX
will have the lions share.g.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 04 December 2012

webmaster

Just took a look at your pics in the picture forum(of course)and have
to say there are some pretty good ones in there. There isnt really any
newer ones but they are still impressive. Got to say you have some
pretty funny cartoons too!  So are you the only one who sees and
handles the pics? You know, confidentiality being a big thing about
sending stuff like that is important.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 04 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

What, another smart ass answer? What do NOMO and Johnny Yuma have to do
with you answering the question I posed. 

I haven't seen NOMO on here in some time and if you're comparing
yourself to Johnny Yuma you are indeed delusional. Yosemite Sam would
be a better comparison...he never wins either but always looks foolish
trying! Yuma on the other hand was a fictional character, trying to
right fictional injustice in the old wast. Of course you too are living
in the past, trying to right perceived injustice.

I guess we'll never get a straight answer from you nor will you
make any attempt to validate your posts that are intentionally
misleading, deceptive and in many cases pure fabrications. You sir are
a bald face liar with absolutely no credibility, acute paranoia
and a vivid imagination. 

I'm surprised the web master allows you remain active on this site.
Perhaps he feels sorry for you. You do nothing for this site which 
is for CSX employees to vent, not for you to use as a personal bully
pulpit. 99% of the readers are CSX employees that could care less
what you think and the other 1% are casual viewers that will quickly
conclude you're a fool.

As for JJ...Young man, I seem to remember several question being posted
directly to you, concerning RR operations at grade crossing.
I don't recall seeing you answer them...just evading them them like
Mr. Pines. You don't have any credibility either and have made
numerous misleading and deceptive posts as well, Whats your excuse?
Mr. Pines at least has a reason to be here...you have no standing which
makes you a bigger liar than Mr. Pines!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 04 December 2012

Google "Conrail". They have track in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New
Jersey. They hire their own employees. The main page states it's owned
by NS & CSX no different than the shortlines Rail America owns. They
have both contract & non-contract employees. Daily operations they are
a separate railroad.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 December 2012

EOC posts enough hate mail on here to be a poster child for cyber
psychos.  If anything makes this site look unprofessional, and goofy,
EOC  is #1 on any list.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 December 2012

PINES   PINES   PINES    PINES   PINES........

OK BOYS AND GIRLS LETS ALL SAY IT 10 TIMES EACH AND THROW SOME MAGIC
WISHING DUST IN THE AIR AND MAKE A WISH HE GOES AWAY! GOD! IS ANYONE
ELSE SICK OF SEEING HIS NAME ON HERE BESIDES ME? THERE ARE MORE ISSUES
TO WORRY ABOUT THAN HIS CONSTANT LITTLE RANTS LIKE A LITTLE BOY WHO
WANTS ATTENTION. I FOR ONE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANYONE HAS HEARD ANY
MORE NEWS ABOUT THE STOLEN RIFFLES AND IF HOMELAND SECURITY IS INVOLVED
AND CRACKING DOWN ON THE LACK OF SAFETY AND SECURITY WHERE THEY WERE
STOLEN!!!! HAD TO BE AN INSIDE JOB. WHAT ELSE ARE WE HAULING ON OUR
TRAINS THAT JUST MIGHT GET US ATTACKED OR EVEN KILLED WHILE WE ARE
WAITING IN A SIDING OR OUTSIDE A YARD TO GET IN! HOW COME STUFF LIKE AK
STYLE ASSULT RIFFLES ARENT ON A SPECIAL ALERT CAR LIST? LETS NOT FORGET
TO BOW OUR HEADS AT CHRISTAMS FOR THE CREW MEMBERS WHO WERE SHOT AND
THE ONE WHO DIED WHEN A CRAZY WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP CAME IN THE BACK
DOOR WITH HIS GUN!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 December 2012

RE: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years

How about posting those statues regarding illegal funding and influence
that I asked you for and the part of the U.S. Constitution that says
"no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame".

Did you look at the parts between the official designations of NOMO and
his 7 dwarf company puffers and the limitations on much of a rebel
Johnny Yuma could be?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/117.729

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 03 December 2012

Take a break =D

A union boss walks into a bar next door to the factory and is about to
order a drink to celebrate Obama's victory when he sees a guy close by
wearing a Romney for President button and two beers in front of him. He
doesn't have to be an Einstein to know that this guy is a Republican.

So, he shouts over to the bartender so loudly that everyone can hear,
"Drinks for everyone in here, bartender, but not for the
Republican."

Soon after the drinks have been handed out, the Republican gives him a
big smile, waves at him, then says, "Thank you!" in an equally loud
voice. This infuriates the union boss.

The union boss once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the
Republican. As before, this does not seem to bother the Republican. He
continues to smile, and again yells, "Thank you!"

The union boss once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the
Republican. As before, this does not seem to bother the Republican. He
continues to smile, and again yells, "Thank you!"

The union boss asks the bartender, "What is the matter with that
Republican? I've ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the
bar but him, and all he does is smile and thanks me. Is he nuts?"

"Nope," replies the bartender. "He owns the place."

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 03 December 2012

Mr Pines'

Bravo, you know how to multiply using a calculator and copy and paste.

Now, do you have a point or do you just like posting things that make
you look foolish?

How about posting those statues regarding illegal funding and
influence that I asked you for and the part of the U.S. Constitution
that says "no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame".

You made accusations and I asked you to prove it by backing them up.
I don't think my request unreasonable, unless you are lying
pursuant to promoting your personal agenda. I think we're all entitled
to see your proof if you expect us to believe you.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 December 2012

Let's see ---365 days a year @24 hours a day  ---2080 work hours a year
plus fill ins for vacation/sick/bereavement means there should be like
4.5 full time on-site train crew members to interview. Or Fred the
train driver say screw you Barney I'm leaving at 8 mph?

(a) The draw of the CONRAIL Railroad Bridge, mile 1.4 at Paulsboro,
shall operate as follows:
(1) From March through November, the draw shall be left in the open
position to vessels and will only be closed for the passage of trains
and to perform periodic maintenance authorized in accordance with
subpart A of this part.
(i) Trains shall be controlled so that any delay in opening of the draw
shall not exceed ten minutes except as provided in § 117.31(b).
(ii) Before the bridge closes for any reason, an on-site train
crewmember will observe the waterway for approaching craft, which will
be allowed to pass. An on-site train crewmember will then operate the
bridge by radiophone. The bridge shall only be closed if an on-site
train crewmember's visual inspection shows that the channel is clear
and there are no vessels transiting in the area.
(iii) While the CONRAIL Railroad Bridge is moving from the full open to
the full closed position, an on-site train crewmember will maintain
constant surveillance of the navigational channel to ensure no conflict
with maritime traffic exists. In the event of failure or obstruction,
the on-site train crewmember will stop the bridge and return the bridge
to the open position.
(iv) During closing of the span, the channel traffic lights will flash
red, the horn will sound five short blasts, and an audio voice warning
device will announce bridge movement, and the bridge will close. When
the bridge is seated and locked down to vessels, the channel traffic
lights will continue to flash red. When the rail traffic has cleared
the swing span, the horn will sound one prolonged blast followed by one
short blast to signal the draw of the CONRAIL Railroad Bridge is about
to return to its full open position to vessels.
(v) During open span movement, the channel traffic lights will flash
red, the horn will sound one prolonged blast followed by one short
blast, then a pause, and an audio voice warning will announce bridge
movement until the bridge is in the full open position. In the full
open position, the channel traffic lights will flash green.
(2) From December to February, the draw may be left in the closed
position and opened on signal if at least four hours notice is given by
telephone at (856) 231-2393.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 03 December 2012

when CSX and NS split up Conrail there were some areas they couldn't
agree on, so a baby Conrail still exists to run these small pieces of
track for the benefit of its owners. I suspect this is one of those
situations. As to liability I also suspect there are internal
agreements as to who assumes liability. I doubt CSX and NS would wish a
court to decide this and have to spend the extra money on legal affairs.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 03 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

Now we know another reason the Conductor was making a visual
inspection. According to your post, the bridge is normally open
from 0001 on March 1ST through 2359 on Nov. 30TH. The derailment
occurred at approximately 0700 on Nov. 30TH.

Marine movement has precedent over rail and motor vehicle movement.
To leave the bridge open would indicate there is a lot of big traffic
on the creek and limited rail traffic. If there was a lot of rail
traffic, the bridge would be manned by a full time Tender.

So much for why the Conductor was outside and whether or not the crew
was violating any rules as Pure suggested.

However, we still haven't seen any proof to substantiate your claim
that the federal funding of rail infrastructure and the use of
influence is illegal. I have since reviewed the U.S. Constitution
and have been unable to find the phrase "no-no naughty-naughty
shame-shame" or anything even close to resembling it.

It would appear to me, based on the events of Nov. 30TH that the bridge
should have already been replaced especially since
a similar event occurred in 2009. The derailment also, impacts the
Paulsboro Refining Company's 180,000 BPD operation which could create
spot gasoline shortages along the mid Atlantic region.

There's nothing here, time to move along.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 December 2012

Pine - Nutz

When are you going to answer Employed in Other Capacity 10-20's
question from December 1st?  OR PINE - NUTZ  DO YOU WANT TO ADMIT WHAT
WE ALL KNOW, YOU'RE  B - U -S - T - E - D, you're  LYING,  you're a
CLOWNOS and an OLD FOOL.

You alledged the the U.S. Constitution States No - No. Naughtily -
Naughtily.  Shame - Shame.  You were asked to prove it.  What's the
hold up?  Are you lying about this, like you lie about everything
else?

You also said that using undue influence is illegal.   When asked on
multiple occasions to prove this, you stated the statue for MURDER.
Then you put up 3 you tube links that don't work.

PINE - NUTZ .,..... you're loosing it.  YOU'RE YOU BUSTED YET AGAIN,
FOR LYING.   ITS TIME TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP.  Preferably shut up, and
get up off this site.  

Pine - Nutz, you can count on me dogging you unmercifully to start
backing up what you state on this site.  I for one am getting tired of
reading your LIES old man.  Time has come for you to put up or shut up.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 December 2012

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/117.729

33 CFR 117.729 - Mantua Creek.

(ii) Before the bridge closes for any reason, an on-site train crew
member will observe the waterway for approaching craft, which will be
allowed to pass. An on-site train crew member will then operate the
bridge by radiophone. The bridge shall only be closed if an on-site
train crew member's visual inspection shows that the channel is clear
and there are no vessels transiting in the area.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 December 2012

Really how hinkey is this set up The conductor can't see all the
foreign debris??? What a honkey rigged death trap.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/officials-stand-next-derailed-freight-train-cars-paulsboro-photo-160219214.html
I like the picture of the stolen crossing lights being used on private
property for a track light.

So why did the CSX crew care if they set there for a month waiting for
the light to change and why is the conductor breaking Union rules
being
a track inspector and signal maintainer. Shouldn't he/she first know
how to use a ohm meter???

Name: sick of it
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

Hey corporate


How do you handle a dispatcher who is a control freak and thinks he
owns the rr and the train you are on when hes sitting in the seat. Gets
on the radio and starts screaming you need to get his train moved
because your blocking him from running his trains. You just took
control of them and by FRA and CSX operating rules they are YOUR
ENGINES once you board and take control of them. Your trying to inspect
them before you move them to make sure the previous crew did their
stinking job and havent violated any serious rules leaving you set up
when you are bringing them in to hand them off on the main line? Keeps
badgering you over the radio and wont shut the hell up. Tries to
intimidate you into bringing them in with covering your ass.

How do you handle an idiot like this? Cant tell him to go lay down and
play with another train until your finished.  Got any ideas?

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

RRJ. Good to see you posting on this site again.  Thanks for the laugh. 


I like how you "gangstaed" Pine Nutz name.

I can see Pine Nutz now with his old man pants pulled up to his chest. 
Wearing his Depends all baggy.  His I Wanta Be Da Engineer hat cocked to
the side, and his arms crossed over his chest, covering one of the many
dirty old white tee shirts he likes to wear.   He's drinking his
Ensure out of his snippy cup, while popping his old man Geratal pills. 
Pine Nutz is looking at this site of course, trying to look all gangsta
tough, wanting to scare us through the monitor of his old Compac
computer screen.   LOL

Pine Nutz, you could make a fortune using your picture and profile as
THE poster child for why birth control is a good thing.

Thanks again for the laugh RRJ.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

rr signals never fail, that is what they tell us in the BOR classes.

Name: Pure
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years
Posted: 02 December 2012

If a csx crew is moving a CSX train  on a conrail short line owned  by a
 51%  NS share and 49% csx share, with the crew violating operating
rules, who pays?

They all do.  It's called joint and several liability, unless
corporate  'experts' got your law degrees from a cracker jack box.

If you want real answers to legal questions ask A real lawyer, don't
waste your time  reading some self serving running dog of the
corporation.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

Ignorance must truly be bliss...Pines and JJ have to be the most
blissful people on this site.

A CSX train and crew? A CSX Dispatcher? RRJ said it was a Conrail
(foreign line) road, controlled by Conrail Dispatcher and maintained by
Conrail personnel.

Let me ask you two geniuses a question. Just because a train has
a UP Engine consist on it, is it a UP train, is there a UP crew or is
controlled by UP dispatchers if it's on the CSX mainline?

Mr. Pines...favor us if you will with the Union rule that says
the Conductor can't physically inspect the track or switch on his own
or if instructed by the Dispatcher!

Think before you speak!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 December 2012

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/officials-stand-next-derailed-freight-train-cars-paulsboro-photo-160219214.html
I like the picture of the stolen crossing lights being used on private
property for a track light.

So why did the CSX crew care if they set there for a month waiting for
the light to change and why is the conductor breaking Union rules being
a track inspector and signal maintainer. Shouldn't he/she first know
how to use a ohm meter???

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 December 2012

It was a csx train and a csx crew that blew the red light and a csx
dispatcher that gave them ok to pass the red lite. Guess who has the
LION's share of liability?

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 02 December 2012

Pine-Nutz or whatever you call yourself these days

The derailment in NJ was a Conrail train not CSX. Conrail is a
shortline these days they are jointly owned by CSX & NS. Whose
responsible? NS on the split of Conrail got 51% to CSX 49%. So, is NS
more responsible? I think it's Conrail's responsiblity seeing
they're a railroad. They maintain the track, bridges ect....have their
own train dispatchers, train crews ect....Look it up sometime.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

http://news.yahoo.com/signal-problems-preceded-nj-train-derailment-180333202.html

Seems that according to this, the signal was working the way it was
suppose to. Sounds more like a mechanical issue with the span locking
back in place and the bridge was misaligned.

If you'll remember the Sunset Limited disaster back in '93 at Bayou
Canot a river barge hit the bridge and misaligned the tracks just
enough to derail the train starting at the lead engine and killing
47 people. If I remember the engineer had a green signal at the
approach.

I think if the truth were known, issues like this occur on a daily
basis throughout the entire rail system. From a safety standpoint, lift
spans are far better design.

Name: jack
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

To both of the people talking about rail security at Avon Yards in
Indianapolis, Indiana.

You're completely right about the lack of security at Avon, or ANY of
the rail yards CSX owns.

CSX is intentionally designing its buildings today so that crews get in
and get out.  CSX Management at Avon (terminal super Harris) openly
admits that CSX doesn't want the crews to sit around before or after
work talking, they can do that on the train, or when they've working. 
I think its a joke how in the new buildings, CSX management locks
themselves behind doors requiring a special key to open them, making
themselves unaccessible to any employee that wants to speak to them,
ask questions, or express concerns.  How are you going to Look, Listen
and Report when CSX Locks You Out?

Get a clue CSX, and take the cameras out of the crew rooms.  We're
you're employees.  Not the enemy.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 02 December 2012

Pine Nuts

You sited the statute and code for Murder you brainless wonder.   

You were babbling about,  and were questioned about, the statute you
stated on selling or using influence inappropriately,  you dame fool. 


You were also asked by Employed in Other Capacity 10-20 where in the
U.S. Constitution does it says no - no,  naughty - naughty,   shame -
shame  or something close.  Listen village idiot, answer the questions
you were asked.  You brought the subject up now back it up with facts,
not you tube links that don't work or statues that don't apply to the
topic being discussed. 

I bet when you were born the doctor slapped your momma Pine Nuts.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 December 2012

GASSED AT PAULSBORO:

PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) DEC. 1, 2012 — A signal may have malfunctioned on
a southern New Jersey bridge where a train derailed, causing a
hazardous chemical to spew into the air and leading to health problems,
an evacuation, tricky cleanup decisions and BROADER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
CONDITION OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE. (B-U-S-T-E-D)!  

No serious injuries were reported in the Friday morning accident. But
the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday night that the evacuation of 12 city
blocks near the Mantua Creek site would remain in effect as a
precaution. Teams also were monitoring the air quality and collecting
water samples, the Coast Guard said. (IT'S OK FOLKS, JUST YOUR
FRIENDLY U.S. COAST GUARD....NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT MASS EVACUATION OR
SUPER HIGH TOXIC POISONOUS GASSES ESCAPING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND
TURNING YOUR COMMUNITY INTO AUSCHWITZ. ). 

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Deborah Hersman said the
crew on the train told investigators that when they approached the
Mantua Creek bridge before 7 a.m. Friday, the signal light was red,
telling them not to cross. She said the crew found it unusual to get a
red light at that hour of the day. (HINT: R-E-D L-I-G-H-T = STOP, DO
NOT CROSS). 

They used a radio signal to try to change the signal to green, but it
did not work, Hersman said. She said the conductor got off the train
and inspected the aging bridge. When it appeared to be OK, she said,
the engineer called for — and received — permission from a dispatcher
to go through the red light and cross the bridge. (TRANSLATION: THE
CONDUCTOR GOT OFF THE TRAIN AND TOOK A LEAK. THE DISPATCHER IS AN IDIOT
WHO WAS PROBABLY TEXTING HIS GIRLFRIEND). 

Only the two locomotives and the first five cars on the southbound
train got across the bridge before seven cars derailed. Hersman said
the engine was moving 8 mph before the accident — under the 10 mph
speed limit. (UMMMM, DOES THE SPEED REALLY MATTER -OR, PERHAPS, ITS THE
WEIGHT OF LOADED TANK CARS AND A CRUMBLING BRIDGE?)

Hersman said investigators were trying to determine whether other train
crews had had the same signal issue lately and whether the signal
problems had anything to do with the accident. (I.E. DOES CSX HAVE ANY
'GROSS NEGLIGENCE" LIABILITY. DUH.). 

Four of the derailed cars, including three that ended up partially in
the creek, contained vinyl chloride, an ingredient in the common
plastic PVC. A gas, vinyl chloride can induce respiratory problems,
dizziness and other health effects after short-term exposure — and
liver problems and other complications after high levels of exposure
over time. (IN OTHER WORDS, ANYONE LIVING IN A 10 BLOCK RADIUS WILL END
UP WITH CANCER). 

The accident ripped a hole inside one of the tankers, causing the gas
to escape. (YUP, THAT' GENERALLY WHAT HAPPENS....). 

More than 70 people went to an emergency room Friday, none of them with
life-threatening injuries. (THAT IS, NONE HAVE DIED....YET. )

A handful of nearby homes were evacuated Friday; some residents were
allowed to return hours later after some of the chemical dissipated
into the air and the rest turned into a solid and settled back into the
tanker. But Friday evening, residents in the 12 blocks near the site
were ordered evacuated. (WHOA THERE NELLY.  HOW DOES TOXIC GAS SUDDENLY
"RETURN" TO A TANKER WITH A GAPING HOLE IN IT?)

State Assemblyman John Burzichelli, a former Paulsboro mayor serving as
an emergency management spokesman, said the chemical levels spiked as
the temperatures dropped and the breeze died down Friday evening so
that gas escaping the tanker lingered nearby longer. (POLITICIAN
SCORING POINTS WITH THE PUBLIC)

Conrail, the owner of the tracks, put up residents in 106 hotel rooms
Friday night. And the Coast Guard said Conrail will again open a center
in the Paulsboro Fire Department to help people affected by the
accident.(CONRAIL??  HUH?  CSX IS THE OWNER, NOT CONRAIL.)

Residents said they were told to be ready to stay away from their homes
for three days, and possibly longer. (WAIT A MINUTE.  THOUGHT THEY SAID
THAT ALL THE GAS SOMEHOW MYSTERIOUSLY RETURNED TO THE TANK CARS?)

Some said they had tough nights away from pets, who were taken to an
animal shelter. Others were frustrated with the late call to get out
and not having much time to pack. (COORDINATED GOVERNMENT EVACUATION.
HURRY UP AND WAIT, THEN WE SHOOT YOU OUT OF A CANNON). 

"We were not told until they knocked on our door," said Diamond
Veney, who was holding her sleeping 1-year-old son, Tamir. (KNOCK
KNOCK.  UM, EXCUSE ME MAM' BUT YOUR SURROUNDED BY DEADLY LEATHEL
KILLER GAS THAT WILL KILL YOU IN 60 SECONDS. BUT DO NOT BE ALARMED. CSX
HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL WITH THEIR CONTINGENCY PLANS AND
EVERYTHING. TRUST US. ). 

She said her family was given just 30 minutes to get out Friday
evening. (OH, BUT WAIT.  WHAT HAPPEN TO THE COAST GUARD TELLING
EVERYONE THAT EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL?  WHOSE ON FIRST?). 

Many of the displaced residents were being moved from hotel to hotel on
Saturday. For some, the shift meant heading to a place that accepts
pets. (YEAH, THOSE RAILROAD ROACH MOTELS ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE). 

On Saturday, crews moved some of the train cars around and brought in
empty tankers to be used to store vinyl chlorine. (TRANSLATION, THEY
EMPTIED THE TANK CARS INTO THE CREEK, SO THAT THEY COULD LIFT THEM WITH
CRANES. ). 

The NTSB's Hersman said investigators normally spend about a week
documenting sites of accidents like this one. But she said it could
take longer in this case because they will not go back to the site
until it's declared safe. It was not clear when that may happen.
(TRANSLATION:  THIS IS ONE BIG ASS MESS AND WE GOT NO WAY TO CONTAIN
IT.)

Meanwhile, NTSB staff members were focusing on records review, witness
interviews and other tasks that do not require being on site. She said
the board is also pursuing details of how the bridge was rebuilt after
a coal train derailed there in 2009. (SHADES OF MIDLAND TEXAS....PRIOR
ACCIDENTS, PRIOR INJURIES, PRIOR DERAILMENTS, AND THEY NEVER FIXED THE
PROBLEM. ). 

Hersman said investigators want to learn if the tidal surge from
Superstorm Sandy may have caused problems at the bridge. Though it's
in one of the parts of New Jersey least impacted by the storm, she
said, the storm may have affected it. (YES, AND BIRD POOP MAY HAVE BEEN
JUST ONE STRESS TOO MUCH). 

Officials also were considering how and when to move the remaining
chemical from the ruptured car. (THEY ARE WAITING ON A SUMP PUMP AND A
LINE TO THE CREEK). 

Even without all details of the accident determined, New Jersey state
Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat whose district includes
Paulsboro, said it pointed to a bigger problem: An aging railroad
infrastructure. (BINGO.  HERE THAT MIKEY WARD. ITS CALLED DEFERRED
MAINTENANCE, AND GORGING YOURSELF ON $100 MILLION DOLLAR STOCK OPTION
BONUSES INSTEAD OF DOING THE REQUIRED INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE FOR
THE RAILROAD.  IN WHICH CASE, UNCLE SAM WILL BAIL YOU OUT WITH TAXPAYER
MONEY ONCE AGAIN..). 

He said the 200-foot span at the center of this derailment originally
went up in 1873. He said that accidents can happen anywhere, but "you
have to make sure, at least, the infrastructure is as safe as it could
be." (1893.  LET'S SEE.  ADD 445.098 DIVIDE BY 6 2/3RD PERCENT,
MULTIPLE BY 99 TO THE SQUARE ROOT OF 3.13333, AND YOU GET A TERMITE
INFESTED RUST DUST BRIDGE OF DOOM). 

He said that because federal regulators oversee most freight rail
issues, it's up to the federal government to push for, and perhaps pay
for, upgrades. (AND, THAT IS BECAUSE OF WHAT?  TOO MANY HANDS IN THE
RAILROAD PIGGYBANK STEALING MONEY?). 

Recent state and federal funding commitments totaling $28 million to
improve rail infrastructure have not included the Paulsboro bridge, he
said. ($28 MILLION IS JUST ABOUT ENOUGH MONEY TO FLUSH THE TOILETS ON
THE LOCOMOTIVES.  YOU NEED TO BUMP THAT NUMBER UP TO ABOUT
$28,000,000.000 BILLION). 

Railroads run on deferred maintenance.  They dont account for it on the
books. They just do enough to get by. Hence Murder at Midland, and now
toxic pollution at Paulsboro. When will they EVER learn?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 December 2012

18 U.S.C. § 1111 : US Code - Section 1111: Murder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AziM5nSk3es
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRKvpZ7PjE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4YYI8G5EM

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Mr. Pines,

In your first post you said "These law-makers ever read the US
Constitution that says that is a no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame?"

Perhaps you can show us exactly in the Constitution where it says
no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame, I would even settle for anything
"in the ball park".

In you second post after being asked what the difference was between
#26 and the other 29 projects were. After a smart ass comment about 
JoeBobs Chimney Sweeping business and the Roto Rooter guy, you answered
"ALL 30 projects listed are illegal".

After I asked you to cite the law that makes them illegal, your third
post completely ignores the question and goes off on a tangent about
influence peddling. Is that the all you got?

My question still stands, cite the law that makes them illegal and
while you at you can now cite the laws regarding influence peddling.

It should relatively easy for a man with you broad knowledge of the
CFRs. With as much tine as you spend studying them you should be able
to easily recite the Title, Chapter, Section and Subsection from
memory. But if you can't, I'll wait...but I won't hold my breath.

Name: linc
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Car Repair,

You are 100% right.  I've worked at Avon on several occasions when I
haven't been able to hold a spot in my home terminal.   Why CSX
bothers to waste their money sending out information on Look Listen and
Report is beyond me.  Oh that's right, they're not talking to me,
they're doing it for the stock holders.  My bad.

Avon terminal is wide open today.  With the way CSX designs their new
crew buildings, its not crew friendly.  In the old Building 5, the crew
members would talk to each other.  If someone was walking around the
property that didn't belong there, you knew it because you knew who
your fellow co workers were.  Today you throw a yellow vest on the
unibomber, and because no none knows their co workers are, no one would
question his presence.  On top of that, Management is open that they
don't care if CSX has a trespasser on the property.  As long as trains
run on time, they don't care

On top of that, to save money CSX has cut the railroad police down to 2
policemen for the entire Great Lakes Division.  Yeah I feel safe when
I'm on the rails.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Pine Nuts,  you poster child for birth control.

Employed in Other Capacity asked you to site the law you're
referencing,  not make up the law as you go, you waste of sperm and
egg.

I understand you're challenged, so let me explain to you a way that
you can answer Employed in Other Capacity's question.

Site the statue, code, or title of the law you're talking about.  Then
give the number that is assocated with this law.  To prove your point,
as you have a known history of lying to everyone on this site, 
including yourself,  include a link as to where you found the law. 
Make sure that this link works, and we can find this law too.  

Pine Nuts, the best part of you ran down your daddy's leg.  (If your
momma even knew who your daddy was)   But I'm sure you already know
that, like we do.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 December 2012

Influence peddling is the illegal practice of using one's influence in
government or connections with persons in authority to obtain favors or
preferential treatment for another, usually in return for payment. Also
called traffic of influence or trading in influence . In fact,
influence peddling is not necessarily illegal as OECD has often used
the term "undue influence peddling" to refer to illegal acts of
lobbying. [1] However, influence peddling bears the stench of
corruption that may de-legitimize democratic politics with the general
public.

Now go get back under Mikeys' desk.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Illegal? Prove it!

Please cite the law making them illegal. If they are illegal then
every Airport, port, water and sewer, flood control and most other 
infrastructure projects are also.

And if they are indeed illegal, what are you going to do about it?

