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: Pull by 
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 20 October 2018

These two person pull by that is done outside the cab. Hh started that
with cn cp. just another way to have control of employees. When a piece
of black banding cuts some one up then they will blame employees. In my
view out on the road it is a very unsafe practice.

Name: Ha! E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 October 2018 JEEEZ.....DEEZ. DIDN'T LIKE THAT LAST POST. Truth hurts. Ok moles. Anymore stupid comments. Hey ym...please explain what an exception car is out of the yard!

Name: Deez E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 October 2018 Both employees get down to watch trains because we don't want u fuckers sleeping

Name: Raped E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 October 2018 News Tm... You can get the freight across the road efficiently without out right stealing from the people who move the damn freight. It's a crime for CSX to blatantly ignore and disregard what they signed their John Henry on. They try so hard to make the company look like the all mighty good old boys to the public when in fact they are not. Look at the employee gateway lately? Pat me on the back blow hard propaganda. I remember when they claimed they were voted the most friendly military employee out there. They failed to tell people it was because the Fed's were giving them a hefty grant for each one they hired. That's just one example of their so called ethical behavior. There should never be a fight over an agreements working conditions and pay. Just honor the damn agreements that were signed. If the company spent as much time scheduling on time freight as they do researching loop holes in the agreement to screw the workers over we would be number 1 out here. people aren't stupid. They know the sham. It's just a matter of time. You can only be evil and manipulative for so long before something gives. God works in mysterious ways. Csx Keeps biting the hands that feed them someone is going to get slapped.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 October 2018 It's all about money with the company and the employees. That's exactly why the workers take the abuse. Because what's the alternative? There used to be a day when I thought enough men could man up together and make change but its very obvious conditions can be about as bad as possible as long as the bills get paid. What's worse? Little Freddie not getting his 300$ Christmas present or you taking that butt plundering from the RR? It's a sad fkng world we live in. Men getting bent over for the need of a buck. And the multi-million/billion dollar companies playing on those very insecurities. One day you'll wake up and realize it wasn't and it isn't worth it. Burn in hell CSX.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 October 2018 who gives a fuck. just get paid.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 October 2018 Railroader wild: i want the company i work for to be financially sound and whats wrong with that? Lets just all do our jobs and get the freight over the road safely and efficiently as possible... thats what the company pays us to do Sir..

Name: Railroader in control E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 Jackazzmaster...you must have just got to shithole express.. we've already did it. Back before our savior Obumer enacted the clean power Act.. keep drinking the Kool-Aid you moron

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 October 2018 CSX likely to hit 12 billion in revenue this year with a market cap of 59 billion...that boys is how tomorrow moves

Name: Railroader in control E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 I would like to point out that since i left that shit hole i havent had to punch any one in the mouth and don't expect to have to. Most employers don't treat their employees like s******* Express does. Go work somewhere where they really care about you working there and you're doing the job they need done they dont have the attitude that they don't need you

Name: Railroader in control E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 I dont turn in claims any more.if some one doesn't pay me what we again upon i bunch them in the month. Gets fast action. Someone in jackazzville on the other in of a phone line doesn't give a s*** about your claim. There not going to pay you and theres nothing ypu can do about it. And they know it. The fix is in and there all laughing at you calling you a sucker

Name: CMA E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 October 2018 Brothers Has anyone heard yet what brought about this rule that both crew members must get on the ground now and inspect passing trains. It has to be a liability reason. They don't care if your doing it on passing trains on double main. Been ok for years from the cab. We're guessing it's a liability reason. Had to be a defect detector that missed something serious that got the Fed's involved and they kept it quiet. Out of the press. There is a detector before and after every siding out there. If you miss something with two sets of eyes and one of their detectors miss it, there is no doubt they're going to be coming back to the inspecting crew. You Can't prove you didn't see anything but then they can't prove you did. We all know how this works in the Csx court of law. Puts the liability in the crews laps. If you got a brain in your heads when this new rule takes effect you will report every little squeek, pop, crack, spark, low air hose, lose strap, thumping sound or anything else the detector may not pick up. This new rule wasn't created because they were bored. There is legal reasons behind it and it isnt to protect the crews!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 October 2018 Safety blitz tonight in Louisville! If they watch you long enough they will get you!

Name: Rogue too E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 October 2018 Private sector Union membership didn't drop from 20% in 83' to 6% today for no reason. Don't kid yourself. You have never and will never have any hint of control. Csx will do whatever, whenever they want. If you don't agree just consider this: On a daily basis, CSX denies hundreds of valid claims. THEY ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE AND AGREED ON BY BOTH SIDES. It shouldn't even be an issue that goes to your LC. They have literally no argument to deny or change the rules they do. Yet, they have laughed at your contract (and will continue to) for years to come.

Name: Roalroader gone Rogue E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 You should attend the next Bernie Sanders rally

Name: Roalroader gone Rogue E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 Balls? I quit that shit hole. I only go on here for laughs You guys are suckers. Union? Sucker. There all un jackazzville Laughing at you guys.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 October 2018 We all need to stick together and make some shit happen, That’s the only way it’s going to change. I will get my guys together and put it to them like we did in the Conrail days. Matter of fact they should reconsider bringing back Conrail!! No one ever did it like Conrail did. Plain and simple!!

Name: HA! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 October 2018 CORPORATE.....LYING MOLE ROGUE....REALLY IDIOT??? Same post every week, every month, every year. Bunch of blow hard pansies who have no balls to stand up to their unions who are the ones who are the cause of every single mess that has ever existed. They don't fight for you, they don't listen to you, they take your money and laugh at you. Your LCs are in the dark half the time and are just puppets. None of you have the balls to STRIKE against your unions. Start voting the old blood out and bring the new blood in. In the meantime, just cry and bitch and do nothing as usual. You don't even have the balls to lay down on the man! Your so scared of being targeted that you run and kick ass so fast they don't even see you running by. I remember the days when MEN ran the yard and when they laid down and the numbers got bad the WHITE shirts from corporate would fly in and want to know what the problems were and what they could do to fix it. Guess who wasn't there? THE UNION REPS! So figure it our little boys and girls. Jeeze.... no balls, no fixy fixy little girls!

Name: Rogue Railroader E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 October 2018 Record profits..... let's strike... You guys sound like you're at a Bernie Sanders rally.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 19 October 2018 Union Pacific and CSX will merge...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 October 2018 Get rid of the hedge fund peeps!!!

Name: Up E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 October 2018 Foote can’t get CSX right, how the hell they going to take over up. I call bullshit. Would not fly with the feds!!

Name: Ego E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 October 2018 Under this regime I witnessed, that if your a manager and you hold your mouth wrong they will fire you for anything. That why they want older guys to retire. Instead of firing them and most likely have to pay large severance pay. With new managers with no years in they can fire them with little cost . With some managers they don’t like they see how much shit they will take till they push them out.

Name: Pention it’s your money E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 October 2018 Check into if your fired or quit. You can’t have access to your pention but, you can transfer it from CSX. To a registered retirement plan. And pick the stock you want it invested in. Threw a broker or your own trading account, but buy doing this you assume the risk if stock does not do well but then stock could do great.

Name: Retirement E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 October 2018 I retired after 34 years, I stayed extra year figured it would make a difference on a my pention. But did not make much difference at all. With investments, company pention it is more than enough to have comfortable life. Like that one guy said go check out what numbers you would get if you can retire. Let the young guys take over. We paid our dues. Gives younger guy chance to move up on the list. I don’t miss rr life.

Name: Leaving E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 October 2018 Ape That's what paroled said. Quit at 55 and roll it over. You can do early withdrawal at 55 if you quit then but it has to stay invested with the company till 59 1/2 if you dont want to pay penalties.Screw that! If your quitting cut all ties and don't touch it till your 59 1/2. Run! Close the door on the bad dream. Get a life!

Name: Collective agreement E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 October 2018 From reading a lot of these posts, I’m really blown away how little a lot of you know about your collective agreement. And some of you vote for a contract you know nothing about. Holy shit take sometime read your agreement it’s your job your protecting or signing away. Then when things don’t go your way. You yell it’s the unions fault, you all are the union not a handful of elected reps. A lot of you can’t see the forest for the trees. Stop being VICTOMS be proactive in your own future.

Name: Seniority E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 October 2018 I know in some crafts, if you move to management, for every year your a manager you lose a years seniority. It should say right on you seniority list. Once they take a set up. They are frozen and it’s a year for a year.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 October 2018 You cannot take your 401k out and put into an IRA. You cannot do anything with it until 59 1/2. The only way you can roll it into IRA if you resign from company. Also if you have one with UTU and then switched to another (engineer) craft such as BLET then your UTU 401K stays and just draws interest on your whatever your selections were. It is always worth talking to people in Jax about your savings. Each Union has their own 401K. I have talked to M.Lynch and to lady that is over 401K's with CSX and you are stuck unless you quit or retire.

Name: Tropicana E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 October 2018 There remodeling the 14th floor of headquarters in Jacksonville...making a special section they are calling the "war room"....for union management relations...we better start sticking togather like the smarter than us old timers did.....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 October 2018 Marvin Helms! We know you look on this site, call us immediately!

Name: Pention E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 October 2018 Sorry pal that’s as much as I can tell you,about the pay delay.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 October 2018 Maybe Canada. IDK. Hunter never controlled the RRB and you'd have to show me a cite where he was able to do this. And I doubt Hunter spelled it like you do, 😇

Name: Pention E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 October 2018 Hh implemented the program of contracting handling pention payments,for bank to handle then he left. If my memory is right, it was for less than a week that pay for everyone was held back. People ended up bouncing checks they had written, loan money was not in bank on time, it caused lots of problems for people. Cp had around thirty people in the pention department. After Hh made his cuts,I think they where down to like five employees.

Name: Pention E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 October 2018 Yes they did with hold pention checks also. The bank was contracted out to handle pention right after Hh let. Everything handle threw the pention department. It was a gong show for employees and pensioners. Z

Name: Pot E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 October 2018 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/17/health/canada-legalizes-recreational-marijuana/index.html

Name: Canada pot now legal E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 October 2018 If your stresses out, you can now come to Canada buy legal pot and smoke your brains out. Stress leave vacation in Canada!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 October 2018 Withholding money, Did you say they withheld penSion checks? How do they stop the RRB from sending them out?

Name: Paroled E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2018 NEWBIES Save every damn dime you get your hands on. Don't be stupid. This job is feast or famine. It is unpredictable and all based on the economy. Don't be a stupid fool just because you are getting a bigger pay check than you have ever gotten before. SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! OLD HEADS! If you are turning 55 or you are already over 55 roll that 401k over to an IRA and get the hell out. You cant touch the money without a penalty before age 59 1/2 unless you leave it with the company but if you were planning on staying until 60 you don't need it anyway. GET THE HELL OUT! Let someone else handle your money. Cut your ties. Forget their stock. There are much better investments our there. Get a life. Move your money and run as far away as you can. Its doable if you haven't been an idiot with your money! Make an appointment with the retirement board and let them crunch the numbers for you. They did a great job of explaining to me what I would be earning at age 62 or at age 65 with 22 years of service. Its a cut but not as bad as you think. Do yourself a favor and go see them. If you have other investments you just might find you can run for the hill as fast as you can and be just fine. If you don't do it for yourself then do it for your sanity!

Name: Tom pitzen E-mail: Yahoo.com Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 October 2018 Record profits at the earnings meeting..keep up the good work..the union will negotiate you a 1 percent annual raise .. keeping all our great work rules..# hourly rate off the table

Name: Trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 October 2018 U little whining bitches...aint got a clue what WE are fixing to do....dont let your dingel dong dangle in the dirt...it might get stepped on it might get hurt.

Name: Gentlemen E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 October 2018 If you going to sleep with the managements women, because they are lonely at least be a gentleman about it. Don’t kiss and tell!!!

Name: vested E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2018 WEBMASTER! Can you please block the low life trash post like the one fake chump hump master just posted. We don't need nor do any of us who are serious about our situations at work want this kind of low life post. I have been out here long enough to figure out their pattern. CSX always does this kind of sham every year during the last quarter. Good guess is they are getting ready to audit and close out the business matters before the end of the year. They withhold as many claims as they can and pay out as little as they can. Maybe it is easier to just freeze any extra wages earned other than the flat rates. Give them a chance to "Guestimate" what their payout for bonuses and other tax related issues will be. Don't claim to be a financial advisor but they do this every single year! I agree with other poster. It should be a federal offense to sit on our money and hold out any opportunity we should have to invest it and earn interest on it. I have always wondered how long it will be before they have the balls to hold out our union dues. All they have to do is say there is a computer glitch and then take it out in a lump sum on our last check. Whats the unions going to do? Nothing. No balls.

Name: Hump master E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2018 I just fucked the shit out of Trainmaster David Benson’s wife. His mom is next. That dirty bitch.

Name: Tropicana E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 October 2018 Dang sure crawling around Bradenton Fla...and the rr bulls too..

Name: With holding money E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 October 2018 Foote is copying what Hh did at CP. And Hh also delayed pention checks it was done on purpose. But they where all told it was because of computer glitch. But truth did come out they collect interest and pissed every one off. Foote is repeating everything at CSX that Hh did at cn cp. And foot is expecting by doing it this way the stock will have the same results it did at cn cp. But with the correction with the stock market, and the layout of CSX track, he will never get the same results as Hh got in Canada. And he will take the frustrations out on every one below him. Watch your back,these fuckers are not human.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 October 2018 Loco, Here's some wisdom. If "they" were illegally withholding correct claims, it's time we had a come to Jesus meeting with our unions. They have a fiduciary interest to protect us and they don't. It's time for a clean sweep of our managers who don't remember what ballast looks like. It's time for two unions to become one and reduce staffing by more than half and reduce dues by more than half as well. None of this will happen, of course.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 October 2018 ape 20-30 In the meantime they are sitting on our money they are withholding against our agreement on terms of pay! They are still getting the interest that it is earning while it sits in their "we will pay it later account!" That is stealing as far as most of us are concerned and our money is being used for their benefit and not ours. Do you have any words of wisdom on that one?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 October 2018 Cocksuckers in Eville tonite. Watch your backs.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 October 2018 Cond 1-10 years. The stock is not tanking. There was a correction. So did most of the other stocks "tank". Did you sell all your stock? Of course you didn't. You haven't lost a penny and you never will until you start selling. If you don't know that, hire a financial pro. You're also wrong on the IRS. We can't get two people in a row to stand up against this company. Generally, their balls shrivel and they start shaking. That said, if you got EVERY SINGLE MEMBER to stand and fight for a change, it wouldn't change a thing. The IRS can't and won't work like that. If you don't know that, it's time for a tutor.

Name: 310 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 October 2018 Yes Sir "Train Bastard"... your day is coming.... very soon.... for getting the pink slip...wet behind the ears college boy.

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 October 2018 hangover Some people are just so full of shitz it isn't even funny. Now, for those who are getting flipped back and they are refusing to let them go to the hotel, its because your getting ready to get screwed. They haven't been paying the trip home. Not one dime. They aren't even paying the engineers. Pulling another one of their stunts and stealing again. Guessing it has to do with finances and adjusting the books. The stock is tanking. I just lost 11,000 in my BLET 401k. They are doing what they do best. Don't pay the employees, come up with some lame bull shitz reason which is always something they supposedly found in the agreements, then pay it out later. I think we all need to call the IRS and demand an audit. The money they are holding back could be drawing interest for us who invest. Instead they are sitting on it and getting the interest. This should be a federal offense. Its never a good sign when the company sits on our money. Somebody is working on the books!

Name: Hotelhangover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 October 2018 I've been in the hotel for 35 hrs now. I've managed to get drunk twice, get laid once and I've rubbed 2 1/2 off. Pornhub, YouTube and the buffet across the street has helped the time pass. That's all

Name: ??? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 October 2018 Crews Got to be something crazy behind this new rule that both crew members will have to get down and watch the roll by of passing trains. Like a previous poster said, if we were one man crews like they want so bad there would only be one person on the ground. there is something up with this. How about the rule that states you are supposed to be doing a walking inspection of your own train any time you stop after leaving your initial terminal. Cant be between the rails when you are doing it. so how you supposed to be on the far side of a passing train doing an inspection and on the cold side of your own train doing your own inspection at the same time. Crawl through and go to the far side and after the train passes crawl back through and finish your inspection? Frankly I couldn't care less how I do it. Im sure the dispatcher will love the extra smoke break he gets while Im walking back 2 mile from the end of my train after he lights us up. I think my own train is more important than the passing train. Need to be paying more attention to it than everybody else's! Like how they say when your moving your supposed to inspect your own train. Hard to do on straight track or when you don't have a mirror to use in the curve. Lets not forget those mirrors that are 4"x4" or wont stay in place for 5 seconds when the wind is hitting them. You have a dragging detector, height detector, hot box detector, wheel impact detector and blah blah but you cant trust any of them so you got to get down and make sure everything is still okay along the way. Something just isn't right here! Something had to happen for this new rule to come out. Bet you it involves lawyers and $$$$$$!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 October 2018 Seems that just about all who post on this website have big alligator mouths. But I bet in reality the same have small hummingbird balls whenever real push comes to shove.

Name: Insensitive E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 October 2018 Free speech, but I guess I was a little insensitive to some hoggers, that might be experiencing the same thing. Some hoggers have not seen there junk for long time because the boiler expanded with time.

Name: Train master supervisors E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 October 2018 Serious some of these trainmasters And supervisors are better at giving head than there wife’s.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 13 October 2018 Spies in Louisville tonight!

Name: SERIOUS E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 October 2018 OTHERMOLE Go the hell away. No one believes for one moment you are tapping any TMs wife. Your just a distracting mole. Go play in the middle of the street! smile Yep,,,, I started documenting everything too. I even write down when I eat something and take a leak. I even set my watch by the dispatchers time. Not one single clock in any crew building is correct. I was always told it was a mandatory rule. Make sure you have yours set exactly with the dispatch. Don't be off more than 10 seconds. When they try and hang you with bull crap the little black box, errad, etc.. had to be in exact time as your watch. You are documenting everything you do by the dispatchers times. They always laugh when I call them and ask them what time they have. Say its rare anyone ever ask them!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 October 2018 Smile, let's all do that - carry cheap notepads & write down all the times: on duty, arrival at on duty point, proper train orders\documentation, power ready, coupling to 1st (if more than one) track, doubled up, brake test complete, etc., etc., etc.

Name: To tm and supervisiors E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 October 2018 You trainmaster s and supervisors owe us guys, while your spending all your time at work. We are saving your marriages buy keeping your, ladies happy.

Name: SMILE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 October 2018 Brothers Loyd is absolutely right! If you cant remember your children's names or any of your best friends it is time to get out. I woke up right after HH took over. Today I came home from a trip with a big smile on my face. The TM was a total ass because he was going to look bad if we didn't get out of the yard in the new 1 hour bullshit rule. We all know the idiots in Jacksonville know it wont work all the time. They have had a 2 hour rule max on departure times for over 20 years. They cry, stomp and threaten all the time just to put on a tough show. They know its a joke. They like to watch the TM cry! We documented every minute of our day from the time we left the hotel to the time we got off the train. Wasn't a damn thing they could do to us for the train being 4 hours late. Our notes would throw management under the bus. When we marked off we just smiled and laughed because we decided not to let them get under our skin. Just sit back and let them step on their own....! At the end of the day they had to pay both of us for the horse and pony show! Guarantee you they don't get paid as much at the circus as we get paid! Oh life is grand! CHAAAA CHINGGGGGG!

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 October 2018 We don't need to test the levels of intelligence on this website because it's already been determined that you have to be about as dumb as a rock to keep putting up with this company's b.s. and lies. Webmaster I don't doubt for a second that the higher ups don't like the information posted on here but then again, there's not much they do care about except dollar signs. I think what irks me more than anything is that all these pieces of shit(management)think they can go on treating employees with such blatant disrespect without repercussions. People will only tolerate so much abuse before they snap or finally stand together. It's a miracle nothing hasn't already happened but when it does no one will be surprised and those in charge of running this company into the ground should be held fully accountable. When you get on here and read daily or have a hard time remembering what real life was like before the railroad it might be time to move on. Money isn't everything boys it's just what they hang over your head to keep you around.

Name: Iq trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 12 October 2018 To get into military you have to haveI Q higher than 83. Second choice trainmaster low I Q nepotism. Daddy got me the job as trainmaster to get me out of the house. I just have to look and sound professional, any tough questions or decisions I call up dad and that’s how i get my answers. Works every time that’s how you get a job as trainmaster with I Q under 83. On the rr. The higher ups know I’m borderline retarded, but they owe my dad lots of favours. So I should be ok for a while!!!!

Name: Blah! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 October 2018 BLAH BLAH BLAH Stop with the horse shit you frickin morons! My god. One factual post in the last 24 hours. Eville boys are losing jobs. More train swapping is on the table. Just was told they are hiring more. FOR WHAT? Better be to have enough man power to cover the days off we are f...king getting. Fix the damn caps, etc. Honor PB days! Not counting on it. Looking for them to start head hunting again. If you got 5 weeks vacation or you live on FMLA you better watch your asses. Keep your mouths shut and your ears open idiots. As for these stupid ass TM post, who gives a shit!!! THEY DON'T MOVE THE FREIGHT! They push papers and pencils. The next TM I see hanging and removing a tele is going to be on candid camera! Look at idiot who's getting a 5 day penalty claim filed against him! Sent straight to the international!

Name: Cookie E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2018 TM If you do have a college education. One thing is for certain. It's not in English.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Tarainmaster You're a fucking unicorn. Where I'm from the craft employees are the ones who have trades, a college education and are veterans. I'm all three like a lot of my Union brothers. I'm willing to bet you're a habitual liar.

Name: Hoorah E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 October 2018 We're going to bend the gnome over and shove our train swap up his ass.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 October 2018 Trainmasters/PTI drivers/janitors/coffee makers/dicksuckers You're correct, we are just a program away from not operating. And how does this make your position secure? RR functions fine or better when you cunts are off. CSX has no reason to keep you now would have less reason to keep you suckasses then.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Csx is trying to convince the public that there is only one person needed on a train to operate safely. It's ironic csx also believes that both crew members should be on the ground watching passing trains. Per System Notice. It's not if but when some poor railroader is crushed by a derailment or decapitated from flying debris. Whosoever put this in place should be imprisoned and their assets divided among relatives. Just when your convinced management couldn't be any more foolheaded. They prove you wrong. I've came up with a 10 suggestions thay may get someone a bonus. 1.employee provided snowshoes to replace our spikes. 2.lanterns will be replaced with employee provided torches. 3.employee provided milk jugs to be filled prior to going on duty. 4.employee provided cell phones to replace radios 5.parking meters installed system wide 6.use of KOA campgrounds in lieu of hotels. 7.vending style toilets. 8. trainman calls the engineer for duty 9. trainman fuels engines 10. maximum 1 bag per crew member (trains are already operating over tonnage)

Name: To trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Train master your wife told me, just lay back and you will like it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Just do as your told and Like IT...knuckle draggers

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Reckless That's exactly what's happening. In fact they just put a train out of Avon on the card for engineers that will go to Evansville with Avon crews. They are also working on making guys out of Roselake get qualified on the INRD and CE&D to take trains to sidings. It's OUT OF ROUTE. They have already been forcing crews over there and denying their out of route claims. It's not on the asigned job route. Heard they only put conductor on train and no pilot for engineer. FRA needs a call on that one. Why the hell do they have a request for transfers to Evansville advertised if they are going to take their jobs away? Something else is going down!

Name: Reckless Endangerment E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2018 Yeah no one that works here would call it Evansville North. It's the CD. As for being for fucked...maybe more trains going to the Terra Haute South pool or the Danville FMLA garbage running the trains down to Terra Haute. There's also talk of the Terra Haute guys going to the hotel to scab more of our North bound trains.