Go bark up another tree, the coon is long gone.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 December 2012

RE: Exactly what is the difference between this and other 29 projects
listed?

So does JoeBobs chimney sweeping business get $40 mil for better
chimney brushes? The roto rooter guy get $40 million for a better
rooter roto?

ANSWER: NOTHING ---ALL 30 projects listed are illegal.



http://www.dvrpc.org/Freight/longrange/pdf/freight_rail_summary.pdf
26. Pennsgrove Secondary Bridgeport and Paulsboro Reconstruct swing
bridges 
Gloucester County 
$40,000,000
2014-2025

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Employee other


There is your fine example of csx safety and homeland security. Are you
surprised. Go sit at the front entrance of any rail yard and you can see
people going in and out ouf the yards all day long that do not belong
there. Example: The public uses avon yard on a regular basis to get
from one street on the west end to another on the east end. See it
every day, but we dont have time to call someone everytime someone
drives by that clearly doesnt work there. We wouldnt ever get any work
done! Homeland security doesnt involve themselves unless a terrorist
threat has been activated anyway. Hope they are enjoying those riffles.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Exactly what is the difference between this and other 29 projects
listed?

This bridge is a swing span over a navigable waterway. All DoT
infrastructure improvements.

Oh, what about #20, that's a NS yard.

Nothing here, move on.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 December 2012

So the tax-payers are scheduled to be raped here for like $20 million on
the private railroads property. These law-makers ever read the US
Constitution that says that is a no-no naughty-naughty shame-shame?
http://www.dvrpc.org/Freight/longrange/pdf/freight_rail_summary.pdf
26. Pennsgrove Secondary Bridgeport and Paulsboro Reconstruct swing
bridges 
Gloucester County 
$40,000,000
2014-2025

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 01 December 2012

Let us pause for a moment of sober reflection at the performance of the
CSX Property Protection Department at Tilford Yard in Atlanta.

While ensuring the engine terminal at Tilford is completely safe from
those deadly railfan photographers, it seems they allowed a shipment of
marshmallows...err...unicorns...err...rainbows...to be stolen.

Actually they allowed a shipment of GUNS to be stolen!

http://news.yahoo.com/more-100-rifles-stolen-atlanta-train-car-174415216.html

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities were hunting Friday for more than
100 rifles stolen from a boxcar parked in an Atlanta train yard.

The weapons were taken from a CSX rail yard on the city's northwest
side in mid-November, said Richard Coes, a spokesman for the U.S.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The weapons include assault rifles that Coes described as "AK-style."
He declined to discuss other aspects of the case.

Gary Sease, a spokesman for rail line CSX Corp., said the Jacksonville,
Fla.-based company is cooperating with law enforcement to recover the
weapons and investigate the theft.

"When any crime occurs, but especially any crime involving safety, we
prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law and work
in close cooperation with partners in law enforcement agencies," Sease
said.

The rifles were stolen on or around Nov. 12, authorities said. The
boxcar was parked at the CSX Tilford Yard, about four miles northwest
of downtown Atlanta.

The Tilford Yard is one of the company's major rail yards in Georgia,
according to the company's website.

****

But you railfans stay away from Tilford!  It is a secure facility!

Well, maybe not as much as we would like for you to think!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

Minimum warning time. MUTCD requires a 20-second minimum time for the
railroad circuit to activate warning devices prior to arrival of a
through train. Neither the basic 20 seconds nor an extended time
computed by AREMA criteria (as prescribed by the AREMA Communications
and Signal Manual, Part 3.3.10), may be sufficient when highway traffic
signals are interconnected to a railroad crossing with active warning
devices.

The following items should be considered when designing time elements
for a preemption operation:

•    Approach speed of trains and vehicles on all approaches to the
railroad crossing

•    Intersection and crossing geometry (including crossing angle,
number of tracks, minimum track clearance distance, intersection width,
clear storage distance, approach grades, and parallel streets)

•    Vehicle volumes

•    Frequency of train movement (recognizing complicated, short
headway commuter or LRT operations, or switch movements from nearby
railroad yards)

•    Train stops within the approach to the crossing, especially where
stations are located in close proximity to the crossing

•    Vehicle queue lengths and dissipation rates, which affect the
duration of the clear track green interval 6

•    The design vehicle or special classes of vehicles (buses and large
trucks or trucks carrying hazardous cargo). Because some of these
vehicles are required to stop and proceed in low gear across the
tracks, clearance time for both the tracks and the signalized
intersection must be considered.

•    Long right-of-way transfer times due to pedestrian intervals,
minimum green times, high-speed highway approaches, or unusual
intersection geometry

•    Types of active warning (flashing light signals alone, flashing
light signals with approach-side gates only, or with four-quadrant
gates)

•    Variability in the warning time provided by constant warning time
train detection equipment; train acceleration and deceleration affect
warning time; consultation with the railroad is essential for this
item.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years
Posted: 30 November 2012

WOW!!!!!

If you havent seen the pics of the train derailment in N.J. your
missing something. Articles say it was a conrail bridge and csx train.
Guess how they are going to slide on this one! One bridge I dont have
to work on!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years
Posted: 30 November 2012

Your company at work.

http://news.yahoo.com/nj-train-derailment-tips-tankers-sickens-dozens-213425784.html

This one might leave a mark.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

??????

Who called children with special needs retards?  I didnt see that
anywhere?  JJ, are you trying to start yet another fight but in a
different direction.  KNOCK IT OFF!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

well, all i have to say is this website needs to be shut down. i work
for csx as a locomotive engineer, and this website is wrong,
misleading, hateful, and iam going to call the police to have it shut
down soon if the problem is not resolved soon. we are a class 1
railroad. better than you ever will be. so shut your goddammed mouth
up. do not make me return to this website. i will be watching you. oh,
and by the way, fuck you for calling special needs children retards.
they cannot help being disabled.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

NomoRoboPollyAnnaFamilyParvyHarvy, 
everyone knows it's you ....all those posts one after another
harassing Robert Pines...the ONLY person on here who does that is 
NoMo.  Pathetic.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

EVERYONE!!!!!


Lets stop posting mean, hateful and bickering post for just one minute
and bow our heads for Kalee. Her family obviously visits this site and
could use our support. 

For the crew members who have been involved in something this tragic,
please know that there are those out there who do forgive you and know
you didnt do anything on purpose. Kalees family deserves a metal for
showing the true spirit of forgiveness. God bless her family!

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 30 November 2012

Rob,

I saw that statement and was dumbfounded.

For someone that served in the USMC, special ops no less, he sure does
whine and bitch a lot. I thought their credo was "improvise and
overcome". I know a lot of vets and none of them sound like Pines.

I wonder how he has time to complain to the VA when his entire day is
spent looking for stories involving the RRs.

Most, not all vets are Hawkish so the tend to be Republicans which
means they want less regulation and interference from the government.
The exact same thing big business and the RRs want...I have a hard time
reconciling Pines' comments.

Although I will say that most USMC vets and especially those that saw
combat, tend to be, shall I say, a little "off". Pines is more than a
little "off" so he could have actually served and be suffering from
PTSD which would explain his paranoia and MPD. I think the VA rent a
cops he mentioned actually wore white jackets
and carried butterfly nets!

In his mind, it is a big government conspiracy to get him that includes
the DoT, FRA, DoJ, NTSB and the VA and who knows who or what else, maybe
even ETs.

Perhaps we should more understanding and just mollycoddle Sarge!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 30 November 2012

Pine Nuts

Special ops ...  come on...... maybe special ed and the short bus, but
not special ops.

Not only are you a coward, you're a poser.  No wonder your wife used a
train to commit suicide to get the hell away from you, and your children
have limited contact with you.  

With the way you ramble on and lie about something as simple as your
email address, what makes you think anyone believes you about being in
special ops unit in 76?   You say that you served for 49 months, and
you left as an E-5.  Yet you don't state the name of the rank you
alledge you achieved, or how in less than 4 years you went from an E-1
to an E-5.  Or even the unit and location you alledge you served in.

Coward, Poser, Looser,  Liar.  Such simple words to describe a lowly
lonely small man, like yourself.  You're an embarrassment to everyone
that associates or knows you, but I'm sure you've already figured
that out when your children turned their backs on you, and your wife
committed suicide to get away from you.  AND you've had to create
people in your little imaginary mind to agree with you on this site.

Adam Smasher, if you're unwilling to take control of this site, would
you please consider moving this post to the bottom of the list of
links?  Having the Safety Site be the first site you open, and seeing
Pine Nuts doing CSX management's dirty work with his lies and
ramblings is enough to drive anyone from this site.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 November 2012

Murdered American Soldiers?

JJ, you're an idiot. The float was somewhere it shouldn't have been.
Eyewitness state the driver entered the crossing after the lights
and bell activated.

Destroying evidence? Prove it! I think you have been listening to 
Pines to long...or are you Pines or maybe his son. You seem to be the
only one that supports his position. Do him a favor, shut up.
He doesn't need your help, he has proven time and again that he is
quite capable of looking foolish on his own. You are not helping his
credibility.

Only one law suit...there will be more. There's blood in the water
and a feeding frenzy starting. I wouldn't read to much into that.
The only people the lawyers are helping is themselves. In any
settlement or judgement, they will receive 25% plus expenses (which
will run into the millions); so don't believe anything any of
attorneys say...they are just posturing and have no problem lying to
the media.

By your comments and arguments, you are obviously a minor. You
have proven you know nothing about how the RR, government or legal
system works. Just wishing or saying how you want it to be, doesn't
make it happen. You and your pal Pines have no say so or control over
any of this...I suggest you you take care of business you have control
over.

Now go back to watching He-Man and playing video games!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

The story is the UP murdered American Soldiers, the rest of the story is
the UP is going to pay, pay, pay, pay, pay and pay some more. 

khou.com
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 7:34 AM
Updated today at 7:43 AM 
Kevin Glasheen, attorney,  said more victims have retained his services
and will be added to the lawsuit in the next few weeks.
He said he filed the suit Wednesday in order to protect the integrity
of sensitive evidence, including audio recordings from the train's
"black box" and the gate.
"In our experience, THE RAILROAD HAS CHANGED EVIDENCE OR EVIDENCE HAS
DISAPPEARED," Glasheen said.
"In our experience, the railroad has changed evidence or evidence has
disappeared," Glasheen said.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators left Midland on
Tuesday after 12 days at the scene. The NTSB's initial report is
expected to be released in a few weeks.

Yeah. Gee. What a suprise. Railroads destroying evidence. No way -  You
don't say. Gosh. What a shocker. Railroads obstructing justice. Wow.
Who wulda thunk it? Certainly not the Clownsos.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

Other

I am so sorry what happened to your daughter Kalee and have a prayer in
my heart for you. What you have posted on here I hope is truly from you
and not someone trying to do something twisted on here. I know it would
make you feel better if the crew members were to let you know that they
read your message and are blessed by your understanding and forgiveness
but I am sorry to inform you that they can not. It is a serious
violation of the company policy for them to reach out to you. There are
strick rules on anyone speaking to the public or anyone involved in the
unfortunate situation. They could be fired. I hope things get better
for you sooner than later. I do sincerely wish you and your family the
best and our family will have you in our prayers.   God bless

Name: Paul Harvey
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

FACT CHECK:

10 accidents at a crossing over a twenty year span isn't a pattern or
practice of anything except prima facia evidence of your stupidity

There are crossings in the U.S. where there are 10 accidents a year!

How can I be dead if I'm making this post?

The freight train was doing 62 MPH in a 70 MPH zone...how is that
speeding? Wounded war veterans are not germane to anything except it
makes the story better and gives you an opportunity to use as a talking
point for your bombastic posts. Would it be less of a tragedy if it were
civilians?

The UP is the only entity that can be sued. The City, County and 
State are protected by the doctrine of Sovereign Immunity and in the
event they agree to waive it and are found guilty, there liability
would be strictly limited. The owner of the tractor, donated there use,
which might also limit his liability. He certainly doesn't have the
coverage to warrant the attorney's efforts as any judgement would
certainly result in bankruptcy.

Like someone said in another post, UP will voluntarily contribute money
to the families and get a lot of good PR out of it!

So  NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, I flushed more intellegence 
this morning than you'll ever have!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

Well Rob I was 49 months in the Corp and got out of Quantico special ops
in 76 as a E-5 and turned down $15k/promotion/and 18 months of school
for re-uping. Have sent e-mails to every Federal rep on how the VA
healthcare system sucks a big lugie and had VA rent a cops (more cops
than doctors) in my face 5 times the last couple of years.
Now we need a 12th General Order ---1. Take charge of this post and all
government property in view and if the government is dirty REPLACE
them.

Now back to safety

These fools have the crossing as public-(qualifies for crossing funds)
and private meaning no. 
http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/orange-county/4-killed-in-3-crashes-at-same-train-crossing/-/12978032/17595944/-/11xawl6/-/index.html

That didn't take long. CSX crossing till August of this year. Google
maps still has the private crossing signs.

http://www.sunrail.com/uploads/procurement/docs/DBM%20RFP%2011-07-08.pdf
DOT # 622318S.
Mile Post 795.87.
Crossing Name Glen Rose Ave.
Civil Requirements
Add new second track Add new RR warning signs and pavement markings.
Add new crossing surface.
Additional Information
Orange County to install curb and gutter with new road construction.
FDOT has provided funding to CSXT for.
installation of crossing warning system at this crossing. Assume
relocate FL&G in NE quadrant.
http://www.metroplanorlando.com/files/view/quiet-zone-diagnostic-review.pdf

Search 622318S listed twice as private and no quiet zone. Private
crossings are already quiet zones. Bye-bye you idiots running railroad
safety for the state and Feds.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 29 November 2012

Pine Nuts

Here we go again.  

I love your comments claiming that railroaders are gutless wonders that
lose their freedom of speech rights.

Pine Nuts, did you know that the majority of people that ALL railroads
are hiring today are military war veteran's like myself?   Did you
ever put service before self, even once in your miserable life?

You have yet to mention, despite repeated questioning, if you've
served your country, and defended your right to freedom of speech. 
I'm guessing your an angry miserable coward, and your wife used a
train to commit suicide to get the hell away from you.  All because you
weren't man enough to protect and defend her time and time again.  The
shame she must have felt after baring your children, and allowing
someone to carry on your last name.

 What have you done for this country, other than take from it, like
you're doing now.  Are you living off the money you've made suing the
railroad for your wife's suicide?  Do you take the day off to stand on
the street, holding a flag when a fallen soldier is brought home to
rest in your town?  Do you donate your time or money to any of the
veteran organizations like the wounded warrior project?   Have you
stopped and gave a veteran anything, even something as simple as a
thank you for serving this great nation?

Pine Nuts. DON'T YOU EVER make a comment about losing your rights to
freedom of speech.  Especially when you're to much of a coward to
defend this great nation, or protect that very right yourself.

Pine Nuts, you're not only are a coward that has to hide behind a fake
email address and lies.  You are a disgrace to your children, your wife,
and your wife's memory.  

Get off this site, and take your alter ego friends like JJ, The Yard
Master, The Train Dispatcher, The UP Dispatcher, The NS Customer, and
who ever else I've forgotten with you so that those of us that have
served our country, and have grown up jobs can get back to discussing
issues of importance on the railroad.

Adam Smasher please take control of this site and throw Pine Nuts, this
coward and unpatriotic piece of garbage off this site.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

These fools have the crossing as public-(qualifies for crossing funds)
and private meaning no. 
http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/orange-county/4-killed-in-3-crashes-at-same-train-crossing/-/12978032/17595944/-/11xawl6/-/index.html

That didn't take long. CSX crossing till August of this year. Google
maps still has the private crossing signs.

http://www.sunrail.com/uploads/procurement/docs/DBM%20RFP%2011-07-08.pdf
DOT # 622318S.
Mile Post 795.87.
Crossing Name Glen Rose Ave.
Civil Requirements
Add new second track Add new RR warning signs and pavement markings.
Add new crossing surface.
Additional Information
Orange County to install curb and gutter with new road construction.
FDOT has provided funding to CSXT for.
installation of crossing warning system at this crossing. Assume
relocate FL&G in NE quadrant.
http://www.metroplanorlando.com/files/view/quiet-zone-diagnostic-review.pdf

Search 622318S listed twice as private and no quiet zone. Private
crossings are already quiet zones. Bye-bye you idiots running railroad
safety for the state and Feds.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

JJ ---that was me I think with the 10 accidents about an hour after the
news reports started. 7 of those had train speeds of more than 15 mph
which is what the bought Feds have on record.

http://www.wdbo.com/news/news/local/truck-driver-killed-after-crashing-amtrak-train-11/nTJTk/
Gotta go

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

Fact check:

1.a pattern and practice of negligent train operations which injured or
kills a person is prima facia evidence of negligence by the offending
rail carrier. 10 accidents at the same crossing = gross negligence.
BUSTED.

2. Paul Harvey is dead. BUSTED AGAIN!

3.  A speeding freight train killed wounded war veterans at Midland
Texas. BUSTED.

4. The ONLY entity being sued is the Union Pacific Railroad. BUSTED.

NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT......BUSTED...BUSTED..BUSTED.....

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1030457

RE: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A

FYI: Railroaders are gutless wonders who lose their freedom of speech
rights after killing people and get fired for mentioning the facts.

Name: Paul Harvey
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

Busted again? I think not.

Here's the rest of the story that was conveniently left off...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/west-texas-rail-crossing-had-10-previous-accidents

And for some additional insight and perspective...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/war-time-instinct-takes-over-texas-train-crash

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

Well I really do not  know where to start!
 I quess I want to get this message , to the conductor of the CSX
freight train . It would have been  on Nov. 13 2012 at 2:40 a.m going
westbound in the northeast corner , of County Road 1000 North, just
south of County Road 1250 on the east side of lake wawasee and cromwell
Indana. Just wanted to tell you, I know , it could not have been easy
since the train struck and kill my daughter , she was only 15 years
old. It must be a nightmare for you! KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
AND NOT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHINK TO STOP IT. At the same time I know
you were the last person to see her alive ! I just wanted you to know
deep down in my heart , if you could had stopped it you would have. I
also know kalee my  daughter ,would not want to hurt you or her faimly
in this way! She was fill with so much love kindness .
          
                                         If you want to reply to this
post it on face book.  P.S. I would really like to know if you got this
or not.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 November 2012

AND, BUSTED AGAIN: 

By JOAN LOWY
Associated Press. November, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - There were 10 previous collisions at the West Texas
railroad crossing where a train slammed into a parade float carrying
wounded veterans and their families, according to Federal Railroad
Administration records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Five cars and five trucks have been struck by trains or rail equipment
at the Garfield railroad crossing in Midland since 1979. Six drivers
were injured in the accidents but there were no fatalities.

The trains involved in the previous collisions were moving slowly at
the time - between 15 mph and 25 mph.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 November 2012

B-U-S-T-E-D

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Midland-railroad-crossing-called-for-more-warning-4074242.php#photo-3768851

Name: linc
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 28 November 2012

So Robert,

You didn't answer anyones questions.  Do you live your life to troll
this site, have a job, live off the money you made when your wife used
a train to commit suicide to get away from you?   What's up Robert?   
Answer the questions instead of hiding behind useless lies you like to
tell.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 November 2012

So Pooly ---these cops were escorting the illegal parade and the troops
had fake uniforms on so they should arrest themselves?

The train driver didn't like KNOW his/her brakes sucked and he/she had
no steering when he/she reached the 15 mph sight limit stopping distance
of the train knowing anytime is train time and traffic might be backed
up?

Name: linc
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 28 November 2012

Robert do you have a real job?  Or are you living off the money you made
from suing the railroad when your wife committed suicide, using a
train?

I was wondering, because I've noticed that you post on this site at
all times of the day and night.  I'm guessing from the way you troll
this site, you have no life outside of posting here.

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 28 November 2012

Mr. Pines...

It wasn't a military parade, it wasn't sponsored by the military or
military auxiliary. It was a civilian parade to honor Veterans.

Why is it every time you post something and are questioned about it
you spin the story? Your first post on the ordinance was fine, then
when the dispatcher posted the ordinance had been amended you lied
and posted that 6-1-11 was the effective date. Now you post that you 
don't need a lawyer to explain "code reading" to you...which is it?
You either lied or are incredibly obtuse or maybe just full of shit.

Any and all liability for this rests with the parade organizers and the
owner of the tractor. The UP will voluntarily contribute a tidy some to
show support for our veterans and get a load of favorable PR
out of this tragedy.

In reading through the comments at the end of the article you linked.

http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_e87550ae-413e-5cec-a13d-1a9d41aec285.html#ixzz2DS7PBB1D

Seems as though I have read some of the same comments on this site,
Missouri. Tell us whether Whosez is cutting and pasting your comments
or you are cutting and pasting his?

Do you really want to discuss ethics?

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 28 November 2012

Pine Nuts

I'm amazed with your sudden interest and carrying attitude towards our
country's veteran's., like myself.

Did you put service before self, and serve your country, or did you let
someone else step up and take your place to defend this great nation?   
You know, while you stayed home playing on the computer, doing CSX
management's dirty work, and running people off this site with your
useless dribble, racial slurs, and homophobic comments.

Just wondering.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 November 2012

Wow---now a lawyer is teaching me statute reading.

Hmm what does this city code mean lawyer?
10-1-2. - Permit required for parades and processions.

No procession, excepting the forces of the United States Army or Navy,
the military forces of this state, and the forces of the police and
fire departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any street
except in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police and
such other regulations as are set forth in this Title which may apply.
The above does not apply to funeral processions.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

6-1-11.... so pines looks like you are busted was it a lie or are u just
a dumbass and don't know how to understand how an ordinance is written
....can u say DUH

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

Pines

quit avoiding the question. You post as if you personally talked to all
these people. AGAIN, WAS THE TRUCK/FLOAT STOPPED ON THE TRACKS UNABLE TO
MOVE BEFORE THE TRAIN GOT THERE. Simple question. You forgot to ask?
Several witnesses say it was.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 27 November 2012

Pines,

I started to write this post to tell you thank you for answering
someones question., and doing so without using insults and offensive
racial comments. I wanted you to know that I was impressed that you
took the time to write out a logical, and easy to understand post. 
Thank you.  

When I went back to check the site, to see whose question you answered,
I see that you decided to add another character to your alter ego.   CSX
CUSTOMER.  Come on Pines.  Give it a break.  If its not you writing
these hate filled post, then who is it? 

Adam Smasher, please take control of this site and set some boundaries
that limit, or prevent the type of harassment that Nomo had to endure
at JJ and Pines hands.

Thanks for the decent post Pines.  I didn't think you had it in you,
and it was nice to see that you could behave like a decent human being.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

My God, I had no idea this site existed . CSX should be ashamed for
siding with the UP in killing veterans. You are no business partner of
mine. Effective immediately I am instructing all of my traffic managers
to cancel all CSX contracts under the morals clause, and we        
will use trucks exclusively.  SHAME ON YOU UP AND CSX FOR KILLING OUR
SOLDIERS.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

...The stopping distance of a freight train is often well beyond the
locomotive engineer's field of vision...
Why is that? 
http://www.knopnews2.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6469:rail-cam-to-draw-visitors&Itemid=105

There's pole lines all along Union Pacific tracks to mount video
--illegal fiber optic lines along most tracks to tie video into
---cable television systems with back feeds to run video lines and the
railroad execs are paying themselves millions. This equipment has been
available for decades and the NTSB never mentions trains outrunning
their sight stopping distance which is a shamey-shamey no-no in
defensive driving.
There is video cam at this intersection the city just paid $450,000 for
---Where is the video?


Read more: Lawyer: 'City of Midland could be sued for train crash but
likely won't' - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories
http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_e87550ae-413e-5cec-a13d-1a9d41aec285.html#ixzz2DS7PBB1D

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

So I ask the state head of railroad safety: 

"""Why weren't the three sets of crossing lights that just had
gates put in not moved to the next three non-signaled crossing?"""

His answer """Oh, those had cracked wiring!!!"""

So I goes """Well I have a soldering iron and wire cutters!!!"""

Then I ask the state railroad safety guy:

"""These 14 people interviewed at the crossing all answered
"""YES""" to the do you think this crossing is dangerous?"""

His answer """Well their not complaining to us."""

Him and the BNSF guy showed up at the city hall meeting on the crossing
complaint in safety glasses and their little Operation Lifesaver badges
and I thought all that was missing was their clown suits.

OLI and railroad unions are a bad drug that has gotten 100s of 1000s
killed and injured. Like putting a band aid on a double leg
amputation.

Oh ---Did I mention the state railroad safety guy soon quit a good
paying job to run Operation Lifesaver in Missouri. The state auditor
hag covering up millions in overcharges by the railroads is now in DC
rubbing shoulders with the big boys.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

Pines


You seem to know the answers to everything, so tell us the answer to
the question that keeps being avoided. Was the truck/trailor sitting on
the crossing unable to move because of traffic before the train ever got
there? Gates or no gates. Was the truck blocking the train?

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 27 November 2012

Pine Nuts,  

The time has come for you to come clean.  We know you're the one
posting under JJ, The UP Dispatcher, The Dispatcher, The Yard Master,
and now ATSF Conductor.   Not only does the matching IP addresses give
you away, but your writing style and ramblings are the same.  When
someone touches a nerve with you, you use profanity and make racial and
homophibic slurs.  I for one am disappointed that Adam Smasher hasn't
banned you from this site, for the comments you made to Nomo alone.  

I'm more amazed that a man who claims to hates railroads as much as
you do, does CSX Managements bidding, and runs people off this site. 
If what you're saying has merit, why aren't you getting involved with
your local Operation Lifesaver?  Going to the state house and meeting
with the politions, lobbying them to vote your way.  You could do other
things in life that would matter, verses sulk around the house, and miss
your wife.

Pine Nuts the time has come for you to move on.

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 27 November 2012

Let's set the record straight...

6-1-11 is the Title, Chapter and Section of the City of Midland, TX
City Code. It's basically the Ordinance number. It is not the
effective date of the Ordinance as Pines, et al have lead you to
believe.

Part 2; Title V6; Chapter 1; Section 11...

http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=13275

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 November 2012

MURDER AT MIDLAND

Update: looks like the families of the murdered wounded war veterans
have a topnotch litigation firm representing them now. Legal analysts
are predicting upwards of $100,000,000 million damages for each death,
plus hundreds of millions more for all the injured victims.  Could top
$1,000.000,000.00 (one billion) in total damages......probably more.


This is eerily similar to the Chicago Illinois crossing death case that
the UP got clobbered on for millions of dollars cause the crossing
warnings were too slow for the high speed trains. Looks like UP has
never learned it's lesson.  This looks very very bad for them. 
Chapter 11??

Might be cheaper to make crossings murder  proof ~ just a thought.

UP might want to also think about controlling drug use ~ just a
thought.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 November 2012

My only comment about this whole thing is that the railroad has only to
look in the mirror to see the real culprit.

We have fired more people for drug use over the last 3 years than the
prior 20 years combined. 
It that's vulgar, you have your head screwed on backwards.

Someone tells someone they are a 'fucking idiot' (and they probably
deserved it)  and they want their critics silenced.  Hey, if you can't
take the heat stay out of the kitchen.  If you can't run  with the big
dogs stay on the porch. If you can dish out the vulgarity you better be
able to take it.  

My guess is posters like LN, Rob, yardmaster, and dispatcher are the
same person. That is who needs to get the BOOT.  That person is
interfering with the goal of this site which is SAFETY.  The only
people on here that I see posting about SAFETY are Robert Pines and JJ.
 Everyone else is wasting our valuable time


This is a site about safety. There are obviously posters on here who do
nothing but attack those who discuss safety and a huge number who wish
to silence them with bullying tactics.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years
Posted: 26 November 2012

ATSF


You are the reason people have left this site. You cant post a civil
article. Your filthy dirty mouth is why a decent discussion cant be
held on here. Go was your mouth out with soap!