Name: USMC E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 That's a fake post to stir sh*t. No Marine would right Hoorah. That's Army garbage. It's OOH RAH!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 Big rumor going around jacksonville... company next year going to TRY outsourcing 1/4 of of all north division car repair.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 Nastyville sucks

Name: Contracting out E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 Cn in Canada is contracting mechanical work out, decreasing car and locomotive staff. Footes old stomping ground. I’m sure he will do the same thing at CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 Whoever this guy is, he was a Marine Name: Hoorah E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 October 2018 Evansville North you're screwed. You girls are about to get bent over.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 Why is Evansville screwed?

Name: Hoorah E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 October 2018 Evansville North you're screwed. You girls are about to get bent over.

Name: Employee share holders E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 It does not matter how much the stock rallies, you do not lose or make money till you sell it.

Name: Little Birdie Says E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 Hit squad in Louisville tonight for 3rd shift!! Watch out!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 Teck will kill every on board job in the future. Get off the transportation board and go somewhere that you can survive. Waving at the MOW is not going to last much longer. Conductor is doomed and the Engineer will follow.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 If you bought in and held you would be at $40.00 0r so and adding the dividend to your holding. 1k shares loss of $5.00 is nothing. 40 to 70 X 1k is nice money. Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 October 2018 CSX stock dropped below 70 bucks a share today, biggest loss in a while. $69.56 at close today down $5.05 from yesterdays close. If you had a thousand shares you just lost $5000 and some change today.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 This Dude is lucky to have a JOB. Mark him off forever.... Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 October 2018 Why do I have to call crew management to make off sick? Use to be able to do it online. Here is how my time was spent. 1st call got took 12 minutes for them to pick up and hang up on me without saying anything. 2nd call took 8 minutes for someone to answer then they transferred me to my caller which took another 10 minutes for that one to answer and mark me off. Took about 30 minutes of my time to get marked off!

Name: E-mail: geardrve1944@yahoo.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 Loan Repayment ---You are talking to yourself.The whole world knows that. Good thing the RR hired you. Name: Loan repayment E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 FYI if your on strike or out of service and you know it’s going to be for awhile. And you don’t have the same money coming it. You can go to your bank and explain your situation and most times they will let you pay just the interest on loan or mortgage. And the banks are happy and it does not affect your credit rating. Another thing I did was call the credit card company I was at 19%. Told them I needed a lower rate or I would get different credit card company. Well they took interest rate to 11% took five minutes of my time.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 October 2018 trainmasters going around telling everyone that this regime is no joke, they will make sure these plans work. 1 hour depart times, meet and turn, etc.. Did we get a new regime? we're talking about the same regime that failed at block swapping, shut yards down just to open them back up ( not all but Nashville, Avon ) etc. Closed the Engine house down in avon, its opening back up now.. what happen to that plan? and this morning was laughable. I dont know if one train made it out within 3 hours, some 6 hours, and i think one road train was re crewed in the yard... They are so short handed on power and depend on in bound power. If one thing goes wrong they are doomed for hours. Another jackass trying to re invent the wheel..

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 October 2018 So - since the co. did away with safety committees & all, how are things? Better, worse, about the same?

Name: sick E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 October 2018 APE They did the same shit to me except while I was waiting for 20 minutes they tried to call me. When I answered my other line I told them it was about time they picked up the phone and answered my call. they didn't know what I was talking about so I told them I had been on hold for over 2o minutes waiting to mark off. they got smart and said they contacted me for work first. I explained that I had proof what time I called and how long I had been on hold which was totally unacceptable and to mark me off sick. I didn't care if they tried to miss call me. I would be filing ethics charges when I got off the phone and calling my LC to file entrapment! They marked me off!

Name: Loan repayment E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 FYI if your on strike or out of service and you know it’s going to be for awhile. And you don’t have the same money coming it. You can go to your bank and explain your situation and most times they will let you pay just the interest on loan or mortgage. And the banks are happy and it does not affect your credit rating. Another thing I did was call the credit card company I was at 19%. Told them I needed a lower rate or I would get different credit card company. Well they took interest rate to 11% took five minutes of my time.

Name: CSX-UP Merger E-mail: bobdozier@up.com Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2018 There's already behind the scenes merger talks. And Mantel Ridge wants to bring in the entire CSX leadership team, and wipe-out the entire UP crooks, only retain Sanborn. Wall Street is betting on a merger within the next year.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 11 October 2018 Invest : that is the ultimate goal: communism... bnsf norfolk southern and Canadian national plus top bottom half of kansas city southern to merge... union Pacific.. Csx.. canadian pacific and top half of kansas city southern too merge..

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 October 2018 Why do I have to call crew management to make off sick? Use to be able to do it online. Here is how my time was spent. 1st call got took 12 minutes for them to pick up and hang up on me without saying anything. 2nd call took 8 minutes for someone to answer then they transferred me to my caller which took another 10 minutes for that one to answer and mark me off. Took about 30 minutes of my time to get marked off!

Name: Nutterbutter E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 October 2018 Any news from the DEKRA survey? I suspect CSX brass didn't like the findings so it was trashed. Now there are managers going around terminals asking crews what they're doing wrong. Why are employees disgruntled? CSX just ask your Union puppets for the answers you want to hear.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 October 2018 CSX stock dropped below 70 bucks a share today, biggest loss in a while. $69.56 at close today down $5.05 from yesterdays close. If you had a thousand shares you just lost $5000 and some change today.

Name: brakeman E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 October 2018 lesson 101 Did someone say "lay down"? Websters dictionary: A term used 30 years ago by men with balls: Not of the softer, spineless side.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 October 2018 Exactly we need 1 union representing T&E. Instead these motherfuckers join with truck drivers and sheet metal workers.

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 October 2018 Corp Go take your poser arsss back under your rock. Something bothering the children in Jacksonville! As for the last post.....right on! Lets take one example. How about the BLET. Got the members in the same damn seniority district but running different directions(east/west) that have different rights. How about the UTU? Got conductors in same situation. West runners cant protect their pool rights, put east enders can. The list goes on in both unions. There are too many official positions being paid in the unions. they need to be downsized and they both need to be organized together to bargain for both crafts. There is no need in hell for 2 unions and so many over paid stuffed shirts. Put a stop to favoritism in the unions as well. It should be an even scale for all. Oh... as for going conventional at Indy on the remotes, it was said as long as production is good they will continue to be conventional. Well there goes the blackmail. Get tired of their crap and do the only thing you can do to send a message (lay down) and the remotes will be back. This is a great evil plan to keep you on your knees! Got to give them credit for trying. Might just backfire. Not to many people really giving a rats ass which way it runs!

Name: Tiredofthemadness E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 October 2018 Just wondering why all you fools are arguing with one another, when the real problem is the union and the carrier. It's the conductors job it's the engineers job both are lazy . No shit we are all lazy to a point. blah blah blah... This is what the company wants, us to fight over dumb shit and the unions do to we should get rid of one union and keep the other I dont care which one it is. I have been a member of both and they are both worthless.The problem with this of course is all the kick backs that the higher holding positions for both unions would lose... we need to stand together that's what unions are supposed to do not give to one craft and not to the other.I do not know to many other jobs that have 2 different unions in one company......why is this o yeah to keep us at odds

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 09 October 2018 Union Pacific CSX to merge in next 3 years.

Name: other E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 09 October 2018 ? Watched a little about it on channel 13 news. Happened in Hart county KY. No big deal. Just a stupid trespasser.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 October 2018 News Do you know if they sent out a TM to find the guys head? Make sure one was there to cover the media? Not hearing anything about it except rumors.

Name: Management fall guys E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 October 2018 Management under the ceo are the fall guys, for the ceo to be able to avoid the responsibility of being fined or jailed. The management that encourages taking short cuts to speed up the operations of the railroad know they are taking a chance. And if something happens injury death, damage to equipment and infrastructure falls on that manager. Which leaves him in a position to be fined or jailed and fired . The ceo gets to play stupid as to say he had no knowledge of the way that manager took short cuts and did not do his due diligence set out by company policy. The ceo is the Teflon Don. And these managers are more than willing,to put themselves in this position, as scape goats. And doing this just for the title of manager and gratification from his superiors.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 October 2018 I guess they’ll be called Tardmasters ,,,, LOL

Name: news! E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 October 2018 Crews Just heard about the man who got his head cut off by a wire on a pole while riding the top of one of your intermodal cars. Report said there were 3 hitchhikers riding the train when the train took a pole out with a wire and it cut one of the guys head off! Crazy crap! Who rides the top of a tote train. Said they traveled 30 miles before they were stopped. Didn't know they were on the train! I just hope the crew had all their proper paper work and wasn't ordered out with out clearance bureau messages and other stuff that happens a lot! Going to be officials all over that stuff!

Name: !!! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 October 2018 WOW! Cant believe they are actually going back to running puller jobs in Indy conventional. Why would they all of the sudden decide to put the remotes on hold? Did their contract with the parts supplier and maintenance finally run out? Got to be some shady reason other than they are getting smart and going back to the old school way of railroading. HHMMM. Got to wonder. Maybe there are more reports coming out about the back injuries and wear and tear on the upper body lugging that box around!

Name: Finally E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 October 2018 The company is finally doing something smart. Yardmaster are now being trained to do trainmaster duties. Eliminating the Trainmaster’s. Lower level management is getting kicked in the balls now. Hehehe . How’s it feel now ladies?

Name: eng E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 October 2018 YOU TEE YOU Looks good on paper, but whats going to happen when they decide to screw you out of your pay because they decided that it was not written and agreed upon as they thought fit the moment they realize they have to pay you some actual money? Just like they have done to the engineers for years. screwing the hell out of us on time tickets that are legit and are explained in black and white. Just had a TM tell me he was ordered to rotate the tickets issued for recrewing dead trains on line of road by long pool hours of service train crews. Said they were told to issue the tickets as J-job tickets one week then issue them by the agreed terms of the union agreement, which is calling the crew out as a Q12301R(example)! Every time they issue the tickets as a J Job they try and combine the tickets and refuse to pay the trip rate and if they pay anything it is just a basic day. You going to sue the union when they let them screw you over. You going to set an example to the company that your not going to take a hosing from them? Lets see how long you get your pay before they hose you and start stealing!

Name: Lost E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 October 2018 CSX is not the only rr victim of hedge fund hacks. They strip the company down to bare,bones and don’t leave till nothing left to profit from. Until they cash in there share and move on expect more of the same. The next ceo will have to try and build CSX from employee moral infrastructure everything. Went threw it with Hh he was an animal. Best of luck to you all. Shitty way to earn a living now at rr.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 08 October 2018 Where you at union? We can't get personal business anymore! All you PRO UNION guys that always praise the union must be idiots. The union looked good when they didn't have to do anything but as soon as mantle ridge came in and it was time for the union to do something they folded. Look at all we have lost! Does anyone remember the good ole days that ended 2 years ago?

Name: You Tee You E-mail: Jamie_Modesitt@csx.com Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 October 2018 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. (Former B&O Railroad Company) And its employees represented by SMART Transportation Division (NMAD/B&O General Committee) This Agreement is in reference to our discussions concerning the Carrier's operational request to establish Meet and Turn service exclusively on the B&O/NMAD territory. Therefore, the following are the terms and conditions under which Meet and Turn assignments shall be advertised and worked without prejudice to each party's position on how such assignments are to be paid and operated under the terms of the B&O Schedule Agreement. It is hereby agreed: 1) Meet and Turn road assignments shall be advertised in accordance with Rule 59. The meet and turn location will be designated but will be subject to daily operating conditions. Note: Should there be any issues with the location of the train swap area, such issues will be addressed between the SMART-TD Local Chairperson with jurisdiction and the Local Management. Should the issue(s) be unable to be resolved locally, the matter shall be forwarded to the SMART-TD General Chairperson and the Carrier's HOO for handling. 2) Employees working Meet and Turn service will be paid the established trip rate between the parties or the applicable rate based on the class of service. If an employee is run through to the opposite terminal for operational necessity, the employee will be returned to the home terminal by a combination deadhead upon arrival. An employee will not be required to tum out of the opposing terminal on a train without an additional trip rate. 3) Employees in Meet and Turn service will be provided an allowance of three (3) hours at the class of service working in addition to the established trip rate. The additional three (3) hours will not be factored into when a crew would start overtime. Furthermore, the three (3) hours in addition to all other earnings will not be included when making adjustments for Guaranteed Extra Board payments. 4) Employee's working Meet and Tum service shall not be held at other than the home terminal. Should unforeseen circumstances, or an emergency require employees to be held at the opposite terminal, employees will be paid in accordance with the controlling agreement(s) for held away, meals, ID meals, etc. 5) Employees working Meet and Turn service will not be used in short turn around service or tied-up at intermediate points, except in case of emergency as defined in Rule 100, Section 11 of the B&O Schedule Agreement. 6) Employees not used through no fault of their own, including observing RSIA rest, or annulments for any reason shall be paid no less than the earnings of their assignment. 7) The provisions of Rule 101 (Paid Holidays) and Rule 100, Section 19, E (Personal Leave Days) will apply to all employees working in Meet and Tum service established by this Agreement, regardless of the mileage component. 8) Meet and Turn assignment vacancies will be protected by the Conductor's extra board at the supply point. Assignments that cannot be filled by the respective extra board will be filled in accordance with B&O Schedule Rule 67 (c), 11. This agreement may be cancelled by either party giving a twenty (20) day written Notice to the other. In the interim, this Understanding will remain in effect. Signed in Jacksonville, Florida, on October 1, 2018. Jamie C Modesitt - UTU B&O NMAD GCA JASON Floyd - CSX Director Labor Relations

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 October 2018 Well why can't a licensed engineer get off his butt & do a walking inspection? Secure the locomotive(s) -- hit the ballast. What the hell, engineers sound off like they can do \ know everything. Surely then, they can do that also. Many of their big mouths & attitudes cause as much, perhaps a lot more, hassles than a Conductor who may hesitate to inspect a train.

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Cond. 30 Really man? If your not a licensed engineer your ass will get off and do your job for sure. If repairs have to be made and train has to be moved at all your not allowed by law to be sitting in that seat running the controls. Other guy is right. Read conductors job description. Take care of your cars. Hoggers will take care of the motors. Team work is the most important. Just do your frickin job. If it's 2 3/4 miles long take a crew pack, sandwhich and walk nice and slow and safely. No job is so urgent or so important you can't take the time to do it safely.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Talledega , roll tide = FMLA .........send a drone over that .

Name: Conductor training E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 October 2018 If your a conductor and your not a 100% sure of what your job responsibilities are then you better take a refresher course, or maybe find another job. If there was an accident there because of your willingness to neglect your due diligence. And the company allows you to work. The company is liable, could be sued and criminally charged as well as the conductor. I’ve been an rr for 35 years and it is unbelievable that you inept conductors where not weeded out during your probation period. You have your rule books and you can and have the time to refer to them if your not sure of yourself. You conductors that are lazy are making a good case for the company to go to one person crews. Try and find a job outside of the rr that pays as good as conductor get. I don’t feel sorry for lazy people that lose there jobs. Your paid good money to know and do your job. Smarten up!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2018 It doesn't have to say who makes the walking inspection. It's in the conductors job description. That's our job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 October 2018 There are rules written in black & white on paper in books, etc., that state when a walking inspection must be made on a train. Which rule, if there's any such thing, clarifies "who" exactly must do the walking inspection?

Name: Conductor due diligence E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 October 2018 I will keep this short, conductors that do not want to do there due diligence of inspecting his train after emergency application. Should not worry what the company will do to you. If there is death injury ,environment , hazard because you refused to properly do your job. You are most likely to be charged with criminal negligence,and if found guilty you will suffer the consequences of the law.

Name: CMA! E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Conductors WAKE THE HELL UP! If I hear one more ignorant conductor tell me that the idiots in the Face to face class told them they don't have to follow any other rules than the new bulletin that came out for trains in emergency on 6/15/17 I'm going to start tossing them off the engines. Simple lazy boys who don't want to follow rules or just to damn lazy to get out and walk more than 5 car lengths. Most engineers pounded the rocks before they got in the seat. We did it. We know what its like. I'm not listening to your boo hoo you get to sit in the cab crap. Quit being a stupid fool! Go find a boys job if you cant handle it! That rule was written to speed up the process. it wasn't written to protect your ass or the engineer! You people should only have to work for the company for 3 months to figure this out. There are other rules in the book that go with the train in emergency rule. You don't get to ignore them just because there was a change in another one. Did you know the dispatcher is not supposed to let any other train pass you until you confirm that your hazmats are on the rail AND SAFE(rule 612.4) Did you know if your a key train you can only run 5 mph to move it to a safer place to inspect it? That face to face instructor left a lot out. His agenda was to preach only the rules that move the train the quickest. If he explained it all they would have been totally pissed! Lose his job! Now for the idot I was working with in the dark in the middle of no where in a curve that refused to walk the train because rule 308.6-section B- paragraph 4 says visual inspection from the head end does not indicate any unsafe conditions, I hope I never catch your lazy ass again if I go into emergency. If its dark, foggy, blizzard or in a blind sharp curve your ass CAN NOT TELL FROM JUST STANDING AT THE HEAD END that everything is okay. Are you just retarded. You think your butt is walking out of investigation scot free after equipment is damaged because your tried using that rule to cut corners and get out of walking? I cant see to the end of a 3 mile long train with my best glasses on in a clear sunny day! Don't tell me you can! Think of this one conductors. How many of us have been stuck with 14,000 foot long trains weighing 19,000 tons with 2 motors that aren't worth a piece of crap and can barely make it up a hill over 15 miles and hour. Section B paragraph 6 states your cant do a roll by inspection if starting and moving the train requires excessive force. How do any of us know for sure after we have been in emergency that the excessive force when starting is because of these overweight trains or because there is a problem in the train. NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE unless the entire train is inspected! They build these trains like this to cut corners and to reduce trains and crews. This isn't my problem. Its theirs. I'm not moving that train one foot until you make sure that the entire train is on the damn rail. I'm not wheel slipping in 8 notch at 1200 amps on a hill without you checking first. Run your pie hole. Scream and cry. We can sit there all night. Use your damn heads. ALL 6 rules have to be met in order for us to do a roll-by inspection. ALL OF THEM! Use your heads! Guarantee we got the FRA/USDOT in our corner on this one if they want to accuse us of delaying the train! CSX operating rules department/public safety director.... Got any comments on this? we know you read this site everyday.

Name: UP Runaway E-mail: coverup@up.com Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 08 October 2018 UP Accident: Any rumors of a cover-up taking place already? The rumor is that the UP and FRA is covering up the negligent [over] tonnage amount on the train, and numerous reports of reported failures of dynamic braking on two of the locomotives.

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Right to work... How do you think this would play out? If union membership was not mandatory our dues would go up to compensate for the loss in membership. I think not... If we were right to work and people started dropping out of the union then the union would have to make it appealing to want to be in the union, they would have to show why it is valuable to be in the union so they could retain membership so they could keep making they money they do. Think about it, if it's required to be in the union then they don't have to do anything for us and they are still guaranteed to bring in X amount of dollars per railroader. If it is not mandatory then they would fear losing members (revenue) so they would actually fight for us. Analogy 1- You have to have water to live, it's mandatory, if it were not mandatory then the water companies would have to do something to improve water to make people want to have it or they would go out of business. Being in a union is something people should want, not be forced. If it were optional then the unions would adjust to make people want to be in it or they would go out of business. Analogy 2- You have to have mail service (USPS) to get bills pay bills, etc. If your mail is constantly misplaced or late or lost or whatever then what can you do about it? NOTHING! If there where multiple mail companies then what could you do? You could change your provider, eventually the most reliable company would get all the business because they show their value and the others would go out of business. I'm done.

Name: HA!!! E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 October 2018 HA! HA! Come on you guys..... TM is a mole. You fell for it! I wonder if it was the post about the drone that set them off in Jacksonville. That post was hit out of the roof! Is it even legal for them to use one to spy on everyone in the yard? Its not just T&E they are watching. A little birdie said they were watching the car men working the tracks too. So everyone is a target. Wouldn't it be funny if a local neighbor saw it and used a high powered rifle to take care of the problem? I would wonder if they were spying on my property as well if I saw it flying around. This is just way too much micro managing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 October 2018 For the most part we in transportation just want to be left alone to do our jobs. For the most part we are good at what we do and we get the job done. Railroading is about getting freight from it's origin point to it's destination as profitable as possible, period. The ones that are disrupting this are the ones that are always looking to charge someone. As a manager if you are constantly spying then you are a waste of time! Think about it, we have managers that are good at what they are paid to do and that is what they do. They spend their time at work making sure they do everything they can to have trains built and departed on time, and customers serviced on time. If you are a manager and you spend your day hauling crews, spying, cleaning offices or locker rooms, refueling company vehicles, or anything else that is not directly involved in getting freight moved then you should not be a manager and you are over paid for what you do. Find a way to make yourself useful and earn your check.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Oh, and if you have time, Mr disposable trainmaster, go ahead and grab yourself an elementary school English book and try to learn how to use punctuation and go over the section on forming sentences. Your crybaby post is barely readable. Noone is going to get excited about being insulted by someone as dumb as you. Good try though. Did you get your new csx truck so you can come running when we need a ride? I guess your mileage pay and vehicle allowance isn't necessary now since you won't be using your own (company reimbursed) vehicle. Next to go is the bonus. Who's the idiot now?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2018 Eat a dick Mr disposable trainmaster. You'll be fired or quit before anyone takes you seriously, then you'll be hoping that your terminal doesn't want to kill you when you get back to your 1 year conductor seniority.

Name: Trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 October 2018 Shut your damn pie holes...already about tables and chairs you spoiled over paid lazy ass's.....get out there and do your damn job like WE pay you too..... shut your mouth follow the rules and do your job !!!!

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 October 2018 Crews. Watch your backs. Spying from the bushes wasn't good enough. Now they are using drones. This is just frickin unreal.

Name: Doug McKenzie E-mail: doug@greatwhitenorth.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 October 2018 Chief Administration Officer Diana Sorfleet recently seen purchasing knee pads and Kleenex for her many trips to Jim Foote's and Jamie Boychuk's office.

Name: Nmad, b&o E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 October 2018 Has anybody heard anything about an agreement that our general chairman supposedly already signed regarding turn service for conductors?

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 October 2018 It's like Grand pa.... always told me...He would rather have a sister in a whore house than a Brother in production...

Name: Brake shoe E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 October 2018 BRO...'SS..LETS STICK IT TOO THEM WHITE COLLAR BASTERDS.....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 06 October 2018 Small stuff Dead on. They can take their tables, chairs, vending machines, coffee maker, microwave, printers etc..etc... And stick it right up Foote's ass. 95% of salaried employees are cunts. If I'm on the property I'm getting paid.

Name: Small stuff E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 October 2018 Don’t sweat the small stuff people. Let them take table and chairs and computers. Like I said before your at work to make money not friends. It is companies way to rattle the membership. Everyone is in such a hurry to get home that you are leaving money on the table. Bill CSX for every minute you are on the property, time is money, don’t give CSX five minutes of your time for free. Ten minutes here half hour there in one years time it adds up to a lot of money in your pocket. Don’t get mad get compensated, your worth every penny. Management are salaried they get nothing for there extra time. Foote is going to be lite on the bonuses for management because he is going to keep bonus money for top guys. You can legally bill for every minute your on the property take advantage of it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 06 October 2018 Nothing happened. Today was a great day!

Name: 3:10 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 October 2018 Csx is suing norfolk southern in Virginia...you cant make this shit up...comedy show gets better by the day

Name: $$$$$ E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2018 Ok people try not to get mad. One computer stand in line like they want you to. Put in for your pay right to the minute, and compensate yourself for waiting. Don’t run be safe walk,the more people run the more jobs they will cut. They are measuring how much more production they can get out of an employee. This is a fact went threw it it’s time to stick together and all do the same thing. Yes your going to have the teachers pets that will run. But they will not be able to keep it up. Play there game but don’t run follow rules and regulations. If they think your fucking them by following the rule. Tell CSX to change the rules. Sooner or later CSX management gets frustrated because they only have so much control. Remember they where sheep Foote told them there lions now, and want them to go that extra mile for CSX without compensation.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 05 October 2018 Nothing new. An employee could get injured - no actual fault of their own, account of defective equipment, whatever, and they'll make everyone else miserable. Part of the tactic to limit the reporting of all\any injuries.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 October 2018 Someone got hurt in Louisville and then they went on a blitz and pulled several out of service. They have a pattern of doing this. Is this intimidation or harassment? It like they can't nail the injured because of whistle blower protection so they hang other employees. It's all well documented so what can we do if anything?

Name: CP tables E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2018 It’s all part of there program. When Hh was at cp they took tables chairs. Our personal coffee maker and radio threw them in the garbage. Like I said Foote is doing the same thing they did with us at cp and cn. Next they will have managers and office staff running the trains and repairing cars. Because they will say they are short staffed just like they did here.

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 October 2018 Ape 30 That kind of stupid post is exactly why us hard working honest crew members have to put up with this stupid strong arm tactics that are going on. Bullies cant beat us or take all of our money so they have to try any childish tactic they can to try and make themselves look like the boss. Its sad and pathetic. Grown men acting like little babies. Too bad I never had the time to sleep like you. You sure it was in the chair and not under the desk?

Name: Stock E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2018 To make it simple CSX stock is bullish. Going up on the charts each quarterly earnings improving. And operating ration at a record low. As long as this trend continues expect being whipped and treated like shit in days to come. But CSX has to be carefull not have to many employees in the penalty box. Because someone has to run the trains. The greed mentality means, the hardships will be bared by the employees. I don’t know how much more cutting they can do. At the same time UP is hiring and buying equipment which increased there operating ratio. But UP is looking at the future growth. To opposite stradigies, moving over to UP from CSX is always an option.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 October 2018 The stupid Trainmaster escorted my wife out of MY power unit with RR police. Total lack of ethics. No notice, never followed contract rules regarding visitors. I am piss of about this whole thing. The TM can have their wives pick them up on company property but I can’t have a wife pick me up in the cab? WTF?!?!To discrimination of my rights and violates the contract all to dust. Terrible place to work. When you get my claims for this maybe Foote will see the light and fire all the TM dead beats of which there are many more out there we all know there are much more.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 04 October 2018 They removed tables and chairs???We used table and chairs to sleep on during slow periods on midnights. Where we gonna sleep now??

Name: Cool aid E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2018 These cool aid sucking managers, have to have failed audits and show what they have done to increase production. Table and chair removal is all some of these sheep can come up with. Foote must laugh when a manager reports his contribution of removing tables and chairs to increase production. It looks so childish that it’s not even funny. This is the managements mind set and reality. They mean business lol sheep that think they are lions.

Name: Nottaking it E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 October 2018 FOOTE Your Nazi hit squad came in and took the rest of our chairs out of our crew room. We are left with a park bench that sits 6 people. There will be more than 6 people coming in to get trains and some will be waiting to get power or their trains that are not ready. I had 2 wait over an hour for my train. If I have to stand over 30 minutes with no place to sit not only will I file ethics charges against you but I will call the Csx medical department and the state health department. Then I will call the USDOT and lodge a complaint. I'm checking into any other law that protect workers in the workplace against abuse. Let's not forget craft discrimmination. You think your games are funny. Just remember you started this.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 October 2018 We couldn't pull off a strike even if we wanted. too many people out here are for themselves and themselves only. This Place abuses/ doesn't honor the contract. blocks personal days, personal business days. treats you like shit. talks to you like shit. will put a target on your back for following the rules ( when it slows down production) but charge you when they need a failure.. Breaking down the moral day by day. taking pay from you for un known reasons. list goes on. Yet there's guys doing them favors. and busting their ass for this place. doesn't have to be obvious lay down but my god.. why would anyone want to help this place out?? I feel like half the people I work with has battered woman syndrome. seriously

Name: Foote team E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 October 2018 Foote is no genius, he is just repeating everything Hh did at cp and cn. And hoping for the same results with the stock. CSX track layout total different than Canada’s two straight tracks coast to coast. Foote has a team of sheep that now all think they are lions. When mantle and Foote move on all these managers will fold like cheap suits and will want to be buds again with employees. But karma is a bitch!!!!

Name: Maier E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 October 2018 There is no reason to panic over the latest changes to operating procedures. Believe it or not the Company has your interest at heart. No one is going to abruptly fire you withou notice. No younger person working at entry entry level wages is going to take your jobs, and certainly no one is going to force you out if your 50 years or older. That’s not in the contract and not on the table. That’s the truth and straight from the corporate hippocampus.

Name: Advise lunchroom lawyer E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 October 2018 With this regime and hit team. Follow all the rules and manuals set out by CSX and goverment. And if they fire you it is had for them to make a case against you following there regulations. Most do follow the rules that is why they are pulling people out for minor stuff. But it is not warranted to fire a person permanently. Maybe a week or so at home sends the message. And CSX knows they don’t have a pot to piss in if it went in front of arbitrator or court judge. Do what your required to do, don’t give them any reason to tag you. And you will ride out the storm. I was tagged a couple of times it was stress-full, but in the end I got the last laugh time off with full pay. The only thing they have to rattle and control the masses is there discipline, which is weak and childish at most. Ride out the nonsense, over time they will figure out they need people sitting in the cab not at home.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 03 October 2018 Thank you Monitor. Yours is the calming voice upon the uncharted seas of CSX turmoil, the blissful soothing melody of early morning songbirds, and as eloquent and profound as Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and MartinLuther Kings I Have A Dream.. it is through your all knowing and all powerful wisdom that this site retains its time honored tradition of truth, vision and clarity for the railroad man, woman and child. Only thru your censorship of unwanted management trolls and liars will this site be safe for those young newcomers who need guidance and direction only from those who are authorized and vetted to give it to them in an unbiased and completely honest format. Bravo! Bravo! Keep up the GOOD WORK!

Name: Fired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 October 2018 Hh fired everyone he wanted for nothing at cn cp, just like they are doing at CSX. If your a victim of it files wrongful dismissal grievance and sit back don’t worry. Enjoy your time off. The people that where fired a majority all got there jobs back with back pay. The arbitrator seen threw the BS Hh was doing. Hh had a fit and refused to pay employees back pay, but he had no choice. And since Hh left cn cp they are still trying to hire people because they cut so deep. CP had managers and office staff running trains. CSX is on a campaign to get operating ratio down to jack up share prices. Once they feel stock has peaked they will sell and leave CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 October 2018 Ben Dover, Regarding searching your grips - while on duty, on company property, random any ol' time search request, no accident or other: Please find out for an absolute fact from one or several of the people you know if the carrier must "have law enforcement present with a search warrant"......

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 October 2018 WATCH??? The rules don't say a thing about wearing a watch. You just have to be carrying one. How would they know if anyone did or didn't have a watch unless they boarded and asked to see it. If you have on long sleeves, etc. they cant see that in camera. Like the rules say, you don't have to wear it, just carry it. Yeah, they busted guys for sleeping. The guy charged was caught because they were going after the other crew member for something and saw it on the camera. The new tactic they are using is to blackmail anyone they want to charge into taking a waiver or first step by threatening to down load the camera then suggesting that the other crew member may get into trouble if they see anything on it. If you know you haven't don't anything wrong, I hate to say this but you need to tell them bring it on. Do not take a hit for something you did not do just because you are afraid for the other person. this is what they want. If they keep this up and they start targeting people to reduce the workforce then they may find they have more people on the street than they bargained for! Its not snitching. Its protecting yourself. you just make sure you let everyone know who pulled this on you and forced you into this situation!

Name: Cameras E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 October 2018 So what are some ways people are being put out of service by Jacksonville using the cameras? We had a guy nailed for sleeping, another for smoking on the engine. Was told that other guys got it for no hearing protection with the windows open, another for not having a wrist watch, and a few others I can't remember

Name: ENOUGH E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 October 2018 REALLY??? No place for your political hog wash right now. You think for one minute that FOOTE gives a rats ass about who is in politics right now then your brain dead. As for trump he is a business man and there is no doubt he has stock in every class 1 railroad. He doesn't give a shit what Foote does to us as long as he has a big fat bottom line. The company doesn't give a flying f...k what anyone in D.C thinks about their restructuring or downsizing unless it turns into another fiasco like it did with HH. If the freight gets stalled again and customers start raising hell and the STB gets involved again that's the only time they will care. Their main goal is to reduce the work force, sell off assets and cut cost and eventually go to one man crews. Yeah, the might be worried about who they got in their back pockets when it come to getting the one man crews shoved down our throats but that's about it. What we have to worry about the most is how they plan on cutting us to pieces! Intimidation, harassment, etc. If the cut us so short they get behind in their shipping again they will just tell the feds the manpower shortage is because of us! They have too many on the street because we cant behave like good little boys and girls and that's not their fault. they will just hire a few more to make it look like they are doing something about it just to shut them up. Why do you think the new hires are rolling in. Get ready. Everyone has been warned in the past by those railroaders who already dealt with HH and Foote. They have been playing this game for over 25 years.

Name: mark E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 October 2018 Thank you monitor! Like Captain you are a calming voice at a time of great uncertainty.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 October 2018 Webster’s slang dictionary defines the term: “rape train”, as a: “Liberal Left Wing Character Assassination Smear”.

Name: Ben Dover E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 October 2018 When I'm on a train I am not mobile equipped period! My family knows how to contact me. I never produce a phone when asked during a banner test etc... If you want to search my grips you had better have law enforcement present with a search warrant and a damn good reason for it. I have shit stains in my underwear older than most of these trainmasters. Truth be known the majority of craft people out here aren't a bunch of dumbasses like the majority of TM's,but we are smart enough not to ever take the job. I personally work with many people that have degrees, PHD's, several with law degrees and also several retired military that includes E-9's and several full bird colonels. The problem with csx is that they require better credentials from their troops than they do their management. You have to have at least a high school diploma to work a craft and a GED or sixth grade education to become a trainmaster. Unreal!!SMH Bottom line is the majority of trainmasters were not worth a damn in the craft so they figured they had better bail before they get fired. Remember the ones hiring you always dumb it down so there is no chance of you going around them!!! Remember before you take an innocent persons lively hood from them just to make it appear like you're doing your job. Karma is alive and well!!!

Name: # E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 October 2018 New hires In the past it was said they had orders out to get rid of the lower 1% of each new class unless the youngest was recruited from the military. It was supervisors who let the cat out of the bag. Couldn't touch military recruits because they were given a nice chunk of grant money for them. I hope they aren't doing this to this new bunch running around now. Someone better give them a heads up. As for leaving your phone at home, that doesn't work for people on the road and people who have families or sick parents or situations where if there is an emergency they need to be able to make contact. We all know there have been instances in the past where people were not contacted on the radio by the railroad police or by dispatchers when an emergency happened at home. lets not forget how many TM/RF order the crew to call them on the phone when they are working a local. the chief will order you to call them as well. Everyone should put their foot down and say NO! If you want to talk then call us on the radio. But it doesn't work that way and we know why.

Name: New hires E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 October 2018 CSX stradigy is to fire senior men that have maximum benefits like annual vacation etc. Train the new people they have minimum vacation time etc. And can be moved all over the place. And brainwash them right out of the box. CSX does not want senior people teaching new hires bad habits. In earlier posts I said better put the sell phone away, if you don’t you will be doing the company a favour. They can fire you with cause, I would leave the phone in my car and not even have it on my person. If you carry phone your setting yourself up.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 October 2018 Trump is the reason unemployment is at an 18 year low right now!

Name: realrailroader E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 October 2018 Brothers Another fine example of what monitor was talking about. How about we all ask atom to block that idiot who posted under management. That kind of smut and worthless waste of space isn't needed on here. Has to be a distractor. Anyone heard anything else about the cut backs? They have a large group of new hires at the yards right now. Rumors are flying they are sending more guys to engine school. If this is true and the new hires keep coming in then the only way to downsize is to fire. We all know how this works. It looks real good to the STB that they have new hires on the books trying to get the freight moving like it did before HH came in and destroyed it. What they probably dont know is how they plan on cutting the work force to make up for the extra new guys. But then Im guessing they do and have known how this scam has worked for years and don't want to get involved. Any word on any of this?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 October 2018 So the Union knew we were getting screwed all along and lied to us about it. Man I’m so relieved. Thought it was all a bad dream. Now I know I’m working in HELL.

Name: To management E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 October 2018 Your wife’s are so sick and tired of you coming home and telling them how important you are to CSX. A group of us guys are tired of servicing these neglected lonely women. You better start looking after it at home. Or some of you will be paying child support and alimony. And in some cases for kids that are not yours but you think they are. Your so wrapped up at CSX how important you are that cup cake has a whole private life without your knowledge. And some of the pictures they have posted seeking men is unbelievable. Wake up!!!!

Name: Diane Frankenstein E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 October 2018 To CONDUCTOR WHO LIKES BEER Report to jail immediately. The SBI will investigate.

Name: monitor E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 October 2018 Real Workers Be very careful and think very clearly on how you interpret the post that you have been reading on this site. There are many truths but at the same time there are also comments being made to deliberately stir the hornets nest. We all know that there are a lot of railroad foamers who come to this site to fill their lonely nights. Do not let them bait you. Taking a picture of supervisors breaking the electronic device rules would cause some serious damage if circulated and would only end up making it much worse for those out in the field. Yes, it is true that the rules don't apply to the field crews the same as it does for those in the supervisory position, but drastic measures have drastic consequences. Everyone is on edge right now. Things are changing on a daily basis. It was said that several LC's were told that some of the changes that have happened in the last 3 weeks would not. But they did. The LC's were told what they wanted to hear and were lied to. What is happening is going much deeper than them. The Unions wont even tell their LC's the truth. No one really knows what changes are on the table and how it is going to effect the pay and the lives of those out in the field. Nothing is worse than sitting around every day wondering where you will be in the next month or if you will even be able to hold a job. It is a slow death and the Carrier does not care. It doesn't change their pay or job positions. The sheep are expendable. Before anyone does anything drastic, make sure you have your facts in place and make sure you can back everything that you submit. Ignore the idiots who post on here and are trying to do anything they can to turn this into a Jerry Springer site. Ignore the company paid moles. They always show up after someone submits a post that contains information that suggest that ethics, company or FRA rules or regulations are being violated. It doesn't take long for a reaction. Their job is to deliberately distract the poster away from the topic at hand. If someone becomes a serious problem on the site, the webmaster can block the person from posting. He usually gives the poster an advanced warning. If they continue he will block them. Now is not the time for these posers to chime in a fuel the fire but they will because they know tension is high and tempers will flare. Its their job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 October 2018 I drank beer I like beer

Name: To trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 October 2018 Trainmaster you call us gangsters and bitches. The bitches you should be watching is your old lady making time with us. Your bitches like the bad boys and do things with us that they would never do with you because they know your a beta male. If you only new!

Name: Union Moles E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 October 2018 We always know when Union Moles are trolling on here. The stench permeates the internet. Instead of doing their jobs, they’re getting drunk, selling drugs and watching porn. And bitching. Bitches. That’s why we call you BITCHES. Which is why you keep getting BITCH SLAPPED, Union Mole. Lots of yelling, cursing, threats and , of course, indignation. Like a cur dog in heat. Standard fare for Today’s “union officials”. Bitch, do nothing. Bitch dogging. They are NOT fixing problems. They ARE the problem. I feel sorry for the working man and woman who do pull their load on the railroad. They are forced to give their hard earned money to these Union gangsters who do nothing. Except cause trouble and conflict. Conflict and trouble. But that’s not going to last much longer. Thanks to destructive Union actions, the railroads are working overtime to reduce crews and crew hours. Even if that means breaking up a Class 1 railroad and selling it off in chunks . Bye bye a-hole.

Name: BITEME E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 October 2018 Rogue You don't work for the man anymore. THEN WHY THE F..K ARE YOU ON HERE WASTING YOUR WORTHLESS TIME POSTING SHIT YOU SUPPOSIDLY DONT CARE ABOUT. F..KING COMPANY MOLE! As for the smart ass who post his crap on us all being bitches, this company wouldn't run without the crews in the fields. We run the freight. We make the calls for our work orders and warrants when the YM and TM cant pull shit out of their asses. We handle the crap on the road and fix the shit that breaks down. We fix the shit and rebuild the trains when they screw them up. The list goes on! Oh, and the next time I go to the YM office to see what the hell is taking so long to get anything done and I see 2 Tm sitting there playing games on their damn phones I think I just might take a pic and blow it up to 8x10 and send it out across the system. How would you like that MR. Trainmaster want-to-be! Who's the bitch now. Your company mole ass just might get your buddies in trouble so I suggest you shut up and go back to sleep in your basement!

Name: Rogue Railroader E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 October 2018 You guys just vote TRUMP 2020...

Name: Roalroader gone Rogue E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 October 2018 You suck azzs are sayin the same old shit as last week , last month, last year...hell since 2006.what a bunch of suckers.I dont work there any more and I cpuld careless about their money , vaction days personal days stock awards demand days or personal business days.you dumb azzs are living a nightmare of your own creation get the f*** out of there. Like I said before in 10 years you dummies are still going to be complaining about the same thing while they at the company and the union laugh at you there's plenty of work out here start putting in applications

Name: mark E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 October 2018 Thank you Captain!

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 01 October 2018 Captain/hearhear I believe you made someone uncomfortable with your post. The company moles always come out when the truth is posted and it gets to close to home. A lot said in those last post. Sounds like there are a lot of ethic violations going on. Send a message to the webmaster and aak him if he can tell you how many hits you got on your post and where they came from. My guess there were quite a few from Jacksonville. Word on the street is that there is a lot more going on out there than what was just posted. Was a guy really charged for stealing company property after he was told he could take the items after they were discarded?

Name: Captain E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 October 2018 Lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!! Oh damn I cant stop lolololololololololololololol

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 01 October 2018 HEAR HEAR!! You belong to me. YOU MY BITCH. Bitch n whine. Bitchers club. Have to be a bitch to belong. Your incompetent. Quit now or get fired. I know who you are. Your my BITCH. So get your sorry ass off the property, or I will spank that bitchy little ass of yours and then put a size 12 boot in it. CAPTAIN (JACK OFF) - same goes for you you little twerp. Your mine now. As soon as the breakup is approved your the first ass on my bucket list.. Your my BITCH. YOUR FIRED!!!!!Now why don’t you run along off to mommy and hide in her skirts. Get off the property and Let the adults run the railroad. Bitch bitch bitch. Your all a bunch of little Whiney bitches.

Name: HEAR HEAR!!! E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 October 2018 Captain Best post I have seen in years. You hit the nail right on the head. Im surprised though that you posted yourself under trainmaster. Im guessing that was a joke. You are right. I have decided to refuse to let this inept, immoral group of people ruin my life and peace of mind. the facts are that everyone will come to work and do as they are told or be charged with insubordination and find themselves on the street. they will pay their union dues or be without a job. they will rely on their LC's and most likely get nothing. They will be cheated out of their pay and if they aren't lazy, put in claims that will most likely never be paid. I now show up for the money. If Im cheated out my pay I will find other ways to get it back. I assure you, the company wont get off scott free for stealing from me. It will cost them something. Cry, whine, bitch, stomp, curse your way around the crew rooms all day but it wont change a damn thing. All it is costing you is your sanity. We are all guilty of covering our eyes. We see management pull dirty tricks, pad numbers, cover up recrews, falsify trains, order YMs to hide cars and make exceptions. We seen them lie about departure times and order violations of the FRA laws but just walk away quietly because we are afraid of being a target or getting fired. They have won. They have scared everyone into cowering down and zipping their lips. Karma is a bitch. When I finally get paroled from this pathetic career Im not worried about letting anyone know what really happens. I hope many others feel the same way. Poetic justice. AS for the space rocket crap..... who gives a shit! JEEEZ!

Name: Eat it fatso E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 October 2018 CAPTAIN: Don’t panic. Call Batman.

Name: The cap. E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 September 2018 I cant disagree with the statement of fact about the space rock comment, the effect it would have if it where able to pass through earth's atmosphere would truly be catastrophic, any whoo, I stand corrected and will from now on make more realistic and less armageddon like whises upon my lucky star, to you sir and or madam I think you for the education and appreciate your time in reading my rant.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 September 2018 It's not a "space rock" it would be a meteor or asteroid, but anyway if one just the size of a golf ball came down on Steve it would likely cause more damage than you could imagine. The terminal velocity along with its mass would be enough to damage everything in the area around him as well. All I'm saying is get your facts right

Name: Captain stabin E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 September 2018 Who gives a fuck if the ship is sinking, I have worried my self to the point of.....happily not worrying about it anymore. I was able to get this job on my own at a young age, it took commitment and self confidence, and now going through the changes that have come rapid fire, to still have the pride(what little I have left for my job) and dedication to come work for totally inept and unprofessional walking abortions is a quality that any normal business would love. My point is we working long and hard weird hours in the weather with the most hostile management conditions in north America,if you r still here now you are what other companies are looking for ask ur self how many times have you come to work and whised an auto rack would derail to block the hump lead all night, or hope your engine pops the crank case button or a god damn space rock would fall from heaven and hit salyers in the fuckin face.....sorry sorry I got off track there, my point in short is this, everyone with a dick to swing has made this place miserable, we r talented we r loyal to a fault at times and we will survive with or without csx, when u realize that the company doesnt define the man or women, and you have value u will be fine, to all my rr brothers and sisters I truly love yall, see u more than most of my family and all my old friends, remember we r in this together we r all eating the same shit sandwich but we do t have to like it, Captain D...OUT.

Name: Stockholder 2 E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 September 2018 I heard that rumor too. Sold all my CSX stock Friday morning. CSX is going to be carved up sold off in chunks to CP, BNSF, UP and an unnamed China Company. Huge workforce reduction is coming. Better start preparing now. Don’t wait!

Name: Idiot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 September 2018 You are one of our piss ant puppets. You are one of our lower grade supervisors that likes to keep trouble brewing. Do you want to hear the true? Here it is. We are cutting your mileage down or off, we are giving you auto per terminal to slash costs. We are watching your every move so we can cut our cost. If you over claim on your reimbursements, then a red flag is thrown and we will fire you for padding our payroll. If you are a supervisor, then you better be worried about your job. Just do your job with common sense and everything will be fine. But, steal from us and pay the price. Fact Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2018 Hello. I am a stock holder in CSX. Is the rumor true that CSX is selling out to the Chinese? We have been hearing rumors now for weeks. Supposedly the Chinese are planning to take over all operations with their own people. The Chairman of Alibaba is supposedly going to be the new CSX chairman. He is known for slashing workforce labor. He is also supposedly going to invest billions in Railroad technology to make it more cost effective to ship his goods. Any truth to the takeover story?

Name: Savings E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2018 My advise to all rr that are still working. I would defer any large purchases, till after mantle leaves CSX. I would be saving as much money as possible as a buffer. To carry you threw the uncertain times. If you have a wife that like to spend your money, start a separate bank account in your name and save as much as possible.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2018 Hello. I am a stock holder in CSX. Is the rumor true that CSX is selling out to the Chinese? We have been hearing rumors now for weeks. Supposedly the Chinese are planning to take over all operations with their own people. The Chairman of Alibaba is supposedly going to be the new CSX chairman. He is known for slashing workforce labor. He is also supposedly going to invest billions in Railroad technology to make it more cost effective to ship his goods. Any truth to the takeover story?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 September 2018 https://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/news/local/consumer/on-your-side/flurry-of-lawsuits-against-csx-claim-working-conditions-caused-cancer/77-8143826

Name: WAITING E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 September 2018 Near Future LMFAO!!!! Yeah, real good idea with that plan. They cant get a work order even issued half the time and sometimes it takes hours to get it. Then the info is a mess or engines are missing or maybe the whole damn train isn't even on it. They don't have the TO set up through the radio. Lets not forget how many time you lose the OBWO device and cant get the dispatcher channel to tone up out in the country. OH yeah, lets not forget the EOTs dropping out because they cant keep communication with the long trains. My god, what kind of hell are we going to be thrown into if they try that stupid crap!