WEB MASTER: PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT BLOCKING THIS KIND OF FILTH ON
HERE. THERE ARE ALOT OF SITES WITH CHAT ROOMS THAT WILL NOT ALLOW THIS
KIND OF TRASH TALK. ARE YOU NOT ABLE TO PUT A BLOCK ON POST THAT GET
HIT USING FILTHY NASTY AND THREATENING VOCABULARY? THESE POSTERS ARE
DESTROYING YOUR SITE. IF IT IS A GROUP HIRED BY CSX TO SHUT YOU DOWN, I
HAVE TO SAY THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT COURSE!

Name: ATSF Conductor
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 November 2012

Rob

You are one fucked up idiot. We sure are glad we don't have stupid
ignorant sonsabitches like you on our railroad. Your IP address has
your residence at the San Quinton Prison for drug addicts ~ a former UP
engineer busted by the FRA for speeding and slaughtering children at a
crossing while you were busy in the loco toilet snorting cocaine. . Do
yourself a favor  ~ stick your head up Mikey Wards ass and wiggle your
ears .....you'll get a pay raise for sure. All kidding aside, STAFf
wishes everyone a safe and merry Christmas, except for you Rob and your
jackass cronies ....we hope you all get hit by one of your  speeding
freight trains with a drugged doper behind the throttle.  NTSB will
have to wear hip waders to get through all the shit from your
splattered decapitated mutilated bodies.  

Everyone knows UP engineers do drugs. Especially in the Chicago yards ~
that's the biggest hub in the world smuggling drugs in the US by hiding
it in trailers and containers. That UP engineer in the Midland crash was
sky high on crack and coke and pot and probably anything else you could
think of. 
UP is a lot of spineless cowards. They recklessly slaughtered a bunch
of WOUNDED war veterans and have the balls to blame it on someone else.
What a bunch of dirtbags.  They .need to be taught a hard lesson.  The
firing squad would be too good for them.

Don't know who this LN guy is, sounds like another confused drugged up
company kiss ads telling lies and misinformation. Another LOOSER. 

GET RID OF THE SCUMBAGS LIKE ROB AND LN. Return this site to people who
care about crossing safety.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 November 2012

For you brainless railroad bought dips who can't read. 6-1-11 ---the
date for the city 25 mph speed limit for trains was last year the first
day of June which is still in use. The Federal speed limit has been 15
mph since at least 1975. Quiet zone for few years back so no train
horns if any till the last few seconds. Was is the DOT rating for CSX
drug/alcohol tests. I know BNSF at the time had a terrible ranking.

How many tickets the city cops going to give the railroad for speeding
since at least 1976?
http://www.midlandtexas.gov/

6-1-11. - Railroad trains speeding.

It shall be unlawful for any engineer or other person in charge of a
locomotive or train to run the same within the corporate limits of the
City of Midland at a speed greater than 25 miles per hour.

(Ord. No. 5107, 11-9-1976)
Charter reference— For authority see art. III, § 14.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 26 November 2012

LN

You didnt say how long the truck with the float was sitting on the
tracks before the train got there and shunted the circut to the gates.
Thats the big question. No one seems to say anything about that time
frame. Doesnt matter if the timers on the gates were off or not if the
truck was sitting on the tracks before the train got there. Gates down
or not, it doesnt matter! If they were sitting on the crossing and
couldnt move then it was the drivers fault because of poor judgement!
Oh, thanks for setting pines straight. Obviously doesnt do his homework
before posting old info. If the speed was increased to 70 then the train
is most likely going to be on the crossing before 15 seconds. FRA law
says a horn must be blown no more than 20 seconds but no less than 15
before entering the crossing. Exceptions are listed for speeds 60 and
above and clearly states that it can be less. But none of that matters
when a vehicle is just sitting on the tracks and cant or wont move!

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 26 November 2012

Pine Nuts

What's up?

I see that after you were BUSTED and OUTED  for refusing to put your
big boy pants on, and refusing to call our management as YOU wanted US
to to for you, you've decided once again to hide behind some of your
alter egos to push your point and avoid addressing the very same issue
YOU CHOSE to bring up.  You are a coward Pine Nuts.

Today you're using your alter ego JJ today to support your wild
claims.  AND...YOUVE ADDED A NEW CHARACTER TO YOUR ALTER EGO
"FRIENDS", The UP Dispatcher.  How convenient.  Lets see, your list
of alter ego friends now include JJ, The Yard Master, The Train
Dispatcher, and NOW the UP Dispatcher.  Who am I missing here Pine
Nuts?   Isn't it amazing that the only ones defending your warped
point of view, are using the same IP address.

Is it getting crowded in your little mind Pine Nuts?   Didn't you
think someone with even the most basic computer skills could track down
your IP address, and see who you are, and what you're up to?  You
don't have Nomo on this site to protect and defend you anymore from
the rest of us.  There's a lot of people that want you and your alter
egos off this site so we can get back to discussing real railroad
problems, and real railroad issues.  

The time has come for you to find other sties to visit and rejoin the
human race.  You're dead wife wants you to be happy, and to move on.  
You, spending your time doing CSX's Management bidding, and running the
employees from this site needs to end.  I for one want Nomo back on this
site, and find your willingness to do CSX railroad management's
bidding, running us off this site, deplorable.  

Move on Pine Nuts, move on.

Name: UP DISPATCHER
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 November 2012

I don't know where LN dispatcher gets his info since he obviously does
NOT work for us and his socalled info it total bullshidt.  
The truth is we fucked up. There were slow orders issued for Midland,
and the reasonable those people on the trailer that were killed and
injured is because the gates and bells and flashers were never adjusted
to account for the increased 70mph speed....the trailer was on the
crossing BEFORE the lights came on or the gates came down.
And yes  some engineers  like to smoke pot, usually on off days, but
that shit hangs you over and slows the reaction time. NTSB FRA tested
the crew but has not made results public.  Might be the tests were
compromised with pretest urine cleaners..

You have a lot of idiot clowns on this sites.  The only people talking
safety are Pines  and someone that goes by JJ. The rest are coach bags
that should crawl back into the hole they came from. 
.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 November 2012

All preliminary accounts show the engr was going 8 miles under the speed
limit.  The old ordinance of 25 mph was raised in 2003,  and then raised
again to 70 mph along with the quite zone. The horn was sounded
according to FRA regulations. Dash cam from police cruiser, video
camera and down loads from the Eng, signal logs all coincide with
witnesses accounts of the accident.  The focus now is on the driver of
the float, police escorts, and proper permits requested to the proper
authorities.

All crews members reported no injuries but have symptoms of PTSD.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 November 2012

Clownsos.  That's hilarious!

Robert Pines deserved a medal for his tenacity in exposing Railroad
gross criminal negligence in RR crossing accidents.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 November 2012

E 10-20,

The Washington Post does excellent fact checking before it publushes a
report.  Railroad PR, on the otherhand, shuffles numbers and creates 
'facts' out of thin air.

The only thing  railroad officials 'jump all over' is power, big
breasted secretaries, stock options, , and expense accounts. 

Again, where is  NTSB drug test report 
 on the Midland train disaster. ?? What are they hiding?

You have a train doing 63 mph in a 25 
 city limit zone. According to the stats provided by the Post, there is
a 50/50 chance RR drugs played a role.


.

I would believe the independent reporting of thrOat long before I would
ever believe the self serving PR statement from a RR
.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 25 November 2012

JJ

Washington post is full of shit.... Dont know where they are getting
their info from but the fra and most class I railroads are up your butt
the minute anything like this happens. Speeding, derailments that are of
any monetary cost,crashes, etc are jumped on like stink on sh....Dont
believe everything you read. They do get tested and its not covered up.
They will walk you to the door faster than your head can spin.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 November 2012

According to the Washington Post 50 % of railroads  'overlook' drug
and alcohol use found on engineers involved in crossing crashes.  

Why isn't NTSB OR FRA saying  anything about drug testing on the
Midland  train disaster? Was the trainmasterds on drugs?     
Sniffing too much cocaine in the company car??

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 24 November 2012

Hey Pine Nuts

It looks like you're BUSTED.

So you're afraid to put your big boy pants on an call Pete Burris,
Scott Conners, Cindy Sanborn, or Michael Ward and tell them they're
BUSTED huh?  We'll give you the phone numbers when you decide YOU are
willing to man up and make a few calls, you know, to let the railroad
know they're BUSTED.

Pine Nuts its time for you to man up or shut up.  Grow a pair and do
your own dirty work for a change, or get the hell off of this site.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 November 2012

How many tickets the city cops going to give the railroad for speeding
since at least 1976?
http://www.midlandtexas.gov/

6-1-11. - Railroad trains speeding.

It shall be unlawful for any engineer or other person in charge of a
locomotive or train to run the same within the corporate limits of the
City of Midland at a speed greater than 25 miles per hour.

(Ord. No. 5107, 11-9-1976)
Charter reference— For authority see art. III, § 14.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 November 2012

Pine Nuts,

You pasted your ramblings slowly????    So.....you act like this is
something new for you.  Given your mental challenges, I figured you had
to do everything slowly.

Ok Pine Nuts, let me see if i understand what your asking us to do. 
You want us real railroaders to tell our boss that they are BUSTED. 
Ok.  If we do this, what do we get?  Do you promise to get off this
site and bug the FRA?  Promise to never visit this site again?  What's
in it for us for doing your dirty work?  WOULD YOU LIKE US TO GIVE YOU
OUR TRAIN MASTERS CELL PHONE NUMBER'S, SO YOU COULD CALL THEM
PERSONALLY.....SAY AT 0300. (mickey's little hand is on the 3, and the
big hand is on the 12, and its in the morning)

You know Pine Nuts, I've got an idea. Why don't you put your big
boy's pants on and call Pete Burris and tell him he's busted
yourself?   Pete use to be in charge of safety on the NS before he
decided to follow Ingram and Brown over to CSX.  Pete might actually be
interested in what you have to say.  

Man up Pine Nuts and lead if you expect anyone to follow.  Make that
call.....

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 November 2012

Here Rob I pasted slowly since you can't read very fast.

Wish you railroad bought clownsos' would go tell your bosses that
they
are B-U-S-T-E-D

According to Texas DOT forms/data.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeni.htm
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeniform.pdf

20 SECONDS PLUS ADD MORE TIME.
Steep grade --add more time ----
skewed crossing ---add more time ---
extra tracks --add more time ---
interconnection traffic lights ----add more time.
Effective Begin-Date of Record: 01/01/11.
Initiating Agency State.
Crossing No.: 796331L.
In Midland
Street or Road Name: GARFIELD.
Quiet Zone: 24 hour.
Maximum Time Table Speed: 15 mph.
Traffic Light Interconnection/Preemption: Simultaneous Preemption.

So who investigates these NTSB investigators trying to pull the wool
over the whole countries eyes saying everything worked as designed
which is really jury tampering?

"""we’re still looking into that."""" Anybody do a count of
many times this NTSB guy made this statement? The public should be
looking at a exit stage left for this government railroad bought
outfit.

Name: Another TrainDispatcher
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for N/A
Posted: 22 November 2012

Here you go JJ    It is your Christmas present from CSX 

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Fisher-Price-Steam-N-Speed-Thomas-Radio-Controlled-Vehicle/20975732

CSX will run it though the paint shop and get it looking more Nazi for
you.


Now you can run a train engine. If you do not like it for that then put
it up where the sun never shines and let the stream go to your midget
brain.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 22 November 2012

Pine Nuts

In your post below, you state "we're looking into that".  By the WE,
do you mean YOU AND YOUR ALTER EGOS?  You know YOU,  JJ, The Train
Dispatcher, The Yard Master.......  I'm forgetting someone here Pine
Nuts, help me out here.  What is the name of that other person you
created in your little warped mind to always agree with your point of
view on this site?

Pine Nuts, with Christmas just around the corner, I hope you don't
have to spend another Christmas alone.   I hope Santa brings you that
stuffed sheep that's been dreaming of, and watching everyone else try
out on the Internet. May the sloppy seconds you get, be all that you
deserve this holiday season.

To everyone else, HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 21 November 2012

Wish you railroad bought clownsos' would go tell your bosses that they
are B-U-S-T-E-D

According to Texas DOT forms/data.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeni.htm
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeniform.pdf

20 SECONDS PLUS ADD MORE TIME.
Steep grade --add more time ----
skewed crossing ---add more time ---
extra tracks --add more time ---
interconnection traffic lights ----add more time.
Effective Begin-Date of Record: 01/01/11.
Initiating Agency State.
Crossing No.: 796331L.
In Midland
Street or Road Name: GARFIELD.
Quiet Zone: 24 hour.
Maximum Time Table Speed: 15 mph.
Traffic Light Interconnection/Preemption: Simultaneous Preemption.

So who investigates these NTSB investigators trying to pull the wool
over the whole countries eyes saying everything worked as designed
which is really jury tampering?

"""we’re still looking into that."""" Anybody do a count of
many
times this NTSB guy made this statement? The public should be looking
at
a exit stage left for this government railroad bought outfit.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 21 November 2012

WTF... You are right about the city notifying the RR about the parade. 
The Chief Dispr would usually get a notice about a week in advance from
the towns city officials so provisions could be made over the sub
division.  In some instances trains would not even run over crossings
during a specified time so the parade could run.  There would always be
a slow order put out over the effected crossings during the hours of the
parades operation.

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 21 November 2012

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone (Especially you Ms. Lucas) with the
exception of JJ and Robert Pines, I hope you both get hit Killed by a
train on Thanksgiving Day. You Stupid bastards are so far out of touch
with reality.

Name: Suzannah
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 21 November 2012

Train Dispatcher 10-20

I couldnt agree with you more. Should have been alot more accidents
with JJ's theory. I feel sorry for that driver. We all know it wasnt
intentional and its something I wouldnt want to live with the rest of
my life... It will be alot of...If I had just done this, or If I had
just done that.... alot of IF'S for nothing.   Wont bring anyone back.
I say we close the door on this worthless disaster and hope the drivers
family members dont view this site. All it will do is create a bunch of
mixed messed up emotions for them on top of the ones Im sure they
already have! It wont change anything that happened!  Happy
thanksgiving to everyone and be safe!

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 21 November 2012

JJ and Pines
   As the investigation continues you will find out that the crew or
the railroad was not at fault. When the truth comes out you will relize
the idiots that run the town, mayor or city council should have notified
the railroad ahead of time to either put out a look-out order or even a
slow order during the hours of the parade, but some people like
yourself do not have something called common sense.
Everyone in that town knew how many and how fast trains traveled
through that town. and also I run real trains and was a trainmasteron
the railroad unlike yourselves that the only train u stupid shits run
is in your basement on a piece of ply-wood. Hows it feel to be wrong
IDIOTS.

Name: Rob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 20 November 2012

Pine Nuts

I see that you added another character to your alter ego world.

The Train Dispatcher

How many character's does that make in your alter ego world?  JJ, the
Yard Master, and now THE TRAIN DISPATCHER.

I think its amazing how you post something, then in the time it takes
for you to write up a "story" completely agreeing with what you've
said in the previous post, it gets posted on the site.

Pine Nuts, go back to the free animal porn sites you like to visit, and
play with your little pine nuts.  Let the adults get back to discussing
REAL railroading issues.
  
By the way Pine Nuts, why won't you post your REAL email address, like
you do on the porn sites you visit?  Are you afraid what we'll do with
this information?  Maybe we'll help you out, and sign you up for a few
more porn sites.

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 November 2012

JJ When u were on a train you probable a damn HOBO becuase you surely
are'nt stupid enough to believe what you just said,PS you wouldn't
make a pimple on a railroaders ass.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 November 2012

JJ

YOU SAID IT YOURSELF! Veterans day parades happen by the thousands all
over the country. How many people were killed in different parades by a
train? If the RR crossings are so unsafely built then there should have
been alot more accidents. Thousands of people crossing tracks all
around the country with floats. One green horn driver who didnt have
the brains god gave them to wait until they knew they could clear the
track before they took a float across it caused several people to be
killed. Thats the facts. No one to blame but the poor unfortunate
driver who has to live with that poor decision the rest of their lives.
The only thing your post will do is maybe make the family members of
this driver think that it wasnt the their fault(if they read your crap)
until they wake up and realize they were just living in a fantasy. Pat
yourself on the back for giving them someone else to blame for just
alittle while!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

WTF, 
I too have been on train crews when we have hit vehicles and maimed or
killed passengers.  There was nothing we could do to stop the trains,
always because we were going too fast, there were no signals, it was
poor weather and visibility, or on some occasions the engineer just
simply did not want to back down even with time and plenty of track to
stop.  Engineers feel they have the right of way. Railroad execs feel
they have the right of way. Both are absolutely wrong.  The public has
the right ofway. You can't have trains running around out cities like
uncontrollable guided missiles.  That's not just plain stupid, it's
criminally arrogant irresponsibility. 

The UP murdered those veterans. 

By the way you write, I doubt you have ever worked  a train, let alone
a train master. Maybe nomo and rrj think human tragedy is funny, but
the ones of us who have suffered through it don't wear it on our
sleeve like a badge of honor, we don't go round looking for pity,  and
we don't deny our responsibility in taking the life of another. 

There are situations were the crew cannot see the crossing until too
late to stop. In these situations, the railroad could have easily
installed a communication warning sensor that could easily detect a
vehicle blocking a crossing and relay that signal to the train crew
giving the crew a heads up to slow down and stop the train.

Veterans Day parades happen by 
the thousands all over the country in thousands of communities.  If
railroads don't know that by now, either they are run by greedy little
morons or they are from Mars.

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 November 2012

Pines and JJ,
 Does anyone care about the crew on the train, sleepless nights,
worrying about The crash. I've hit vehichles on the tracks, the stupid
idiots ran the gates and lights. I also was a trainmaster for 10 years
and when the citys or towns that were on my territory would notify me
or the dispatch office 1 or 2 weeks in advance of a parade or festival
they were having so it would give the crews the heads up
about the situation, why did'nt these village idiots do the same, so
to blame the railroad or its crews i say FUCK YOU DICKHEADS!!!!!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

MURDER AT MIDLAND

If there is a plaintiff attorney out there who reads this site - TAKE
HEED OR ROBERT PINES ARTICLES posted on here. They are a treasure trove
of evidence that will help you win your case. 

NoMo-Jack is an idiot trying to be a clown at a very serious time. Goes
to show how little these people really care about human life, railroad
workers, or tragedy. NoMo and RRJ. Corporate Zombies. What a pitiful
way to lead your lives.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

MURDER AT MIDLAND TEXAS

Speeding trains and failure to warn.  Crossings are inherently
dangerous and inherently defective. 

HONOR THE MIDLAND VETERANS WHO WERE MURDERED: pray for them. Pray for
the families.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

2.  There was no curve at the scene of the incident.  If you know how
to use Google Maps (which is doubtful) take a look at the scene. 
There
is a tangent of at least four miles, if not longer, in both directions.

There was nothing unsafe about the crossing.  


So why didn't the train stop 2.5 miles before the crossing Jack? There
was a parade ahead that could be clearly seen 4 miles ahead according to
you.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 20 November 2012

JACK



HOORAY!!!!YOU ARE MY HERO! Finally someone with a brain in their head
post of here. Never try to cross the tracks unless you know you can
clear them. JJs psychosis is getting worse. Have you noticed how
extreme and aggressive his post have become. They say one out of every
three people have a nervous breakdown in their lives. I know I wont and
it sounds like you have some common sense, so that leave just one person
left.....JJ, please get some help before its too late!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

According to Texas DOT forms/data.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeni.htm
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/xings/com_roaduser/07010/appeniform.pdf

Steep grade --add more time ----
skewed crossing ---add more time ---
extra tracks --add more time ---
interconnection traffic lights ----add more time.
Effective Begin-Date of Record: 01/01/11.
Initiating Agency State.
Crossing No.: 796331L.
In Midland
Street or Road Name: GARFIELD.
Quiet Zone: 24 hour.
Maximum Time Table Speed: 15 mph.
Traffic Light Interconnection/Preemption: Simultaneous Preemption.

So who investigates these NTSB investigators trying to pull the wool
over the whole countries eyes saying everything worked as designed
which is really jury tampering?

"""we’re still looking into that."""" Anybody do a count of many
times this NTSB guy made this statement? The public should be looking at
a exit stage left for this government railroad bought outfit.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 November 2012

MURDER AT MIDLAND TEXAS

Here come the Company Zombies. 

You can always tell the Railroad Zombies by the maggot worms crawling
from their head, drooling and foaming from the mouth,  puss squirting
from eyes, dead flesh hanging from the nails. They tend to snarl and
scream a lot.   

UP Corporate Spin Doctor Zombies are programed at birth to spew out
psycho babble over their Master's innocence. They ALWAYS blame the
other person, animal, drunken employee, alien, et al. It's called
Standard Operating Procedure, aka S.O.S. (same old story). 

The NTSB reported the train around the back side of a curve, unable to
see the float. A 4 mile straight away makes the NTSB a bunch of
incompetent corporate lacky liars. (No suprise there). 

It takes a 62mph fully loaded freight train about 1 mile to stop - 1.5
miles tops. Since the crew had 4 miles of a straight away to know the
float was on the crossing,  it could have easilty stopped in time....
Last time I looked, using a train to bear down upon and murder innocent
people is called MURDER - first degree 'deadly weapon' murder (hint:
ummmm, the deadly weapon being the 5,000 ton train). 

The RAILROAD TRAIN killed the veterans. It wasn't the parade
organizers, or the city, or the drivers, or Aunt Bessie's goat. It was
the railroad train, stupid.....  (blame the victim is another classic
railroad argument: e.g.: it's the victim's fault for getting in the
way of the assassin's bullet).  

The railroad sets their own speed limit on the rails. 70mph inside
Midland city limits is absolutely and totally RECKLESS and CRIMINALLY
UNCONSCIONABLE. The JACK-ASS who set those speeds was probably dug up
from the graves of the local cemetary.    

This is very straight forward murder.  Slaughtering veterans - it
doesn't get much worse than that. The UP knowingly and intentionally
slaughtered innocent veterans at a crossing in Midland Texas.  It
wasn't the hot dog stand in the town square, or the bird poop on the
locomotive window.  It was a grossly reckless and irresponsible
Railroad continually putting freight trains above the safety of people,
and using freight trains as deadly weapons to murder innocent people at
railroad crossings. It's a blood sport for the railroad execs. Place
bets on how many people will be killed at railroad crossings on a given
day. They think its 'fun'.  

They're nuts.  

Murder is murder. No way around it.

Name: Jack
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 November 2012

There are some obviously disturbed people posting on this site.  Whether
its bitterness or mental illness I cannot tell.


1.  Murder is the killing of another person with criminal intent.  For
the incident at Midland, Texas to be murder the crew would have to have
come down that track with the intention of killing people.  Obviously
that did not happen.  There are many people who get their education in
the law from television and its obvious that they have failed here.

2.  There was no curve at the scene of the incident.  If you know how
to use Google Maps (which is doubtful) take a look at the scene.  There
is a tangent of at least four miles, if not longer, in both directions. 
There was nothing unsafe about the crossing.  

3.  The driver of the truck with the float tried to follow a float in
front of it and when the first float didn't move she got stuck with
the trailer across the tracks.  There was nowhere for her to go.  In
the end she will be indicted for manslaughter.  

4.  The speed limit for trains in that section is 70 mph.  The train
was traveling 62 mph.

There is so much misinformation on this site that only a fool would
believe it.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 November 2012

UP RAILROAD SLAUGHTERHOUSE MURDERS OF VETERANS AT MIDLAND TEXAS

Murder is the killing of another with intent to kill, with reckless
dis-disregard of human life, resulting in an actual death. A pattern
and practice of killing is sufficient evidence of intent - such as the
pattern and practice railroads have of killing people at crossings.  

A parade float in the middle of a Midland Texas railroad crossing on
Veterans Day loaded with America's veterans of many wars. Their
familes. Their wives. Their children and grandchildren. 

No prior warning from the railroad that a freight train is around a
curve and bearing down on them at 60 mph. No gates to block the float
from entering the crossing. No horn. No signal. No warning whatsoever.
No signal to the engineer that a crossing is blocked in his path. No
warning device at the crossing to warn ANY oncoming train that the
crossing is blocked - a warning that could have saved countless lives. 
No dispatcher signal to the engineer that there was a parade in Midland
Texas that day.   No train order. No safety notice.  No Prevention of
ANY kind. 

And, the U.S. has THOUSANDS of similar train crossing killings every
year all across the nation. 

THAT is a classic pattern and practice of criminal intent to kill human
beings with utter disregard of human life. 

The disaster at Midland Texas is just one horrific disaster in  a very
long list of railroad killings. 

Now the UP railroad has slaughtered our Veterans - our country's
heros.  Recklessly and intentionally murdered by the railroad. 

Murder at Midland?   You bet your ass it was murder. Murder in the
First Degree. Mass Murder. The kind of cold blooded murder that Charles
Manson, Adolf Hitler, and Stalin are known for. Killing innocent people
with a cold hardened heart. No remorse. 

The UP RR Chairman is guilty of gross criminal mass murder, and the
operating VP is right up their with him. They should both get the
electric chair. Then you would see the other Railroad Chairmen and
other execs move their asses like greased lightening to prevent  any
further murders at railroad crossings. 

Trains do not have the right of way to kill people. Crossings are
PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS.  Its not the other way around. Trains are
mechanical tools of industry. They are not thinking, breathing, human
souls.  They do not have the right to slaughter people. Trains are
SECONDARY to lives. We can do without trains.  We cannot do without
people. 

Railroad tracks that cross streets and highways do NOT have the right
of way under ANY circumstance when it comes to protecting and saving
lives. If trains can't stop in time, then they should either be banned
from the route, or they need to build a bridge or an overpass to avoid
crossing PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS. If you want to cross our roads and
highways, fine.  Just do it so that you NEVER kill a human being. EVER.
 It's just that simple. 

The policies the railroads have with regard to trains and crossing
accidents is nothing more than a self proclaimed license to kill. To
maim, slaughter, and murder innocent men, women and children with
reckless abandon.  

Murderers.  The long arm of the law is coming for you.  The electric
chair is warmed up.  The Jury of Public Opinion has already delivered
the death sentence.  It's 12 to 0.  Death penalty. Your ass is going
to sizzle like a stick of soft butter on a red hot Omaha griddle. 

And, as for you other UP execs hiding out in Texas to avoid the income
tax laws of Nebraska, the long arm of the law has a mighty long reach.
YOu can run, but you can't hide.   

Then come the Billion dollar Civil Trials. The Veterans and their
families are going to own the UP.  There is not enough money in Fort
Knox to pay for all the pain and suffering you have caused not only to
these families, but to the Nation as a whole.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 November 2012

NO MURDER at midland, TX

It was a parade!
Semi hauling a trailer, now how simple is that?

The real question is? who was driving? Are they CDL qualified? 

Who sits on an open trailer, when the gates come down! Not me or
anyone
that i know. However in a parade setting, with many distractions safe
went to disaster.

Please let us not place the blame on those that do the same crossing
all day every day. Place the blame on the once a year folks, for not
protecting their move.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 November 2012

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49883817/#49883817
Pottroff "The gates were short timed"
Reporter "well" ---Geez are they that dense or what?

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/20128555/lawyer-representing-one-train-victim-speaks-to-newswest-9
"Well usually after 60 to 90 days we have a pretty good idea of what
the issues are that we're focusing on. Generally what happens in these
cases is we identify the problem with the rail road operation and they
try to point the finger at everyone else and then we spend the next
year sorting out their smoke screens and rabbit trails. We prepare our
cases for trial and hope they settle,"

The two lawyers will hold a press conference on Monday morning in front
of the Midland County Courthouse.
http://www.oaoa.com/news/traffic_transportation/article_db39964c-31f7-11e2-8419-001a4bcf6878.html
Attorneys question signal warning time

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

Vastly improving crossing safety with available technology - which is
readily accessible, cheap, easy to install, with cost free maintenance
- is pretty simple straight up stuff. The railroads don't have to
slaughter more veterans just to prove that as RR execs they are the
most mind numbing irresponsible fuckups on the face of the earth. (We
already know that).  