Name: 3:10 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 September 2018 Lumberton north carolina got to see first hand.... courtesy and professionalism... CSX Style !!!!.. i have and many of u on here.... have seen it since 1986....

Name: Csx E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 September 2018 They can do That

Name: Banks E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2018 Most banks and credit card companies use Indian call centres. For the cost of one American employee. They get four in India.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 September 2018 Hyperloop will be the demise of railroads.

Name: Ho Chee Men E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2018 Hello Suckie SX. Many greetings. We buy you railroad SUCKIE SX. You no good . You fired. Chinese will run Amelikin Suckie railroad. Fire stupid Americans. Hire many many cheap mexicannies and negeroids. No more Youyungs. Very bad. We make money. You watch grasshopper. Learn from Master.

Name: Indian E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2018 Like many companies have done, CSX is contracting out certain responsibilities to companies in Indian. Going to save millions!!

Name: Near future E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2018 I got a glimpse of future, rr central control centre. Close terminal yard offices and there is going to be one nerve centre to control the whole system. Wifi link to locomotives, you will have train orders etc. Via wifi. Lots of tm etc gone, mechanical to take on new responsibilities that yard office did. Office staff going to take big hit. !!!!

Name: Fire Dept. E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2018 Looking for volunteers - CSX FIRE DEPARTMENT. Eligibility: any railroad employee of CSX or UP. Union membership not required. Ineligible: current or former Officers, or exempt employees. Educational requirements: HS Diploma Experience: willing to be fired, prior terminations, first out on furlough list, demand to be canned, unable to read/write, stupidity, any union employee.

Name: Eng E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 September 2018 CSX Make up your mind once and for all. Is a loaded pipe train a unit train or not!!! Work order has nothing on it restricting it to 50. The definition of a unit train by your bulletins you printed says it's not a unit train. You got SUPERVISORS saying it is then saying it isnt. This is bull. You program the PTC with 60 mph then it tries to update it to 50. Someone needs to make a damn decision. I know this question has been out there for over 6 months. Typical csx behavior. Just ignore the issue and charge someone with crap later. Come on! make a damn decision!

Name: Cell phone E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2018 CSX looks the other way on cell phone use, when it benefits them. But there could be that one situation and employee they want to fire. And by that person getting fired it shows they are enforcing the rules regarding cell phones. Your playing Russian roulette with your job!!!!

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 September 2018 Oprd Your wasting your time. If a person doesnt know the difference between a railroad supplied and personal device then their too stupid to be out here in tbe first place. Most do. They just chose to ignore it because what ever they are doing conveniences them. Most want the TO working so they can blame any train problems on it. Therefore they will use their phones if it isn't working. Company will turn their heads and no one will ever be charged for contacting the TO help desk. If they are and tbey fight it then the company will be exposed and have to fix the problem with not being able to talk to the TO help desk on the engine radio. They aren't going to spend the money or take the time to do that unless they go one man crew. Even then they won't spend the money. Just tell you to use your phone. Everyone knows this. Breaking a rule is always fine when it conveniences the company.

Name: Oprd E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2018 Crew members Rule 1001.4- the employee at the controls of a locomotive may use a RAILROAD SUPPLIED ELECTRONIC OR ELECTRICAL DEVICE For business purposes after all of the following conditions are met. Read the rule. You can not use your personal devices unless it is for an emergency situation or radio communications that have failed. This does not include calling the TO help desk if you can not activate your program after boarding. Fill out the TO report at the end of your trip with the reason as being unable to use the program and not able to communicate with the help desk due to not being allowed to use your personal device to make contact. You are on camera. Equipment is now having cell phone detectors installed. Until it is in writing that you can use your personal devices to make contact with any department, DO NOT. It is a major violation. Use common sense. Follow the rules in writing.

Name: Exsteward E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2018 Members Did you know you can file ethics charges against a supervisor who stands there and tells you that he doesn't care if his order violates the agreement. Take it up with your LC or file a claim. You need to get a witness and file a complaint with the international. The supervisor is hostile and deliberately trying union busting tactics. It's even better if you have the article present. If the supervisor still has an attitude you can put it in your complaint you had it in writing and he/she still refused to honor the agreement the carrier signed, sealed and delivered. There is no room for a hostile supervisor in the workplace.

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2018 Yes there are people that have no shame. It’s amazing how the membership votes all these corrupt people into the union. Well soon they will be all management. Sounds like you would be much better off without a union. And you could at least save your monthly dues. I’m sure the working conditions would be much better and fairer without a union. You can start the ball rollng to decertify. Good luck.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2018 I worked on the RR FOR 42 years. Unions were ok in the beginning then went turncoat. The one fellow says arbitration is fair. Don’t know about that. I never got one. In fact, never even got to a hearing. The regional union guy refused to file my claim. His reason: the company offered a $120k lobby job to him, and he didn’t want to screw up his chances by filing a claim. So, you have to get the Union to file your claim, before you can even get it heard let alone get to an arbitrator. It’s all political and all about money. It ain’t automatic, not by a long shot. Almost 85% of all claims filed by workers get rejected at the Union level. The other 15% are chopped down by procedural rules and union reps who refuse to go to arbitration after a lost claim. So your looking at less than 1% of claims that go to arbitration. Your odds are better wiith winning the Lottery. And there is nothing you can do about it, except pay pay pay them Union dues.

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2018 I’m speaking from my personal experiences of being in a rr job for thirty five years. And the union came threw for me and saved my job, threw arbitration. The process I went threw with arbitration I found to be very fair. The arbitrator is neutral until he hears all the fact, no prejudices against either side. I’m not going to accuse anyone of wrong doing unless I have 100% proof. Do some of the wrong people get voted into a union position are they self serving yes I witnessed that. But they get voted out in a hurry by members. Tell me what system is perfect? I know I got my monies worth from the union I paid into.If your fired for cause and it is serious, yes your going to have a big fight trying to get your job back 50/50 chance. The only thing I can suggest is you step up to the plate and run for a union position to try and make the improvements you think should be done.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 September 2018 UNION, You missed the point. Or you are avoiding it. No matter. Either way U ARE RAILROAD EMPLOYEE. That’s a fact. Or else you would not be in a railroad union or be a RR Union rep. Your on the Company payroll as a company employee. Whether you admit it or not, or like it or not, you are their Bitch. PERIOD. Without them, you don’t exist. Exclamation point. You can puff up your chest all you want, doesnt matter. It is what it is. So, now, what part about conflict of interest don’t you get? The railroad pays your livelihood. All of it. The Union gives you pocket change. No one lives on pocket change. Unless your in on some kind of money making union - Mexican drug cartel, the Man owns you. You cannot by any stretch of the imagination independently represent anyone while at the same time getting the lion’s share of your income from the railroad. Try, just don’t try too hard or you WILL find yourself unemployed. And, no longer a union rep. 87% claim success rate?? Tell that to the 100,000 railroad workers who lost their jobs in the last 25 years. The few who are left are close behind. Thanks to terrible negotiating and payoffs to Union officials. Don’t bother denying it. It’s a fact. Goes on all the time I all unionized industries. Including the raiload. The only thing the Union does nowadays is assist the Raiload with “contractual” measured attrition, enough to keep the trains moving while appeasing the remaining survivors with crumbs ....until they too are history. The Union of today is NOT the Union of old. Not even close. Whether we like it or not the Company owns us. Deal with it, live with Truth or in Denial, or go get a job on the sandwich truck and stick your head in a hole.

Name: Cypress Hill .... E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 September 2018 Roll it up light it up.....smoke it up.....exhale

Name: Union E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 September 2018 When Hh took over CP he fired people for any little thing, his managers where given the power to fire anyone on the spot without getting confirmation from labour relation of cp. 87 percent of employee that where fired where returned to work with back pay, by an arbitrator. The arbitrator seen the pattern of the company, for wrongful discipline. The union did a very good job for the membership. These people that trash the union are not, familiar with the system in my view. In the end firing people with out cause is just bulling members, to instill fear, instead of honouring the collective agreement. If you dislike the union shop that much go work in the private sector. You live in one of the most free counties in the world. If you hate your job that much maybe its time for a change.

Name: To conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 September 2018 Listening to your scenerio about hogger representing the conductor. The engineer if off the clock is paid by the union. At a local level the rep is a witness to the statement and can guide the employee that’s on the mat with advice. If that conductor is fired now his case is dealt with at the national level, and by law the union has to represent that member. And the national union rep. Is not paid by the company,he is paid by the union dues. And most cases go in front of an arbitrator who makes the final decisions.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 September 2018 When forming your opinion of the Union, keep in mind that ALL of your local reps are COMPANY employees. And, many regional and national officers are also railroad employees. So, who do you think the union represents, all of them being on the Company payroll? So let’s say your an engineer and a union rep. As an engineer you go to a hearing and represent conductor Harris, on a claim or a disciplinary matter, a man whom the Company Trainmaster and Superintendant really really despise and want to fire. You think that rep is gonna save Harris’s ass and risk the wrath of the Company....the very same company who holds the engineer’s livelihood by the throat. How easy is it for the company to make that reps life miserable if it wants. How tight is the rep and the Trainmaster and the Super?? How do you think that rep became a rep in the first place.? If you think the Union is your friend and fiercely battles with the Company, your either politically neutered, or you live in La La Land. The Union IS the Company. In today’s world they are present to control you. Keep you in line. The are the surrogate proxy for the company to keep you from striking and thinking about other important matters ...like benefits that provide re-training, education, paying for classes/instruction to give you a chance at getting another good job if yours is phasing out. That is simply not going to happen under the present Union - Company relationship. It’s been going on for a long long time. The Union is a corporate proxy puppet of the 20th century that stopped representing the working man and woman back in the 60’s. And it has gotten more and more pathetic as the decades rolled by. Today we are run by the Hoffa group, who doesnot in any way represent us.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 September 2018 There's a dumbass in Terre Haute who thinks he's a trainmaster. I know for a fact that piece of shit wont be here much longer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 September 2018 It is true the engineers have benefited for decades from the contracts to the detriment of everyone else. So it’s time to repay our debt. Trains don’t run without engineers. Remember that when the time comes.

Name: Cuts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 Foote and mantle still will cut many more jobs till end of 2020, or mantle could just bail once they figure the shares have peaked. With this regime it’s not about running a railroad. It’s about how much money they can get out of CSX then leave. I don’t think a lot of you understand that. Employees rights infrastructure customers, is secondary with this regime. Your not going to fix anything with a hedge fund group they are raiders of capital, then they move onto next victim company.

Name: tyrone E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 September 2018 Just thought I would share this article concerning csx and NC flooding before hurricane Florence hit. Don't these idiot people know we have to move trains at no cost! https://www.wral.com/lawsuit-filed-against-csx-over-lumberton-levee/17873134/

Name: Committee E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 I think the union for every craft should have a committee to start at page 1 of the collective agreement, and find these sucker words in the contract. Then go to labour relations and try to get, the wording amended. If CSX does not want to address it. Then the union can tell CSX it will be on the table the next contract. And could be the difference of getting new contract or not. But dealing with the Foote regime is going to be very difficult, mantle and gang have no respect for agreements unless it benefits the company. They want the union to do all the giving and CSX will do all the taking.Its an uphill fight with Foote and friends. They can’t move a train without the worker bee’s, down the road maybe time to play hard ball.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 September 2018 Xlc The sucker words are put in to leave things to a matter of interpretation. Which normally sides with the company. The unions biggest problem is having conductors and engineers etc. who think they are attorneys. Most only take the job to move into management or for the time off. Plus, all the higher up union positions pay over 100k for doing who knows what. We probably could have had the CN type contract by now, but do you really think the union heads want it?

Name: EXLC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 September 2018 Brothers That last post said it all. Did he not say at his LC training he was told to watch out for "Sucker" words? Why in the hell are they in the agreement in the first place. The International reps know how these are being written. They should never be in the agreements in the first place. SO what does that tell you. Is our unions fighting in the best interest of the members. HELL NO! They are horse trading with the carrier. This is nothing more than swindling and treating your members like idiots and pawns in their game to get what ever kick back they can get. Its like a crooked divorce lawyer throwing in small print to screw the other party, except it is the union members getting the screw job. I don't know about you, but its about time we all got together and demanded our unions clean up the agreements and represent us by federal laws...To the fullest extent possible! They take our money every month from us and we have a right to demand they write up agreements without loop holes and protect us in our workplace. What the hell!!! The last guy said he was told to look for sucker words. The Local chairman need to come together as a group and demand the Unions clean up the agreements. This is just a total crock of crap!

Name: To eng and brothers E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 My thirty five years on the rr,year after year there where sucker words in every collective agreement. When I took my LC training I was told to watch out for sucker words. But then every contract the members vote to accept the contract with all the sucker words threw out the agreement. If the membership told the company and union we will not vote until these sucker words are amended and removed from the collective agreement. But as usual the company puts a prize at the start of negotiations, and everyone focuses on the prize. It is the membership that votes these contracts in, because no one reads the agreements or cares. There are forms to fill out to amend this language but again no one cares. They just want the prize then they read the agreement only when they are affected by it. And are amazed the language still stands in the agreement. Demand changes before you sign off on the agreement or nothing changes. The membership holds all the power, if you are all on the same page.

Name: eng. E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 September 2018 Brothers I hate to say this but the union has a lot more to do with this continuation of violating the agreements. When claims are put in for a certain violation and the company agrees to pay the claim they are In so many words admitting they knew they were wrong and should not do the same action again. Do they stop? No! They wait till it cools down then they find a way to start it up again or look for some loop hole wording in the agreement that allows then to pull the same shit. They just come up with some bogus crap that another article allows them to do it. What we need is to get our own lawyers and go after the unions for not negotiating and enforcing our agreements in our best interest and to be made whole. We need to clean up the language in our agreements. Get rid of articles that conflict with each other. The engineer agreement has several. One example is where the agreement says engineers on pools are not to be use as locals or switching jobs, then another article says they can be called for any class of service as long as they are paid the highest rate of pay for service performed. This kind of loop hole wording is put in there to help out the company. It is not in the best interest of the members. If they get rid of the loop holes they would have to increase the extra boards to cover vacancies and all extra work. I'm sick of a sloppy agreement. I'm sick of the loop holes. We need our agreements cleaned up and actually made black and white. Get rid of these gray areas once and for all. Until this is done we are going to get no where. I called the UTU home office awhile back and they told me they had 4 filing cabinets of back articles and side letters. I wanted them on disc and told them it was my right to have a copy of these letters. It is in the federal laws that I can have a copy. They just laughed at me and told me if I wanted to see something call my LC and have him put in a request. This is bullshit. Those letters need to be reduced and all loop holes removed. Its time to clean our agreements up. Get rid of the crap. Start clean and fresh with an agreement we can all understand and know exactly what is in writing. But then we wouldn't need an LC to represent us. We would know exactly what they were violating and there would be no arguments as to what they were doing. The unions don't want the members having that kind of power.

Name: Rr past E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 In the past most rr where passionate about there job. Did not matter what craft you where in. People looked forward to going to work in a friendly environment. Now that these hedge fund people take over they have destroyed a hundred year culture and rule threw fear and intimidation, and accept there way as normal. Shame on the ceo and his henchmen, I’m a strong believer in Karma it works in mysterious ways. You have created an atmosphere where no one cares other than putting in a shift without getting fired, and the employees will not forget how you have treated them.

Name: Conductor 30+ E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 30+ conductor your just a manager scared of claims and grievances put in on your watch, that is why your anti union!!!!

Name: Claims E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2018 CSX still has to address all the claims before them, time and energy. Your lucky you are happy with the way things are if you never have to submit one.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2018 Yeah we had a conductor who filed all those stupid mindless claims. For years and years and years. NONE GOT PAID. ZIP.ZERO.NADA. NONE. These illusory claims are toilet paper for the RR. There are a gravy train for the union to “handle”. And charge you another additional $10 a month in dues. Talk about lunacy. And stupidity. DRINK THE KOOLAID!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 September 2018 Your 12 dollar late minutes claim, your 1.50 I.d. claim, your doubled out claim, your called outside call window claim, even your 8 hour claim for being held over is not going to "teach" the company anything. You have to be kidding! This company has an average of around 33 million dollars per day in revenue! Your claims ain't teaching them a damn thing. Remember they gave a 3/4 dead guy 84 million to run the place.

Name: Behaviour modification E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 That’s right folks keep filing grievances and claims. Maybe management might get the message to stop violating our contracts, and change there disrespectful behaviour towards the membership. We are the hard working backbone of this company. Until they start being good boys and girls, keep putting those claims and grievances in. Paper is cheap these days we won’t run out.

Name: EXLC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 September 2018 $$$$$ Its the same crap over and over on here. How many times does the international reps have to say that claims are not for the members to supplement their income. In fact, it would be better if no one got a dime and all the money that the company had to pay as fines(punishment) would go to the homeless children or something more worth while than the members getting a few bucks out of it. Everyone one of you who bitch because you don't get "PAID" don't get that it's not part of your pay. Its a fine that is submitted to the member who was violated. Lets see how many of you put in claims to teach the company a lesson if you had to put the money some where else. Bet over 3/4 of you wouldn't. You don't care about the violation. You just care about getting a few extra bucks. If you didn't then you would swamp the company with claims every time they sneeze wrong. I've heard it a million times... why put in a claim, I'm not going to get paid anyway. Its not about you getting a damn dime. Its about blowing the whistle on these turncoats. Its about starting a paper trail of their deliberate and malicious violations. Its about ratting the violators out. You want your work agreement honored then put in the claims and quit worrying so much about lining your pockets!

Name: Read here E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 Well buddy in my thirty five years on rr I was fired once and held out of service twice. The union got my job back and the times I was held out, I was paid in full for my lost wages. My cost a few dollars a month. I got more back from the union than I paid in. Now if I was in the private sector and had to hire a lawyer would of cost me thousands of dollars to represent me will no guarantees of the out come. If you do not like paying union dues go work in the private sector pal.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2018 READ. The Union contract may be black and white, but your claims have to go thru that very tight sphincter muscle called the Union. You gave up all your rights to Jimmy Jones. And drank the kool aid. Good luck with those claims!!!

Name: Dumb & Dumber E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 September 2018 Help the Union.🤪 Sure. The idiot squad.

Name: Help your union E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 If the company is violating the same things with members file a grievance or claim. When everyone that files and the union goes to arbitration with a pile of grievances for the same thing. The arbitrator sees that the company is purposely doing this to the members. It is not just an honest mistake done to a few. If CSX is purposely doing this and the union shows proof by the large number of grievances it is an easy win for the membership. So do this every single time your violated put in grievance or claim. The union can not defend you on hear say.

Name: Read E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 Everyone has access to a copy of the collective agreement. It is black and white what you are entitled to For the length of your contract. If you have a grievance go to your LC or shop steward and they will help you file a grievance. Once you give the grievance to the union, the union owns the grievance. It takes time for the union to get a meeting to address your issue with the company. If there is no progress make with a manager over your grievance. It is pushed to the next step, like arbitration. This does not happen over night, if a judgement is made in your favour you will be made whole. Priorities for union is people that are fired. They try to get member back to work asap. But you have to file a grievance to be heard. Remember the company with this regime is trying to overwhelm the union by burying them in paper. That is why the company is dening everything to bog the union down. So they don’t have to pay on this regimes watch. If your contract has been violated and it goes to arbitration and you win it could take some time to see your money but you will be made whole. Rome was not built in a day.

Name: Barlow Sims E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2018 Brothers, the inward facing camera era is upon us and there are guys charged with playing games and looking at porn on their phones. I'm sure some of you will blame the union for this but its all our fault. We are all too self centered to stop and look around and see what is happening. In the next round of contract talks the carriers will show our Unions a full feature movie of all us asleep and looking at this website. Also a reader and poster on this site has proven himself to be a rat and snitch. Enjoy being fired punk Barlow Sims, Long Pool Conductor

Name: CSX hipe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 A lot of times a company will announce they are making more cuts without details , just to bait and make shareholders feel good.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 September 2018 9 dollars is 9 dollars

Name: Strike fund E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 If your layed off or furloughed the union will never take money from the strike fund to pay you. For example say the cops are on strike and are represented by teamsters. They might transfer strike money from one teamster union to another just to keep the fight going. And when there is a strike that goes for a while so does the money go fast. Union workers make on average thirty percent more in wages and fifty percent more in benefits than a non union employee. You pay home insurance, for disasters etc. Your union dues protect you in certain issues. It cost thousands to take a case to arbitration to get your job back if your fired for example. I paid for thirty five years got my monies worth after they got my job back from being fired.

Name: Strike fund E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 The union I pay into they take 10 percent of money collected goes into strike fund. We are 300000 strong last I heard we had 148 million $$ in fund. Last time we went on strike we got 300.00 a week.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 September 2018 My Class I RR WENT INTO A LONG AND PAINFUL DEATH SPIRAL TO A BANKRUPT MERGER. The blood letting and back stabbing was relentless as everyone tried to save their own asses. In the end, everyone took a bullet except the chairman who got the traditional golden parachute. Union reps bailed and took company jobs as payoffs for screwing over the rank and file out of their Washington Agreement severance payments. The whole thing was gruesome and stunk to high heaven. People committed suicide. And murder. Others were caught trying to embezzle millions. Some got away. It was a shitstorm of craziness. I went back to school and at 65 years old with not a penny to my name, got a computer degree at night school with a wife and three kids at my side. It was tough, but as the saying goes when the going gets tough the tough get going. So my advice is look in the mirror and ask yourself where you want to 10 years from now....

Name: Cuts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2018 If you get layed off collect benefits till they run out then look for a job. Do not take your pention benefits out of the plan. I waited three years for recall I worked other jobs till then. They are going to make cuts to prop up numbers for share holders. But they will recall. Did same thing at other rr that hedge fund raiders took control of.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2018 DEEP CUTS ARE COMING IN LOUISVILLE!!! Better get those resumes updated and start applying now!!! If you wait then all your CSX buddies that get cut at the same time might fill up all the available good jobs in Louisville. I've been told by a reliable source that within a month it will be cut so deep that the yard extra board will be nothing but 10 year plus guys. Engineers are about to get cut back too but it won't be too deep so I'm told.

Name: ! E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 September 2018 PR You forgot to mention that he also emphasized the importance of "weeding out the nonbelievers!" A lot of supervisors got the hatchet over that one! Amen brother. Toss those nonbelieving heathens to the streets! Cleanse all those defiant souls. Bring them to see their evil ways. No one makes it to the top, especially Harrison without crushing some souls and stepping on someone else. Just pray(no pun intended) that Foote saw the light a little different and has decided to be more "Godly" and a little less tyrannical. God says do unto those as you would have them do unto you!

Name: Fatass Joe (POS) E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 September 2018 You boys and girls aren't suppose to know about the $10.00 dues increase proposed by the CSX General Chairman Jamie Modesitt. If inquiring minds wanna know you can ask your Local Chairman to see the letter Mr. Modesitt e-mailed them a couple of weeks ago. All local chairman will cast a yes or no vote as to whether or not it is approved. I don't think most of the members have a clue how much money this General Committee is costing it's members annually because they don't want the bid system for conductors. Educate yourself folks, look at what the BLE-T negotiated for the Engineers.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2018 Conductor. “TOO MANY UNION MEMBERS VOTE FOR UNION REPS WHO NO LONGER WORK FOR THE WORKING MAN.” AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2018 Not everyone who now works for a RR Co. wants to or can get additional education, for many reasons. RRs never were & never will be, employee friendly. Many blame unions. Sure enough they're not perfect; far from it. And some, both full-time & part time reps., have taken advantage. Work for an outfit like CSX without 'em though. Many, especially younger folks, do not seem to realize lots of RR jobs were around longer because of union agreements. Safety First: RR safety appliance acts. The FELA. OSHA. The USDOT that the FRA is a part of. [Long list] Who worked to get those laws/regulations enacted in the first place? Sure as heck wasn't business\companies. Unions still exist because politicians still allow them. Too many union members, if they do in fact vote, vote for people that are not true friends of the working person.