Robert, video conferencing is a great idea.  Mikey never turns down a
camera or a microphone - he already had one in each hand when birthed.
You have got to wonder if he ever made a public appearance outside of a
bank vault, board room, or billionaire club.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

http://oli.org/news/view/capitol-hill-veteran-joyce-rose-named-president-ceo-of-operation-lifesaver

paperpushinpogeyporkertoheadoli

So I did a FOIA request to see all applications for this job and the
rail unions should do the same.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

http://go.fuzebox.com/iPad-Online-Meetings.html?utm_source=SEM-Google&network=Search&utm_campaign=Mobile%20Conferencing&ag=Mobile%20Conferencing%20-%20iPad&q=ipad%20video%20conferencing&utm_content=14874689656&region=US&offer=free%20trial&utm_term=ipad%20video%20conferencing&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=COn33ePI2bMCFYZaMgodmXgANg

I was thinking more like video conferencing the crossings JJ. Heck
Mikey could even watch his new $2.7 million second house and the bank
vault.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

The UP is strictly liable for the Midland disaster that murdered our
soldiers. The RR will pay billions. The execs will see prison time for
criminally unsafe RR crossing. 

RRJ never made it to the third grade, but he does qualify for SSDI
under the stupidest person in the world impairment category.

All the RR has to do is put detectors at crossings that notify
engineers the crossing is blocked and automatically set emergency
brakes. Pretty simper stuff, but the execs would rather kill you for
sport.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

So NoMo drowned in his own dribble and RRJ is still in the 3rd grade.
Where are the safety posters?

Name: Issac Newton
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 November 2012

I devised some rules of Physics and even a dumb ass truck driver should
know some of them by common sense.   


An object on a railroad track being hit by a 60 hr mile 5000 ton train
wins every time even on a tie.

Drug test the tractor trailer driver.   Look at his experience to do
such a task as hauling people on a flat bed with is risky at best in
any situation.   

It don't take a NoMo to figure this one out.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 18 November 2012

PINES



Eye witnesses say several times that trailor got stopped on tracks by
traffic . Lights or no lights, didnt matter did it. Train comes and
hits trailor that failed to clear the tracks. Signs say all over the
country not to stop on the tracks. It doesnt matter what you or your
groupie JJ get on here and say. It wont bring any of them back and all
you do is just stirr up a fight because that is your main purpose on
this site. There is a reason you dont cross the tracks until you know
for sure that you can clear them. Why dont you go stand out in the
middle of the highway all afternoon. Lets see what happens to you at
lunch time!  Maybe everyone on this site will finally get some
reasonable minded posters on here.  Oh, you can call me nomo! I have no
problem with that. He had more brains than you ever will..... call me
nomo!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 18 November 2012

Boy, I was in the military & on the railroad way before you were ever
accidently concieved. I think in your case daddy tried to pull out
didn't quite make it and what would of been the part with a brain
ended up on mommies leg. Keep me out of your ignorant bullschidt you
spew on this thread. You and Pines can continue to have your circle
jerk.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

NTSB NoMoWhores were probably recruited directly from Bumfuc
Egypt...maybe a couple of moronic RRJ inbred tree monkies from the
African bushlands for good measure. These  NTSB Zombies couldn't pour
urine out of a boot with instructions written on the heel -they just
puke out lies and coverup fiction spin of UP Railroad's slaughter of
American soldiers on Veterans Day - without one iota of remorse or
responsibility for the lives that they have destroyed with their
criminal negligence.  

And this is the same Railroad company that touts itself as the
"greatest supporter of American Soldiers" in America.  Please Excuse
me while I laugh my ass off at this incredible pile of self serving
marketing bullshit.   

Multiple soldier deaths - many injured and wounded - motherless and
fatherless children, horrified families and thousands of speechless
onlookers.....and a public of millions who have viewed this tragedy on
the internet......and then you have the cold, heartless, profit driven
Railroad and their NTSB whores racing out with utter lies and
manufactured fiction to cover their asses even before the bodies are
even buried.   Instead of owning up to the responsibility for this
horrific tragedy,  these corporate cowardly ninnies whimper and run for
cover like the yellow bellied curr dogs that they are.   

It's enough to make even the hardest thick skinned among us stare in
shock at such callous disregard for our men and women in uniform that
have give their lives to protect all us in numerous wars and against
terrorists worldwide - they did not differ as to who they protected -
they even protected the murderous UP corporate sewer rats holing up in
Omaha.  

The UP is already lining up the usual media psycho cover up babble, 
million dollar lawyers, and paid off "witnesses" along with their
NTSB whores and unbelievable fictionalized media stories.  They will
spend billions to bury this, before they give one nickel to the
families who are the victims.  

There you have it.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

That's right Robert.  Little magical black boxes that appear from
nowhere at just the right time for the NTSB coverup whores of the
railroads to blow a completely fabricated story out there asses.\

Trains do NOT have the right of way at street crossings - PEOPLE do!!!!
 When will they get that through their thick, stupid, shit for brains
heads????

This is the worst case of coverup ever.  

What about all the witnesses who said their were no gates, no flashers,
and no train whistle.  What about the illegal 70 mph train speed at that
crossing. 

Sure, if you take 60 seconds, divide by 12 rails, multiple by PI and
divide by the number of idiots on the NTSB you can conjure up almost
anything from mom's apple pie to the amount of rust on a box car. 

So, here is a PRIME example of the extent railroad companies will go to
white wash even their most heinious crimes - murdering soldiers is at
the tip top of the list. 

You can bet your paycheck that all these NTSB people are former RR
company ho's, like NoMotheHo, and
RRJtheClosetHoPretendingToBeForTheWorkerHO and all their ridiculous
blogging aliases, who would suck a the blood of a cockroach if Mikey
Ward told them to. 

There are THOUSANDS of crossing deaths every year in the U.S. - more
than any other civilized country in the world. As long as the Railroads
run the country, they will run it into the ground with their stupidity
and greed - and murder thousands more along the way. 

Instead of increasing our taxes to increase government revunue, why not
create jobs for people to fix theses crossings whcih would GENERATE
INCOME and thus more income taxes.  DUH.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

Truck crossed tracks after safety equipment activated, findings show

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Truck-crossed-tracks-after-safety-equipment-4046595.php#photo-3747459

Here comes the NTSB RR NoMowhores giving data from Bumfuc Eqypt like it
was in Texas.

Where is this magic box that shows the vehicle front bumper over the
magic line when the signals start?

Name: J J
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

We got more NoMo and RRJ aliases on here than flies on a steaming
cowpie. 

I bet $1 that if you threw A company ho off the roof of the
Jacksonville HQ they would would shatter like a cheap wine bottle.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 17 November 2012

JJ

You have got to be the biggest idiot on the face of this earth. Where
the hell do you get your crap. For one, there is no way in hell the
United States department of transportation would put a stop to the
movement of freight across this county in that manner. It would be no
different than all railroads going on strike. That kind of stoppage
would have to be ordered by the President himself. You have someone
giving you some really stupid info. You are obviously no Clark Kent and
will never be.
Second, you dont know a damn thing about what happened at that
accident. YOU WERE NOT THERE! You have no more knowledge of what
happened then the man in the moon. You need to get in your car and
drive to the scene. Take your little pictures. Talk to the city
authorities, do some interviews. If you can come up with anything
concrete then maybe you can come back on this site and post some real
facts and not the trash that comes out of your silly little head. WE
all understand why pines comes on here. He had his wife smashed like a
bug when she failed to stay out of the way of a train. What the hell is
your reason. Did you hit someone and kill them and get the blame. Please
fill us all in why you are such a pines groupie!  I wish I was atom
smasher, because Id squash you just like a little bug!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

Texas has strict laws about reckless homicides.

The UP execs are facing huge fines and the electric chair 'old
sparky'.

Congress has just received proposed emergency legislation to stop all
trains nationwide from crossing roadways. 

Looks like HoHo and his sidekick Brown Banana went into hiding like a
pair of yella belly southern fried chickens. LOL

Name: KJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

You can always smell the RR whores on here....they are like the heroin
addict crack dealer who shoots the innocent mother and her children,
then explains to the police that it's the fault of the mother and
children for getting in the way of the bullets.

Name: Spongebob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 17 November 2012

JJ and Robert Pines,

   I'll make it short and sweet. Both of you guys are Fucking Idiots,
why don't you go Troll somewhere else.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

Pines and JJ


You apparently arent keeping up on all the reports. A witness at the
scene told authorities that the trailor and vehicle involved were not
part of the parade. They were inroute to the parade. When the trailor
was going across the tracks the traffic stopped and prevented the
trailor from clearing the tracks. Thats when the train came and hit the
 float/trailor. So, you see there is alot to this story that you may not
know about. You are so quick to blame the rroads for everything. NO ONE
SHOULD EVER TRY TO CROSS RR TRACKS UNLESS THEY KNOW THEY CAN CLEAR
THEM.  There are signs posted everywhere that say..."Do not stop on
the tracks". But we all know it doesnt matter because people are just
stupid and dont pay any attention to anything anymore.  Get back with
us when you have the truth, the whole truth , and nothing but the
truth!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

Yep JJ---UP will have all the nomorrhos manning damage control on all
the message boards across the country for this needless slaughter by
the railroad. Terrible VA healthcare kills more people than RRs I have
found.

I seen where the big boy Texas plaintiff lawyers joined with the big
boy Texas lawyers already.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 November 2012

I guess I was a little hard on the UP RR in that last post.

What I meant to say was that they should round up all the UP operating
execs and hang them from the nearest telegraph pole for gross criminal
incompetence. 

This is what happens all across the country EVERY SINGLE DAY... people
are needless killed at railroad crossings.  Either build bridges and
underpasses, or make the crossings fail proof.   

Crossings are not adequately protected. Period.  If they were, people
would not be killed so often, indiscriminately, and with reckless
abandon.  

What idiot operating rule allows a freight to run that fast through the
center of a heavily populated city?  

UP.  Utterly Pathetic.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 16 November 2012

How bout a Twenkie guys? Oh wait

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 November 2012

Robert,

A million questions about the Midland UP train crossing collision that
killed so many of our military heroes. How in God's name can a
railroad get away with murdering soldiers!???!

I am sure RRJ, like the Corporate patsies he and NoMoDumbo are, would
say it 'cleans out the overpopulation, get over it and move on.. Those
two ice  picks are about  as compassionate as a maggot sucking  the
rotted puss from a dead corpse.

Can't wait to hear what the Brown Bananas have to lie and dodge about
this time.


In the meantime I hope the families band together and pursue a multi
BILLION DOSE class action against the criminally insane
railroad!!!!!!!
.

Name: L&N dispr
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years
Posted: 16 November 2012

This is an terrible tragedy.  Here are some other questions to ask.  Why
was the RR not notified by the parade committee or the mayor's office
about the parade so provisions could have been made.  IE: A qualified
RR employee to flag the crossing, a train order put out, slow order put
out.  That is the reason the train was going time table speed.  Why
would police allow a float with people on it go accross tracks without
proper protection and then get stuck.  This looks like some very poor
planning by some county officials.  They have a lot of question to
answer to and have put themselves in a position for numerous lawsuits.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 November 2012

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20121116-many-questions-to-answer-after-train-strikes-wounded-veterans-float-in-midland.ece

...Why was there not more time – as witnesses reported – between the
crossing gate dropping and the freight train plowing into the flatbed
carrying 26 people, killing four and injuring 17. Why did the train's
horn not sound until seconds before the collision? Why was the
locomotive traveling so fast?...

IKNOWNOMOKNOWSBECAUSECOVERUPSBUYSHISCLOTHES.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 15 November 2012

There you go 

A recent hearing sponsored by the Treasury and Labor Departments marked
the beginning of the Obama Administration’s effort to nationalize the
nation’s pension system and to eliminate private retirement accounts
including IRA’s and 401k plans, NSC is warning.

http://www.nationalseniorscouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89%3Aobama-begins-push-for-new-national-retirement-system&catid=34%3Asocial-security&Itemid=62

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 15 November 2012

RRJ,  congratulations on winning the Brown Banana.  Well Deserved.  I
know this is personal for you and your personal secret life,  but are
you and your buddy NoMoHo eating it separately.....or, together?  Who
wears the panties? My money is on NoMo.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 November 2012

JJ the Pimple Faced Boy

Thank you've made my point. You're an idiot with to much free time.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 15 November 2012

I am betting GayWard has the inside track for the Big Brown Banana for
his hostile workplace design and his little dribble down Engineer
Bonus.

Who can beat him out this year?

Name: Master of Ceremonies
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years
Posted: 14 November 2012

And the 2012  BROWN BANANA AWARD  goes to:   it's a tie!!  This years
award will go to NoMo and RRJ  as top of their class  Foamers,
Meatheads, and all around Red Necked Chicken Suckers.  Of course RRJ
and NoMolld will have to  share the brown banana , but that should be
no problem given their penchant for choking on all those brown bananas
that need sucking in the CDS corporate board room.



.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 November 2012

bob todd btpino40@gmail.com
Nov 3 (12 days ago)

to HQS-DG-lst-NRC. 
Weird? Trains west of the Mississippi don't have minor spills or is
there a special reporting place for BNSF and UP?

Robert Pines

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 14 November 2012

Some of you peeps are so stupid, did you know that in the 1980,s that
ronnie raygun wanted to dismantle rr retirement and put us into the ssi
program which would have ment a 50% decrese in money benefits, oh yes
and he also put a tax on sick & unemployment for rr workers, yea man
thats the republican way, bleed off the working man and give tax breaks
for thier rich cronies, and still some of you loons vote for
republicans, Go figure!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 14 November 2012

http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 13 November 2012

RRJ


YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!!

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 13 November 2012

It isn't NoMo with all these alias it's the frigging troll JJ. I've
known NoMo on this site since around 2006. He wouldn't stoop that low
he has integraty. Hope NoMo comes back we'll miss the "Brown Banana"
awards. Just have to read Cond 30+ post it doesn't make sense. No
oldhead cares about Pines with the ludicrious rants that railroaders
are murders that's just Pines delusions. JJ is just an idiot with to
much free time on his hands.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 13 November 2012

Romney is a Business Man Obama is not. Romeny would know how and where
to raise the funds.
http://aboutmittromney.com/railroad-retirement.htm

Obama don't have a clue how or were to get funding, he WILL have to
raid the RRR.

Mass voter fraud around the country. There is a good chance obama will
be leaving the wh in January possibly in handcuffs

http://patdollard.com/2012/11/massive-election-fraud-evidence-mounts-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts/

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/11/alabama_joins_states_petitioni.html

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years
Posted: 12 November 2012

Kudos to that post Conductor 30+     Bingo on NoMo   We are glad to see
the Old Head 's side of the story.   CSX Still SUCKS Big One and Any
they can, that is why it is CSX-Sucks.com

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 12 November 2012

I for one do not know where you guys get all your free time to bark on
here. The ones of us who do work on the railroad are to busy for this
bickering crap which always seems to be started by NoMo.  The rest (if
there really are others, or just NoMo and his craziness - must be
ex-terminated employees or retirees with nothing better to do.  I will
say though, having read this site occassionally over the years, CSX
SUCKS maintains an open and fair policy of letting everyone and anyone
have their say regardless of who or what they are. You never read JJ or
Pines say they want someone kicked off because they don't like what is
being said about them. But they do protect their right to say what they
believe.  NoMo is notorious for trying to silence his critics by
begging, sniveling, and screaming for their removal - and he obviously
is posting under other names to generate ficticious support for his
rants. This site is great reading posts by Pines and JJ. Pines provides
excellent relevant information. JJ always appears at the right time to
finger the crazy foamers.   I could definately do without the chronic
bitching by NoMo and his split personalities - he definately sounds
like a corporate nerd, and of course they would like to shut this site
down. He doesn't fool anyone.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years
Posted: 11 November 2012

Timmy

If you really want Pines email address you can ask one of your FRA
inspector assigned to your area. I have spoke with several of them in
the past about Mr. Pines and they have all said the same thing...He
does have useful information on occassion but they would rather he just
disappear. I would give you my contact numbers but they are for officers
in D.C. and they would rather not be associated with him. An agent
overseeing mechanical in your area would be your best bet. I would
think twice about making contact with him and giving him your email
address. Do you really want to be on that obsession list?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 11 November 2012

JJ

I know there isnt a rats ass in hell that you are going to listen to
what I say, but Im going to post this message anyway. NOMO IS NOT
POSTING ON HERE! I personally keep in touch with NOMO on a weekly basis
and he has no interest in dealing with your babble. We both have been
watching for the past 2 months and have noticed that as soon as he
walked away you got real quiet and disappeared from the site. Noticed
that pines got real quiet too. Now all the sudden you are bringing up
the NOMO crap again. Im guessing you have run out of little boy games
to play where ever you went and now you are back on here trying to
stirr up trouble......Quit being childish and go find a grown up
hobby.


Roger, I have an idea who you are.....Something in your post I
recongnized. You are wasting your time. I have asked atom smasher as
well to look into blocking JJ if he comes back on here and starts his
crap again..... waiting for an answer!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 11 November 2012

well said kyle ...  republicans are no good rich bastards . how a union
man votes for them  i just dont get it !  dont want the rich to pay a
little more ?  dam are you kidding me !!!!  they keep saying there
coming for my guns .....  im still waiting .  good luck trying to pull
that off .  i will see you coming and you aint going to like what
happens after that.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 11 November 2012

k so o-b won by a landslide, they even won flordia, thats 332 elec
votes, It was the republicans who wanted to put rr bennys into the reg
ssi program and that would have ment the peeps on rr retirement would
have taken a deep cut in money, its amazing that even peeps who work
for class 1 roads do not know this, ie some of you dummys vote aginst
your own intrestes cuz fox news lies tell you that, just like fox news
and the r limpballs said rommey was going to win by a landslide, duuu
what happened? You RR workers better get 1 thing in your feeble minds,
all REPUBLICANS hate unions, If it was not for the unions then you just
might as well move to china & work in a sweat shop for 50 dollars a day
with 10 yr old kids, and guess what? they have the countrys on the net
who backed rommey,only 1 country back him... CHINA,so yea move to china
and work for the rr over there, you dumb asses would be running right
back to the usa rr ,s,,,, oh yea i even heard it from my union
co-horts, i will not vote for the dems as they want to take away my
guns,, well no one has had thier guns taken away from them, and the
corker is this, what is more imporant, yer gun or the food on a table
for your kids, I would take the food first cuz ya can,t live without
that, or can you eat your guns? I worte this cuz some rr workers really
are that stupid, and its these same peeps who when they get the forloug
paper and then run  right to rr for money bennys, you hipocrites, thats
what you are, any man- woman whow works hard for a living & votes for a
republican has to have thier head in thier asses.

Name: Roger
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 11 November 2012

Pine Nuts,   aka JJ and The Yard Master

I'm not Nomo you dam fool.  I'm just one of the many people that are
calling on Adam Smasher to do the right thing, before this site is
rendered totally useless, and block you and your alter egos access to
this site.

You've run Nomo, and many others off this site with you and your alter
egos useless dribble, along with your racial and homophobic slurs.  If
you think I'm kidding about you doing CSX's bidding, and running
people off this site, look at how few people post here anymore.

Adam Smasher I implore you, PLEASE ban and block Pines and the alter
egos he's created from posting on this site.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 November 2012

Timmy???  NoMo!!  Sounds like you. Smells like you. 
Foam and all.  You're spookin the readership with all those multiple
personalities you keep poppin up with. Time to lock the doors folks.  

I contact Robert Pines' email address all the time, and he always gets
my messages.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 November 2012

Robert Pines is the hero of this web site.

'Roger' aka NoMo Foamer,  runs to mommy for warm milk every time he
gets spanked. 

You always know a company crybaby by the corporate teeat  hanging out
his foaming  mouth.  

NoMo is still hung up on his corn holing from CSX.  Time to move on and
get a new life.

Name: Timmy 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 November 2012

Mr. Pines

I tried to email you.  I have some information I thought you would find
interesting.  Yet my email came back.  Why don't you be a man and post
your real email address on here, not some bogus email address that
you've made up.  If your email address is a lie, what else are you
lying about?

Name: Roger
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 10 November 2012

Adam Smasher

Before Pines and his alter egos JJ, and the yard master, do CSX's
bidding and render this site useless, please consider banning him and
his alter egos from this site.

Pines, you really should consider using your time where it would be
valued.  Have you ever heard of Operation Life Saver?  They give
lectures to groups and schools about rail safety.  They also are
involved in working with our legislators in making laws that deal with
rail crossings and rail safety.  You could make a difference, and
possibly save someone from going through the pain you've experienced,
instead of posting useless dribble that most of us skip over on this
site.

If you really want to do something valuable.  Go stalk Scott Conners
and Danny Jerrels from the Great Lakes division.  Danny Jerrels enjoys
driving drunk on his way back to the Holiday Inn, after he and Train
Master Troy hit the strip clubs on Saturday and Sunday in the
Indianapolis area.  The crews are already taking pictures and video of
Danny stumbling in drunk and hitting the clubs at every hotel he stays
at across the system.  You could help them take videos of Danny, and
send it in to local authorities or Michael Ward.  Hell you could post
your videos of drunk officials visiting strip clubs, then driving back
to company paid for hotels on your own you tube channel. 

Pines its come time for you to put you life back together and use what
time you have left on this earth doing something that will help others,
verses wasting your time on this site, doing CSX Managements bidding,
and driving people away from this site.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 November 2012

Well Roger turn the channel if you don't like it.

Here is the safety numbers---CSX will murder 100 people in 100 million
miles while regular drivers will have 1 fatality. That means the RR is
10,000% worse in safety numbers than humans. Why do the FEDS hide this
Roger?

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO August,
2012



         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      628   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 66  10.5%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.38   Total train miles:     
66,953,412
                  Total fatalities:       69     Switching miles:    
10,019,927
         Total nonfatal conditions:      328      Employee hours:     
40,919,151

Total accidents/incidents is the sum of train accidents, highway-rail
incidents, and other incidents.
Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000
divided by total train miles.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

             TOTAL TRAIN ACCIDENTS:      135      Number of fatal
train
accidents 1     0.74%
    Number per million train miles:     2.02          Collisions:     

10     7.41%
                  Total fatalities:        2         Derailments:     

98    72.59%
         Total nonfatal conditions:        4     Other accidents:     

27    20.00%

              ---------------------------Primary
causes---------------------------
              Human factors:   44.44%     60       Track defects:     

35    25.93%
          Equipment defects:   12.59%     17      Signal defects:     

 4     2.96%
       Miscellaneous causes:   14.07%     19

 Number of accidents on yard track:       77    57.04% of all train
accidents.
  Nbr per million yard train miles:     7.68    For other tracks:    
1.02

Train accidents represent 21.50% of all reported events.

Number of train accidents involving passenger trains   .    .  %

Number of train accidents that resulted in a release of hazardous
material 1    0.74% of total
Number of persons evacuated    106  Number of rail cars releasing
hazmat      1

A train accident is an event involving ontrack rail equipment that
results in monetary damage to the equipment 
and track above a certain threshold.  Lading, clearing costs,
environmental damage is not included.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                      HIGHWAY-RAIL              TRESPASSING
INCIDENTS(not at crossings)
                         Incidents:      239
    Number per million train miles:     3.57     Frequency per million
train miles:     1.52
                  Total fatalities:       24                     
Total
fatalities:       45
         Total nonfatal conditions:      104             Total
nonfatal
conditions:       57
      Number of fatal crossing incidents 23      9.62%

Highway-rail and trespassing incidents account for 100.0% of all
fatalities.
Highway-rail incidents represent 38.06% of all reported events.

A highway-rail incident is any impact between a rail and a highway
user
at a crossing site, regardless of severity.
Includes motor vehicles and other highway/roadway/sidewalk users at
both public and private crossings.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                   OTHER INCIDENTS:      254  Number of fatal other
incidents 42  16.54% of other incidents
       Other incidents account for:    40.45% of all
accidents/incidents
                  Total fatalities:       43    . Number to employees
on duty.  Trespassers  43
         Total nonfatal conditions:      220     135 Number to
employees on duty

Other incidents include any event where that caused a death, an
injury,
or an occupational illness
to a railroad employee.  Most fatalities in this category are to
trespassers.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

           EMPLOYEES ON DUTY CASES:      149   Frequency per 200,000
hours worked:     0.73
                  Total fatalities:        0    
         Total nonfatal conditions:      149   45.43% of all nonfatal
cases
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Passengers carried:            261  Passenger miles:          23,446
Total passenger deaths   ..  Total passengers injured    ..
The frequency of passenger cases per 100,000,000 passenger miles is  
.
   Passenger cases include all circumstances;including getting off/on
standing trains, stumbling aboard trains, assaults, train accidents,
crossing incidents, etc.

A passenger mile is the movement of a passenger one mile.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for N/A
Posted: 09 November 2012

Vegas odds >>>>>> Roger = A Flo Blow   Fan of NoMo  
Lost without his bull shit post on here.    Man up and come back and
debate.  Pines will post facts and links to back up some of his
mission.    CSX-Sucks ...............................

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 November 2012

Roger the Idiot?  No, sorry folks. That is NoMo the BimBo - the Official
CSX SUCKS cyber stalker.  NoMo, you don't fool anyone with your crazy
lunatic rants against Mr. Pines.  Now go take your meds and stop
drooling on us.

Name: Roger
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 08 November 2012

Pines 

Why are you still posting on this site?

You ran off Nomo, who actually posted information that was useful to we
CSX employees.  Yet for some reason, when others were demanding that you
be banned from this site, or Nomo share the personal information he has
on you, he wouldn't do it.  Nomo stood up for you, and your right to
babble on this site.  Nomo, the only friend you had on this site, you,
ran off.

Pines, I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times, get a life, get
off this site, and the best part of you ran down your fathers leg. 
Like many others on this site, I think your wife committed suicide,
using a train, just to get away from you.  With the worthless crap you
bitch about on this site, when it was a BNSF train that your wife used
to kill herself to get away from you.  Get a clue.  Get off this site,
and go bug the BNSF.  There the ones that gave your wife the freedom to
get the hell away from YOU.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 November 2012

Railroad Retirement Benefits to Increase in 2013
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Most railroad retirement annuities, like social security benefits, are
scheduled to increase in January 2013 on the basis of the rise in the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the third quarter of 2011 to the
corresponding period of the current year.

Cost-of-living increases are calculated in both the tier I and tier II
benefits included in a railroad retirement annuity. Tier I benefits,
like social security benefits, will increase by 1.7 percent, which is
the percentage of the CPI rise. Tier II benefits will increase by 0.6
percent, which is 32.5 percent of the CPI rise. The vested dual benefit
payments and supplemental annuities also paid by the Railroad Retirement
Board (RRB) are not adjusted for the CPI rise.

In January 2013, the average regular railroad retirement employee
annuity will increase $32 a month to $2,386 and the average of combined
benefits for an employee and spouse will increase $45 a month to $3,417.
For those aged widow(er)s eligible for an increase, the average annuity
will increase $19 a month to $1,249. However, widow(er)s whose
annuities are being paid under the Railroad Retirement and Survivors'
Improvement Act of 2001 will not receive annual cost-of-living
adjustments until their annuity amount is exceeded by the amount that
would have been paid under prior law, counting all interim
cost-of-living increases otherwise payable. About 35 percent of the
widow(er)s on the RRB's rolls are being paid under the 2001 law.

If a railroad retirement or survivor annuitant also receives a social
security or other government benefit, such as a public service pension,
the increased tier I benefit is reduced by the increased government
benefit. However, tier II cost-of-living increases are not reduced by
increases in other government benefits. If a widow(er) whose annuity is
being paid under the 2001 law is also entitled to an increased
government benefit, her or his railroad retirement survivor annuity may
decrease.

However, the total amount of the combined railroad retirement
widow(er)'s annuity and other government benefits will not be less
than the total payable before the cost-of-living increase and before
any increase in Medicare premium deductions.

For most beneficiaries covered by Medicare, the standard Part B premium
generally deducted from monthly benefits is likely to increase from the
2012 amount, with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expected
to announce the 2013 premium amounts in the coming weeks.

In late December the RRB will mail notices to all annuitants providing
a breakdown of the annuity rates payable to them in January 2013.

Name: CMDAVIS
E-mail: cmd2031@yahoo.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 November 2012

Hello CSX employees- Looks like your "pouting-Room" is getting full. 
I'm a Mechnical Power Technologist (Engineering Technology  Oklahoma
State University grad. of 1986)    and I want you all to know Ive seen
the same disregard for common sense treatment of fellow human beings 
as a result of overbearing and paranoid management personnel  in the
Naturl Gas industry, and the engine-driven-equipment industries that I
have worked in. Even companies like Monsanto Ive found typically have
managers with no heart these days - Mostly the bottom line seems to be
the only rule that gets followed- Your sacrifices don't get you credit
, your incentives are cut way back due to a lack of desire to engage and
encourage subordinates in a constructive way.  " Ruthless" comes to
mind-  its a movie from the 1940-50's that portrays a man who was
raised as a young man who didnt have much to brag about when it came to
loving parents- as a result, he walked all over everone that cared
enough to help him get started in life including the young women who
would have died to help him win in life. He turned to total shit- had
zero integrity and in the end caused his own terrible endbecause he had
No charity.  Moral of this story - "Don't let the Bastards wear you
down "-famous roman saying.  Keep charity in your heart  and hang in
there- If you voted for Mitt Romney I think you were wise-- Dont be
afraid to stick your kneck out and try to get ahead!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 November 2012

johny k 
        really ! raid rr retirement. you need to do your fact checking
better man  cause you aint got a clue. your either rich or stupid which
is it ?  ......doesnt matter you lost get over it. look out there coming
to get your guns !  DAM ! when will it end.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 07 November 2012

Johnny K

What? Obama raid on RRB? Apparently you voted Romney whose VP pick Ryan
actually included RRB in his budget that passed earlier this year. Ryan
wants to cut tier 1 benefits by $400-$800 a month, up the retirement
age to 67 even though a person could retire at 62 (presently age 60)
with a 20% penalty decrease, end occupational disability, up the
spousal stipend to age 67 ect....Your what happens when someone is
uneducated.

Name: Johnny K
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 November 2012

CNN - U.S. President Barack Obama thanks voters, saying: "The best is
yet to come."

Obama didn't think he would get re-elected for a second term so he had
no idea where he will attempt to get rid of some of that debit. 

So now he has to raid the Railroad retirement to make a drop in the
bucket.

Can't wait to see what kind of investment deal obma has for China.
Half the US housing maybe?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 November 2012

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO August,
2012



         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      628   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 66  10.5%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.38   Total train miles:     
66,953,412
                  Total fatalities:       69     Switching miles:    
10,019,927
         Total nonfatal conditions:      328      Employee hours:     
40,919,151

Total accidents/incidents is the sum of train accidents, highway-rail
incidents, and other incidents.
Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000
divided by total train miles.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

             TOTAL TRAIN ACCIDENTS:      135      Number of fatal
train
accidents 1     0.74%
    Number per million train miles:     2.02          Collisions:     

10     7.41%
                  Total fatalities:        2         Derailments:     

98    72.59%
         Total nonfatal conditions:        4     Other accidents:     

27    20.00%

              ---------------------------Primary
causes---------------------------
              Human factors:   44.44%     60       Track defects:     

35    25.93%
          Equipment defects:   12.59%     17      Signal defects:     

 4     2.96%
       Miscellaneous causes:   14.07%     19

 Number of accidents on yard track:       77    57.04% of all train
accidents.
  Nbr per million yard train miles:     7.68    For other tracks:    
1.02

Train accidents represent 21.50% of all reported events.

Number of train accidents involving passenger trains   .    .  %

Number of train accidents that resulted in a release of hazardous
material 1    0.74% of total
Number of persons evacuated    106  Number of rail cars releasing
hazmat      1

A train accident is an event involving ontrack rail equipment that
results in monetary damage to the equipment 
and track above a certain threshold.  Lading, clearing costs,
environmental damage is not included.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                      HIGHWAY-RAIL              TRESPASSING
INCIDENTS(not at crossings)
                         Incidents:      239
    Number per million train miles:     3.57     Frequency per million
train miles:     1.52
                  Total fatalities:       24                     
Total
fatalities:       45
         Total nonfatal conditions:      104             Total
nonfatal
conditions:       57
      Number of fatal crossing incidents 23      9.62%

Highway-rail and trespassing incidents account for 100.0% of all
fatalities.
Highway-rail incidents represent 38.06% of all reported events.

A highway-rail incident is any impact between a rail and a highway
user
at a crossing site, regardless of severity.
Includes motor vehicles and other highway/roadway/sidewalk users at
both public and private crossings.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                   OTHER INCIDENTS:      254  Number of fatal other
incidents 42  16.54% of other incidents
       Other incidents account for:    40.45% of all
accidents/incidents
                  Total fatalities:       43    . Number to employees
on duty.  Trespassers  43
         Total nonfatal conditions:      220     135 Number to
employees on duty

Other incidents include any event where that caused a death, an
injury,
or an occupational illness
to a railroad employee.  Most fatalities in this category are to
trespassers.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

           EMPLOYEES ON DUTY CASES:      149   Frequency per 200,000
hours worked:     0.73
                  Total fatalities:        0    
         Total nonfatal conditions:      149   45.43% of all nonfatal
cases
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Passengers carried:            261  Passenger miles:          23,446
Total passenger deaths   ..  Total passengers injured    ..
The frequency of passenger cases per 100,000,000 passenger miles is  
.
   Passenger cases include all circumstances;including getting off/on
standing trains, stumbling aboard trains, assaults, train accidents,
crossing incidents, etc.

A passenger mile is the movement of a passenger one mile.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 06 November 2012

Other

The were a lot of differences back in those days. I worked on the C&O.
Even with Chessie System when I worked up in Ohio on the C&O along side
another Chessie railroad the B&O the differences were obvious. Each was
a separate railroad with different work agreements. Nothing changed
till after the mega-mergers and that took a while to happen. Even today
some old agreements are still in effect that will expire when the last
pre-85s retire.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 November 2012

Posted: 02 November 2012

Nice post RRJ------------ was just a little different on the L&N.

Cond 1-10

If a crew needed to be recrewed several things could happen depending
on where they were located. One was notifying the train dispatcher by
the block line phone back then TD's were local and not centralized.
The block line phones were located at each end of a double track or
siding on the ground in a box you opened with a switch key they were
old fashion crank phones. You would crank up the dispatcher on his
ring------------------------------------------------------------------
Just a wooden building, with a call light out side. simple white bulb.
that meant call the dispatcher. Inside was the crank phone, just spinn
the heck out of it and say hello Dispatcher. No longs or shorts, just
spin.-----------------------------------------------------------------

tone could be 3 longs and a short. There wasn't any van service back
then most times a recrew was sent with a light set of locomotives or
by
taxi. There wasn't any following a crew till they hogged the recrew
was
called after the train was sitting still. Sometimes we had to find a
store with a pay phone to try and contact the TD if we were the recrew
and couldn't locate the train. Most times if a crew was to hog they
tried to get it within 25 miles of the terminal so a yard crew could
get the train. After the recrew took over the head end crew would ride
on the second engine. Hogging on the mainline didn't happen a lot
back
then if a crew was short most times the TD gave them all high green if
it was possible. Most times hogging only happened with broken rails,
derailments, flooding ect....TD's knew how to run trains back then in
both directions. Also back then deadheading was by caboose, each
conductor on a freight pool had their own assigned caboose it was
theirs no one else could use it. If 3 crews needed to be deadheaded
they would add 4 cabooses on the rear of the working train the
deadhead
crews rode in the cabooses or up or in the trailing locomotives on the
head end. If we were lucky someone would have one of the wives drive
us--------------------------------------------------------------------We
never used our wives for transportation. Not that it was not done, we
never did. Just a RR man thing I guess.----------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------

up later on. When the train got to it's destination the working crew
went first in line on the board then each DH in sequence. If we were
deadheading home same thing. Most times someone had a car at the away
from home terminal to drive us if we were the DH.---------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Never saw a car at the wrong end, if their was one it was POV and not
moving. --------------------------------------------------------------

Overall really nice post RRJ --a few differences between co's. I can
see after all of these years, you know a little.

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 05 November 2012

I knew a few hoggers, the one,s who were on locals less than 100 mile
runs, some of them would try to pick a spot to outlaw were van-taxie
could NOT get to the crew, No wonder why we lost those jobs & the
branch lines too,---IE greedy dogs sums it up in a nutshell. Sometimes
it don,t pay to bite the hand that feeds you. I am not a company man by
any means, but a man has got to know his limitations. All these few did
was ruin a good thing for the rest of us.

Name: Johnny K
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 04 November 2012

It is up here NOW and please get this out there. Romney and Ryan must
come out against any and all tapping into the railroad Retirement
pension plan.

http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/railroad-retirement-is-major-issue.html

Obama Attacking Romney On Railroad Retirement, The Biggest Stealth
Issue Of The 2012 Election
Update: We have done our best to be Paul Revere on this important
issue. If conservatives stick their heads in the sand, and allow
Romny/Ryan not to address this,  it is going to result in four more
years of Obama.
How many votes did G.W. Bush beat Al Gore by in the 2004 election?

Nothing is more true to the spirit of the “Taxed Enough Already
movement” than privatized retirement trusts. And nothing is more tax
and spend liberal than to try to liberate these trusts into the
money-flushing toilet that is our government’s general fund.
*****
(Update August 12, 1:32 PM) FULL RADIO INTERVIEW: Mark Levin says Paul
Ryan was a great VP pick by Romney.

I believe that Mark Levin is right, Ryan is a great pick, but he is
going to need to clear up this issue before it becomes their Achilles
Heel.
*****
(Update August 12, 2012 4:11 PM)  The purpose of this article to clear
up the misinformation that is being spread by the Obama administration
and campaign, and their union allies about Mitt Romney and his stance
on railroad retirement. This is not an attack on Mr. Romney or Mr.
Ryan. It is a heads-up!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 04 November 2012

I think it is funny that CSX has a hate site.  Come to think of it, this
is the only one I know of for a major company.  Unfortunately, this site
is closer to reality than the corporate website.  To all csx-sucks.com
detractors; look in the mirror and quit trying to defame this important
source of information.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 November 2012

SELECTION: RAILROAD - CSX Transportation [CSX ] / January TO August,
2012



         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:      628   Number of fatal
accidents/incidents 66  10.5%
            Overall frequency rate:     9.38   Total train miles:     
66,953,412
                  Total fatalities:       69     Switching miles:    
10,019,927
         Total nonfatal conditions:      328      Employee hours:     
40,919,151

Total accidents/incidents is the sum of train accidents, highway-rail
incidents, and other incidents.
Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000
divided by total train miles.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

             TOTAL TRAIN ACCIDENTS:      135      Number of fatal train
accidents 1     0.74%
    Number per million train miles:     2.02          Collisions:      
10     7.41%
                  Total fatalities:        2         Derailments:      
98    72.59%
         Total nonfatal conditions:        4     Other accidents:      
27    20.00%

              ---------------------------Primary
causes---------------------------
              Human factors:   44.44%     60       Track defects:      
35    25.93%
          Equipment defects:   12.59%     17      Signal defects:      
 4     2.96%
       Miscellaneous causes:   14.07%     19

 Number of accidents on yard track:       77    57.04% of all train
accidents.
  Nbr per million yard train miles:     7.68    For other tracks:    
1.02

Train accidents represent 21.50% of all reported events.

Number of train accidents involving passenger trains   .    .  %

Number of train accidents that resulted in a release of hazardous
material 1    0.74% of total
Number of persons evacuated    106  Number of rail cars releasing
hazmat      1

A train accident is an event involving ontrack rail equipment that
results in monetary damage to the equipment 
and track above a certain threshold.  Lading, clearing costs,
environmental damage is not included.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                      HIGHWAY-RAIL              TRESPASSING
INCIDENTS(not at crossings)
                         Incidents:      239
    Number per million train miles:     3.57     Frequency per million
train miles:     1.52
                  Total fatalities:       24                      Total
fatalities:       45
         Total nonfatal conditions:      104             Total nonfatal
conditions:       57
      Number of fatal crossing incidents 23      9.62%

Highway-rail and trespassing incidents account for 100.0% of all
fatalities.
Highway-rail incidents represent 38.06% of all reported events.

A highway-rail incident is any impact between a rail and a highway user
at a crossing site, regardless of severity.
Includes motor vehicles and other highway/roadway/sidewalk users at
both public and private crossings.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                   OTHER INCIDENTS:      254  Number of fatal other
incidents 42  16.54% of other incidents
       Other incidents account for:    40.45% of all
accidents/incidents
                  Total fatalities:       43    . Number to employees
on duty.  Trespassers  43
         Total nonfatal conditions:      220     135 Number to
employees on duty

Other incidents include any event where that caused a death, an injury,
or an occupational illness
to a railroad employee.  Most fatalities in this category are to
trespassers.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

           EMPLOYEES ON DUTY CASES:      149   Frequency per 200,000
hours worked:     0.73
                  Total fatalities:        0    
         Total nonfatal conditions:      149   45.43% of all nonfatal
cases
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Passengers carried:            261  Passenger miles:          23,446
Total passenger deaths   ..  Total passengers injured    ..
The frequency of passenger cases per 100,000,000 passenger miles is   .
   Passenger cases include all circumstances;including getting off/on
standing trains, stumbling aboard trains, assaults, train accidents,
crossing incidents, etc.

A passenger mile is the movement of a passenger one mile.

Name: Bob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 November 2012

Thanks for the info on the small, yellow triangle signs. I wonder why I
don't see any of them in Ohio---only in PA?  The ones I see in PA are
on approaches to grade crossings, so the "lift the snowplow" would
fit.  I have looked all over for a website with an extensive library of
RR right-of-way signs, but I haven't found it, yet.  Bob

Name: Yellow triangle 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 02 November 2012

Yellow triangle...I believe was a lift snowplow sign on old CR...at
least used to be one on Indy line by defect detector sensors...

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 02 November 2012

Cond 1-10

If a crew needed to be recrewed several things could happen depending
on where they were located. One was notifying the train dispatcher by
the block line phone back then TD's were local and not centralized.
The block line phones were located at each end of a double track or
siding on the ground in a box you opened with a switch key they were
old fashion crank phones. You would crank up the dispatcher on his ring
tone could be 3 longs and a short. There wasn't any van service back
then most times a recrew was sent with a light set of locomotives or by
taxi. There wasn't any following a crew till they hogged the recrew was
called after the train was sitting still. Sometimes we had to find a
store with a pay phone to try and contact the TD if we were the recrew
and couldn't locate the train. Most times if a crew was to hog they
tried to get it within 25 miles of the terminal so a yard crew could
get the train. After the recrew took over the head end crew would ride
on the second engine. Hogging on the mainline didn't happen a lot back
then if a crew was short most times the TD gave them all high green if
it was possible. Most times hogging only happened with broken rails,
derailments, flooding ect....TD's knew how to run trains back then in
both directions. Also back then deadheading was by caboose, each
conductor on a freight pool had their own assigned caboose it was
theirs no one else could use it. If 3 crews needed to be deadheaded
they would add 4 cabooses on the rear of the working train the deadhead
crews rode in the cabooses or up or in the trailing locomotives on the
head end. If we were lucky someone would have one of the wives drive us
up later on. When the train got to it's destination the working crew
went first in line on the board then each DH in sequence. If we were
deadheading home same thing. Most times someone had a car at the away
from home terminal to drive us if we were the DH.

Name: Bob
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 November 2012

Help!  Can anyone tell me what a sign I have been seeing all over PA on
NS track, means?  I haven't seen it used in Ohio on any NS track. I
realize this isn't a CSX question, but maybe someone out there knows
this sign:  small triangle, all yellow, no words, mounted on the
standard steel post, just like the "W" signs.  I'm guessing it is an
old Conrail sign.  "slow" or "caution", maybe?  THANKS for any help.
 Bob in Ohio.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 November 2012

Other, Old head?


Thankyou for that interesting bit of history. The reason I asked was
because Im fairly new to this game. I was sent out to recrew a train
and the chief wasnt sure where they were going to stop so he said when
we got close to the spot he thought they might be to call him. When we
did no one would answer the phone so we tried the dispatcher. He told
us to wait there while he tried to get ahold of the crew.  We did for
about 20 minutes while we listened on the radio and we didnt hear the
crew. We finally called dispatch back and they said they were stopped
about 15 miles from where we were sitting in the direction we already
passed! So of course we had to back track. They must have passed us why
we were out driving on the highway. If I was running a train that was
going to hog, I would pick a spot I thought I could make it to with at
least 30 minutes to spare if something went wrong and tell dispatch
thats where we are going to be. Seems to be alot of running around and
chasing down trains because you dont know where they are going to be.
Thats why I wondered how you guys found each other when you didnt have
cell phones and radios. I was guessing you would say that you just blew
the horn until someone could hear it!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 01 November 2012

One more thing about recrews, if possible we stopped somewhere where we
could eat something and get a six pack.

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 01 November 2012

From Pines’ Sept. 26TH post…

“BNSF respected the kids with $375,000…”

From Pines' Oct. 15TH post...

"Any low life sob that calls RR blood money payouts for killing people
respect must be the dumbest cracker railroad whore on this planet..." 

Pines, you used the word respect, or have you told so many lies you
can't keep them straight?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 01 November 2012

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 November 2012

OLD HEADS!!!

Got a question for an old head, and I mean OLD HEAD. How did you know
where to find your trains to recrew them when you didnt have radios or
cell phones? Did you even have too? Was there any hours of service
rules back then? Did the crew members just take turns running until
they got it in?_______________________________________________________

Young person I can take you back to the early 1960's. 
1. How was the train found is as follows. Mgt thru Dispatchers and crew
callers would re crew trains by phone and time, and distance. Re crew's
were done by Passenger train, freight train, or public transportation---
like Grey Hound bus or any bus.

2. The HOS was 16 hours on duty. On duty time was 30 minutes before
called departure time.

3. The crew that died on HOS stayed on board, as a Dead Head. Then went
on the board ahead of the rescue crew. There were times that the DH crew
was relieved, taken to lodging, then recalled after rest.

Enjoy this site, and keep watching america move.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 November 2012

OLD HEADS!!!

Got a question for an old head, and I mean OLD HEAD. How did you know
where to find your trains to recrew them when you didnt have radios or
cell phones? Did you even have too? Was there any hours of service
rules back then? Did the crew members just take turns running until
they got it in?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 01 November 2012

APE



Sure. Fire away with the license plate number. I have a good friend who
works in the records department for the state police.  Run a background
check on it. See if he's had any tickets for running the gates!!!!  
HA! HA!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 31 October 2012

Pines IS a mole.
He knows each of you and has the unique qualifications to put a hit on
you, should he decide it is worthwhile, or you may expose something of
value. CSX has a host of other (lower) individuals who monitor this
site also. His methology is to antaginize us to find out how much we
know.

His location?
500 Water Street
15th Floor
 Jacksonville, Fl. 32202
Speed Code J370

No need looking him up, Pines is an alyus but the address is correct.
His work location is on the South Side of Jax.. at Bay Berry. He is
5'7"/ 155 lbs, thinning grey hair and drives a 2009 white Mercedes.
Want the license number?

Name: Ritt Romney
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 October 2012

Hello All you Voting Flockers

Gayward is recalculating your Trickle Down Engineer Bonus and things do
not look good because Obama stopped some coal trains.

If your trickle does not get down to you then so be it and hope you
have better luck next year.     Vote for me and gayward will get you a
double trickle.

I am Ritt Romney and I approved this message  


Vote for me and see what surprised I have in for you.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 31 October 2012

In 2004 a lawsuit was filed against CSX for an old debt which was an
interest bond of dayton and michigan railroad co.  In the deposition
with csx officer they stated "we are responsible for the debts and
obligations of Dayton & Michigan RR co."  Yet, they wond the summary
judgement in Mississippi court because we had a stupid lawyer that we
later found out was trying his first case.  What can be done now?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 30 October 2012

GC

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. YOU ACTUALLY THINK A SUPERVISOR WOULD KNOW
WHAT CHANGES WERE IN A SYSTEM BULLETIN REISSUE. THATS RICH! If you find
a supervisor in his office and not running around in the weeds he
wouldnt have a clue what has been changed anyway. You dont actually
think they read those things. Thats why, if you go to 3 different
supervisors with the same rules question, you get 3 different answers.
You are crazy if you think an employee wont get hung out to dry if he
breaks a rule that he had the opportunity to read about before he went
out on his assignment.If they harrass and push you out of the building
to leave and take that opportunity away from you, then a call to the
ethics committee should be made! If a supervisor tells you its okay to
get on your train without taking the time to read the bulletins
thoroughly then he is trying to set you up! They know they cant do
that! You should know better than that!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 October 2012

RE: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year ---at least the bus
had steering and brakes and wasn't be ran by some idiot disregarding
defensive driving.
Don't believe the CSX safety thing. The union should put up big bill
boards by the corporate headquarters with daily death and destruction
totals. 
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028648
two in Georgia
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028587
30 car crash and spew in Louisville

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years
Posted: 30 October 2012

Engine Repair almost hired   CALL YOUR US SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE
AND TELL THEM YOU BEEN SCAMED BY THE COCK SUCKER EXPRESS WHO BILK
FEDERAL MONEY ON FALSE PRETENSES

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 October 2012

Kyle i used to work for the railroad and went back to my old union job
and i noticed people at these union gigs have no life they live for
work so they gossip cause they dont have lifes So they have nothing to
do but run there mouths I used to make up fake stories to the diareaha
mouths so they would go runnin there mouths then when someone would ask
me id laugh and be like what in the hell are you talkin about and who
said that And thats how you find out who the diareaha mouths are Dont
confront them but when they tell u something U can return the favor and
do the same But i used to add extras into there stories Makes it better
=]

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 October 2012

ENGINE REPAIR ID CONTACT A LAWYER YOU WENT TO SCHOLL TO BE HIRED OFR A
COMPANY YOU PASSED EVERYTHING IM ASSUMIN AND WAS READY TO WORK THEN
TOLD YOU DONT HAVE A JOB ID ALSO FIND OUT IF ANY GOVERMENT WAS PAYED TO
THE COMPANY FOR YOU TO GO TO TRAININ IF A LAWYER TELLS U TO SUE THEN SUE
THE SHIT OUT OF THEM

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years
Posted: 29 October 2012

Engine repair

Find out if csx got any grant or aid money from the government to help
pay for the cost of training you. If they did, call a lawyer or maybe
the IRS can tell you who to contact and let them know they have been
mislead and you didnt get a job.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 October 2012

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028553
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028548
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028548
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028545
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028519
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1028573

CSX gets fix of killing people before the storm. SEVEN killed in three
days should make you all proud.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years
Posted: 28 October 2012

Welcome to the Rooster Fish Express new hire , I mean almost new hire.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 28 October 2012

Graduated REDI as Machinist, and 20 minutes before getting on bus to go
back to the  hotel to pack up and head home, they tell us the jobs we
were hired for are no longer available to us. We will be placed in a
pool indefinitely and contacted to start when buisness picks up! All of
us quit jobs to spend 5 weeks training at REDI. A couple of guys sold
there homes and paid to have their families move while in Atlanta for
REDI training. Is this how CSX treats their employees. I left a job
making 25 bucks an hour to work for CSX. Now I have NO JOB! Any clue on
what's going on and how long it will last?

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 28 October 2012

This post is just for fun & humor,ha ha but it,s true, I i have that the
peeps who work for our great rr are worse than a bunch of old ladys who
like to gossip, I mean it seems like everyone on the rr knows your own
personal life history, I mean things like lets say you are involved in
a derailment or anything else on the rr, seems like the next day
everyone from the the workers to the high managment knows what occured,
i had a derailment that involved me, and guys in a yard 300 miles away
knew about it and my name too, probably more faster now since we have
the computers, but word of mouth does also spread on the rr like a
wildfire, I would bet if you even got a dui arrest in some other state
that your co-workers would know about it and yak it to all over the
entire rr, found out on the rr, like if you have some sort of secret,,
never tell a soul about it to anyone on the rr, cuz if you do, they
will all know. Yes funny how the rr works, ha ha worse than a bunch of
old hags who like to gossip about other peeps, and for hells sakes,,
some of the nick names they come up with about other peeps in both
labor& managment, that list is endless! hell i knew 1 guy who said i
did not pay my phone bill on time, and he was right! man ya just gotta
love this place,LOL.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 October 2012

RE: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years 
Been getting my trap lines set for the movie.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 27 October 2012

HEY NOMO

You still reading this site.... Notice since you stopped posting that
JJ and Pines have disappeared........Told you they were moles.

Name: GC
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years
Posted: 27 October 2012

ATTENTION!!!

As you have noticed, which you should have, there have been several
reissues of the CSX System Bulletins due to rule changes, errors in
print, etc... If you are coming in and getting your first new reissue
that cancels the previous reissue,  DO NOT AND I REPEAT, DO NOT LEAVE
ON YOUR ASSIGNMENT UNTIL YOU HAVE READ EVERY PAGE AND UNDERSTAND ANY
CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS ISSUE! If you can not find the change that
warranted the reissue then you need to get with the supervisor on duty
and have them tell you what it is. DO NOT LET THEM RUSH YOU OR
INTIMIDATE YOU INTO TAKING A TRAIN WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE CHANGE IS.
It could be something fairly minor or something extremely serious. If
the supervisor can not tell you what it is and wants you to leave to
protect his departure time, then you make him tell you in front of
other witnesses that you can leave without the knowledge of the rule
change and that you will not be held accountable for breaking that rule
because you were not made aware of it or given time to read the reissue
thoroughly. We all know supervisors do not have the right to order you
to violate an operating rule but if they dont know the answers to your
questions and they want you out the door then they need to take
responsibility before you leave. Read the reissues carefully. It has
been reported that some procedures for certain rules have been changed
or "worded" differently from the current operating rules book or
timetables.

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 26 October 2012

i am not going to allow theses bunch of guys to put my life and
everyone
else's life that has to pass through that area in GREAT DANGER!if
though don't want to follow the rules then they should get a job
elsewhere.it's about time that CSX get's a real train master in
Ashtabula,ohio at cp 130 in the great lakes division, to put theses
guys in line.better yet CSX
needs to go out there and see with there own eyes what rule violations
are happening on a daily basis! sooner or later someone is going to
get
seriously hurt,and then CSX will claim that they were unaware of the
situation or they would have done something sooner.very comforting to
the grieving widow!!!



CSX GET OF YOUR ASS AND GO DOWN TO ASHTABULA,OHIO AT CP 130 BEFORE ITS
TOO LATE!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 26 October 2012

Employed in other

Your post about the letter that was sent out in the mail arrived in my
mailbox today. Screwed was an understatement. You were right. It was
all BLAH BLAH BLAH your raise is screwed BLAH BLAH BLAH.....Im sure the
board of directors will make sure their favorites get theirs.

Just curious though.... How did you figure out it was made from
recycled charmin!

Name: skive - gator
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 26 October 2012

well, the fecal smell has resided from tilford yard since the removal
of. Marcus Calhoun Mmcant !

Name: Bill Clinton
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 October 2012

Go Ahead and Vote Romney and kiss your benefits goodbye   You will be in
deep for job safety and rights.   Mitt will Bain you out to China as
much as possible or maybe Mexico.    

Coal runs in cycles always has and always will.   

If you are so stupid to vote out someone who helped the autoworkers so
you can haul more cars and other parts.   

Mitt will raise your taxes via fees and other items that you can not
take of your taxes.

Vote Obama

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 October 2012

The drop in coal sure isn't our fault, it's not top management's
fault (well maybe a little). It is the goverment's fault. How can you
vote for the guy who hates what you do for a living?