Name: pr E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2018 Treatment Don't forget what HH said in an interview when he first came on board with CSX. He said..."cultures change one funeral at a time!" I just about fell over when I read that. Then I remembered his father was a traveling preacher so it wasn't hard to figure out where his wacked ideology came from. Just hope that his brainwashing didn't talk ahold of Foote. Terre Haute Crews: As for those testing boards. Remember, they must be clear and clean. A few years ago a supervisor put one out that was so dirty and rusted the crew couldn't recognize what it was. They were running at night. After the M&W found out, s,,,t hit the fan. Its illegal to put boards out that are not clearly recognizable. Another RF threw a few up between some 707 areas where they had at least 6 boards spaced pretty close to each other and confused the crews. The boards put up by the foreman of the work crew were not in the exact spot as listed on the bulletins. Several trains stopped and called the foreman to verify which one was the right one. Again, s...t hit the fan and the supervisor was told to never pull that stunt again in a 707 area. We all know what the intent was for that kind of stunt.

Name: Treatment E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2018 CSX is not the only railroad in North America, that employees are treated like shit. It’s right across the board. I had best years of my life working at the railroad till Hh. Destroyed the culture, never to be the same place again and always getting worse with technology changes. Seen many changes over the years some good most bad for the working person. As the word gets out less and less people will apply for rr jobs. Don’t know where it will all end up in years to come.

Name: #GetEducatedOrGetFired E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2018 Haven’t been on hear in more than a year. The posts have turned way more negative. No hope and all is lost. The din of whiners can be heard all the way to China. Jobs are not God given rights. The Union is not going to save you, or your jobs. You may as well be throwing Union dues payments down a rat hole. It’s a supply/demand driven economy called capitalism if you haven’t noticed by now. Industrialization was last century news. Today is technological advancement on steroids. People jobs requiring hands on physical labor are ALL going bye bye. Your job could have been teched out years ago. The only reason it hasn’t been is because the government can’t have millions of unskilled people hitting the street all at the same time. So it’s done incrementally. Your on industrial welfare dude. Your working on borrowed time. Your being slammed on the job more and more. It’s nothing more than the system grinding its wheels and your still here and in the way. The world is tech jobs. Not industrial. Get retrained and re-educate before your totally irrelevant in the job market, and your future benefits plummet to subsistent poverty level income. The wheels of technology are turning faster and faster. Don’t be the one called in for termination for a silly little rule violation. Get ahead of the game. Don’t go home and drink a case of Bud or smoke a bag off weed or drop a bottle of opioids to make your anxiety go away. Do yourself and your family a favor for the future when there is no more railroad job. Get training/skills/education NOW before the Company puts the next shoe in YOUR butt. Stop whining and get to work!!! Good luck!

Name: Creativity to fire you E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 September 2018 I worked under the Hh regime for 4.5 years. And the creativity they come up with to rattle and fire employees is almost a form of harrasment in itself. CSX wants to cut jobs up to 2020 and not one of you is special in anyway shape or form. You are dealing with heartless corrupt bastards with this regime. And will look for any loop hole to get what they want. They love to fire people with cause, it’s harder for you to get back to work that way. Things will not get better till this regime is long gone. Really watch your back and assume nothing. If the rules say no cell phones, that’s what it means. If your going to use your phone to do the company a favour and put your job in jeopardy your nuts. I seen a manager fired for telling employee to use his phone and the employee was fired. Rank and file and there are those managers that enforce company policy no exceptions. You could be next not following company policy because you thought it was convenient. There are managers that fire managers all the time. The employee is easy for them to fire.

Name: ape2 E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 September 2018 Ape You talking about military Williams. TM's out of avon used that test a lot. Mostly the RF's were doing it. Not a very good test. Just write down where every slow order or warning board is supposed to be and check them off as you go by. Best way to avoid getting the fake confused with the real one.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 September 2018 Rule 304.7 is being used to test crews by that Prick in Terre Haute. This test is used only to try to fire someone.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 September 2018 ACD How about the engineers agreement that is written in black and white. NO GRAY AREA! An engineer who arrives at his AFT on his rest day will be deadheaded to his home terminal. HA! HA! Put in a claim the local chairman says. How about they just honor what is in black and white and quit playing games. They signed their name on the agreement. This shit is just getting way too old. Got any suggestions how to get this handled higher up?

Name: IBEW E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 September 2018 Lets have a fucking.... goodtime making the "company"...miserable

Name: 3:10 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 September 2018 Hell yea they are a bunch of "victims "... cant talk to them Man to Man... file charges on u..... dont stop me though... What a frigging mess...The Grand Ole USA is nomore.......Ps. CSX Suxxxssssss

Name: ACD E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 September 2018 2 years ago, I would of sent yall home for an enimma (if you were nice to me on the phone) today they set up people to explicitly watch crew balancing and deadheads. That's absolutely shitty what's happened to that poor guy. I'd give everything to spend the last moments with my father. Including my job.

Name: Men vs boys E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2018 Most of the real men are retired, and now you have a bunch of cry baby soyboys. Scared to stand up for anything, just bow to the man. Real men stand up for what they believe and fought for and had solidarity. Now each generation gets weaker and weaker fact, most brought up by there mothers.

Name: ape E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 September 2018 Conductor 10-20 I can believe it. If they refuse to deadhead someone home that was called and told their father was in the hospital and they don't know how long he will live then they will do anything. Guy made pleading calls and was told flat out no one was to deadhead. Made him take train home. Father died before he got there. This isn't the first time this has happened. There isn't any words to describe this kind of cold hearted behavior. God knows where these people are. Time will take its toll on them.

Name: Up E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2018 https://www.freightwaves.com/news/union-pacific-precision-railroading?format=amp

Name: Failed E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2018 Soon CSX won’t move trains no crews like cn. http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2018/03/25/inside-a-cn-meltdown.aspx

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 September 2018 I ain't buying it dude, no way the conductor is not terminated. Unless this happened off the property and still that's a stretch. Why you trying to start rumors like that? Make something up that is halfway believable.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 September 2018 conductor attacks engineer and nearly beats him to death causing multiple injuries. CSX gives conductor a waiver to return to work. Denies engineer waiver. CSX trying to get injured engineer to investigation to fire him and cut off engineers medical insurance. CSX is literally trying to KILL engineer

Name: Lumberton N.C. E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 September 2018 This fine company CSX just let us flood during florence hurricane... put greed above human lives and millions of peoples personal property...what a Shame!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2018 Well the ghost of Hunter has shown up on the U.P. We are implementing a version of Precision Schedule railroading starting October 1st. Cant wait to see how this turns out.

Name: Chuga Chuga E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 September 2018 Haven't checked in since Obama was still wreck'n the joint. How's the rail traffic since Trump took office? I knew Hunter's damage would only take the stock price so far so the rest should be Trump's doing. So now that industry in making a comeback what happens to all those yards that were closed down and no place to put all the freight? What happens now?

Name: Buzzer E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2018 No Mole. - Union Rep. Hey you know where Someone can get some good drugs? I hear you Union guys have the contacts and connections with the Mexicans and the motorcycle gangs. Bring it in TOFC and Tell me where to pick up. My code name is Stoner. Keep this under the wraps if you get my drift. Thanks comrade.

Name: Hitchhiker E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Here's the best rumor I've heard yet. With crew availability critical, dispatchers will now be charged for not ordering cabs for crews in a timely manner. I for one am all for that. So tired of begging to get a cab ordered and told "I got one ordered" only to find out they never did. If I was on a short pool then ok, fine, however these 14 hour days with no overtime blows. If you don't like it,try sitting in your car in the parking lot 2 or 3 hours after you get off. Should have done this a long time ago, just imagine the overtime they've cost this company.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 September 2018 I haven't heard about a dues increase, is this true?

Name: No mole E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2018 Not a mole retired after thirty five years. Most union guys used there own credit cards. Ran everything threw them collected the points. When I was rep. I ran everything threw my card submitted receipts to union was cut a check.

Name: Dispatched E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Conductor: Your A Union mole and double agent for the Company. No surprise there. Crawl back under your rock. Like a snake.

Name: Funds E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2018 Ask how much money is in the strike fund that is collecting interest, slush fund for the guys. They can use there own credit card and join the air miles club flying around on your money. Priceless.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 September 2018 are union wants to increase dues. HAHA. what a joke. how about get my legit claims paid first? out of routes, working without a switch man, etc.. We were told that the whole seniority ( not being able to make a move) was suppose to end weeks ago.. They wont stop it. Why would they? Raise my union dues so you can take another 6 digit trip to where ever? Vegas..? I believe in the unions, and I know there's a lot that goes on behind close doors, But my god We were told to put the claims in for not being able to bump a junior employee, then told not too because it would not be a " major Dispute " all though " seniority and $$ sounds like a major dispute to me.. Then after a month + of the NO claims for the better of this fight. We were told to start putting the claims back in... Maybe i'm wrong but if there's an issue that affects every conductor under this agreement. Wouldn't a blanket claim be an idea or no? The union will raise our dues, then the emergence funds will dip below the minimum and then get raised again. Some times i wounder if my union and HOA are the same people

Name: Skid wheels E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2018 Skid those wheels burn up the track. Thousands of dollars to replace tradition motors. Throttle 8 burn a hole lol.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Hey dispatch, There is no such word as loosing. Please buy a dictionary, confirm what I say is true and then edit the post. There's lots more but we can do one at a time. And yes, I'm from the grammar and spelling police that you've always heard about.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Roll tide roll ....... roll csx roll

Name: Evil Trainmaster E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 September 2018 The crap is just beginning. No more toilet paper in bathrooms....BYO. No more lunch breaks - rollover. 4 hour day, no benefits. Furlough all under 25 yrs- 2019 goal. Keep them in the closet. Feed them crap. Like mushrooms. I can’t wait to see the look on their faces. Makes me want to do a little dance. Cha cha cha! Out with the drunks and the terminal dopers and potheads. In with technology, train crew reduction and remotes. My job is so secure. I know computer system too. You don’t. Hahaha. Bye bye dummies. How you like your Unions now???

Name: 3:10 to Yuma E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Drag up hills slow slide down fast tonnage first Safety last

Name: Motor E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 September 2018 Dispatched ' Intelligent conversation???? Lol! When would you like to start. Another deflector. Their little flock was forced to Florida to roost. Stay in the Bird coop. Play choo choo from your desk. In the meantime we can all sit back and watch the cookies crumble. Supervisors are getting desperate. Bogus departure times are popping up on time tickets. Crews are being told to do job briefings on the trains and not in the crew rooms. Mark off on your phone's instead of waiting for a computer in the crew rooms. No dead heads even if you have an emergency with your family. Bulletins that make no sense. Jesus, when will this crap stop.

Name: Dispatched E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 21 September 2018 Hey conductor, When you get your head out of your Arse and scrape the BS from your eyeballs you might someday understand that by 2020 or sooner your history and the Union has been porking your hind side into bloody raw meat while milking your paycheck. Must feel good, cause your back on here whining about Indy and 4 more trains loosing more Crew hours. Like, cut in half. That’s a big chunk of crews lost. . What is the little lost sheep going to do??? Oh I know. Your going to run to the Union for safety. Surprise?!?! Umm, don’t think so. RR manpower management (e.g. cutting your throat) has been going on for years. And years. The Union is missing in action. Contract protection with the Hoffa Teamsters ?!?!?! You get your HS diploma from a Cracker Jax box???? So now the class 1 roads are in overdrive. They can’t wait to get rid of your ass. Assume the posture and spread your legs. The Man is coming in for a landing with a mighty big load to dump. Employees who once thought their jobs were safe are on the bubble ready to burst any moment. Pink slip furloughs are flying. And one has your name on it Einstein. Now can we please get back to some intelligent adult conversation?????? Or you can keep sniveling whining and crying in your beer till the pink slip hits you in the arse. Ignorance is bliss.....

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 September 2018 HEY stupid Law was right. And I didn't see one comment in his post about the unions. He addressed the issue of posting on this site. I didn't see one thing in your post that was adult or worth having a discussion about. Now who is the poser. They just added turns to the pools out of Indy to cover 4 trains that are going to flip. Its starting. Advertised at a few miles more than agreed trip rate but as we understand it is one ticket for both directions. Not what's in our union agreements. Guess we will just have wait and see how much we end up getting screwed out of.

Name: Union Pacific E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 September 2018 Curse is spreading...Up is going to the precision scheduled railroading bullshit too.

Name: Hey Stupid E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Law. The adults are trying to have an intelligent conversation on here with issues that matter to the majority and integrity of rank and file railroad workers. We may be union members, but we're not stupid. You are just another mafia Hoffa hack on here trolling for the so called union, which has emaciated the rank and file with spineless idiotic and gutless one sided contracts that totally screwed over the workers. Now get off here with your mindless drivel.

Name: PR E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2018 What??? NOTHING IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES OR SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY IS INTENEDED TO INTERFERE WITH YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT OR THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT INCLUDING CRITICISM OF CSX'S LABOR POLICIES, TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. If you are paranoid that csx will research your IP address, send out the hounds and track you down and fire you for posting on this site then I suggest you don't. AS dues paying union members it is healthy to have discussion about your work place rules and environment with each other. You should also continue discussions with your local representatives when any of these conditions violate your written agreements and your rights to organize or any state or federal law.

Name: TOTC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018 This is to the INTERN, The information that you have conveyed is VERY Life changing for a lot of people. So I'm sure you can understand that the information will need to be verified in some way. If it can be verified, then what you have done is saved a lot of people's futures, due to the fact that they have that precious time to make plans so their families and or themselves will not get into a situation that will create devastation in their lives. So I DO hope that this information you have kindly conveyed can be vetted in some way. If all is true, Your Soul Will be BLESSED. Thank you Intern

Name: What ??? E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 September 2018 What are you saying? Break it down son. Can CSX see the posters or not? Name: Law E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Yes sir Go sit on the couch and eat your chips. Retired sp. Send an email to the webmaster asking him how you are protected. Doesn't matter if they get your IP address or not. Ask him to explain to you what the posters legal rights are to use this web site and their right to voice their personal opinions. CSX employees can also look up the company disclaimer statement attatched to their use of social media. Someone is really itching...

Name: Tony D E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Yes sir said it best.....make money and go home!!!! Quit being babies!

Name: Law E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Yes sir Go sit on the couch and eat your chips. Retired sp. Send an email to the webmaster asking him how you are protected. Doesn't matter if they get your IP address or not. Ask him to explain to you what the posters legal rights are to use this web site and their right to voice their personal opinions. CSX employees can also look up the company disclaimer statement attatched to their use of social media. Someone is really itching...

Name: Yes Sir E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Tickeled is right. Most of the posters on here are whiners. Schreechers. Cry babies. Switching without a switch list? Really?? A good way to get someone killed. Good riddance! Lost a Claim and represented by the Union.? You obviously had a bogus claim and the incompetent Union is milking you. Unions are nepotism. You get nephew/son-in-law/daughter appointed by daddy/mommy/uncle in a rigged insider political system. Inbred idiots. RR Retirement is NOT a pension. It is Social Security and you CAN loose as much as 2/3 of it if you get canned and go unemployed or quit and go unemployed or get a lesser paying job before you get your 30 years. It not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If you have any brains, follow the rules, do your job, shut the fuck up, get in, get out, go home to your family.

Name: Retired SP Eng E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 September 2018 I can assure you guys, the CSX Corp. Office knows who everyone posting on this site is... at least the loud ones. Further more, both your unions have sold you down the drain. Just look at how many CSX LaborBoard case they lose. I know of a Birmingham Eng/Cond that lost his job for coupling up the wrong yard track, and had no switch list. No switch list, don’t talk about safety..please. A Charlotte Eng. was awarded his job back the pay. The CSX gave him the middle finger and last I heard, would not pay him. The BLE said there was nothing they could do. Great union to have.

Name: Junior employees E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 September 2018 To the junior employees that get layed off. Don’t withdraw any pention money. The fastest way to get back to work is when people senior to you move on from CSX. Then you move up the seniority list. This happened to myself a large group of us where layed off and most never returned to work when they where called back. I think in six months I gained thirty spots on the seniority list because of this. The little money you have in your pention it is a no brainer to withdraw it anyways, don’t burn the bridges behind you. Just a suggestion!

Name: Loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2018 Tickled Read the difference between tier 1 and tier 2. Second, I was ordered out,of terminal without proper Fra paperwork on my locomotive because the idiot running the terminal didn't give a shit about anything but his one hour departure time. I have already contacted the FRA about it. Some of us are not pussies. Yes, I whine when they steal my pay that is rightfully mine but I do put in my worthless claims. In the meantime I will stick every rule up the ass of every arrogant pompas ass supervisor around if that's what it takes to enforce safety especially when they are hypocrites. Hover over my ass and try to intimidate me while I'm doing my job briefing. Keep asking why I'm still in the building while I'm sitting right in front of you doing my damn briefing with my crew member. Treat us like we are stupid children. Keep your stupid crap up. I don't cover their butts anymore. I don't fix their mistakes. I don't make phone calls for them. No more babysitting the supervisors. Now, back to what's more important than your BS distracting troll.

Name: Safety E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 September 2018 Safety first is what CSX preaches under this new management. But since mantle and Foote took over. The statistics show a totally different picture, derailments injuries and fatalities. Are way above the industry standard, and with more job cuts it will get even worse. CSX is to get operating ratio down and increase share value. And Foote does not care how they get to the numbers they want. When people say shut up and stop complaining is just sick. At the rate of these derailments there is going to be a disaster. Where is the goverment interventions to stop this madness. They did not learn anything what these people did at cn cp record fatalities under Hh watch and Foote. Now Foote is just repeating what they did in Canada. Criminal behaviour in my view.

Name: TOTC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018 I put this post under EVERYTHING cause of this person that goes by " Name: Tickled E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018. Whomever you are sir, you ARE NOT a RailRoader. You claim there is " whining and sniveling about how safety has been diminished because the company eliminated "safety rules ", Show the evidence. You sir have no idea what is truly going on. I find it VERY hard to believe someone that has been out here as long or longer than I have, could not understand what is REALLY going on. Unless you have been riding the Extra Board and shoving your head further and further up your butt for so long that you have lost ALL sight of REALITY. Either that or you are corp. / hq turd that has totally lost your Integrity and Self Respect. What you are here ( in this reality ) you WILL BE when you pass, and the only souls you will have around you are souls that are JUST LIKE YOU.

Name: Tickled E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 September 2018 I only look at this site about once a month so forgive the comments to old post.. 1. Stop the whining and sniveling about how safety has been diminished because the company eliminated "safety rules ". It only makes us look stupid and inept at being able to safely do our jobs without oversight. You should be able to make safe decisions on your own. 2. Quit crying about paperwork and how you were rushed out the terminal. Learn the rules and who can authorize you to leave without proper documentation ( chief dispatcher ). 3. We don't get a pension, never have ,never will. We get railroad retirement which is somewhat equivalent to social security. Managers get the same benefit plus a pension which is totally funded by csx. 4. Why do some of you whine so much? Your incessant driveling about train masters is getting old. You think they really enjoy their job, you wrong. They just get tired of putting up with your bullshit. Yes ,there are some assholes but most just would like for you to act like adults. Show up,get your paperwork and get moving, however, there's always a certain group that always make any excuse they can to delay a train. 5. It seems that this site never changes. Must be the same 10 or 20 employees that keep crying over the same bullshit. There's no need to study the FRA RULES. The CSX rules at a minimum meet the fra rules and sometimes exceeds their requirement. If you want to work here then you follow csx rules.

Name: Blacksmith E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 September 2018 Dont work on csx time... don't shit on your own time.

Name: Stoned & Drunk E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 17 September 2018 Hella bells I been working here a billion years Goofy and the secret to my success is an asshole plus a fifth Jack Daniels and a bag a Colombian Red every day since I was born. Now I’m a 190 give or take. Plus I listen to Mission Impossible 24/7. Gets the juices going see. I been bumped a thousand times. The TMs all hate me cause I’m an asshole. Hells bells every terminal I bump into they close and move the work somewhere else. It’s like ima leper or something. I get drugs so good they make you wanna drive a locomotive off a cliff. Work my ass off and now looks like no pension. Guess I’ll start a pot farm and a school for lost souls. Maybe even a strip club. Gotta have a fall back position and make the best of your sitiation.

Name: Canada E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 I worked under Hh four 4 years. What this m&w guy is telling you is a 100% right on the money.

Name: Ozzy Osborn E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Son of a bitch!!! You've been out here 50+ years!!! You could write a hell of a book about this place and railroading in general. I don't know who you are but I respect any man or woman that has been doing this 50+ years. 30 years would kill a lesser being. A lot of equipment out here was bought new in the 70s, you've been here longer than most of the equipment!!! He'll you've been here longer than most of the rail in a lot of places. I hope I find out how you did it because just getting 30 years looks like a nightmare.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 17 September 2018 I’ve been with the railroad Over 50 years. Goofy is correct, give or take a couple of years. Technology is gobbling up the jobs. One man crew the reality, yards will be 100% tech. Remote is progressing to complete automation. The roads will stop hiring completely. My engineer friends all of whom have at least 15 years are getting bumped faster and faster by men with 25 to 30 years. It’s hard to find a steady job anywhere. The Roads areslashing jobs even in this economy. If you have any sense you will get some kind of experience in another field. Your going to need it. Don’t count on a pension. It converts to SS, and SS May not be around for long. Even if it is, the monthly benefits drop dramatically the longer your unemployed. Don’t wait to plan ahead. Don’t count on the Union. Count on yourself.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Ape 10-20 Guess you weren't around when the brothers actually stood together during the organizing campaign. The one that involved the organizing bumper sticker...."The railroads use us then abuse us"! If you weren't just ask around. The great lakes division crews were the major supporters. Michael Ward had to issue a letter of apology for the unauthorized behavior of his subordinates after a threat of a federal injunction was set on the table if the intimidation and harassment didn't stop. So, yes it can happen. Things did get accomplished then. It just took getting media attention and getting all the members mad enough to stand together. Mob justice by the members! That's what they called it. The carrier would not want another repeat of this action. Especially the unions because they would have to step up to the plate again and save their reputation or have egg on their faces and take a chance of being voted out of office! Unsafe work conditions, FRA violations, hostile work environment and craft discrimination has no place out here! NOTE* Pension troll...... Save your finger action.... no ones interested.

Name: To goofy posing as conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 To the tm posing as a conductor, we know your sitting at your desk your nerves are so bad , you have no rr friends. Wondering everyday if your going to get. The big phone call that you services are no longer required because your inept. The pention s are not going anywhere. There not moving CSX to China. All the job cuts will be refilled once Foote and mantle move on. Just like they did in Canada. It’s sad you had to sell your soul to serve Foote and mantle we understand your actions. But you break federal safety laws your going to end up paying for that sooner or later. Feel sorry for you having to take the fall for Foote and mantle when there is a accident on your watch.

Name: Goofy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 September 2018 This is your opinion only. You can't provid proof. You're a joke. Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Yes sireee. Pensions are history for you turkeys with less than 25 years. Look around. The evidence is in front of your face. The Company can’t wait to get rid of us. They slip the hard hot rod to ya nice and slow. Millimeter at a time. You don’t even hardly feel it goin in. The Union is here to make sure the rod stays lubed up. In it goes deeper and deeper. Then they withdraw the rod, and you get a little relief....like a pay increase or something like that. Takes your mind off of being slowly fricked. Then the Union steps in, as always to defend your arse, but they actually just lub up the Company rod and your gonna really get it hard and fast. Like a locomotive piston. Till the Company blows its whistle off and your gonna be standing there with your pants down wondering what the heck just happened. All that work, all those Union dues, all those pension contributions....POOF! Time to set up that 401k and go back to school to learn how to be an air traffic controller, raise wieners, perform brain surgery, fix computers, or if your one of those who just lays back and smokes a joint to start the day just relax and mooch off your family. After all, most of you are sheep anyway...someone who delegates away all their independent thinking to a bunch of looney tune blowhards let’s face it, don’t have s whole lot of brains to begin with. Once a sheep always a sheep. So the next time you see your TM just remember...that little pecker is just waiting to give you a good healthy screwing. And if you don’t have 25 years in today as of now, your cherry has already been thoroughly plowed by the Man, you are damaged goods, and unemployable. But dont worry. The Union has your back. And a jar of lubrication.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Stick together? Do you have any evidence that has happened out here in the last 30 years? That will never happen. While you're trying to stick together your brothers are taking advantage of your sacrifice. After you're targeted and dismissed, you'll have a significant number that will be counting the extra money they'll be making. We all know that's sad but true.