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 October 2012

I'm retired I'm a BLEt life member. I know our elections for local
office is this year. Nominations were held last month. The voting of
the ballots will be in December. I plan on attending the December
meeting and will volunteer my services to count the ballots. If people
don't get involved they have no one else to blame. The BMWED is part
of the IBT Rail Conference. You do have a national HQ and a general
committee to take up your concerns. If people keep electing the same
individual there must be a reason. In most cases ballots are mailed to
each members home with a self addressed stamped envelope it only takes
a few minutes to fill out and mail back. I've counted ballots for
elections several times it amases me that only 1/3 of the members take
the time to vote. The 2/3 that didn't vote are the biggest
complainers. The same old excuse that their vote didn't matter.
Bullschidt! The problem is they'll never know if it could of made a
difference. Complacency is the problem with our unions. Most of the
time people do get reelected by acclomation because no one was willing
to step up to the plate to challenge them to take the job. Whose fault
is it?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A
Posted: 25 October 2012

SCREWED!!!!!


Well if you didnt get the peice of toilet paper in the mail sent by
none other than the king himself(mikey ward) then heres a shock for
you. The bonuses are going to be very little and a possibilty of none
at all!  He blames the hard working men and women in the fields for
lack of coal shipments and velocity being down. WHAT A CROCK OF HORSE
CRAP!  The hard working blue collar workers have done everything they
were supposed to do all year. It is his white collar peanut counters
who are not doing THEIR JOBS!  If coal is down it sure the hell is not
the fault of any conductor or engineer!

lISTEN UP MICKEY WARD. WE ALL CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOW US ANY PROOF OF ANY
TRAIN THAT DID NOT GET MOVED AND DELIVERED. SHOW US ONE TRAIN SITTING IN
ANY YARD THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR OVER A YEAR. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT
EVERY TRAIN THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO MOVE HAS BEEN MOVED AND
DELIVERED. WE HAVE ALL DONE OUR JOBS. IF COAL SHIPMENTS ARE DOWN ITS
YOUR FAULT BECAUSE YOU HAVENT GIVEN THEM TO US TO MOVE. YOU ARE NOT
DOING YOUR JOB! SO CUT YOUR BONUS AND YOUR RAISE AND GIVE IT TO THE
REST OF US WHO HAVE DONE OUR JOB AND MOVED YOUR TRAINS. SELL YOUR
SECOND HOME AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE REAL WORKERS!

HOW DARE YOU BLAME US FOR BAD VELOCITY. TRY PUTTING SOME ADEQUATE POWER
ON THE TRAINS. MAYBE WE COULD RUN TRACK SPEED. HOW ABOUT AN ENGINE THAT
DOESNT DROP ITS LOAD OR OVER HEAT OR WHEELSLIP!
GET RID OF YOUR WHIP AND BEAT AND RULE BY FEAR MENTALITY. GET YOUR WEED
WEASLES OUT OF ALL THE BUSHES WAITING TO POUNCE ON US AT ANY MINUTE. GET
DISPATCHERS WHO DONT TAKE 20 MINUTES TO ANSWER THE RADIO WHEN YOUR
TRYING TO TONE THEM UP. GET YOUR RAIL UP TO DATE SO WE DONT GET THROWN
OUT OF THE SEATS. ALWAYS HAVING TO SLOW DOWN TO PREVENT AN INJURY.  YOU
ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS. NO ONE TRUST YOUR EQUIPMENT.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WE SHOULD TRUST YOUR ERAD AND GPS TO BE
CORRECT. WE ARE NOT STUPID! YOUR DETECTORS ARE A JOKE. ALWAYS SOMETHING
WRONG WITH THEM. WE CANT AFFORD TO TRY AND RUN TRACK SPEED. THOSE THAT
DO ARE FOOLS! WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RUN UNDER TO PROTECT OUR JOBS.
SO GO AHEAD AND PUNISH US FOR DOING OUR JOBS THE SAFEST WAY WE KNOW HOW
AND YOU NOT DOING YOURS. 
WE WILL BE WATCHING. WE WILL KNOW WHEN YOU HAND OUT BONUSES TO YOUR
SUPERVISORS ON THEIR TEAM BUILDING TRIPS DISGUISED AS "SPENDING
CASH"! WE WILL FOLLOW ALL THE LITTLE "PERKS" THEY GET. WE WILL BE
WATCHING! WHEN YOU DO, IT WILL JUST BE MORE PROOF THAT YOU ARE
PUNISHING THE REAL WORKERS IN THE FIELDS AND NOT THOSE WHO ARE AT
FAULT!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 October 2012

Union meetings in Indy are a setup deal.   Everything is stalled until
they know what the vote will be.  It is a setup deal.   There would
have to be a take over before justice is done.   

National or government intervention would be needed to make a move.   

The old question do u go to union meetings.   No one goes because it is
a setup deal for a few.

RRJ maybe you have been lucky to experience what is it supposed to be
like.   Does not mean it is like that on the system.  Or maybe you are
in the small group of inclusion.

Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 25 October 2012

Don't you have nominations & the vote of the membership for local
officers? I've read several post about this kid Adam with his daddy
getting him off the hook an his bragging about getting into a union
spot. That's up to the members not his father or anyone else. Have you
been to a union meeting? I ask because I know people with 30+ years that
have never gone to a union meeting or even voted in it's elections for
officers. No one gets on a ballot without first being nominated by a
member then seconded by another. I don't know of any union slot that
is handpicked by the local chairmen or anyone else.

Name: Consoldated Federation member 
E-mail: 
Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years
Posted: 24 October 2012

Our Consolidated Rail Federation BMWED Chairman Mike Flowers continues
to make side deals for his deadbeat and dangerous kid, Adam, while many
of us in the BMWED continue to get hosed.
  His boy brags that will get his dad's union job through acclamation,
but he's the first to rat on everybody, to save his ass.
  The FRA caught Adam lying about inspecting track and falsifying
documents.  Some of this track was Amtrak routes.  How safe is that? 
The FRA only caught a few instances but we know that went on a bunch. 
The Rooster Fish crew in Indy & J-ville even tried to cover it up.
  Adam has been caught a few times padding the payroll, falsifying
track inspection documents, driving Rooster Fish Co. vehicles without a
driver's license, has been in several accidents in Rooster Fish Co.
vehicles causing major damage and injury.  He always gets the slap on
the wrist and a wink from Ralph, T-bone & Labor Relations and returns
to work.
  Now The Rooster Fish Company, with influence by a non-equal
representing Mike Flowers has his boy on short-term disability "until
they can figure out how to get him back to work" as said in a union
meeting.  How nice for him, but what about the needed equal
representation for the other BMWED members?  This type of crap gives a
bad name to the BMWED as well as unions in general.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 23 October 2012

other non

Maybe no one wants to spit out the names of those who got their
bonuses. Got their reasons. 

As for bonuses, heard that tms and rfs are crying because they have
been told that they werent getting any this year because coal and
velosity was down. So there goes the engineer bonuses out the
door(upper management will get theirs when they attend their "TEAM
BUILDING" excursions) Talking about maybe getting 50 percent. Who's
fault is it that coal is down. Sure the hell isnt us out in the fields.
As for velocity. Could slow orders, bad rail, erad tattle tale boxes,
bad speedometers, junky unmaintained equipment, bad orders and errors
in the yard have anything to do with it....HELL YEAH! Again, not our
fault! Cant afford to try and run track speed. If you trust your speedo
or those inaccurate defect detectors then you are nuts! And I sure as
hell dont trust their erad to be right either! Ive seen guys using
their own gps to see how fast they were really running. Not carrying my
own gps either. Not required and not legal anyway. Not a company issued
electronic device. So run under and protect your arss... Your going to
get blamed for everything anyway!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 October 2012

See my post on 10/18/2012!


Not one response, know why? I don't.

I have seen a lot of bonus bull, and not a one can back up what
they put in print.

Name: Joey
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 23 October 2012

Now they are downloading locomotive cameras and data on the Albany
Division so they can compare the conductor  logs to speed, time,
signals to match what is written down on the log. More BS just another
thing to try and get you on.

Name: oooh my
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 21 October 2012

CSX stock will probable be at 15 or 16 dollars a share if this  railroad
keeps going the way it is. Will someone in Jax wake the hell up and
change things so we can go back to making money insted of trying to cut
and save all the time.Get rid of some of those worthless upper managers
that couldn't run a freaking train around a Christmas tree. Just
amazing, freaking amazing.

Name: Way Over Due
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 October 2012

IT'S TIME, Upper management have cut the roots of CSX enough either by
furloughs or piss poor attitudes they give everyone in the field, now
its time to trim the top in Jax and other areas of wasted
$$$$.Everybody knows if you cut the roots of a tree without trimming
the top if falls over. So do something PLEASE, before we all yell
TIMBER.

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 20 October 2012

I wish they would have a shake up in Human Resources they keep putting
people in positions where they don't belong. Any where from
trainmasters to vice presidents, I'm sure we all know someone in these
positions. I know one VP of car management that i've worked for and
around that was an ADM at the time and knew nothing about railroad
operations everything he touched turned into a nightmare.(I guess his
moto was SCREW IT UP AND MOVE ON TO MY NEXT PROJECT), SO LET it be said
he would'nt make a pimple on a VP's ass. So come on human resources do
a better job finding the right and qualified person for the job it
can't be that tough.I know a couple of retarded
people looking for a job, would'nt be any different. ooops sorry not
politically correct mentally challenged sorry.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 19 October 2012

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=FRA-2011-0007

So were all railroaders told about this NEW no brainer law for a proper
crossing count? Only two months to say yeah and create some jobs.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 October 2012

Question?

Do CSX supervisors get a Bonus for the safe operations under their
control?
Do ALL Reportable injuries result in a bonus Deduction? 

At what level of mtg are Bonus for safety checks issued?
Has any one seen one of these Bonus checks?

Does anyone know a manager that has received a bonus check for safety?
Does anyone know of a location or person who has received a safety
bonus?

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 18 October 2012

SIG MAN!

You will never see any of us get a bonus for not getting hurt and
working safe. First off, fra says it will only encourage us not to turn
in any reportable injuries that are caused by the companies neglect.
Second, there isnt any way in hell that the supervisors will let that
happen because they get the bonuses for US NOT GETTING HURT! Why in the
hell they get a bonus for us not getting hurt is a joke. I wonder if the
stockholders know that the company is wasting all this money on
supervisors that dont do anything but stalk employees to get a failure!
They dont do a thing to keep us from getting hurt on the job. We do it
OURSELVES! I dont know of ANYONE who wants to get hurt. Who wants to
lose a leg or arm or maybe something worse. NO ONE DOES! Another reason
they dont need a bonus is because they have shown in the past that they
will headhunt injured employees so know one wants to take the risk of
turning in an injury anyway. I think their so-called safety bonuses
should be abolished all together and should be used to upgrade crappy
equipment and locomotives(no air, no heat, bad toilets, etc...) and
maybe put some good walking stone down and what ever. Maybe upgrade the
radio repeaters for better coverage. Do what ever needs to be done in
other departments as well........ HA HA HA HA .....never going to
happen! Bonuses encourage them to stalk and headhunt. They dont turn in
failures then they cant justify getting that bonus!

Name: Signalman
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 18 October 2012

Safety priorities.

Safety first always unless it costs $, then it becomes a safety of
convenience. 

Safety is number one, when bigshots are coming to visit.

Work safely and look out for your coworkers, you could end up in an
investigation and being blamed if one gets injured.
Part 2. If your stuck working with someone of lesser intelligence do
the work yourself, its less painful in the long run and goes along with
the first part.
Part 3. If your near an accident be prepared to be charged, no matter
if you were directly involved or not.

Always watch out for and be aware of hazards, if you find one fix it.
Don't dare say anything or risk a lecture on your empowered. 

When you see a potential dangerous situation (could happen in the
future) be prepared for the question how long before it breaks. Goes
along with the first priority. 

My personal biggest gripe is why not change the safety policy to a
monetary reward system. We all like money. 

Imagine this scenario. I get a bonus check the first payday in
December
for working injury free12 months. If my group works injury free I'd
receive more money. Now if I know this check is coming I'm going to
have a markedly different attitude about my own personal safety and my
coworkers, I'd be more inclined to look out my coworkers. Especially
the idiots and the ones with crappy attitudes. Even the annoying ones.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 18 October 2012

I completely agree - the RR is ignoring the public's safety concerns
about moving dangerous/toxic chemicals through communities. 

Unfortunately, history will repeat itself.....some RR somewhere with a
washout/rotted tie/tweeked switch point/loose joint/top heavy
hopper/run away cut, et.al  will some day cause a derailment that will
dump a dozen tank cars on the ground loaded with highly toxic gas or
chemicals next to a big school or in some downtown area of a city and
kill a few hundred kids - or a few thousand residents.

So, what do railroad do?  They make BIGGER tank cars, and ship MORE
hazaredous materials, with loads that are even MORE toxic and MORE
dangerous through our cities and towns. 

You would think that the DOT would be concerned. Or the Justice
Department.  Or even Congress.  Nope. Fixing safety issues is a cost -
and cost is a 4-letter word to the RR. It's called "Modern
Economics"....100 years ago is was just plain greed. If you dont like
the concept, get out of the way or Trump will run you over with his
tricked out $5 Trillion dollar nuclear gas sucking solid gold diamond
studded Turbocharged Wall Street Rolls Royce. Splat.      

Toxic and dangerous bulk commodities mean profits - big money for
railroads. And railroads spread that money around to power people who
in turn act to protect railroad profits. It's like a snake in the sand
- slithering back and forth, blinded by the light, repeating its journey
over and over, without really knowing why except it knows it gets to eat
a big fat juicy rat at the end of the day.   

IN the eyes of the profit driven railroad, Children are not money - and
people living in communities - residents - do not contribute to the RR
bottom line......so as far as the RR is concerned, children and people
in general are expendable - collateral damage if need be.  

The powers that be still don't know which is more important - human
beings, or money. One would think that in the 21st century we would
have left the era of barbarians, cannabalism, pirates, cutthroats  and
dinosaurs.  Nope. That philosophy is still with us. Only the fashions
have changed.  

So we will continue to have the accidents, and the deaths, and the
untold grief of human suffering, the unknown lost future contributions
of people, and the railroads will get a slap on the wrist, pee in the
cup,  and then it will be business as usual, and the cycle will repeat
itself again and again like a one piston gas engine with a limitless
supply of fuel.  

Railroad Barons want to be railroad barons - like the Barons of the
19th century. It's sorta like a tradition. They like gobs and gobs of
money.  It's sexy.  It's alpha. It means something. It's an
accomplishment. They keep score with it. Rich - Richer - Richest. It's
the thing to be in the Board Room. Lots of dough, lots of toys, lots of
parties, lots of power.....but woefully short on wisdom and foresight,
and ridiculously long on stupid.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 17 October 2012

JJ

From what I have been told, the one man crew thing is only on the
remote jobs in the yards. I also know alittle about the type of
chemicals that they run on their trains. I know some of them are
extremely dangerous and some are classified as cars that a terrorist
may be interested in. If they think for one minute that my family and
our neighbors are going to be quiet if they try and put just one person
on these trains and run them through my town past our childrens schools,
our churches and our business they are sadly mistaken. I know alot of
people dont pay any attention to what is on a train why it goes by, but
we do. We know whats on them. I think the workers need to educated the
public alittle better about what is coming through their towns. Scares
the hell out of me and my neighbors just to think that one of these
chemicals might get spilled because a tired engineer who is all by
himself misses something thats not in his line of sight. Thats why
there needs to be two sets of eyes on the trains with dangerous
materials on them!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 16 October 2012

One man crew is nothing new.  Someday soon it will be ZERO man crews.
It's called Union Busting - Robotics, computers and wireless
technology.   

Secondly, the "old heads" are the ace in the hole for CSX and Union
bobble heads. They get the "get out of jail free" card. Clears the
way for the slaughter of the remaining sheep.  The little lambs will be
drinkin the Kool-Aid.  No chance for a re-train program or a juicy buy
out. They will be lucky if get a 24 hour notice or a pension plan. More
like a pink slip via email and a 401K invested with a stock that
mysteriously tanks.  

As for LoCoNoMo.....Robert Pines is the only one in the crossing
accident debate who is on the side of right. Period. Nomo's self
imposed exile is, well, self imposed. Gandi-LoCoNoMO??  Who cares. 
Anyone who thinks getting killed by a train is "fun" and "weeds out
the population" is a nutter to begin with.    
  
Robert Pines is also 100% right on the ethics issue and the congressmen
- if they are going to be coddled by the CSX Board, why not just come
right out and say they are on the CSX payroll. Same difference. Same
lack of moral character no matter how you cut it.

Guess what the most important question is in a CSX management job
interview(?)....answer:  "Have you ever talked about your
supervisors?".  If you are a job interviewee, obviously wanting a job,
then you should be on your knees like a puppy dog and your answer should
be, "no, I do solemnly swear that I have never talked about any of my
supervisors!".  Then grovel a bit by licking the interviewer's shoes
and lean up to kiss the interviewee's arse - that will definately let
them know that you are Grade-A  management material.

Name: Pointspread Pauper
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 15 October 2012

1)As best as your knowledge allows....

...prepare to be requested to FULLY list Vernia's post-DOJ employment.
Did he ever go to work for any railroad or railroad vendor?

2)Prepare to be requested to list what you feel any
"reasonable/ordinary person" (as defined by the "legal fiction"
from English common law known as the "reasonable/ordinary person) the
"fuzzy" elements of the report by Meade which will be subjected to te
standard of proof known in legal circles as "some credible evidence"
or alternatively, "something less than a preponderance of the
evidence"

3)CSX is going to have one opportunity to tell a "believable" story
as to how Dave Nelson's name came to be listed on the TSA terror alert
list WHILE AT THE SAME TIME Nelson collected a $1.18 million
whistleblower award.

4)FBI Special Agent, Robin Rhodes, on detached service, is going to
assume control of the Inspector General's office of the US DOT... Dave
Nelson and the retired FRA Agents who "informed"/"blew the whistle"
on Union Pacific to TV I-Team Reporter, George Knapp, of KLAS-TV in Las
Vegas will prepare to assume provisional control of the FRA AS EVIDENCED
BY them "swapping in" ethical FRA inspectors/administrators  and
"swapping out" the "corporate shills"


A policeman does not have to have "proof beyond a reasonable doubt"
that someone's life is in danger before he effects a warrantless entry
into a domicile...

The policeman does not need to evaluate by a "preponderance of the
evidence" whether it is "more likely true than untrue" that
someone's "physical safety"/"life" is danger before he effects a
warrantless entry into a domicile

The policeman only needs to reasonably suspect ("some credible
evidence") that the "physical safety"/"life" of an individual is
in danger to constitutionally effect a warrantless entry into a
domicile/dwelling.

Local Officials are under "no greater burden" than those Police
Officers.... there is no burden upon them to break out their [Norfolk
Southern Spokesman,] "Rudy Husband"-type "decoder rings" purchased
with 3 Cereal boxtops to ascertain what is truly being told by the
railroads... "meely-mouthed" equivocations" are not allowed when one
is a "steward of the Federal Regulations" and the safety of their
constituents hangs in the balance.

They can't "preemptively" REGULATE rail traffic in a "proactive"
way but they can survive a court test with a...

..."predicate-based" ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION based on "actual
conduct"

By the end of November, Dave Nelson will be in complete czar-like
administrative control of the railroads (probably sooner)

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 15 October 2012

Any low life sob that calls RR blood money payouts for killing people
respect must be the dumbest cracker railroad whore on this planet. RRs
don't respect nothing but the money that goes into the scum running
them  pockets.

I turned the Senator and Representative CSX has listed on the the Board
of Directors into the ethics committee since that would be illegal.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 14 October 2012

JJ
 Ok, lets get something straight. First, if you think NOMO is the only
one who thinks you are nuts and dont do squat to help the real
railroaders on here, then you are truly mad. Second, I know it wont do
any good to tell you THIS ISNT NOMO EITHER because for some reason you
have it in your head that no one except nomo would dare post anything
about you that was negative. Now, think about this real hard..... you
didnt start in on NOMO until he really started going at with pines
about crossings. Why? Instead of posting info for fellow railroaders
that just might help us in our current situations at work you became
obsessed with pines obsession. You found a way to get into the middle
of someone elses beef because YOU ARE A TROUBLE MAKER. YOU ARE A BULLY.
If you really wanted nomo gone then you would stop keeping him alive on
here by constantly accusing everyone else of being him! You just want
to keep the fire burning because you just want to keep the verbal fight
going for your entertainment! And yes, you did it again.. you got
someone to respond to your post. Arent you the happy little boy now.
But im sorry to say, Im not going to play with you anymore.....Now go
have your little temper tantrum and  give NOMO the credit for MY POST! 
 

Now for real info. One man crews are coming. The company agreed to pay
for the ptc is the fra/gov would allow them to cut cost by reducing
manpower on the trains. It will be crammed down our throats and if you
think our unions will spend the money and time fighting for our jobs,
better think again. There is a ton of politics involved in this issue.
Better start cornering you unions legislative reps and getting a heads
up on it. When, not if this happens, lay offs are a given. Old heads
dont need to worry. They will hold the jobs. New hires, better start
looking at your future options!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 14 October 2012

The CSX Ethics Hotline is being used by chicken shit managers that are
too lazy to handle unethical situations at their respective locations. 
CSX you have some real physco people running your railroad, I am glad I
cashed in my CSX stock, I would not invest in a company that promotes
such dumb-ass people to be responsible for your company.  Oh, go behind
your managers and ask the employees about the Voice of the Employee and
you will get blank stares just like the Mutual Accountability bull shit
program you tried to implement.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 14 October 2012

Sounds like a family problem to me.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 13 October 2012

Hey Thar LocoNoMO,

Gee Whiz, Robert Pines and I get a nice posting of support from an
employee and here you are ripping on him, us, and everybody else
(except your lover RRJ). You better start taking your meds again or
mommy with report you to your shrink for being a naughty boy. LOL

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 13 October 2012

LOCO


You have got to be kidding... JJ and pines have done NOTHING to help
any of the real active workers who visit this site and as for them
helping us understand about crossing accidents that moron pines doesnt
know a damn thing. He isnt sitting and never was ever sitting in the
seat watching the total idiots run gates infront of a train everyday. I
see people run around the gates EVERY SINGLE DAY. JJ hasnt done a thing
to support workers who are being harrassed in the work place. I have
read every single one of his post and they havent done squat for
anyone. Why he chose to jump on the nut case wagon called pines, i dont
know. AS for NOMO he put more helpful info on this site than anyone. RRJ
is the only other poster that comes on here and has any helpful advice
as well. This site has become disease ridden with a new mini-me PINES!
I personally think the whole thing has been a set up to get NOMO off of
here because he was starting to make upper management sweat by posting
the real dirt he was running across. This JJ character is a plant and
is worth nothing!  You did the right thing NOMO! There are other sites
that would benefit from you knowledge of how the back stabbing abuse
from supervisors works! This one has gone to hell! Lets see how long it
takes JJ to find you on another site and start attacking you! Wonder how
much the company is paying him for the damage!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years
Posted: 13 October 2012

The Ethics hotline is a valued tool, which if used correctly, can help
to protect the CSX workforce.  Unfortunately, the Ethics hotline is
abused by the very employees that are supposed to be protected by it.
It has become a tool for the employee to use when they want to avoid
being held accountable.  They believe that if they can create a
diversion by making a false accusation, then they can continue their
unethical behavior of stealing company time or resources.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 13 October 2012

JJ and Robert Pines are the only posters on here worth reading and
thanks that idiot NoMo is no longer posting on here his malarkey was
very stupid and did not really say much except suppor the copmany and
tear down the worker trying to look for help on here and JJ and Robert
Pines helped a lot of us understand how the corpration injures and
kills peopel at crossings. I wish they would share more of their wisdom
and knowledge about the railroad.

Name: Polly Graff
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 12 October 2012

Let me break this down for you...

From Pines’ Sept. 26TH post…

“BNSF respected the kids with $375,000…”

From Pines’ Sept. 27th post…

“The dirty Federal judge statement that a 22 year old and 18 year old
weren't old enough and couldn't handle their own case and let grandpa
who didn't even know what day it was settle through his scum bag
attorney?

From Pines’ Sept. 28TH  post…

“Their were no tests because it was pretty obvious the train came out
of the brush tunnel with the angled cow catcher that smashes victims
heads against the roof of the vehicles.”

Now, that’s what he said but what didn’t he say?

Nowhere, has he ever said he ever received a penny from BNSF…why?
Because he wasn’t next of kin. He stated that Grandpa settled the
case…why? Because he wasn’t next of kin or because he wasn’t the
executor of her estate, which is a little odd seeing how they had would
have been married for almost 20 years. Why would he state there was no
toxicology  report made when he knows  better. Because she was under
the influence of drugs or alcohol and it would ruin his ego trip.

Wanna bet they were divorced or in the final process? Think she was
loaded? According to him, she was only doing 10 MPH over the crossing,
sounds like it was a suicide if you ask me.

I think he’s had enough rope and just hung himself!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 12 October 2012

LOL2


You have to have a stiff one to play on here? I thought this site was
about having each others backs and watching out for each other out
there. Maybe letting people know when there is a supervisor out there
that is crossing the line( as usual) and breaking every ethic rule in
the book. Maybe let people know when an area is becoming unsafe to work
because they wont fix a damn thing. Years ago this site was just about
that! The only pain we had was a few rantings from pines. Now you got
snot nosed supposidly retire railroaders on here that want to rant
about shit that doesnt really mean squat to the active workers. I dont
care about JJ and pines damn crossing issues. I see the crap everyday
and 99 percent of the time its the stupid drivers fault if he almost
gets hit! Maybe things are getting better. Maybe supervisors are
starting to act human and not lie or go to ridiculous lengths to get
the almight e-test failure. Havent heard much about yardmaster anymore.
Supervisors arent making up their own damn rules as they go along and
screwing everyone up. Companys paying everyone fairly too Im guessing.
Man, guess that just leave nothing but JJ and pines crossing crap. Oh,
well. Site had a pretty good run!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years
Posted: 12 October 2012

Has anyone noticed that CSX has a campain push on for the awareness of
the “CSX Code of Ethics” and “Workplace Violence Awareness”.  If you
work for CSX you have received two propaganda mailings within the last
month.  The thing that they are not telling you is that the Crew
Management Center is currently under investigation for a hostile work
environment, coincidental, I think not.  If you have any issues with a
hostile work environment, be it the Crew Management Center, Customer
Service, Train Dispatch, Trainmasters, or any other department or
individual now is the time to act. 

Go to the OSHA website: 
http://www.osha.gov/pls/osha7/eComplaintForm.html  to file an online
complaint.
Or go online to your local regional office at
http://www.osha.gov/html/RAmap.html  and click you regional to file a
live complaint.

Now is the time to act, your name will be help confidential, and your
complaint will be investigated.  OSHA is fed up with the arrogance and
hostile culture of the railroads and are levying record fines, back
pay, and punitive damages to railroads. Railroad employees who have
been wronged by the railroads are receiving record compensation for
back pay, punitive damages, and reinstatement with personal records
being cleared of all records associated with the incidents.  You may
also call 904.232.2895 this the office currently involved with the Crew
Management Center.

If you think your job is unsafe or you have been threatened, harassed,
discriminated against or intimidated by management or fellow employees
in any way, you want to contact OSHA and ask for a review and
inspection of the incident.  Contact OSHA, it is confidential.  If you
have been fired, demoted, transferred or discriminated against in any
way for using your rights under the law, you must file a complaint with
OSHA within 30 days of the alleged discrimination.

The time to make a change is now, remember the corporate culture
related to reporting workplace injuries?  This is the same thing, they
are just expounding their culture of harassment and intimidation to
creating a hostile work environment.

Name: LOL2
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 12 October 2012

Maybe we should have a pity party for nomo since he is gone.  guess he
got run off by all the nomo attachments to his nick.    got to have a
stiff one to play on here so maybe he will be back so he can post some
official skeletons on here so corporate will get piss and fire them.  


cutthroat railroading on the c    s    x

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 12 October 2012

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/suffolk/rr-crossing-concern-after-driver-killed

"It's the hardest one I've ever been around," said John Brinkley,
who has driven tractor trailers for 17 years. "I mean most of them are
gated if you can't see, but this one, of course, isn't gated. Just a
stop sign up there." 

Guess Mikey has been too busy spiffing up rail cars for the GOP too
make note of the 5 DOZEN people CSX killed. How many ghosts did he move
to his new part time neighborhood?

Name: laughing
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years
Posted: 11 October 2012

Webmaster,
You can check the location of this post. You and I both know it is not
nomo. This JJ character is nuts and hes just not healthy for this site.
If you havent noticed nomo has not posted anything on here for sometime
and I KNOW WHY! This is the poster who always sends you books. You
should know who I am now. This idiot has run off the only poster that
has ever given any inside information to us to help us out when there
are supervisors who are out of control. I know it is not your policy to
block posters, but this one is doing just too much damage to the site
and you are losing valuable poster. I ask you to please reconsider you
policy for the sake of the rest of us who want and need a watchdog out
there! You know exactly where I am coming from!

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 11 October 2012

i am not going to allow theses bunch of guys to put my life and everyone
else's life that has to pass through that area in GREAT DANGER!if
though don't want to follow the rules then they should get a job
elsewhere.it's about time that CSX get's a real train master in
Ashtabula,ohio at     CP 130 to put theses guys in line.better yet CSX
needs to go out there and see with there own eyes what rule violations
are happening on a daily basis! sooner or later someone is going to get
seriously hurt,and then CSX will claim that they were unaware of the
situation or they would have done something sooner.very comforting to
the grieving widow!!!



CSX GET OF YOUR ASS AND GO DOWN TO ASHTABULA,OHIO AT CP 130 BEFORE ITS
TOO LATE!

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 10 October 2012

Very intresting vid on youtube,, just go there, type in central ave
derailment, you will see what i mean about big fat loaded coverd
hoppers rolling over on thier sides and at a very slow speed too! guess
those train buffs were there at the right time with the cam rolling and
the hoppers too.lol.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 09 October 2012

PleaseNoMoLocoLaughingWeeWee,
Looks like that spanking Robert Pines gave you had the effect intended.


Covered hoppers ~ design them so that they are not top heavy. 

Freight cars....in general, design them to be interchangeable, more
productive.

Diesel Locomotives....convert diesel to emf repulsion energy.

Crossings....stop using the rails as conduits ~ they are not consistent
or reliable. 

Stop giving kickbacks for defective equipment.

Name: laughing
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 08 October 2012

JJ


Once again as stated before, you are worthless on this site. This isnt 
NOMO and your obsession with him is totally unhealthy. I know who you
are for sure now. You are Pines son! You need to seek professional help
and leave the railroading to the real men in the fields.  Go find a site
for worthless info for railroad foamers!

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 08 October 2012

i will be in both the cleveland and ashtabula yards the next 2 weeks.i
will be a little more careful when working in cleveland yard but the
ashtabula yard yard you can do anything you want.CSX is to damn lazy to
drive out there to watch whats going on.i will spend extra time in the
ashtabula yard,just to let ever one know that there are no csx officals
even in the area!!!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 08 October 2012

Hey there Loco 20-30, Good Lord NoMoWeeWee...when will you ever stop
trying to trick everyone with these stupid fake IDs? You sound like one
of your self described Sickophants coming to the pumpkin party with a
holloween mask stuck to your arse thinking no-one will recognize you. 

Loco 10-20.....I totally agree. Enough time wasted on NoMoWeeWee.   

Covered Hoppers are prone to Derailments: 1000% agree about the
proclivity of covered hoppers and other too top heavy cars to derail. 
Just saw another big derailment the other day with 20 covered hoppers
loaded with sand - they just came out of the mining company and on the
first switch and shove about 12 of them popped off the track like
dominoes - and that is about the millionth time that has happened in
the same storage yards. They suck up all the sand into other hoppers,
then just roll the old hoppers off the tracks and down the bed. Looks
like a graveyard of covered hoppers down there.  But try to tell the
CSX Eengineering Managment that their covered hopper cars suck,  or try
to tell them how to make a better designed car - good luck...see you on
the unemployment line! There must be some kind of mega-cash kickback to
the railroads from the manufacturing companies of covered hoppers.
Someone is getting rich for keeping these derailment prone / safety
hazard death traps on the rails. God help us if they ever ship a
hundred car unit train with covered hoppers full of radioactive sludge
through downtown cities..... 

Morals Letters??....the RR is sending out "morals" letters to all
employees reminding everyone to follow the 'code of ethics'.  Ha Ha.
That's like the Devil giving advice to Christians about how to get to
heaven. CSX ought to take a LONG look in the mirror before they go
questioning other peoples morals - they could begin by focusing on the
executive office and the Board Room. Those places have so many morals
and ethics violations you can smell the smoke and see the flames in
Jacksonville all the way from China.

CSX Code of Ethics: Dilbert's Rule #1:  "never talk about your
boss".    How stupid is this rule? It's the idiot CSX executive
department protecting their idiot managers.  Sorry, but the main topic
of the day at CSX, is the incompetence of management.  Duh.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 October 2012

LOCO

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! Just what work does JJ and Pines have to do
on this site? So far both of them have done nothing but cry and moan
about gate crossing and have done nothing to contribute what so ever in
helping the harrassed and intimidated active rr workers in the field. 
When JJ first starting posting on here he claimed he was a railroader
and he actually had me believing it with some of his stories of
encounters he had with management. He then jumped on the pines
bandwagon and hasnt done a damn good since. If hes so all and mighty
knowledge about railroading then he shouldnt have any problem exposing
what he has seen and heard that was unethical and abusive towards
fellow workers! This site was created by someone who worked for csx and
was dumped on and treated unfairly and wanted a place for csx present
and past employees to vent, discuss, notify or just plain blow the
whistle on csx supervisors who are unethical, unprofessional and
abusive. A place where people can ask and hopefully get help for pay
shortages and unfair denied claims. A place where people can expose
abusive crew callers and report  safety issues and problems.  I dont
know whats happened to this site. Used to be people werent afraid to
get on here and say what needed to be said. Seems NOMO is the only one
who has posted information that was of serious shit! Look at his last
critical post! Got someone on here threatening to test fail someone if
they didnt keep their traps shut! Now, thats the kind of info that
people need to read! The real crap thats going on, not pines and JJs
crossing crap, day after day after day after day! Looks like NOMO got
someones attention out there on that one. Bet I can guess who! WAY TO
GO NOMO!

Name: KYLE
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 07 October 2012

I wanna post this,, most derailment prone cars? Ya gussed it,, big fat
loaded covered hoppers, those damm things are just to top heavy and
they overload them too, seen so many grain train derailments in the
past 20 yrs that i lost count, those type of cars loaded even derail
very often in the yards at very slow speeds, they are very prone to
picking switches at even 3 mph, but the rr thinks the bigger the
better, But they do pay the price in the long run, keeps our m&e people
very busy, The other cars i seen with a lot of deraiments are those big
high cube jobs, again to top heavy, you should see those dam things
rock & roll while shoving them to a outbound track, seen a lot of them
also end up on thier sides, plus they are noted for broken carrier
irons & by passed drawbars and that makes for a derailment almost every
time.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 07 October 2012

CSX is sending out a MORALS letter?  Ha Ha. That is a funny one.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 06 October 2012

Pines and JJ seem to have picked up on the Most Re-tarted Screen Name on
CSX-Sucks.com   NoMo looks like he has a lock on that award.

How long will it take him to change it to something a little more
intelligent.   Pines and JJ do not bother helping him you got other
work on this site.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 October 2012

It is true as you say Robert - even though creeps like DumBoNoMoHoMo
would look good as a locomotive hood ornament, even idiots like
NoMoWeeWee have the right to post their garbage on here, and CSX SUCKs
does a good job of suffering such pathetic Fools.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 05 October 2012

Hoyer, 

Ashtabula has people on the street right now for doing anything that
you want.  If you feel that its that laid back, take your chances and
break the rules.  But don't spread bs just because you haven't been
caught.  Its obvious that you have a personal backlash towards somebody
there.

Name: please
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 05 October 2012

JJ

Dont go away mad, just go away.... No one wants to hear your Pines
repeats. He does a fine job on his own. Doesnt need your support.

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 05 October 2012

i was in both the cleveland and ashtabula yards last week.have to be a
little more careful when working in cleveland yard.but the ashtabula
yard you can do anything you want.CSX is to damn lazy to even drive out
there to watch whats going on.no worries my friend!

Name: WTF
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 05 October 2012

I think that every employee that recieved the code of ethics pamplet in
the mail should send it back to Jax postage due, what a crock of crap.
our management hides around yards and main lines 24/7 just waiting for
employee to make a mistake(talk about un-ethical). T was a trainmaster
for 10 years and when they had swat teams out they would have a lunch
or dinner afterwards and the first thing they would say is DID YOU
CATCH ANYBODY not did you see anyone doing a good job.Why does CSX want
the employees that make the company $$
have such crappy attitudes. these people are their greatest assets.
Upper managament is the reason our stock goes nowhere. So send your
little propaganda booklet back to Jax ASAP it's not even worth
reading.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 04 October 2012

There you go Hoyer...Blow people in, be a rat, we know what you are all
about.  Make the job even worse than what it is....idiot!

Name: Maddawg
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 October 2012

Its Oct 4 2012. I have been away from Chicken Shit Xpress for almost 4
years. Life is great and CSX still sucks!

Name: kyle
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years
Posted: 04 October 2012

To hoyer, its a lil trick, you don,t grab onto flats or tank cars to
ride a shove, very dangerous practise, you get on when the move is
stopped, then ya get on and start the move,, yes flats & tank, most
dangerous 2 cars to try and get on the fly,, ha ha i found that out the
hard way 1 time, never did that agin, and i was only 18 at the time,, ya
learn something new on the rr every day., yup as a new bee i did tryh to
get on a moving flat 1 day, foot got caught in the stirup, drug me down
the rail for about 100 ft, and that taught me a real good lesson,,,
don,t do it!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 October 2012

Nothing wrong with HoMoNoMo railroad executive train hood ornaments
giving their safety spew either JJ.

Name: JJ 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 October 2012

"there there little nomo, PLEASE don't cry,
Mikey's gonna sing you a lullaby,
with puppy dogs and wind-up toys,
blow up dolls and fat little sweaty boys."

Hey NoMoWeeWee, you like my song? Maybe you could sing it for
Suckophant Mikey next time your dancing on his lap!  

Say, here's a job you could do for the railroad and cure your
sucksa-creepie-phobia: be the STAR in that TV Reality Show "RR
Crossing Accidents"! - you'll be in this scene: driving a motor
vehicle traveling 65 mph south on highway 21 - followed closely by an
over anxious driver of an 18 wheeler on your bumper -  while coming up
to a high speed rail track crossing where the gates and lights are not
working and as your bad luck would have it that Amtrak passenger train
is cruising down on you at 90mph just beyond that cut of cars you cant
see around. Remember now - stop look and listen on that highway your
doing 65 mph on just before crossing that track - or KABOOM!...and
you'll be just more bug juice to scrap off the window of that lead
Amtrak diesel locomotive.  So, be a good boy and talk this job over
with your Shrink and get back to me quickly - the TV producers are
having a hard time finding any actors.

Name: please
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 04 October 2012

JJ

OH...you only wish..... Now you have another subject to turn on
now....someone who knows what and who you really are!

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 04 October 2012

If anyone wants to get away with breaking rules.Try the Great Lakes
Division in norteast OHIO.I have and also seen plenty of rule breaking
violations that
go on all the time.Cleveland,Ohio might switch tag from time to time
but
that's it.But if you work in Ashtabula,Ohio there are no rules there
at
all.It's a free for all.Guys riding tank cars on shoves,no stretching
after a tie is made,getting on and off moving equipment.It's crazy
and
the trainmaster there doesn't even got out and watch his employees,so
he doesn't have to discipline them for what there are doing.It's all
about the money out there and that yard makes a lot of MONEY.So rule
breaking is ok it makes the train master look good,profit wise to
CSX.If CSX would go out there and see what is really going on,that
yard
would be SHUT DOWN PERIOD.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 October 2012

Hey Robert Pines,  

Sounds like the Company Lapdog CornHoleNoMoLikesLittleSweatyFatBoys 
has changed his handle to "Please".  Typical. These Corporate Monkeys
can't handle the truth, so away they run swinging thru the trees with
their tails tucked between their legs. 

I may have been a little dramatic suggesting that Railroad executives
be electocuted everytime someone is killed at a railroad crossing.
Perhaps a better idea is to re-train these managerial incorrigables -
have a railroad executive tied up and sitting in a car in the middle in
the middle of a high speed railroad crossing, with a 90 mph Amtrak
passenger train screaming down the track at him him. This way they can
be sure to feel the same pain as the innocent motorist that they
slaughtered with one of their trains. It would give them a better
perspective and understanding of our concerns regarding crossing
accidents.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 October 2012

Pines

Dont forget to tell your idiot friends that when they see the lights
coming on and the gates "STARTING" to come down, that means a train
could be coming any minute! It doesnt mean your supposed to press the
pedal to the floor and try to run under them before they come all the
way down! If they arent down for your 20 seconds before the train gets
there then I guess you can call the wrecker!

Oh by the way, if you didnt know, its illegal in alot of states now to
floor it when you see the traffic light turn yellow if your not already
entering the intersection. They call it unsafe aggressive driving. You
can get a heafty fine for that.  Same reason you dont floor it and try
to run under the gates before they come down!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 03 October 2012

This all sounds great, but this problem goes beyond crew management. 
When it comes to management itself within the ranks, CSX is without a
doubt one terrible company.  The sad story is that management has been
the problem with this company for years, and nothing seems to change,
it just gets worse.  

There is a reason why employees refer to CSX management as Nazi's. 
Some find it funny, others outside the company find it hard to believe,
yet people continue to be fired everyday on this railroad for the most
minor offenses.  

Most employees agree that they like there job on this railroad, they
just don't like the people that they work for.  I wonder why?

Name: fred14
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year
Posted: 03 October 2012

Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years

is this john waler from osha going to help me also?since im only a
conductor trainee?boy do i got some  facts about how i was treated by
my trainmaster!!!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years
Posted: 03 October 2012

Crew Management is currently being investigated by OSHA for a hostile
work environment.  If you have a story or complaint contact John Waler
904.562.5446 OSHA Investigator. Now is the time to do it.  OSHA is
levying record fines against Railroads for their harassment and
intimidation of its employees.  If we join together and all work as one
we may be able to change the corporate culture and enjoy a working
environment free for harassment and intimidation.  Not just the normal
propaganda campaigns of empty promises.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 October 2012

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/traffic/fatal-crash-involving-tri-rail-train-and-car-close/nSSFt/

So where is the real story that the crossing gates failed? This
crossing has full lane closure gates 41,314 vehicles a day and the
gates have to be down 20 seconds before the train arrives. So this
vehicle magically levitates over the other vehicles that had to be
stopped if the junk gates worked? 38 0.107325 628160C CSX FL PALM BEACH
DELRAY BEACH LINTON BLVD. 0 1 0 0 0 GT 48 1 79 YES 4 41,314

Name: please
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 03 October 2012

Webmaster....Atom Smasher


If you havent noticed, nomo has not been responding to JJ and Pines
constant jabs and nasty remarks aimed at him.  They dont care about
anyone or anything. JJ only jumped on the pity wagon with pines so he
would have something to do with his miserable life. They do absolutely
no good on here. Even the fra has said pines used to have some helpful
information in the past but over the years has just become a regular
nuisance to all of them in the D.C. office. Cant you just block them
for one week so maybe someone with some real information or help for
the real rr workers might come on here and have a healthy discussion
without the two idiots jumping in and distracting everyone!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 October 2012

JJ ---I've been electricuted and wouldn't go that far with nobody.

I was thinking like Mikey/HoMoNoMo and the rest of the shieldees' like
be in the same cell as Marvo. How about it HoMoNoMo you think you could
be Marvos" mouthpiece and blame the people he gunned down and get him
paid millions a year???


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210804/I-felt-like-worst-piece-scum-D-C-sniper-talks-remorse-fatal-shooting-spree-time-10th-anniversary.html

The real railroad safety story. The railroads have the Feds drive them
around the country picking off people -- one here ---three there with
big holes cut in the safety rules trunk.

Mikey NoMo Marvo---...'I was a monster. If you look up the
definition,
that’s what a monster is. I was a ghoul. I was a thief. I stole
people’s
lives. I did someone else’s bidding just because they said so.  There
is
no rhyme or reason or sense. But the $$$ is great'...

Name: J J
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 03 October 2012

Hey Robert,
But according to the dimwit company lapdog dimwit cornholenomo, it's
the motorist'fault....and even tho this is the third crossing accident
at this very same crossing in the last 3  years!!!  Well, of course 
according to the dimwit, it's always the motorist's fault. Like Hell
it is.   gates were not working.......so it's time to send a RR exec
to the electric chair. Then that crossing would NEvER have another 
problem- you could be sure they would fix the problem.  Until then
nothing will get done. Life. Is cheap ~ just ask any RR lapdog~ and
they will tell us so....

Name: Sad company 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 02 October 2012

Bob Frulla is the railroad and if you don't believe me just ask
him......He has destroyed the Huntington division.....ask any
huntington division employes including the officials....very sad place
to be

Name: hoyer
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 02 October 2012

If anyone wants to get away with breaking rules.Try the Great Lakes
Division.I have and also seen plenty of rule breaking violations that
go on all the time.Cleveland might switch tag from time to time but
that's it.But if you work in Ashtabula there are no rules there at
all.It's a free for all.Guys riding tank cars on shoves,no stretching
after a tie is made,getting on and off moving equipment.It's crazy and
the trainmaster there doesn't even got out and watch his employees,so
he doesn't have to discipline them for what there are doing.It's all
about the money out there and that yard makes a lot of MONEY.So rule
breaking is ok it makes the train master look good,profit wise to
CSX.If CSX would go out there and see what is really going on,that yard
would be SHUT DOWN PERIOD.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 02 October 2012

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8829995

!:17 into video ---Sheriff --Witnesses report gates not down.

Name: me too!
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 30 September 2012

YEAH!!

About time someone made them pay for having to use those worthless
seats. Cant count how many times I have been tossed out of the seat.
For that matter I have seen the conductors tossed out of theirs too!
The brand new engines are alittle better, but you hardly ever get a new
engine. Usually those old worn out pieces of junk with seats that lean
towards the center of the cab or so old and rusted you cant even adjust
them. Unfortunately this will just give them more ammunition to use
against us in favor of using remotes only. Anything to save a buck and
not have to do the right thing and fix them! Like Buffet said.... csx
will go broke spending all their money on a safety program that  DOESNT
EXIST!

Name: Dong Bageley 
E-mail: MikeyWardsbitch@csx.com
Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years
Posted: 30 September 2012

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/sep/29/137-million-awarded-in-train-seat-case/
CSX just lost a FELA Case. EVANSVILLE, IN — A damage award of more than
$1 million in a recent Vanderburgh County civil trial illustrates what
some say is a significant industrywide safety issue for railroad
employees.

A Vanderburgh Circuit Court jury on Sept. 21 awarded former CSX
railroad engineer Homer Lowrance $1.37 million in damages. Lowrance,
who lives in Henderson County, Ky., had worked 27 years for CSX when he
suffered career-ending injuries in 2005 at age 53.

"The railroad industry, including CSX, have just refused to put in
decent seats (in locomotives). Railroads in other countries have better
seats," said Drew Baebler, the St. Louis attorney who represented
Lowrance.

He said the railroad industry has known about the safety problems with
its locomotive seats since the 1970s but that railroads have failed to
take substantial steps to address the issue.

"CSX is reviewing its options in this case," said Carla Groleau, a
spokeswoman for the railroad.

The issue isn't one of comfort but of safety, Baebler said, with
engineers typically sitting on seats fixed to the wall or floor of
locomotive cabins, often with minimal padding and none of the
suspension systems necessary to absorb the vibrations and jarring of
railroad tracks.

"After a long exposure to this kind of whole body vibration, it takes
its toll," Baebler said.

In Lowrance's case, according to Baebler, it was more than just
cumulative exposure to those conditions.

Lowrance claimed the railroad failed to provide him with safe equipment
and a safe locomotive on which to work and that he was forced to ride on
a worn-out seat with no padding or shocks. When the train hit a
particularly rough spot on the tracks during a September 2005 run,
Baebler said, Lowrance was thrown out of his seat and against a cabin
wall, causing him a lower back injury and hernia. Baebler said several
other railroad employees testified about similar incidents they had
experienced. Lowrance also claimed he had arthritis in his lower back
from years of riding in train seats that didn't absorb the shock of
railroad tracks.

"Nothing is padded except for two inches (of foam) on the seats. There
are no seat belts," Baebler said.

He said the seat Lowrance was riding in was attached to the wall of the
locomotive cabin. Federal Railroad Administration regulations only
require seats be firmly fixed to the locomotive, he said.

"I believe the jury understood that the railroad had not taken
responsibility for their dangerous seat design, and as a result, is
subjecting Mr. Lowrance and others to unnecessary dangers on a daily
basis," Baebler said.

Tyler Kress, an engineering consultant and seat design expert who
teaches at the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech, testified at
Lowrance's trial. He said he was surprised at what he found when he
first became involved with the issue in the mid-1990s.

"I was shocked. The seats were very antiquated," he said.

Kress said numerous federal reports and studies have documented
railroad employee complaints about the problem.

"These are $2 million vehicles, yet the seats and layouts of the cabs
in heavy trucks are so much better. Your seated posture can cause more
stress than people realize. People don't understand that it is not
like taxi drivers. These locomotive engineers get whatever locomotive
they get and are told to drive," he said. "Canadians have good seats,
the Germans, Japanese and Europeans, but a lot of major companies (in
the United States) still have their heads in the sand."

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Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 September 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210804/I-felt-like-worst-piece-scum-D-C-sniper-talks-remorse-fatal-shooting-spree-time-10th-anniversary.html

The real railroad safety story. The railroads have the Feds drive them
around the country picking off people -- one here ---three there with
big holes cut in the safety rules trunk.

Mikey NoMo Marvo---...'I was a monster. If you look up the definition,
that’s what a monster is. I was a ghoul. I was a thief. I stole people’s
lives. I did someone else’s bidding just because they said so.  There is
no rhyme or reason or sense. But the $$$ is great'...

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 30 September 2012

So LapDogNoMoDimWitPervertWeeWeeFatBoyLover, 
 We see that you learned a new psychosomatic personality word from your
Shrink, whom you have been seeing about your cravings for masochistic
sex with nubile young naked fat boys, uncontrollable alcoholism
compounded with cornholing beer bottles, and chronic depression with
psychopathic suckicidal lapdancing dementia. Now we get it. Your a
certified raving lunatic,  probably on the InterPol terror watch list
for Master Foamers.  

Crossing Accidents are Preventable - all the railroads have to do is
make it happen. But they are too cheap and too greedy and too stupid to
figure it out. That's why they hire boozing perverted lap dogs like
LikesFatBoysWeeWeeNoMo - to obfuscate the issue, delay the debate, and
spend the day drinking the cool-aid and lap dancing hookers instead of
doing anything productive.

Name: ydm ago
E-mail: 
Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years
Posted: 29 September 2012

But what about LBT?z

Name: DONT
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years
Posted: 29 September 2012

Conductor

The ethics hotline is NOT CONFIDENTIAL. The number you call will
connect you to a service who takes your info and then forwards it to
csx for review. Your info is not confidential. Just ask around and you
will find that supervisors were given info(copies) of statements
submitted. They will find out who you are and you know what will happen
then.

Name: Old Blue
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years
Posted: 29 September 2012

Did anyone or do you know anyone that participated in the Health and
Wellness program? Were over weight or had an issue or voted Blue Card
for TCI for their Board of Directors and was fired or harassed within 6
months?

Thanks Brothers!

Blue

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 September 2012

Hey Please:

You want me to give up challenging Pimp Daddy and the LPFB? What's
wrong with you? That's more enjoyable than sex...certainly more
regular and it last longer too!

Getting up and reading and replying to their nonsense is better than a
couple of fat boys and a 6-pack...it's the only way to start the day!

Well alright, I'll try but my wife won't like it...better make a beer
run!!!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 September 2012

Hey LPFB:

How's it feel to be the only poster on here that's a bigger loser
than Pimp Daddy?

You're a sycophant and you sympathise with Pimp Daddy because your
life is even more pathetic than his...Friday night, no date or cruising
and drinking beer with your friends, if you have any. Instead, you're
sitting at home in front of your computer, like a nerd, searching for
tales of woe to impress Pimp Daddy with, so he'll
like you and be your friend.

We're still waiting for the answers to the questions I asked you
several weeks ago. Did you take the same class in deflecting that Pimp
Daddy did?

You don't like the RR crossing laws? Then change them. I'm sure your
elected State and Federal Officials will be glad to help you out. Look
what they've done for Pimp Daddy! Oh, I forgot, you're not old enough
to vote yet.

Well stay in school and get educated (you need it) and maybe you can
become a lawyer and great legislator and help all the dumb asses out.
Until then, it's just the thinning of the heard...weeding the idiots
out. Don't fear though, there's an endless supply of them and more
born every day!

Pimp Daddy posts his email address...why don't you send him yours.
You could become cyber buddies!!!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 29 September 2012

has anyone ever used the csx ethics hotline and had any successful
outcomes?....does csx have a hr hotline number?

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 September 2012

Hey Pimp Daddy:

What's pretty obvious is Cindy is dead, has been for 14 years because
of what she did or didn't do. Anyone that would revel in and play upon
that has real mental problems.

Post the reports and we'll be the judge. Tox screens are routine and
always part of the Autopsy...so try again!

Keep deflecting and intentionally misstating or manipulating the facts
(lying) to achieve your agenda...it's really humorous.

If you think anybody really cares or anything you do or say will make a
difference, you're delusional. If you want to spend your time scouring
the Internet for tales of woe the RRs have caused; or researching
statistics and playing with their presentation until they paint the
picture you want, go ahead. Just don't waste our time.

You're a real loser, always have been, always will be, unless you
take your meds and seek professional help...or do you want to be
miserable for the last 20 years of you life?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 September 2012

Well CoHoNoMo I'll Go Slo. Their were no tests because it was pretty
obvious the train came out of the brush tunnel with the angled cow
catcher that smashes victims heads against the roof of the vehicles.

Speedometer stuck on 10 mph with transmission in like a dozen pieces
the dim wit cop had. Why wasn't the speedometer stuck on 47 mph ---the
train speed? Police reports don't have sight obstructions I guess to
protect the cities, counties, states, Feds the cops really serve.

...I wonder how many civilians have been killed or injured during the
same time frame by drivers texting...care to venture a guess?...DUH
probably the same amount of texters that were out 15 years ago. That
wasn't even close to a railroad MURDER excuse.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 29 September 2012

That was a fully loaded log truck that the "SHIELDED" NS train hit JJ.
Two train crew hurt. Wonder how that decision effects them on FELA?
Gates installed last year after the case was done.

49 mph (72 feet per second) train in a 100 foot rule ---What
HeElHoUNDCornHoNoMOWeeWeeFetishCorporateLapDogDimWit idiots make the
rules???

"""“Engines or cars left on any track must be properly secured, must
clear crossings and crossing signal circuits. When practicable,
equipment must be at least 100 feet from public or private
crossings."""

“Q. [Counsel for the Johnson/Rolison plaintiffs:] Now, when you started
easing forward, which direction did you look?
“A. I was looking to my right.
“Q. You looked to your right?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. Toward the boxcars. As you were easing forward, did you see a
train?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. Did you hear a train?
“A. No, I didn't.
“Q. As you were easing forward, did you look in any other direction?
“A. Yes. I looked to my left.
“Q. And, again, why would you be looking to your left?
“A. Because trains use that track both ways.
“Q. You have to look to the left. So you looked to the left?
“A. Yes.
“Q. Did you see a train?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. Did you hear a train?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. And you were continuing to ease forward. What happened next?
“A. I was easing forward, and I was looking to my left. Then I looked
straight ahead. And when I looked back, I seen the lights on the
train.
“Q. When you looked back to your right, you saw the lights on the
train?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. The first time?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. At the time you saw the lights on the train, could you stop before
you got on that railroad track?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. Could you speed up and get across that railroad track?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. You're in low gear, pulling a fully loaded log truck?
“A. That's right.
“Q. Were you helpless at that point to do anything?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. Now, the last thing you remember seeing was the lights on the
train?
“A. Yes, sir.”