Name: Report managers E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 17 September 2018 Every time a manager tries to get you to break company policy or federal rr laws. Record everything get them talking on the radios it is recorded. Report to the union fra let managers know that they are also being monitored. If one gets fired for there negligence on safety, will send a message to all of them. It is a fight for the safety of everyone. Who cares if a manager does not get his bonus ? Stick together and maybe there behaviour will change, and they will get back to thinking safety first.

Name: Managers fired E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 http://www.teamstersrail.ca/CP_managers_charged.html

Name: Manager fired for this E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3118752

Name: Management burnouts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 Don’t let these tm or managers get to you. They are just being used by this regime. They are to believe there self importance, from all the bs grooming from this regime. Foote and friends are playing these people like a violin and getting them to push everyone and bend rules. But when something happens these knot heads will take the fall and head office will just play stupid. This tactic is out of Hh play book seen the exact same thing at cp under Hh. Some managers stuck there neck out and lost there head. Thought they where doing the company a big favour. When the feds got involved they where fired. They learnt the hard way being so called company men. Sit back don’t get rattled, if they want you to move your train with out proper paper work get them on the radio to confirm this, write it down inform them you are going under protest then report them ASAP. Don’t be the fall guy for these ass holes, they have a big turn around with these TMs and managers. The head office gives them enough rope to hang themselves. Don’t go down with them follow the company and fed rules they can’t fire you for doing your due diligence.

Name: notfooled E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Pension troll There is no way you are a chosen company troll who has been offered under the desk perks for coming on this site and trying to distract, because as unethical as this company is there is no way they would give a trash mouth like you the time of the day. WOW! not sure if your just unemployed and bored to death in your basement or your a rogue supervisor who is afraid your name is getting ready to be posted on here. All the topics that have been discussed in the last 5 days must really have someone in the white collar community worried. Ignore this idiot posters. Keep up the good informative post. One of the latest topics has put a burr under someone's saddle. Maybe its the topic of the latest FRA violations.

Name: Rumours E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2018 In a thirty five year career I was layed off nine times the longest was 19 months. I’m retired now I never once with drew my pention. I was always called back. And I never listen to rumours until I seen it with my own eyes. Or I had a layoff slip.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 September 2018 Yes sireee. Pensions are history for you turkeys with less than 25 years. Look around. The evidence is in front of your face. The Company can’t wait to get rid of us. They slip the hard hot rod to ya nice and slow. Millimeter at a time. You don’t even hardly feel it goin in. The Union is here to make sure the rod stays lubed up. In it goes deeper and deeper. Then they withdraw the rod, and you get a little relief....like a pay increase or something like that. Takes your mind off of being slowly fricked. Then the Union steps in, as always to defend your arse, but they actually just lub up the Company rod and your gonna really get it hard and fast. Like a locomotive piston. Till the Company blows its whistle off and your gonna be standing there with your pants down wondering what the heck just happened. All that work, all those Union dues, all those pension contributions....POOF! Time to set up that 401k and go back to school to learn how to be an air traffic controller, raise wieners, perform brain surgery, fix computers, or if your one of those who just lays back and smokes a joint to start the day just relax and mooch off your family. After all, most of you are sheep anyway...someone who delegates away all their independent thinking to a bunch of looney tune blowhards let’s face it, don’t have s whole lot of brains to begin with. Once a sheep always a sheep. So the next time you see your TM just remember...that little pecker is just waiting to give you a good healthy screwing. And if you don’t have 25 years in today as of now, your cherry has already been thoroughly plowed by the Man, you are damaged goods, and unemployable. But dont worry. The Union has your back. And a jar of lubrication.

Name: Numb nut E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 September 2018 All lies. You are a rumor start mole. Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 September 2018 Yes. Pensions are history. Anyone working now without 25 years will not be around long enough to quality. Better open up that 401K and start investing.

Name: Not true E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 September 2018 You’re smokin crack. This isn’t true, if so prove it. Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 September 2018 Yes. Pensions are history. Anyone working now without 25 years will not be around long enough to quality. Better open up that 401K and start investing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 https://up.jobs/search-jobs.html?category=&state=

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 https://career4.successfactors.com/career?company=CPR&career%5fns=job%5flisting%5fsummary&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&_s.crb=BWJ%2bTCOztmSFyrnPd%2fTey3r8wAc%3d

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 https://jobs.bnsf.com/search/?q=&sortColumn=referencedate&sortDirection=desc

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 https://jobs.nscorp.com/search?q=&q2=&alertId=&locationsearch=&title=&location=&date=&state=

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 Never thought I'd say I miss Ward but I said it when Harrison came, never thought I'd say I miss Harrison but I am saying it now that Foote is here. I hope when someone replaces Foote I don't miss him.

Name: Hh E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 Hh was no genius all he did at cn cp was cut jobs and sell everything he could get away with. After he left cn cp have been buying back equipment and hiring people back to get the staff numbers up , so they can run the railway. He made shareholders big money by running two companies into the ground. He’s there hero, Foote is just trying the same thing at CSX. But my view he will not succeed

Name: Slow E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 September 2018 Any time there is a major change on any rr. It is a slow slow process that takes years and years. This regime will not see anything threw. Shareholders get nervous and they will cash out and move on.

Name: Fines E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 September 2018 When the rr gets fined there is never money changes hands. Sounds good to public, they get millions of dollars every year from the goverment.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 16 September 2018 Conductor 1-10: The FRA is a part of the USDOT & is a lame-duck outfit when it comes to causing big business RRs any hassles. Poor little guy could take a big hit with a fine & maybe more, but a hefty fine is just a drop in a bucket to a large co., especially when they work & get any fine amount(s) reduced even when they have to admit being guilty of violating regulations.

Name: TOTC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 September 2018 If this helps the FRA believes in the 2 man crew reality. https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-05553.pdf And notice, IT IS in the Federal Registry. BUT I feel that if it serves the rail road to lessen liabilities ( health care, injury payments, Retirement eventually ) and bring bigger returns to the share holders you bet if there is a way they WILL DO IT. Greed is a powerful thing esp. when your dealing with psychopaths.

Name: Alfa or beta E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 September 2018 When these managers try to get you to break a rule. And you just go along with it they know your easy to intimidate. The guy that stands up to them and asks questions are the people, in the future they don’t want to deal with because they know they could be challenged. They have done this for years with employees and then they know who’s who. Alfa or beta.

Name: conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 September 2018 Ozzy legal is right. As long as you call on your own phone when you are legally allowed to by fra law and RR rules. I have called several times and it doesn't matter why you call them on. Your name will come out eventually, especially if they start doing an inquiry. They don't keep anything secret. So it doesn't really matter how you call them. I called once to inquire about a rule I thought they were violating to make sure I was correct and it was an actual violation. I got 3 phone calls from them within a week wanting names and places. When did it happen. Did I talk to my union rep. All I did was call and ask if an action they were doing was legal or not. I did not lodge a complaint. What we should really be addressing here is how in the hell they can write someone up on a rule violation as petty as supposedly not looking at the ground before they dismount equipment or not having their safety vest completely closed but then turn around and violate FRA laws and regulations like its no big deal. Someone in Jacksonville needs to be forced in federal court to explain this to a federal judge.

Name: Bright side E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2018 Hey people we went threw what you are going threw now at CSX. We had Hh at cn and cp they cut staff to the bone, the regime at CSX are the same people and play book they had in Canada. They cut so deep to get operating ratio down for a pay off. Once these people leave .CSX will hire most back because the rr will not run with out proper staff. They have been hiring for three years after Hh left cp and still hiring to this day. Just try and ride out the storm!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 September 2018 Yes. Pensions are history. Anyone working now without 25 years will not be around long enough to quality. Better open up that 401K and start investing.

Name: Bonuses E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 How can the board of directors sleep at night? If they took all the conductors out of the system. The money they saved just would go to bonuses for the rr heads. And safety put on the back burner just to please a few egos of how great they think they are. Yes give the top people big bonuses and the rest of the public suffer and put at risk, because of unnessary Greed. Every railroad union in the USA has to put there resources together and educate the public and politicians of the dangers of a one man crew. It can be done and has to be done.

Name: TOTC E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Just to correct, csx Conductor. And also commenting for those that have been out here for less than 10 yrs, DO NOT comment about other peoples attitude about this job, because you have never walked in their shoes and have not been thru what they have,and most likely will not fill your own,cause ya'll will be lucky to make 15yrs let alone get your 20 or 30 in. Like the wise man said previous, need to be smart and get some education in a field that will need you. Rail roads are getting and WILL get to the point where they will not, ( esp. at what your getting paid now). BE SMART your Family's are counting on you.

Name: TOTC E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 This is to OBY and anyone else. My opinion is that CSX and other rail roads that have been involved in ridiculous and illogical behavior ( to us the normal thinking people ) is to further their long term agenda of going totally autonomous. These companies WILL NOT be satisfied until they take as much of the Human factor out as they can. They are already talking about doing the same thing in the trucking industry. If the rail roads can show that business is suffering ( which they are causing, VERY obvious at CSX )cause of the human factor it will give more cause to go autonomous. One man crews will only give them more ammunition to support the companies claim that going full autonomous is the only way to increase efficiency and safety for the public. Reality is that the company (CSX for sure)will be able to do away with the Union, Health Care and finally Retirement. If anyone disagrees I would welcome any kind of input. I do fear very much for the public cause, CSX will put the cheapest crap they can get away with into this system of the future, My GOD help us all.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Nope I sure wouldn't report it with my own phone that can be traced back to me. Do you actually work here? If you do then surely you know they would try to find a way to retaliate. I would just cover my a$$ and do it with a Trac phone. Do you have a problem with that? You shouldn't because it's still getting called in. I'm just looking out for myself.

Name: Professional E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Your union has to get a campaign going to expose the dangers of a one man crew. You would be surprised how the court of public opinion, can be affective to political people. Then once the public has been warned about the dangers of one man crews, and there is a disaster. The union can say we told you so and you sat on your hands and did nothing. The dangerous products on trains could wipe out many many people. Then who is going to answer for all that blood and death! And you all know with the laxed safety with this regime it is just a matter of time for a disaster to happen.

Name: legal E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Ozzy The information that watchdog posted is in fact correct. It is also a violation of a federal law if the railroad does not follow that regulation. If you know a federal law is being broken you should report it as soon as possible. It is your duty to do so. In fact, if you are aware it is happening and say nothing you can be charged for not doing so. Did you willfully turn your head and ignore the violation? I believe these issues are also covered in your companies code of ethics handbook. Remember, not all supervisors take the time to learn the CFR's and only go by what is actually printed in your operating rules book. CSX engineers have a BTC-100MT form that is used to document their train information. Common sense would tell you that the end-of-train device information is expected to be reported on this slip. That is why there is a place for the information to be added. This slip is to remain in the cab of the controlling locomotive. Unfortunately common sense does not always prevail. As for your comment on the use of a cell phone, I believe this could be considered a serious situation. When you see someone committing a crime would you not contact the proper authorities immediately? Im sure the carrier wont find it that drastic but the law is the law.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 No one Your forgetting the distraction of trying to watch the Trip optimizer and the PTC screen and call signals. We will also have to stop for every ec1 or anything that has to be written down while we are at the controls of a locomotive. Everyone knows the TO can drop out at any time. It happens to me all the time. It loses its gps signal and wants you to take manual control. It is supposed to set off a bell when it drops out. I have heard it do it before, but most the time it does not. So here you are trying to watch that crap and watch ahead for trespassers, debris, floods, and try to inspect passing trains at the same time. Lets not forget there are a lot of blind curves that you can not see around on the engineers side but the conductor can. Glaring sunlight, hazy conditions, blind spots.... There are so many reasons beyond being tired as hell and needing someone there to help keep you awake and focused you cant mention them all. Oh, now that they have removed the warning yellow line on the PTC program because engineers were slowing down to soon and anticipating the next signal as needing to stop and they lost their precious travel time, if your tired and you do miss a signal with yellow it might have been prevented if the second set of eyes were there. How about the junk we get that break down. I cant count how many times my conductor has gone back to see why we are getting an alarm from another unit so we don't have to stop because I have to go back and look. If he cant figure it out then yeah I have to but most the time we can trouble shoot it from the radios. When is the almighty dollar going to stop being the number one focus with these companies and common sense and safety concerns for the public and the crews going to come first. why do they even get safety awards? Why do people buy into their hype. I just don't get it!

Name: Ozzy Osborn E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Watchdog you are the man for posting that but I bet no one would risk calling unless they have a Trac phone from Wal-Mart for the low low cost of $19.99. For those that don't know Trac phones are completely untraceable when paid for with cash. Pretty popular amongst the drug dealer community.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Furlough at what terminal???

Name: No one E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 All this talk about one man crews is all good and fine however obviously it’s not safe. They want us to be the equivalent of a truck driver That’s all good and fine. However most trucks have a bed so you can pull over and take a nap. Truck drivers are allowed to use their cell phones with a Bluetooth device. They can listen to the radio. Talk on a cb. Pull over to piss, shit or shower. Or even get a hot cup of coffee, breakfast or dinner. If they want one man crews then things need to change for the operator like a schedule to be called to work 10 hours in advance. Pit stops along the route to piss or shit. And a common sense layoff policy. They call this new operation precision schedule railroading. But to my observation it’s the same cluster fuck it’s always been.

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 ALL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS Due to the time frame that has been handed down to the supervisors to get their trains out of their terminals (1 hour), there has been an increase in FRA violations being reported. CFR TITLE 49 REGULATION 232.409- Inspection and testing of end-of-train devices, We will not quote the entire rule as it is too lengthy. Below is the most important rule for the locomotive engineer as to documentation. A two-way end-of-train device shall be tested at the initial terminal or other point of installation....... If the test is conducted by a person other than a member of the train crew the locomotive engineer shall be notified that a successful test was performed. The notification required by this paragraph may be provided to the locomotive engineer by any means determined appropriate by the railroad: HOWEVER, A WRITTEN OR ELECTRONIC RECORD OF THE NOTIFICATION SHALL BE MAINTAINED IN THE CAB OF THE CONTROLLING LOCOMOTIVE AND SHALL INCLUDE THE DATE AND TIME OF THE TEST, THE LOCATION WHERE THE TEST WAS PERFOMED, AND THE NAME OF THE PERSON CONDUCTING THE TEST, It is being reported that some supervisors have been ordering trains out of the terminals without the information being given to the locomotive engineer. It has also been reported that some crews were being told if there is a tag with the information on the end-of-train device it is sufficient information to leave. THIS IS NOT TRUE. If you do not have any written information in your work orders, on your locomotive brake test slips or it is not provided in paper work given to you by a yardmaster, then you are in violation of Fra laws and regulations if you leave the terminal WITHOUT IT IN THE CAB of the controlling locomotive. Do not be intimidated or harassed into leaving without this information in your possession in the cab. If you feel pressured and in fear of your job or are threatened with insubordination if you refuse to leave without obtaining the information and having it in your possession in the cab of the controlling locomotive immediately contact your local FRA inspector or as soon as it is legally allowable. FRA Mechanical- Pat Walsh (317)292-2422 FRA Operating rules- Robert Crawford (817)235-5397 FRA Region 4 office Chicago 1-800-724-5040 FRA Washington D.C. 1-202-493-6014

Name: Gold mind E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Attn engineers, if you get on one of these switching jobs please do what you gotta do to outswitch the rco jobs so they will see the value and keep us. Even better they might replace rco jobs with engineers

Name: To local E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Firing people for a mistake is pretty harsh, some deserve a second chance. But the people that are negligent by choice and put people’s safety at risk. Yes I agree they should be fired and not returned back to there railroad job. No one will support those type of people !

Name: Me too E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Not talking about when people get fired over b.s. I'm talking about guys that cause derailments, guys constantly on their phones while operating, guys that are basically unsafe and make it unsafe for everyone around them. Those guys should be shown the door and replaced with someone deserving of their job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Furloughing big time at my terminal.

Name: To local E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 To local a lot of people that are getting fired are for bs reasons. And they are returned to work because of the arbitrator seeing the pattern of CSX firing people for really no reason other than to intimidate other employees. So when they get around to firing you, if for bs reason. You will most likely get your job back. When you hire on the railroad son you have to pay your dues and put in the years to get seniority to hold a better job. That has been the culture of the railroad for over a hundred years. The most sacred thing on the railroad is a persons seniority. Keep plugging away you will get there!

Name: Local E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Just looking for opinions here, I am neutral on the matter but it has been brought up quite a bit. With all the guys/gals that are furloughed right now and all the guys/gals that will be furloughed in the very near future is it fair that the company lets people that have been fired numerous times keep coming back? This does of course keep furloughed employees from coming back. I can see where people with 15+ years that are in no danger of furlough being in favor and I can see where people near the bottom or furloughed opposed. I can see where the people that keep coming back are in favor. I'm not asking personal opinions based on your own situation, I am asking is it fair. The reason I say fair is because the ones that are always furloughed did nothing but not get hired a longer time ago. The ones that keep coming back after numerous incidences are causing themselves to be fired over and over. I can bet that no matter how you see it you have either changed your view on it or haven't yet. Changed your view because at one time you were hypothetically wearing one pair of shoes and now you have another pair. Haven't yet because you are still wearing the first pair.

Name: OBY E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Thank you Highball, I was waiting on someone to back that up. I myself have only been here almost 5 years so I could very easily have the same mentality as the guy saying we complain too much but I am a realist and I know from talking to older generations of railroaders that it has always gotten worse for railroaders and most likely will continue without serious intervention. When I started I thought man this job is great, I'm here like 6 hours a day and go home! Who wouldn't love it, but some of the older guys at that time were disgruntled because it was even better before but they took off the extra brakeman or switchman or what have you. I think when a flock of new hires rolls in they will wonder why we complain and they will think some how that this is a great job until they take more. I guess my point in a nutshell is that it is impossible to complain about something being taken away from you if you never had it and the longer you have been out here the more you have had taken away. I have only been here shy of 5 years so I can's justify complaining about things the guys had taken away 30 years ago where as a guy retiring this year could look back and easily say man we have lost so much.

Name: Highball E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 September 2018 OBY: spot on about conductor 1-10.

Name: To carman E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 September 2018 Foote is repeating what Hh did at cn cp.they cut so many carman jobs that management where flown in on there days off from all over the country. And repaired cars this went on for about four years. After Hh left they started hiring people back. In my shop in a six month period they hired forty Carmen. It’s just a game they play to get operating ratio down. It’s for a one time big payout of the shares. When mantle sells there share then this regime will move on. So if you get layed off chances you will be recalled after Foote and mantle move on. And a lot of the cars that need repairs they just put in storage. It’s a gong show. When they recall people back to work there will be more cars to repair than you can imagen.

Name: Carman E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 September 2018 Time to start looking for employment somewhere other than csx, as bad as it is we haven't seen anything yet. We are in for a big surprise in job cuts in every craft. No craft is safe, it is all about cuts everywhere they want to "trim the fat" which means get more out of a less people. Those that get laid off are gone for a while and those that survive the layoffs will be forced to get the same amount of work done with a lot less staff. It don't look good folks.

Name: OBY E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 September 2018 Conductor 1-10 that's been out here 4 1/2 years. You have the outlook you have because you have only been here 4 1/2 years, you don't know how good it was and could still be! We were way more productive in 6 hour days before than we are now and we are working twice as long and twice as hard not getting done nearly what we use to. The system we were using before worked a lot better than the system we use now. Most of us complain because we know that this railroad is being run wrong and it is not sustainable. They are doing what they are doing for a quick buck and then they will leave and this place will be in the mess it is now until someone with long term goals takes over. Looking at what we have lost everyone should be disgruntled Quits Real lunch breaks (who works 8 hours and gets 20 minutes of break) Boots Thanks awards Cookouts Family day The list goes on man, they have taken every incentive away. They do still pay us most of what they should but that's it. Now they are talking about 1 man crews, they keep cutting and making the ones left have to do more work to compensate. We work harder than most CSX employees and are paid less.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 September 2018 I can't get hold a trainmaster to mark back up. Crew caller said they needed traimaster to call or email them to let them mark me back up because I was off more then 24 hours. I'm tired of calling and its bed time. I'll just be sure to keep my call logs. This should be a good one for an arbitrator.

Name: Seniority’s E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 September 2018 Sounds like one man crews will be reality in the near future. If your a running trade employee with little seniority, I would really look into going to trade school etc. I think every time Foote goes to quarterly shareholders meetings always announces the many cuts that will still come by 2020 and he said CSX will grind everyone to get production up from every employee. Save your money ride it out as long as you can then have some cash saved to get you threw, when your out of work or go back to school. There is a life after the railroad.

Name: Wrecks $$$ E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 14 September 2018 Due to the lack of maintance, and forced laxed safety now. CSX has saved lots of money, but 2016 2017 2018 and moving forward. In reality have saved nothing because of the increase wrecks And injuries to employees and the public. A subject that CSX tries to avoid at shareholders meetings quarterly reporting.And by fudging the facts and reporting everything,to avoid facts and responsibilities of why there is an increase in wrecks injury and fatalities. They will not address how to fix this problem. They CSX and goverment know what has to be done to correct all this, but again it will cut into there bottom line. And they have to figure out how to not show anything negative that will affect the operating ratio and dwell times. As long as CSX can try and blame the employees for everything,CSX ceo mantle get a pass and it’s business as usual. The clock is ticking for the big wreck that will get attention of the public etc. And hopefully CSX will be forced to correct there corruption of the way they are running CSX.

Name: CSX SHAREHOLDER E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 September 2018 As a CSX Shareholder AND. Board Member, thanks to all the hard working rank and file men and women of CSX, and to the management of CSX without which CSX would turn into a shit hole of utter chaos under under the pathetically inept and corrupt union “leadership”. But I must say one thing, without the Union helping to keep wages and benefits at record lows and train crews down to 2 people (soon to be 1 man crews) I make a TON of money on these cost saving efficiencies. Keep up the good work!!!

Name: Mechanical E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 14 September 2018 I can see it now with one man crews. They will have to have mechanical staff in the field right across the system. That will trouble shoot and assist the engineers, and most likely qualified with all tickets to switch on mainlines. And the maintance this ptc is igoing to need will be huge. And the goverment will just throw tax payers money at it till they figure everything out. And there is going to be lots of accidents and loss of life. But to the goverment and company, that will just be the price of doing business. I don’t think it is going to run very well with one man crews. There are so many what if’s.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 September 2018 1 person train Crew.... "How tomorrow moves"

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 September 2018 Jeez, that article pissed me off. PTC wasn't an investment it was mandatory for safety.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 September 2018 To ALL the Young and Mid-Range Professionals that has made the discussion to make Railroading a career. http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/09/06-csx-expects-ptc-to-pave-way-for-1-person-crews-autonomous-operations All there is when dealing with corps.(esp. the railroad,lower case for a reason) Is Employees are nothing more than laborers to make the share-holders more money which in turn the share-holders pay the CEO BIG BUCKS so the LAZY-ASS share-holders do not have to get their hands dirty. You can damn well bet that the above link WILL come true no matter HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO DIE OR LOOSE THEIR JOBS. WAKE THE HELL UP!!

Name: Tm gun E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 September 2018 The last thing you want this tm to do is getting his ego hurt. Nothing worse than a railroader going Postal !

Name: Kite E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 September 2018 Send the CSX police a kite ie letter don’t sign it. Once they are involved. No one can interfere.

Name: Need Advice E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 September 2018 So I need some advice, There's this POS T.M. that's been hammering folks for a lot of petty stuff lately. Thing is, this T.M. carries a loaded handgun in his personal vehicle while on duty. Not that I am opposed to someone carrying a handgun to protect themselves, but this POS holds us accountable for the rules, yet he is violating a big one. I want to see this POS escorted off the property for this but I don't quite know how to go about it anonymously. I feel confident if it is reported to his supervisor, he will be given a heads up and nothing will be done. I know that if i come forward and report this, i will be singled out and fired for something by his fellow managers. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

Name: Don't waste time reading this E-mail: It's only intended for a few Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 September 2018 Normal average walking speed is 3.1 MPH on regular terrain, rail yard terrain is not normal so I will generously cut that in half. Lets say a guy walks in a rail yard at average 1.5 MPH. 30 racks at 96' per is 30*96=2880' A mile is 5280' so to walk 30 racks would be walking .54 miles or basically a half mile. At a snails pace of 1.5 MPH walking speed it would take 20 minutes to walk the entire track. Keep in mind you would only be walking back to the first couple you come to anyways so worst case scenario would you would be walking 29 racks. Lets say you couple into a track and every car is coupled except the rear one (very unlikely and very rare does this happen). You have 2 options, take a 20 minute walk and risk nothing or pull the cut out to catch the rear and shove back risking falling off, getting a knuckle, derailing, etc. Before you choose lets determine the time it would take to go with option 2. Total distance travelled would be doubled, 2880'*2=5760' On the pull you would go from couple speed, then progress to 4MPH, then 7MPH, and if you are feeling wild go to 10MPH, keep in mind by the time you got to 10MPH the end of the cut would already be close enough that you should have been slowing down by now anyways. To progress a 4000' 4000ton train up to 10MPH and then slow it back down to stop and get on would take every bit of (?) let's do the math. Best case scenario (which is impossible) would be if you went from stopped to 10MPH instantly. To travel .5 miles at 10MPH would be 3 minutes and you have to do it twice to shove back so now you are at 6 minutes. Now factor in that you have to progress up to 10MPH and progress down to stop and get on then progress back up to 10MPH then progress back down to stop to get off and make a couple. Also factor in that it is unrealistic and dangerous to get to 10MPH on a 2880' pull on the terrain that I am talking about. I'm not an astrophysicist so guessing about 8 minutes. I bet my last dollar that I can walk 2880' faster (without trying hard at all) than pull out hop on and shove back. 9 times out of 10 my next couple isn't the rear car anyways so more than likely we could take 2880' and plug in about half that for realism because it is rare to start on a track that is half coupled up. Again I am not an astrophysicist so I could be totally wrong but to me the choice clearly is to walk the track and that's what I will do until a manager forces me to make a bad decision.

Name: Pricing E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 September 2018 The Union sucks. If you file a grievance on anything your job gets abolished. And mgt is on your ass like stink on poop. The Unions rep is an idiot, gum sucking corporate mole who is of course paid by the company as a regular employee, and is waiting for a juicy high paying company job and relocation. Appeal and you get more of the same....everyone “concurrs” with the Company position, which is the “your screwed” position. They take our money and then crap on us. Maybe the Union was once a strong and powerful employee organization a 100 years ago. Today it is a total sham run by Corporate selected and groomed snitches and lapdogs. Time to fire the so-called Union and come up with something that actually represents worker interest and not just corporate interests. Unions suck.

Name: Big Bean E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 September 2018 Attn: Steve Salyers, a position has just opened up for you in Winter Haven Florida! Terminal manager-posting date is 9/13/18. Apply now on the CSX Gateway. You have done a great job in Louisville and we need your strategy implemented in Winter Haven!

Name: Claims E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 September 2018 Just pay us hourly and disband the unions please!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 September 2018 I want to see Corporate 30 show his ass around here I will be the first to kick it up between his ears. No white shirt office jockey is going to tell me anything, cause they ARE blissfully ignorant up there in the glass house. Me and my crew are brothers. We watch each others asses, children and wives. This Company sucks. I work to get my pension then Im gone. To much bull goes on here and the rules are nuts. Good thing we got the Union protecting our backs. Go Union! Eat those Corporate. spineless a-holes. Wait till I find one in Walmart. He will look funny with a bat up his arse. HA HA HA HA. Go home to mama with your baloney. Probably have hands so white and baby soft they never touched a wrench or a grease gun. Dumb ass. Were going to have beers all around this Friday in Cincinnati. Drink till you drop. Join us for a cold one. You pussy. I may only have a high school degree but I know a idiot jackass when I seen one.

Name: Louisville Sucks E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 September 2018 To all CSX employees on the east coast, be careful and stay safe the next few days while Florence passes through. Good luck brothers and sisters.

Name: Yet to come E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 I was told they could not use management to do work of employees at CSX. Because of our laws in USA. Well google what they did with cn cp. they trained all management and office staff to run the trains. They told it was to use management in case of a strike. But they cut so many jobs. That they put management to work running the trains. Foote is the same guy with Hh that implemented this. Just wait and see if it happens with CSX. The pattern they are doing at CSX was done in Canada tables etc all the nonsense. Never say never. Foote will push the envelope ! Foote has a few more surprises yet.

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 12 September 2018 Has to be that the person who posts as 'Corporate Office 30+ years' does not seem to understand that employers have to provide a safe workplace for employees. "Ignorance is bliss" - I've heard many times..... must be true. Safety First.

Name: Responsibility E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 A growing normal company work look after there assets, that includes employees. And to provide a safe work environment. When these hedge fund thugs get control of a company, it is about greed and everything else is secondary. This is what they did to cn and cp and nothing changed till they left. This is a ruthless bunch running CSX and it’s a shame they can get people to do there dirty work. Watch your ass with this group, you mean fuck all to this regime. They would rather fire people to get there operating ratio down and they will still do that so again watch your ass.

Name: Tables E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 September 2018 Yes the tables where remove for our giant flea market sale.CSX, needs these tables to display items we are selling!

Name: HA!!! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 September 2018 Corp 30 Your post was so full of blow hard crap that I could barely sit up straight while laughing. You say your concern is not with switches and blah blah and our issues are with our unions? I don't have time to list all the issues that ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY so I will give you just one. Example... PAY!!!! Every time I get screwed out of what is rightfully mine that was agreed upon and signed by the union reps AND THE CARRIER it is not just the unions that should be looking into it and taking responsibility. Have you even read your code of ethics. Have even gone on line and looked at one word of it. Try reading it. Read where it quoted in black and white that ANY EMPLOYEE who finds discrepancies in the financial records including PAYROLL is responsible for reporting it immediately. The book is very clear on every ones role in safety as well. So when you read post on here you have been made aware of what is happening out here along with everyone else sitting in their cushy office chairs but you chose to stay quiet and turn a blind eye. You should be asking questions. You should be bringing these topics up to the appropriate departments. You are just as responsible as our unions and everyone else who is employed by CSX! When they tell you it isn't your business our it is not a concern of you particular department you should tell them they are full of crap and they need to read the company ethics policy that explains that it is the responsibility of ALL EMPLOYEES!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 12 September 2018 Because n/a, you gave up your voice to the Union. Both you and corporate must enter and exit the very narrowly legally construed employer/employee relationship via the Unions, not social media. We appreciate everything you do in the field, but as far as from our legally bound obligations, everything has to go through the narrow sphincter called the Union Contract. The Union reps. Regional. National. And then trickle back down to rank and file. Bounce around. Then repeat. Over and over. We don’t like it any more than you do. But we as the company can’t do anything about it. It’s the law. And it ties our hands.

Name: No money for maintenance E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 Just watch the next quarterly report, and I bet the operating ratio numbers will be lower again. CSX is not going to spend any money on infrastructure or equipment. CSX will push everything to its limits and still find ways to cut costs. Its all about the operating ratio. They will spend money when they are forced to but will just be patch job not long term fixes. Don’t expect things to change till mantle ridge is long gone.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 Corporate office 30+ When you made the post about the #1 concern being safety I really didn't think I was going to like you at all so I went on a tirade about how the #1 concern is not safety with the facts I posted. Now that you have posted that the problem primarily lies with those that are paid to represent us (which I whole heartedly agree) I might be able to get along with you. I still have a problem with this though, since you do read this website then why do our unions have to formally bring these issue to your attention to get anything done? We all know they are worthless and won't do anything and we all know there are plenty of things that need to be done to improve safety so if corporate reads this site (you say they do) and we in T/E post on here about issues (like we always do) then why doesn't someone look into it? Everyone out here is 100% in charge of safety, if I see a potential hazard I can take a switch out of service on the spot, I can take a track out of service, I can shop cars, engines, anything. I can stop a crew and make them go wait in the locker room for a breathalyzer if I suspect intoxication. If Susan down the road drives across tracks and notices a malfunctioning gate she can call the number posted and every train in route to that location will get an EC-1 until it is fixed. So why does the union have to get involved for the company to take action on the issues that I have brought up?

Name: Maintance E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 Foote is going to let the next ceo do the maintance. There is no money for anything ! Low operating ratio is all that matters and the share holders. I’m trying to get the same award as Hh got. Railroader of the year. And if I spend no money and get the shares up oh the love I’m going to get from shareholders and maybe my picture in a magazine. I can see it now Foote turns CSX upside down. What would you do if you where me ?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 12 September 2018 My comments were only meant to be supportive to those who may be confused with Company policies. We here at Corporate do not concern ourselves with minor trivia regarding switch oil, old shuttle vans, frightened employees non-reporting injuries, braking cars, riding tanks, trip hazards, remote duty workers falling over cab. guard rails. (yes, we read this site). Your issue is not with the Company, it is with the people who are suppose to be representing you - namely your Unions. Unless informed by your Union of these complaints, Corporate can take no action. And, since your Union officers are on our payroll as employees/union officers, we do not get much feedback for some strange reason that we have no idea why. So you see, the problem with your concerns lies elsewhere. However, it is not something that someone, or anyone, understands or has understood. You are essentially paying monthly for insurance, without getting the protection. Or the influence. Or even a voice, even a tiny little squeaky voice. Those who claim to know the Union system, know absolutely nothing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 The #1 concern is not safety. Banning brake sticks was about getting work done faster. You can't tell me it is safer to climb up on a car to tie a brake than do it from the ground. You ever seen someone fall off of a car? Bet you never seen someone fall off of the ground. I'd rather fall on the ground while standing on the ground than fall on the ground while standing on a car. Standing outside the cab on all remote jobs? I seen a guy almost fall over the handrail on account of slack running in or out, but I never seen a guy almost fall out of a seat in the cab from it. There use to be a rule about riding tanks on a shove, that rule is gone. You know why a tank is not the safest car to ride on a shove? Hint it has nothing to do with liquids sloshing around in there. If the #1 concern was safety then they would take that 100 Million dollars per year allocated to safety and buy some grease, spray some weeds, maintain some track, pick up trip hazards, yata yata so on so forth. Trip hazards lol do you know there is no rule for the car shop to have to pick up scrap steel after making a field repair, I'm serious, they'll just cut a draw bar of in a track and leave it. When the snow covers it up it'll be a nice surprise for someone to find. Let me ask you this, is it safer to roll around 10MPH in the yard or 15MPH? The answer is 10MPH so why did the speed got from 10-15MPH over night without anyone inspecting the track to see if it was good for it?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 September 2018 Injuries have not dropped to record lows, injury reporting has dropped to record lows because of exactly what you said 99% of OTJ injuries are because someone didn't follow the rules. With that mentality the individual is more likely to cover up an injury if they can because they don't want to loose their job. If I break my finger tying a handbrake I won't report it because I would likely get fired by someone that wasn't with me and has no clue but says "well if you were following the rules it wouldn't have happened".

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 September 2018 OK corporate office, I'll start with this and feed you more and more every time you have a rebuttal until I embarrass you off of here. 1. Someone at sometime decided that crews cannot perform service in excess of 12 hours. Can't throw a switch, open a knuckle, drive a train that has no steering wheel and not a lot of traffic around them. It is deemed to be unsafe to perform service in excess of 12 hours so tell me why it's safe for me to get in a PTI van that looks and feels like it is about to fall apart and ride with someone that is tired almost always on the expressway for 100 miles. Tell me how it is safe to ride with a caller runner that has been on duty for over 15 hours a day for the last 3 days and is currently on day 4 at the end of his or her 16 hour day. Oh by the way the caller runner vehicles are also falling apart and are not on a regular fleet maintenance cycle. Answer honestly to this and I'll give you more. FYI I can do this all day everyday and won't run out of answers for you so just letting you know you will not win this fight if you choose to engage further.

Name: Ozzy Osborn E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 11 September 2018 The tables being removed is to get crews out the door and working faster. Sounds to me like piss poor management! You mean to tell me that the managers can't get crews working so they remove tables! Sounds to me like they should have removed the managers. You gotta be a worthless excuse of a manager if you can't motivate your employees enough to get out and start working. I would fire every manager under me if they had to resort to this to get their guys working. Louisville, I would fire every manager on duty the prior shift if I had engines run out of fuel. Furthermore I'd fire every manager involved in doing O-test because there are a lot bigger issues to deal with right now. I'm about to fire every manager within 100 miles whether they work at CSX or not if I don't grease on the m-effing switches!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2018 Our #1 concern has and always will be employee safety. 99% of all OTJ injuries are due to employees not following safety rules and regulations. We provide over $100 million dollars annually for safety training. Injuries have dropped to record lows. You can help make a safer work environment by reporting unsafe work practices of other employees to your Trainmaster. This includes substance abuse, which has been noted to be on the rise in the Chicago terminals for all roads. Work smart. Stay safe. And above all, follow the safety rules.

Name: BATTING THE STACK OFF E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Railroading under the best possible conditions is not safe, Railroading under Foote and friends is really not safe, Railroading under Foote and friends with track and equipment that is under maintained is a hazard waiting to happen. Derailments happen for 2 reasons, human factor or equipment failure. In the last 2 years the majority of derailments have NOT been human factor. This is a fact and it is well documented. So if T/E is not causing the derailments then it is the fault of the equipment. Everything from track to engines to cars etc. The company knows this and is still not taking steps in preventing the accidents. The company is putting our safety on the back burner, they do not care about us at all! Next time you are riding a car or a train is pulling by you just think about a car tipping over on you and you never seeing your kids or wife again. Hug and kiss them before you leave the house because when you pull out of your driveway it might be the last time you ever see them. It is this real and this serious! I know everyone out here has seen at least one derailment and a lot of times the cars are completely on their side. There is a 100% chance that you would not survive a car landing on you. If you did survive by some kind of miracle then you would wish you were dead because you would need a lot more than a Band-Aid. Unions were established in part to improve workers conditions and that includes safety. Why this hasn't been addressed is beyond me. I shit you not, the union has till October 1st to do something about it. October 2nd I am calling my local news station to report on this issue. I already have a lawyer on retention that has a strong background in suing big businesses and unions. He told me to get the news out there first and he is 100% certain that after they report on it and it is public knowledge the lawsuit against the company and the lawsuit against the union is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. I suggest someone from every terminal do the same. No one should have to work in an environment that is so dangerous because of a lack of preventative maintenance. The company can fix the things that are causing hazardous conditions. Like I said the union has had plenty of time to do something and they have about 3 weeks left and I promise you October 2nd if the wheels are not in motion to correct this then there will be news crew to expose the truth. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE DIES OR IS MANGLED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS. A RECORD OF 100 YEARS WITH NO ONE KILLED DOESN'T MEAN IT'S SAFE, IT JUST MEANS WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY. HUG AND KISS YOUR FAMILY BEFORE YOU GO TO WORK! EVERY DAY CAN BE YOUR LAST OUT HERE. IT'S NOT WORTH 70K/YEAR TO RISK YOUR LIFE ON SOME DUMB SHIT!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 I don't see it happening. That would mean they would have to be able to coordinate trains and crews, they'd have to be able to get you there with time left. They'd have to know what they were doing. We know that's not the case. What do you think csx's failures will be when they try it on your sub?

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Ha......lol. That was good one! You forgot 2 more...family and neighbors from hell. Try sleeping with them around during the day then get called back out in 10. Then there's the damn roster calls all night. If your in the hotel 24 hrs at least your phone isn't ringing off the hook after your rested! Damn! Now I'm depressed! I think I'm going to miss the place!

Name: Oh crap! E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 CSX Do you even realize what will happen if you do away with hotels with this train flip idea!!! First, divorce rates Will double. Mistresses will be showing up at home and wives will get caught with their boy toys! Expenses will go up at home(electric,food etc). Getting use to be together every night will take some adjustments. Men will be expected to do more at home! Lets not forget the wives that dont allow drinking or sex at home. Everyone is going to be more stressed and tired and unhappy as hell! More unsafe workers running the rails! Thanks alot for nothing!

Name: Paper trail E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 September 2018 They are holding all employees feet to the fire on rules everything. So when the company breaches contract, or safety issue. Every employee should put in grievance every time they violate contract or find something unsafe. Bury them in paper it cost thousands of dollars to go to arbitration. Make CSX pay for there corrupt ways. And don’t let up till they do change there ways. CSX will figure it out that it’s cheaper to honour contract then paying out on lost arbitration cases.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 September 2018 They need to rip our contract up and make a new one that will actually be held up. Make a completely new contract from scratch!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Yeah, but they can send everyone system wide a warning about a shooting in Jacksonville. Just goes to show how incompetent this regime is.

Name: tyrone E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 September 2018 MAJOR HURRICANE TO HIT NC IN 2DAYS impact SC and se VA. Yards that will be impacted: NC-Wilmington, Rocky Mount, Hamet VA-Newport News, Richmond yards SC-Florence. Major flooding expected from this Cat3-4 strong. And still no plans of safety or shut down information from CSX. The last news update on the website is Aug. 26. What the fuck?

Name: To exrep E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 September 2018 Yes you are right with group grievance,but I’ve not seen many submitted. Most grievances I’ve seen won was by the individual employee. This regime singles out a person in most cases to make example out of him. To cause fear so others are intimidated. Over and over again.

Name: Exrep E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2018 Contract You are wrong. If the union reps know that the carrier is deliberately violating the agreements they can step in and file a charge against the carrier for malicious attempt to violate said agreement and failure to negotiate in good faith. Yes they need details of what is happening but they don't need hundreds. The LCS can step in and file a group complaint demanding solidarity and to make all members whole. Constantly violating the same article over and over again is a blatant disregard for that agreement. It doesn't matter if it happened to two people or 10. An order to cease the violation should be shoved down their throats. Fact is your union officials are weak!

Name: Contracts E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 September 2018 The employee only has to fill his duties of the contract in place. However if a manager tries to tell you to do it his way. The employee has to comply unless it is unsafe, then you have the right to refuse. If the employee refuses you are insubordinate and can be fired. If the company decides not to follow the contract rules they can. And they know down the road they will have to make affected employees whole only if they protest threw a grievance. The company knows most are lazy and will not submit a grievance. And it is a win for the company. The union can only represent you if you file a grievance and submit the violation of the contract. Unions are not militant anymore like in the old days. It’s a paper war now, and the company is spanked buy paying cash out to people affected. That’s it that’s all ! Crying in the lunch and locker room how joe blow fucked you over will get you no where. Having a pity party for yourself might make you feel better but that’s all. Take the time every time and file a grievance. I know of members that filed grievances forgot about it two years later nice big check put in his account. And the guy that did not file a grievance got nothing.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Cond 1- You got an lc? You know his name? Call his ass. Instead of getting on here and digging call you LC and ask him what's happening out here. He doesn't know then ask him WHY THE HELL NOT. So what are you going to do about it? You got some kind of plan to change it all if you got details? Fact is they want this shit in the entire system. If they want it in your area your getting it. I heard the shit happened in cinci. LCs should be up in this shit. They should be contacting other locals and pulling together by now. If not then it's time to find new LCs. Demand the General chairman address the members. Give the members some fu...g answers!

Name: All bullshit E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 September 2018 We went threw all this bullshit with Hh. Understand when someone says union is agreeing with this. No they are not. This regime will do what they want, they don’t care about the rules or collective agreement that is in place. The collective agreement will stands until there is a new contract. You all have to put in a grievance when the agreement is violated. It might take 50 years to get infront of arbitrator. But that is the only recourse you have. CSX knows this they want to get operating ratio down, shares as high as they can. Then cash out and ride into the sun set. The next ceo etc will have the job of fixing everything. CSX is not following the collective agreement they signed off on. That is why managers do what they want and tell you if you don’t like it put a grievance in and laugh. The only thing the union can do is try and make the company accountable for the agreements they signed. And CSX is not doing that. So paper is filed and has to work it’s way threw the system, in the mean time CSX is just repeating this over and over.Dont even argue with management put a grievance in if your short changed and you will get paid down the road. Priority is getting people back to work that where fired for nothing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Co 1-10, where did this happen that they told them to take another train? We need details

Name: DUH E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 September 2018 ZULU Are you kidding? Are you a troll? It's to reduce crews and get rid of hotel cost. Where do you think they got the idea. In the meantime we still have to deal with retarded TM and now so called Rf who don't know shit and just make up rules as they go along. Just stood there and listened to a new Rf tell a crew they combined the rules on security cars being left and unattended with the rule of securing locomotives. BULLSHIT! WTF! Where's this bulletin. Told him to show it to us. Had a crew arguing that it okay to put handbrake on motors and cars at the same time before doing 1 minute test on cars when your leaving the whole train tied down. He said all you got to do is release the brakes wait 4 seconds for each motor to release then do additional one minute. We told him that was the light power rule. Try opening your damn rule book and read rule 410 then try reading rule 411. It's black and white! He got pissed and stormed out. Lazy f..ks can't just open the book and read the black and white rules! Just make shit up. where did he even come up with this combined shit rule! Jesus! We're all cursed to hell with this outfit. No hope left. If you didn't know this New Rfs if the rule has steps number 1-2-3etc. You are supposed to do those steps in order listed. If it's a-b-c etc it's options! learn to read the book!

Name: ZULU E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Wonder where they got the idea to start this meet and swap plan?

Name: Ai safety E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2018 When I started the rr the conductor and headend brakeman would always be looking down each side of the train for defects etc. Then they took caboose off put people in the head end. And the lengh of the trains they cannot see tail end. The rr counted on hotbox detector and dragging equipment sensors. As a carman I would see lots of trains yarding with dragging equipment like brake beams etc. And bearings red hot. That just went by the scanners. And the long length of these trains now and the dangerous product they are hauling is scarey In my view. And with one less set of eyes, it is going to be a matter of time before there is major disaster. The public is clueless what is going threw there towns and cities. There will be a public outcry when there is a major disaster and loss of life. And the public is going to ask how the rr where able to get away with such laxed safety rules. The clock is ticking!

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Warning.. The shit is already starting. Crew just told everyone they took a train to a siding and picked one up to bring back. ONE TICKET. Put them under a switcher job ticket. Talks are the union is agreeing that we have set trip rates . Pay by rail miles. Agreement states pools will be paid a trip ticket for each train handled no matter where you turn. They are going to combine these trains. Our Agreement is going to get shredded. If this happens it's time to vote out the international officers. We Got to clean house. There's poop holes all through the agreement. Engineers is full of loop holes too. Time to clean up the language. Time for a new union!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2018 Hide and Die What a putz!!!! After I retired from CSX I worked part-time through Manpower for a non-union railroad as an outside contractor doing flagging. I made $20 an hour plus mileage it was more per hour then majority of their employees who make $15-$18 an hour. NO healthcare other than a voluntary group policy. Over time after 40 hours. They did finally get into RRB a few years ago. Before that it was Social Security & a 401K. The 4 1/2 years I worked there I saw workers let go for no reason. It was almost like Walmart a turnstile workplace. Even supervisors changed constantly. You say the union does nothing. Railroaders make above average incomes. They have heath care for the entire family. They have a structured pension, They're the gold standard of occupations today. Give me a break. The union has fought hard against the efforts to change it. This last contract the railroad wanted heath care to go up to $1500 for just the employee another $1500 for the family. That's just one example of what the railroads think of the workers. Go read the Railway Labor Act it's apparent you are clueless. Most likely never been to a union meeting or got involved. Most likely don't even work in transportation or the other crafts just a anti-union scab. A Trump supporter that wants a Federal Right to Work Law that'll drastically affect railroaders in a negative way.