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years
Posted: 29 September 2012

RE; GLK, regarding the FRA: The FRA officials are 99% ex-company
managers; usually RFEs, who are just a covert extension of company 
managers. In other words; there's really no federal oversight--it's
just a scam. 

The carriers have had more fatalities (head/rear collisions) in the
last 4 years than the previous 10 years combined.

America carriers have more head/rear collisions than Canada and all
the South American railroads combined (INCLUDING MEXICO).

Crews are so afraid to lay-off knowing they are not fully rested due
to always faulty line-ups and simply, to many distractions.

Rail union bosses in union meetings; talks more about (what ifs)
discipline from field testing than about genuine contract issues--such
as claims pay-out or why CEOs are making $25 Million annually....

Think out loud people!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 September 2012

Hey Robert, 
I think we are wasting our time trying to convert a corporate lap dog
like CornHoNoMOWeeWeeFetishCorporateLapDogDimWit - once a cornhole
always a cornhole. One thing is for sure - you cant accuse a cornhole
of having a brain. 

Crossing Accident law is a total fock up. Railroads are paying off
legislators to pass 'shielding" laws to protect them from murdering
people at railroad crossings, and the judges are screwing the public
even if the RR is guilty. Here is a classic case in point: 

 Norfolk Southern Railway Co., and Norfolk Southern Corp. v. Johnson,
[Ms. 1090011, Mar. 11, 2011] __ So. 3d __(Ala. 2011), the Supreme Court
reversed and remanded a jury verdict in the amount of approximately $2
million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages.
This case arose out of a collision at a railroad crossing between a
tractor-trailer rig owned by Rolison and operated by Johnson and a
train operated by Norfolk Southern. Norfolk Southern filed a
counterclaim against Rolison and Johnson for the property damage caused
to Norfolk Southern’s train by Rolison and Johnson’s tractor-trailer.
Rolison and Johnson alleged that, due to box cars placed on the side of
the train track near the railroad crossing, Johnson’s view was
obstructed and he was unable to see the approaching train until moments
before the accident. At trial, several witnesses corroborated Rolison
and Johnson’s allegations and testified regarding the dangerous
condition at the railroad crossing and the visual obstruction caused by
the box cars. Norfolk Southern presented photographic evidence from the
day after the accident and from a reconstruction of the accident by
Norfolk Southern’s experts. Ultimately, the jury returned a verdict in
favor of Rolison and Johnson and against Norfolk Southern on Norfolk
Southern’s counterclaim for property damage. 

On appeal, the Supreme Court held based on the testimony and
photographs presented at trial that Johnson failed to properly stop,
look, and listen as required by law before he attempted to cross the
railroad crossing and was therefore contributorily negligent as a
matter of law. Additionally, the Court held that because contributory
negligence was the sole proximate cause of Johnson’s injuries, any
wantonness on the part of the defendant could not have been the
proximate cause of the accident and Norfolk Southern was entitled to a
JML on Rolison and Johnson’s wantonness claims. Finally, the Court held
that since Rolison and Johnson were contributorily negligent as a matter
of law the judgment entered in favor of Rolison and Johnson on Norfolk
Southern’s property damage claims must be reversed. The case was
accordingly remanded for further proceedings.

The railroad is TOTALLY and COMPLETELY at fault in this case. There was
no question in the minds of 12 jurors. The Courts replaced the jury
verdict with their own.  Why is this?  Simple. Judges own stock in
Railroads and multi million dollar judgements has a negative impact on
corporate earnings and ipso facto also on stock prices. Robert Pines is
a victim of this system of "justice" we have - which is, literally,
the best "Justice" that money can buy. 

NoMo is a corporate lap dog. His aim is to deflect criticism away from
the corporation and back onto the victims (victims like Robert Pines). 
Beware - beware of any "guidance" NoMo the Lapdog wants to give you. 
It's like the devil giving you "advice" on what to do. 

The only thing that will make railroads crossings safe is to pass a law
requiring a railroad executive imprisoned and electrocuted in the chair
for every person killed at a RR crossing. Presto!  Problem solved! And
perverted Lap Dogs like CornHoNoMo the LapDog are out of work.

Name: please
E-mail: 
Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 September 2012

Atom Smasher


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JUST BLOCK THEM FOR AWHILE. We know you dont
censor anyone permanently but cant we just have a few weeks of a break
from pines and JJ....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....

And nomo....we know its hard but maybe if you just ignore them they
will find another rock to crawl under....

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 September 2012

Hey Pimp Daddy:

You're still deflecting...where's the Autopsy and Tox reports and the
Police accident report? Man up and post so we can see for ourselves how
Cindy was run down like a dog!

Seems you're the only person that was/is getting cornholed.

I wonder how many civilians have been killed or injured during the same
time frame by drivers texting...care to venture a guess?

Get some help.

Hey LPFB:

You got the answers to the questions yet? I didn't think so. Go back
to your circle of friends and assume you position as pivot man.

You have nothing to add to this site...you know nothing about the RR,
CSX, Corporate America or any issues that you profess to be expert on.
When you're old enough to vote then you can discuss it...until then
your opinion doesn't matter.

Keep sucking up to Pimp Daddy...birds of a feather...you're as bipolar
as he is, maybe more!

You need help too!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 September 2012

Let's see LapDogNoMoCoHoBoZo
...Did you bring the Judge up on ethics charges?...Been there ---done
that---That dog don't hunt---Just like the worthless as tits on a bore
hog federal railroad-bought association. 
...Did you file complaints with the Disciplinary Boards of the
respective State Bar Associations...Been there ---done that---That dog
don't hunt---Just like the worthless as tits on a bore hog federal
railroad-bought association. 

...contingent fee basis...plus expenses. $5,000 for POS video
simulation that could been downloaded off Napster. $75 for a phone call
to the secretary "when are you going to get off your can and do
something?"

Here's what I did ---Figuring your Mikey mad the same $13 million
above the table the first 6 months of this year comes out to over $4
million per body CSX left along the tracks. I have problems???

50,196,499 train miles
7,500,340 switching miles
+++++++++++
57,696,839 total miles
killed 54
111 employees injured
30,900,000 employee hours
100 train accidents
collisions 4
derailments 75
178 crossing collisions ---22 killed ---78 injured
civilians ran down like dogs---32 killed ---36 injured

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 28 September 2012

LapDogNoMo. LOL.  Robert hit it right on the head - you are a corporate
lap dog. BowWow Bowser.  Lick em Lassie. Old Yeller Belly .  Anyone who
attacks the victim of a crossing accident can only be a corporate lap
dog.  So, tell us, LapDogNoMo, how much experience do you have as a
corporate lap dog doing lap dances for Mickey's tom-tom..? Does Mickey
like to use Ben Gay or hot taco sauce for your lubricant? Robert Pines
and his family were obviously victims of a corrupt and incompentent
"legal" system.  Even a first grader can see that. Anyone who reads
this site can see that. Either too many lap dances made you go blind
from a penislabotomy , or else you are just the damn dumbest foaming
company lap dog idiot who has ever posted on here. No wonder CSX
cornholed you. Why dont you go do something useful for us responsible
folks - like play on the hi-speed railroad tracks in your back yard -
run up and downt the right of way like a rabid dog with a hot fusee
stuck up your arse. Woof.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 27 September 2012

September 27, 2012......and CSX STILL SUCKS!!!!!!!!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 September 2012

Hey Pimp Daddy.

Just post the Autopsy and Accident Reports, everything else is just you
deflecting. 

But thank you for you tirade...it speaks eloquently to your mental
instability...you see shadows everywhere and everyone is conspiring
against you. A corrupt Federal Judge, crooked Attorneys that made
fraudulent filings in a court of law and bogus billings on a case that
should have been on a contingent fee basis. Don't flatter yourself,
you're not that important.

The larger question is what did you do about it? Did you bring the
Judge up on ethics charges? Did you file complaints with the
Disciplinary Boards of the respective State Bar Associations or did you
do nothing because you felt sorry for yourself?

In the end, everyone will be held accountable for their actions or lack
thereof...the only thing you have done that I see, is point your finger
and blame everyone else for your problems!

Get some help.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 27 September 2012

OK CoHoNoMo ----I got a box full of court records sitting here if you
need to get off on this case. What you wants to know? The engineers
name? His wife's name? Their reconciled divorce case number? Their
address? His later Fela case #? The name of the other girl he killed at
the same crossing which I have all the records for? The dirty Federal
judge statement that a 22 year old and 18 year old weren't old enough
and couldn't handle their own case and let grandpa who didn't even
know what day it was settle through his scum bag attorney? My kids
refusal to settle out of court without crossing signals being
installed? The lawyers fake filing? Terry N. Brown making charges for
this case and a FELA case he was doing at the same time?

Come on Mikeys CoHoNoMo lap dog bark!!

Name: JJ 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 September 2012

Hey Robert,
For someone who claims to be on here ‘doing good for people screwed
over by the railroads‘ good ok boy cornholeNoMo sure does have a
strange way of showing it. Railroads and their bottom sucking insurance
carriers are total arseholes from the getgo.  NoMo should know that.
Which makes him a Freudian FUFLB. Being cornholenomo comes from being a
fatherless child never weaned from mothers milk. 
That attorney must have been on crack.  Any crossing accident should
have a law that for ever person killed by a train, a railroad executive
gets sentenced to the electric chair.  That would light a fire under
their stars. So likeslittleboysNoMoCoHo knox, when you gonna post those
shower videos of yourself and your little brb's on YouTube for the
world to see??? LOL

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 September 2012

Hey Pimp Daddy:

Sold you wife's life and your soul for $375K(less accrued legal fees).
Respect...ha, more like a slap in the face. The Insurance carrier made a
nuisance payment. They would have spent more in legal fees going to
trial. The Attorney that was fired, would that be Terry Brown, knew
that going to trial was a loser and take years. Your kids firing him,
if in fact they hired him, had nothing to do with the settlement. Both
were too young to engage an Attorney at the time and their Guardian,
you, hired him.

He had "crack head" kids? Exactly how would you know that and what
would that have to do with anything? Or, are you, as usual, making
wild, unfounded accusations because of your guilt?

So to review, BNSF paid your children $375K, you fail to mention if
they paid you anything, In return you agreed to hold BNSF harmless
against all future claims, not discuss the case, which explains your
steadfast refusal to talk about it, or disparage the BNSF name and
agreed that BNSF wasn't at fault. Does that about sum it up?

Before you ever call anyone else a whore or pimp again, take a long
hard look in a mirror...looks like you, doesn't it!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 26 September 2012

I can see CoHoNoMo in front of Mikey and the gang standing on top of the
screw the public table in his Aretha Franklin git-up singing we kill ya
we at one of our 1,000s of death traps we give you R-E-S-P-E-C-T a
little bit.

BNSF respected the kids with $375,000 after the lower than rail execs
lawyer spending all his money on his crack head kid wasn't about about
to go to court and said my kids had fired him. That was one day after
the youngest turned 18. 

CoHoNoMo you should check things out before you start your dribble.
Huge
grain bins in the way ---road traffic red lights right above the
tracks--no trimming of trees coming into the curve for the train or
trimming of trees in front of the obsolete road side mounted crossing
signals ---doctored crossing inventory train count by the
railroad---doctored road lane count by the state -- the simultaneous
premption inventoried is obviously not there or didn't work. So the
three trains a week can't just crawl up here and peek to see if the
coast is clear?
Where does Darwin live ---oh in MMikeys new $2.3 million second house
paid for maybe the $27 million salary or some other funds people
aren't aware of?

Regardless of protection or not, every State makes it incumbent on the
train driver of the train to insure the rail is clear before
proceeding
down it.
Google map
302 Stoystown Road Somerset, PA
http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=401222
Two years and 5 days 137th most dangerous crossing in the state with
the train inventory doctored as -0- trains a day. What's the odds of
four vehicles being hit by a couple of 25 mph speed limit trains a
week? 137 0.035402 145163L 2 1 0 0 0 FL 0 1 25 YES 2 9,411
With four collisions here in years and 5 days ---1 killed and 1
injured
one might think the state police haven't a clue on what to look for.
Let's figure 9,000 vehicles a day here and the lights have to be on
at
least 20 seconds before the train arrives. The odds of this truck
being
first to the crossing are about zip.nadda. Where's the fine on the
state for not having gates and cantilevers where these obsolete side
mounted signals are with TREES in front of them???

Name: suzannah
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years
Posted: 25 September 2012

other


What is it with the idiots who keep coming on this site and making fun
of people who make spelling errors. Its the perfect example of someone
in upper management who cant find any other way to pick the statement
apart!



Bubba fell out of his bosses pickup while riding in the back because
the tail gate was broken(reported 100 times!)and he wouldnt fix it. He
broke his arm and leg. His lawyer had him write out a statement about
what happened and how everyone had complained about the broken
tailgate. Bubba could barely spell his own name correctly. When they
went to court the judge gave a copy of the statement to his boss and
his lawyer to review as evidence. When it was time for his bosses
lawyer to address the judge he said...
"look your honor, this is how it is. Bubba is obviously a retard and
no smarter than a third grader. Hell, he cant even spell his own name
right. He has the brains of a dead rat and he probably doesnt even
really know what happened. I say we just throw this statement out. It
cant be credible." 

The judge looked at Bubba and said.."come up here sir and tell me what
happened to you." Bubba looked at the judge and said..."I was riding
in the back of the bosses pickem up truck sir and that there gate flew
plum open and I felled right out of it and hit the road. Thats when I
broke my arm and my leg sir!" The judge told Bubba that would be all
and he could sit down now! The judge then looked at the educated lawyer
and the educated boss and said..."Now I aint no college educated man
like you two there but I would have to say that the cast on Bubbas arm
and leg would suggest they were broke. My grandpa didnt go past 3rd
grade but he sure knew how to fix his old pickup truck! Seen him fix
the tailgate once and it never broke again! So Im guessing your just
not that smart after all are you. So heres your educated lesson for the
day...GUILTY!  Im guessing I dont have to tell you how to spell that! 

Damn! Ignorance can be bliss!  (Did I spell everything right?)

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

RE: Name: 
    E-mail: 
    Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
    Posted: 25 September 2012

    TM 9/22/2012

  Check out the post from the TM dated above.

   Best post ever placed on this site. CSX has a lot of power in the
   ranks, and a lot of power in mgt. Now is the time to align those
   resources.


GAYWARD FLOCKER

You say you dont think any other corporation has a site like this
where
employees come and vent about the verbal, mental and just plain
outright
harrassment of its employees.....Well maybe that should tell you
something, you think!!!  An employer who is so hell bent on ruling
with
fear and intimidation that a website is created so people can vent and
maybe not bring a weapon to work and blow someones head off is a
pretty
good idea dont you think!  I will tell you now because I KNOW and have
seen supervisors who will stop at nothing to "GET YOU" if you dare
to
challenge them when they write you up for something they were totally
wrong about. Their attitude of..."How dare you question me and make
me
look like a fool" is exactly the kind of fear that is instilled on a
daily basis. You make one of their trains late and they dont get their
scheduled departure time because you refused to take equipment that is
unsanitary or loaded with fra violations, then you better count on
having your name on the dart board! You think it doesnt happen then
you
are just plain stupid!


Where and what kind of power does CSX have   enlighten us.!!!


Or you just blowing smoke up your supervisors butt at CSX  LOL

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

Hey Bob (Pimp Daddy) Pines:

Where's Darwin Live...She lived in Sullivan, MO until she decided to
play chicken with a train.

Let's face it...you don't give a shit about any of these 
people...the only person you care about is deflecting the guilt you
feel.

You can deflect all you want but in the final analysis your wife
was responsible for her own death...or, were you driving or maybe
chasing her?

"...road traffic red lights right above the tracks--no trimming of
trees coming into the curve for the train or trimming of trees in front
of the obsolete road side mounted crossing signals ---doctored crossing
inventory train count by the railroad---doctored road lane count by the
state". Every one of these is bull shit and you know it,
the only reason you use them is as a reason to come on here and cry
and bitch. If you could screw as long as you deflect, you'd be world
famous.

I don't know why you continue to use Cindy's death as an excuse
for your behavior...perhaps because you used her life to justify it!

Maybe it's about time she and your sons get the respect they deserve
and you quit playing them...move on!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

CoHoNoMo you should check things out before you start your dribble. Huge
grain bins in the way ---road traffic red lights right above the
tracks--no trimming of trees coming into the curve for the train or
trimming of trees in front of the obsolete road side mounted crossing
signals ---doctored crossing inventory train count by the
railroad---doctored road lane count by the state -- the simultaneous
premption inventoried is obviously not there or didn't work. So the
three trains a week can't just crawl up here and peek to see if the
coast is clear?
Where does Darwin live ---oh in MMikeys new $2.3 million second house
paid for maybe the $27 million salary or some other funds people
aren't aware of?

Regardless of protection or not, every State makes it incumbent on the
train driver of the train to insure the rail is clear before proceeding
down it.
Google map
302 Stoystown Road Somerset, PA
http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=401222
Two years and 5 days 137th most dangerous crossing in the state with
the train inventory doctored as -0- trains a day. What's the odds of
four vehicles being hit by a couple of 25 mph speed limit trains a
week? 137 0.035402 145163L 2 1 0 0 0 FL 0 1 25 YES 2 9,411
With four collisions here in years and 5 days ---1 killed and 1 injured
one might think the state police haven't a clue on what to look for.
Let's figure 9,000 vehicles a day here and the lights have to be on at
least 20 seconds before the train arrives. The odds of this truck being
first to the crossing are about zip.nadda. Where's the fine on the
state for not having gates and cantilevers where these obsolete side
mounted signals are with TREES in front of them???

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

TM 9/22/2012

Check out the post from the TM dated above.

Best post ever placed on this site. CSX has a lot of power in the
ranks, and a lot of power in mgt. Now is the time to align those
resources.

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years
Posted: 25 September 2012

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on "Medical Standards for 
Railroad Workers."

This report is something the FRA, Carriers and the International would
like to keep under wraps!

Google the caption and stay informed.

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

Well now, if it isn't Bob(the Cable Guy) Pines and his side kick the
LPFB.

Hey LPFB, can you answer the questions yet? I didn't think so. I bet
you're the one that really enjoys the showers after Gym Class!

Pines, the only person pimping on this site is you. You would pimp your
Momma, Sister, Aunts, Cindy and you sons to make a point that's not
there. If you're that miserable, at least be man enough to end your
misery.

Regardless of protection or not, every State makes it incumbent on the
driver of the vehicle to insure the rail is clear before proceeding
across it...just the thinning of the herd. Darwinism at it's best!

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

Well the world spins and people stay in a world of their own making or
lack of, so to speak!I am so tired of the Pines B.S. that I just skip
it and and try to read the other garbage that is worth reading and that
is few and far between.Spelling is not a strong point on this site but
if you could just get by in High School then pushing a throttle up and
down is fairly easy.Oh, and by the way peyote is not smoked.It is best
eaten or made in a tea but you have to have a strong Spirit to
understand its inner beauty.So, I suggest most of you stick to coffee
and nicotine because going into the Spirit world is not for the
ignorant!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 25 September 2012

Yep JJ I would like to see the CoHoNoMo exams---the state DOTs rail
safety are full of.
One of the questions must be CAN YOU PLAY STUPID IN FAVOR OF THE
RAILROAD?
Then WOULD YOU PIMP OUT YOUR MOMMA?

http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=401222
Faulty CSX signals cause 4th collision in two years putting crossing as
#1 crossing for state in Pa. But Mikey is at his new $2.3 million
chateau in his $$$$$$$ bill print leotards.

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

Robert,

NoMo is apparently far more interested in his Freudian perversions of
rubbing down little boys'penises than in any meaningful or thoughtful
discussion on the causes, occurance and prevention of railroad crossing
accidents. (No suprise there).    

The fact is that the Railroad Corporate World brainwashes lackies like
NoMo into believing and espousing the evil psycho babble gibberish that
railroads have the right of way to slaughter innocent human beings at
railroad crossings. 

As long as Corporate Railroad sees the automobile driver / truck driver
/ school bus / or human pedestrian as a worthless liability - and
accident proof crossings as a "cost over-run" -  we will continue to
have innocent decent human beings needlessly slaughtered at railroad
crossings and on rairoad right-of-ways.  

NoMo and the Corporate Zombies think it is the Railroad Company's
right to kill people as long as it is sanctioned by the "law".
That's what Hitler said when he went around slaughtering millions of
Jews. 

Keep up the good work Robert Pines! Your posts are TRUTH and FACT. Do
not be discouraged by the devil's foamers!  Keep on Truckin!!

Name: NoMo
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

Hey Troll...I mean Little Pimple Faced Boy:

You figured out the operating rules over grade crossing? How about
the state traffic law at RR crossings?

I didn't think so...now go rub one off since that's all your good at!

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

Email   btpino40@gmail.com      
Preferred Contact Method        Email   
Railroad or Company that Committed the Alleged Violation        CSX    

Type of Alleged Violation       Grade Crossing  
Date of Alleged Violation       08/25/2012      
Time of Alleged Violation               
Alleged Violation Location      Ashland Ky CSX yard ---19th St. 
Please provide a description of the Alleged Violation   ...He said
there were no lights at the crossing...Meaning the lights didn't
work.How do ya get around with those bad eyes Nomo? NOMO you gotta be
really quick on the foamer video made from the catwalk on the track
light tower in the news video. Refresh and click on video immediately
stopping it 0:00. There is your stupid stop/look/listen sign
---crossing lights. Or you can Google map it and it's the same spot
going by the two river bridges---yard building shapes ---stupid sound
wall
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/BREAKING-NEWS-Tractor-Trailer-Hit-by-Train-in-Ashland-167322545.html
It happened about 10:45 a.m. Friday at the railroad crossing on 19th
Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland. The driver of the semi worked for
Murray Transport in Paintsville, Kentucky. He tells WSAZ.com that he was
picking up a load of train wheels and stopped at the tracks. He said
there were no lights at the crossing, so he went ahead, but when he was
halfway on the tracks, saw a train. The driver said he gunned it to try
to get off the tracks, but the train clipped the back of his truck. No
one from CSX would comment except NOMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqczlCXTno At the Ashland Yard
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl 19th ST. Ashland Ky Zoom to
River and 19th

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

george.hartman@dot.gov
10:25 AM (3 hours ago)

to me, Web, thomas.mcfarlin, R3RRSMail 
Hartman, George (FRA) would like to recall the message, "Highway-Rail
Grade Crossing Control #018842 closeout ".

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

Hey Robert, CSX SUCKS HoHo on the side of a panel car 
 driving around Mickeys new $20.2 million dollar home would be a good
go with! 

This site would be so much more fun if the flamers and foamers life low
just leave. 

I do feel sorry for Fred, he is just one more employee victim tossed
under the wheels for some whacked out mindless CSX reason.  He will
thank the Lord later....the railroad management is a whorehouse chock
full of incompetent fatherless basters who never got wheened from
mommies teaties. Such a tragedy. If they had not screwed him now , they
most certainly would have later.  

CornHo, is that you foaming again?  We thought you were out running the
rails today smashing and bashing those mothers and their babies at the
RR crossings....cuttin some more notches on your throttle. So, how many
kills did you have during your shortened career? 1000?  10,000? That'll
reach those motorists to fool around with NoMo~ the~Rocket Scientist.

Name: sick of you
E-mail: 
Employed as: APE, for 30+ years
Posted: 24 September 2012

PINES

MEANINGLESS DRIBBLE FOR FOAMERS!!!!You my man are a pathetic piece of
sh...! How dare you come on here and insult that poor man for coming on
this site and doing exactly what the webmaster created it for...To
express the wrongful termination by a company who doesnt give a rats
ass about safety and its employees well being. This poor man was let go
because the TM who failed to do his job and was caught by another tm
knew he had no union representation and wouldnt be able to do a thing
about it. He didnt do anything to the crew that should have been pulled
out of service for their part as well because he knew they would screem
to the union about how he sat on his ass and did nothing as a
supervisor to correct the situation. I hope this man screems to the
fra, the redi center and to the government agency who gave the grant
money to csx to hire and train this guy and what a waste it was because
they had to cover up the unprofessional worthless actions of both tms
involved. 

Pines, you are nobody and Im sure the webmaster of this site didnt plan
on someone like you coming on here and monoploizing it for year after
year with your crybaby songs just because your wife got herself killed
by a train. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A REAL CSX EMPLOYEE GOES THROUGH
EVERYDAY. YOU WASTE SPACE AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO INSULT ANYONE ON HERE
WHO HAS BEEN TREATED LIKE DIRT WHILE WORKING FOR CSX! Why dont you just
get off of here and start your own site for gate crossing foamers. You
and JJ are just a waste of good posting space. I have heard several
people say they have checked out this site but didnt return because
they saw too much Jerry springer type of crap on here and didnt think
the site would be considered credible. If you dont have anything to
post on here that can or will help the real employees in the fields
that endure their crap everyday they come to work then why dont you
just do all of us a favor and disappear!

Name: JJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 24 September 2012

Hey Robert,
Sounds like that UP track inspector was smoking peyote and Don	Juan
CornHo paid  him a visit.  NTSB all drink from the same boot as the FRA
and the Rail Barons. Of course it is the same boot NoMoJoCornHo pees in
every morning with instructions on the heel regarding how to empty the
boot.....his 'cronies' never do carch on ...it's like a really bad
comedy.. 

Guess we better stop look and listen, else it'll be HoHo behind the
throttle wide open coasting down the track ....lights off, horn off
...no signals or gates and smoking a pikeville off Union grade opium 

Hey Fred,
My opinion .... You got set up. They were gonna fire  
you and for most likely personal reasons. Are you African American, pr
some other class of commonly discriminated against individuals?

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 23 September 2012

No names and dead-head fred need to go to meaningless dribble for
foamers section.

Dead head Fred ---get a panel truck put big CSX-Sucks signs on the
sides and drive around Mikeys new $2.3 million second house he bought
with part of his $27 million salary.

So the NTSB takes pictures of the UN-damaged unit that was too damaged
to get information off of. OK WE'RE STUPID.
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F479241.pdf
Signal Attachment 11 GCP 3000 Unit Undamaged 

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F505192.pdf
Grade Crossing Signal System Event Recorders: Due to the extensive
damage to the signal bungalow on-siteinvestigators were unable to
retrieve any signal data from the GCP-3000 or the HCA unit.
Hey JJ ---Looks like UP used a CoHoNoMo in Nevada acting like a UP
track inspector. He's sitting out in the middle of the desert eyeing
the coyotes to see if could chinga da madres and NEVER sees a
humongous
truck with locked up brakes coming right at him sitting at the
crossing.

http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitlist.cfm?docketID=51359&CFID=151580&CFTOKEN=48406090
http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51000-51499%2F51359%2F473527.pdf
...And then I grabbed my job briefing book and then I heard the bells
for the crossing sign things. So, that tells me the train is coming.
The track is occupied...And when I was there watching at the train, I
wave at the train, just like we usually do. He wave at me and then
--and then, as he was going by the crossing, I heard the impact and I
saw the car almost tips over. He moved a lot. And I saw a fire under
the car, the wheels...

Name: 
E-mail: 
Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 23 September 2012

Ur under trainin or was i should say basically when ur under that
probationary period u can be canned for any reason Mabye the union can
help but i dought it Then if you do get ur job back which i dought U
will now be walkin around with a big red bullseye on your back ur in a
no win situation from what i see Thats why i left i went back to my old
job where theres a real union Sure i lost all my senorty and im at the
bottom of the pile again but hey at least i have a job where i have
rights and not in a bum union I rember going to that school in ga A
group of guys that where stayin in another hotel basically had all
there stuff stolen wile in school one guy even had his truck stolen
bec