Name: Fight or Die E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2018 It’s no secret the Union has been failing us big time for years and years. Enough. Union decertication requires only 10% of membership. No waiting period for Union deriliction of duty, fraudulent representation, coercion, gross incompetence, unfit to represent, etc... No need for Petitions - not needed. Simply write NLRB to request decertification. They tally the letters. Add up the votes. Once decertified, no more Union dues. No more “negotiated “ layoffs, wage decreases, benefit reductions, lay offs, firings, or unjust protocol . etc. Fed RR laws kick in to protect RR WORKERS , far stronger than so called binding Union contracts that give away everything and protect ZERO. Eliminate the Company Union. Decertify them. Then strike if we want - no contract to stop us. The Company is far more likely to negotiate better terms with us. The current Union execs make millions off us by colluding with the company. Take control of your life for once. Write the letter. Do it now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 September 2018 The reason I asked about qualifying is because we only go west out of our terminal, and the next terminal also only goes west. Therefore in order to meet the next terminal halfway, they would have to be qualified to go east to get to our halfway point. I know I don't have to be qualified to go back home. Not every terminal has an east pool and a west pool. I understand the principle, just asking how it's been working or how they started it.

Name: UNION NEWS RELEASEC E-mail: Chicago, ILLINOIS Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 September 2018 HEAR YE, HEAR YE, By Proclamation the Union hearny contractually agrees/grants all railroad union workers a $ 250 / month reduction in wages, a loss of 10,000 jobs over the next 12 months, crew graduation to one employee per train, flip flop requirements, cessation of hours on duty law, and inclusion of on the job medical marijuana exemptions. After round the clock negotiations over several months this is the best we can secure for our brothers and sisters. All remaining members will receive a 2 cent per hour ‘increase beginning 01/01/2020. Thank you for your support. Contact your local Rep if any questions.

Name: Cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 September 2018 Cond. Started down south to begin with. Doing it in Cincinnati now and no you don't have to be qualified to go back where you came from. If your swapping then your meeting someone else half way and swapping. Your taking their train back where you came from. you end up back at your home terminal. That's how they get rid of hotels. Their starting it on the great lakes side on st.Louis line. At least they are working on it but dont have a plan yet. Already picked some trains to try but haven't made progress yet.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 Where is the train swapping taking place? When did it start and what happened first? Did they have to qualify people in the opposite direction?

Name: Job postings by management E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2018 All those managers have most likely been researching those jobs, because they could end up with one. This regime has made all managers compete with each other,and they are all trying to out due each other. Managers know when the CSX police show up with a card board box it is to clean there desk out and then get the escort off the property. And I mean all levels of management. Thes managers are a pin drop from a mental break down. Stay turned for the out come, here one day gone the next. One of those jobs might look pretty good after getting killed coed to the curb by a he CSX corrupted regime.

Name: Urban Dictionary E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 Its not personal...."Its just Business"

Name: John raine E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 I'm almost sure that was you john raine that posted who was hiring within 40 miles of Louisville. What the hell do you know about anything. You are one of the prime reasons Louisville sucks so bad. All that suckin you do on mini me Steve salyers!

Name: Hey re-railer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 I guess... Louisville! OSBORNE YARD!!

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 Engineers I had a talk with the engine house supervisor yesterday and he told me just what the previous poster said. The alerter test is mandatory and is done by the electrician. He is not going to make a note where he puts head end device testing. Its not necessary and don't bother asking them in the house if they did the test because they will tell you yes every time. Take the units as is per rules.

Name: Elon musk fears ai E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2018 https://amp.nine.com.au/article/016c13c8-1bab-4479-bcda-4ffa61a5b43b public has to be warned about the lack of safety if ai is going to take over train movement.

Name: ???? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 September 2018 DISPATCHERS Everyone knows some of you read this site everyday. So why don't you tell us what is going on. At least what you know at this time. The DTO has to know what changes are in the works. You have to keep track of all your crews on duty and where they are. Its safety protocol! If the crews are going to flip flop on trains you know you have to reactivate their bulletin for the new train they are getting on. There is no doubt they are setting up meeting places and you are discussing how your plan will be to pace trains to have good meets. You cant let a train sit for an hour and wait on the other train to show up and swap. You have an ear to whats going on. So tell us what is being discussed. Where are the meets being planned. Which trains are getting set up on the profile for swapping. When is this supposed to take place. It will help you more if the crews have some idea of when and where this is going to take place!

Name: cond E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 September 2018 Blapples YOu are 100% right. There isn't a damn thing you can do but file claims and pay your money. Those union meetings are a waste of time. I have been to plenty. You voice your complaint and they go no where. I have submitted plenty in writing and demanded they be handed to the general chairman direct. You bet your bottom dollar they ended up in file 13. I know from experience the only way you can get your unions to step up their game is to threaten their positions. Vote them out. Send them packing. The only time the union ever gets seriously involved is when the union members start a major stir and the carrier starts getting worried because they don't want it getting out to the public that the workers are starting an uproar and the press might get wind and start asking questions. The union steps in every time and makes deals under the table with the carrier. THIS IS A FACT! Then they act like they came and saved the day and took care of everything because if they don't they will have egg on their face and the press can have a field day with it. We also have the right to sue our union by Federal law for not representing us to the fullest extent available to them. No one knows what their federal protections are. They don't know their federal right of protection against corrupt and inept unions set forth by federal law. If they would all just research their rights and take advantage of them it would send a message to the unions and the carriers that we aren't going to deal with their shit laying down. No one will stand together. Going to meetings is a waste of time. The LCs all know what's happening. They work out here just like the rest of us. They don't need us to file paperwork for everything. They have just as much of a right to step up for us and demand solidarity. When was the last time all the LC's got together and filed a massive petition to the unions and demanded some straight answers form them and demanded to know exactly what was going on and what was on the tables. I cant remember when that happened last. Cant even get the LC's to put their unions on front street. So what does that leave us? Laying down! No more favors! No more kissing ass! No more taking every call off the roster calls. No more sucking up. Mo more doing their work for them. No more making phone calls we don't have to make to get the YM and TMs work done for them. STOP KISSING ASS! Stop thinking about yourself and no one else. For gods sake. Just stick together for once in your miserable lives. In the meantime while you sit here and read this they are working on their plan to downsize the manpower and put more people out of work. They are getting rid of hotels and changing the pools to do it. They are talking on pay rates and changes in the way rail miles are going to be handled. Flip on a train and go the other direction on another one but only be paid for handling freight for one train. Pay based on rail miles only. A lot on the table right now and not one single LC can give you any hard cold facts on what happening. Wake up people! Work rules and conditions are being revamped as we speak!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 September 2018 BLAPPLES I'm sure those Air Traffic Controllers had the same logic as you do. How can they replace us? Well, they did. Do you have a brain in your head? Railroaders can't strike under the RLA without justification. Every safety strike I was on the railroads had a court injunction in place by the time we set up picket lines. Wildcat strike is just people talking BS. You can't get 20% to walk picket lines in a SANCTIONED STRIKE. I know it happened in 1982 when we were allowed to strike over a contract. Most just sat at home on their ass while those of us who did walk picket lines were there for 24-48 hours with no replacements. It lasted 4 days before Reagan ordered us back to work. Wildcat BS!!!!!!!!

Name: Siding with rr jim E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2018 If you have a present contract in place you can’t striike. The unions job is to make sure they honour the collective agreement. If you ever think there would be a wild cat strike you would never get that directive from union leaders. It’s illegal and the company would find the rats, to finger who organized a wildcat strike and fire them first , then most likely the people involved. They did this at the rr I work for, we shut place down twenty hours big deal. The rats came out of the woodwork to save there own skins. Lots of people lost there jobs.

Name: BLAPPLES E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 September 2018 Yeah RRJIM Trump would force us back, no one can force us to work period, and sure Trump would fire us all. Do you have a brain in your head at all? Do you know how long it would take to replace the manpower we are talking about here? We pay union dues so the union will do what they are paid to do. Are you serious or really this dumb? When you pay the guy to build your fence does he expect you to help out? Does the guy at taco bell expect you to help roll the taco's that you paid for? No because he is paid to do a job so he does his job. You have sparked curiosity though please tell me what we are supposed to do to help out the union other than pay dues? AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SAY GO TO UNION MEETINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF TIME BECAUSE ANYONE THAT HAS ANY SUGGESTIONS ON IMPROVEMENTS OR ANY NEGATIVE CRITICISM WILL BE SHUNNED!!!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 September 2018 Wildcat strike? Trump would order you back to work which is his right under the RLA. Then he would fire anyone who went on strike like Reagan did with the Air Traffic Controllers. Isn't that his famous line "You're Fired". Most seem to think because they pay union dues it's not their responsibility to help out. Look up the definition of "union". Power in numbers.

Name: Jackson Bender E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2018 http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wvir/documents/eddy-v-trains-lawsuit.pdf Pottroff will have a CSX cover up video before long.

Name: One man health E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 My friend brought up, if they go to one man crews and you have a medical condition. That other person is not in cab to perform CPR. If you have a condition that the company feels you are not fit to be behind the controls , are they going to hold you out of service till condition is addressed? I guess these have to be answered!are they going modify the rules?

Name: Re-railer E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 The costs of derailments in the last year in one specific terminal could have covered the cost of operating the hump at that terminal for the next 4 years. The costs of derailments that will happen over the next 90 days will exceed the cost of running the hump for the next year. If you guess the terminal I am talking about you will win a prize.

Name: Retired Now E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 Read the post that Conductor 30+ submitted.

Name: 4' 8.5" E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 If ever you think someone is doing something for any reason other than their own personal gain then you are most likely wrong. I said most likely because there is a .0000001% chance that someone's actions are for the benefit of another living creature and not their own.

Name: Bernie Sanders 2020 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2018 I would think that if the unions would ever do anything for us it would be fight against 1 man crews. They wouldn't actually be doing it for us so in the future if it looks like they are fighting against 1 man crew for us don't get it twisted! They are against 1 man crews for 1 reason and 1 reason only, the unions do not care about us but they don't want 1 man crews because they would loose about half of their revenue when they loose about half of their members.

Name: Campaign for safety E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 I think it is time for rr unions across North America, to fund a campaign to the public about there safety with one man crews. On tv adds news papers all forms of media. Political people care about votes not the standing of the rr companies. The union has to take the money from strike fund where ever they can to get the message out. Pamphlets anything. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Or just sit back and do nothing. It is your future people.

Name: Monty Burns E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2018 Actually, every contract we give stuff up and get NOTHING in return.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 Which one did you submit your application to?

Name: Fed up with it! E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 List of companies hiring within 40 miles of Louisville Ford Toyota Jim Beam Four Roses Heaven Hill American Synthetic Rubber Corporation Cable Technology Communications LLC Raytheon Progress Rail Services Corp. Swift Trucking Averitt Express Waste Management Rumpke United States Postal Service Norfolk Southern I'm tired of all the crying around here so feel free to leave, you will be replaced by next week and we won't miss you I promise. You think you have it bad try being a manager here for a week!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 That article is already a couple yrs. old. How many actually submitted comments to the FRA when the rail unions asked for members to do so, not very long ago? How many actually have contacted their US representatives & asked for their support for at least 2 person crew legislation? I/we at home did. Both - should have been totally bombarded. Many people don't seem to give a rat's ass about anything until it directly affects them and then it may be too late and that's sad. Public support for a rail strike? = HA, that'll never happen. 1st time other workers are sent home from their jobs because of non-delivered rail goods, etc., think those people would be sympathetic to railroad employees?

Name: Mechanical E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 Cot’s stands for cleaned oiled tested stencil. At one time each rail car by AAR rules had to have a complete overhaul of the brake system after 16 years. They stopped this because it cost a lot of money and down time. Now the brake system gets a simple In shop test every five years. These cars have been running around with the brake components the way they came from the factory. The older the car gets the more air brake problems there are and it happens on the road, if your lucky you can just cut the car out. But with sticky brake or sprung slack adjuster the car has to be set off asap. Then there is number 8 vent value on longer cars that stick open on colder days. When this happens brake stays set up and with long trains you will not get calibration. I could go on and on. Now the hogger by himself has to monitor the new systems and everything else. I think if company goes one man it will not be long until they go back to two man crew. It is going to be one big delay after another with one man crew. That is my take on it.

Name: Looking for work E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 September 2018 It's all a step towards autonomous trains. 1st we go to one man crews where PTC runs the train and there is a super engineer or a super conductor to ride in the cab. Once this works pretty good they put more money into infrastructure to allow the train to run 100% by itself, or maybe with a monitor from a remote location. This is all near future plans. It's a long time before trains will be able to be built by themselves so yard rco jobs are safe for now. engineers and road conductors are on the verge of extinction. We are just not going to be needed much longer.

Name: One man fra E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/273916-fra-rule-gives-us-chance-to-bar-most-one-person-crew-trains?amp

Name: Trouble E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 Well if they go with one man crews, they better have lots of ground support. There is so much that can go wrong with mechanical side of a train. For example getting hit by scanners, pull apart, lose of air etc. The list goes on, it defeats the purpose if they take conductor out of the crew. And have to have mechanical staff chase these trains. With the length of trains they want to run. It will be very interesting to see where the money is saved, and no delays. It does not matter how good your ai is you still have to have hands on.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 We have lost time and again over the years and it is time for big change. The only way we can take back our railroad is to strike! We don't need the union to strike, it's called a wildcat strike you can google it. If we were to stand together and strike it would make world news within a few hours and wouldn't take more than a day for the company to drop to it's knees. Some quick math to back this up- Annual revenue is 12 billion, 12 billion divided by 365 is 33 million Daily revenue is 33 million a one day strike cost 33 million The company is not going to win that fight ever. Why you ask? Because 33 million per day hurts and they will quickly loose investors so it hurts more when you factor that in. But wait there's more! If the company didn't bow down willingly they would be forced by the government. It's easier to go after a greedy corrupt board of directors than it is 20 thousand employees. Who do you think would have the support of the public? Greedy millionaires at the top trying to make another couple bucks at the expense of railroaders or railroaders that work their butts of on call 24/7 to get by.

Name: Former DF E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2018 One person train crews are coming no matter what. Congress will have no influence whatsoever, unions will have no influence whatsoever. Starting with unions... Have the unions had any power at all since Mantle Ridge came in the picture? Have contract negotiations ever really improved? Every time we get a new contract we have to give something up to gain something else, and dues always go up. We never get a contract that is better for employees. As for legislative action... Even if it is law for there to be two person train crews it won't stop carriers from manipulating scenarios to find and loophole and get around it. There is a very easy way (that I'm not going to post on here) for carriers to get around having two per crew but still not violate any mandatory laws requiring it. It's not a Democrat vs. Republican issue, it is an issue of greed being more important than public safety to the carriers.

Name: new era coming E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 September 2018 Try to get involved with your union, and any politician that will listen, one man crew reduces safety period. And the union is going to have to spend money to educated the public. I think once the public see the dangers of one man crew they will get on board. You have nothing to lose but your job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2018 Trainmaster 90k to drive crews around. You guys can't even do that right without speeding, running stop signs, and playing on your cell phones.

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2018 The BLET & SMART are trying to get Congress to pass a bill to secure 2 people in the cab of the locomotive. I've known about it for a couple years. It's been in the BLET news letter etc... People keep voting in Republicans who control the majority. You get what you vote for can't blame the unions. If members don't get involved they're to blame. CSX can't do this on their own, the others railroads are just as eager to get one man. Congress has the power to create & pass bills that protect railroad workers or the railroads since we're under the RLA. This isn't just a fight between the railroads & unions. Get involved with your union. Contact your representatives in Congress to support 2 in the cab.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2018 To the TM/poser/troll... Why would you ever bring up the article about the one man trains for 2020 and not specifically mention it? You think your job is safe? Doesn't take a genius to realize with less people on the train the less managers they'll need. On a serious note, the unions need to be more proactive over the 1 man train crews now. These big companies use their power and influence to sway million dollar decisions so don't think they wont do every dirty trick in the book to get their way. Think about this for a moment. The minute they were allowed to put those cameras in the engines they knew they could use all the evidence against employees who get tired and sleep on the trains. Our unions allowed this because the big railroads to bend them over with word verbage on a gd agreement they violate every day like its our equipment and we'll do what we want. I've got bad news folks. Because you let one thing slide after another and had no backbone, the slippery slope is about to be like Chevy Chase going down the hill on Christmas vacation. Here's the plan that's gonna go down. There will be a utility man for 8 hours a shift maybe more and the conductors will go on every line of road enabled with PTC in probably 3 years or less. The really bad part, I could see these slimey mfers using management to do this work, a.k.a assistance to the train, and I doubt there's much the union could do about it. Don't believe it? Here's what the BLET needs to do and the SMART...if they're actually smart. Join the unions now and TRY to prevent this. Even with a good pay raise, most any engineer I know would not enjoy being in that cab alone at all times of the day and night. You've got a camera staring at you, you can't use any electronic devices, you can't even listen to music or speak to anyone except yourself or the dispatcher. This does not sound very enticing. But here's the even worse news. Once the engineer by himself/herself becomes a LIABILITY...well you know how the story ends.

Name: MayIhaveAnother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2018 Wuz up my brudas you sum tuf mofos to be puttin up wit da bullzsheet. My bird trex be tellin me all da time csx sucks. Ya no dat bird be rights. I works enoughs to pay da basics back to bangin the blonde down tha road on off time. You mofos be hard up.

Name: To tm 10-20 years E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 September 2018 Tm you have a smart mouth hiding behind a key board. One thing that will happen to you is the more jobs they cut, the less chance they need people like you. They have done a study and it shows 66 percent of managers add no productive value to a company. I would bet you fall into that 66 percent category. Laugh all you want pal but you will not get the last laugh. Just takes you to piss off one of your bosses and your gone. You have no protection what so ever.

Name: Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Sum Ignore Tm. Just a troll. They always come out when discussions get itchy. They know who views this site. Engine house.... Since you test all aleters by law can you tell me if an alerter is malfunctioning if it goes off every 15-20 seconds the entire trip? I just had one that did that to me for 8 damn hours. You got to know how annoying and frustrating it is to hit a button every 15-20 seconds . I just prayed I got delayed and stuck in sidings so I didn't have to listen to it. Is that a legal alerter? I can't imagine it is.

Name: SUM AN ANA E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Trainmaster talk a lot, we would sure like to know who you are or at least where you work. You are completely unprofessional and have no business being a Trainmaster or even a CSX employee. All you are doing is creating a hostile environment. Nothing you have posted on here has in anyway been productive what so ever. If this is the attitude you have in real life then you will not be around for long I promise. I have been a Conductor, Trainmaster, and Yardmaster and have never seen someone act so immature. Something I learned a long time ago is that people will do more for leaders that respect them than those that do not. You some how have passed through the system to become a Trainmaster while not showing your true colors to your bosses. I promise if it is found out who you are you will not have a job with CSX in any capacity. Watch yourself and tread lightly partner.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Before we get to Claims, BSBC, and Hogger, this Isi BIG NEWS: The National Academy of Sciences has declared, based on historical statistics regarding Union railroad workers since WWII, the railroad trainman and engineer are now declared to be, "ENDANGERED SPECIES". The forecasted date for the end of the species is 2020. Only the San Diego Zoo will have the last specimen of both a trainman and an engineer, for purposes of scientific study and breeding. CLAIMS: your on the wrong side of the fence. A train master gets paid 90K because they work for the Company. You, sir, work for the mafia under the guise of a Union name. Shame on you. BSCB: see claims above. Your on the wrong side of the fence, again. HOGGER: this is why we get rid of union employees as fast as we can and replace them with robots and technology. You idiots have been leaving trains a minute short of the terminal for decades. We can't wait to get rid of you. Your like watching the Three Stooges thing to bake a pie. No one knows the recipe for success, let alone how to turn on the stove. The Company is patient. We know your headed for the Zoo as your permanent residence. GOOD RIDDANCE.

Name: Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2018 ALL ENGINEERS! Bulletin 5301.2 We read your new bulletin on testing the alerter and saw where it says unless notified by the mechanical department it was done you have to test it. First, testing the alerter is a mandatory test that must be done when we are servicing and testing the engine devices. It is done by the electrical man. It is FRA law. Second, quit asking us over the radio when you get power out of the house if we did it. We are going to tell you yes EVERY TIME!!! It is Fra law. Third, we have never noted it on the brake slips we leave on your lead engine and we aren't going to start it now. Where would we put it? there is no separate place to note alerter testing. The operating rules department should know this and should have worded that bulletin in a different way. Besides, I believe you all know you have a rule that says you have to accept the engines they way they are out of the house. That should take care of any misconceptions that you have!

Name: By the book E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 September 2018 I’ve worked with guys that went by the book from day one. They don’t care what rank the management is. There was never nothing they could do to these guys. They never let up, and management did not try to play games with them. They new the rules inside out. And where not afraid to submit paper work. If equipment was less than perfect they would tag it. The guys that give in to management put themselves in jeopardy if equipment fails and causes injury or what ever. Why do that to yourself when you have rules and laws to protect you! I’ve seen it all in my thirty plus years! A lot of guys say they just want to get home!!!

Name: BSBC E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 We gotta figure out why they deny a claim worth about $37.68 but then turn around and pay a trainmaster 90k a year to haul crews around. Yall wanna talk about trimming fat around here well if you want to make cuts then start with positions that don't prove their worth. Ask yourself is this manager really contributing 90k+ worth of value per year? What is this trainmaster didn't show up for a week? Would it be much different without him? I can guarantee you would notice if the Y999 didn't have a conductor for a week. Just keeping it real dawg 100%

Name: Claims E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Local Chairmen please post an extensive list of all valid claims in the locker rooms. I have recently found out that there are a tremendous amount of T/E employees that don't know about a lot of claims that they could be putting in. Here are a few to get started CSRA Late minutes pays 20 minutes straight time Doubled out claim pays 4 hours straight time Called outside call cycle pays minute for minute back to last cycle S1 claim pays 8 hours straight time Holiday claim pays 8 hours straight

Name: hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 other/30 yr Had a crew called out of the hotel to go get a train just outside of the yard in a siding to take home. They had just deadheaded a crew in front of them by no more than 30 minutes. When the crew got to the train it only had one engine. The engineer is one that has balls and doesn't lay down. After boarding he told the conductor forget it. We aren't taking this crap and he shopped it. After contacting the dispatcher they were told to get in the wagon they came in and just deadhead home. Dispatch got ahold of the first crew that was deadheaded and turned them around to go back to the yard and find another engine to add to it. A lot of questions were asked by the first crew and what it boiled down to was the chief was afraid to send the second crew back to the yard because he was afraid the engineer would shop anything they had left. Didn't want to take the chance. Was rolling the dice that the first engineer called out would take what ever they had left. Guess what......he did. So the second engineer got a deadhead home while the first one got turned around and had to come back and do all the work and take the train home. What's that tell you about having a reputation on following the FRA laws and standing your ground and doing whats right. Too bad they will always find that other one that wont.

Name: loco E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Train swapping It just handing off trains at a halfway point. pools meeting in the middle and grabbing trains to turn and take back home. Trying to get rid of staying at hotels. Said they have been doing it down south for awhile. Cant get any details on how it has been working out down there.

Name: Train swapping E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Train swapping has begun in the north... What exactly is train swapping and where is this happening? We would appreciate some details if you could

Name: To not scared E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2018 I have been reading these posts for two years now. I’m a thirty year rr. Finally someone has some balls to stand up to these pricks. Yes you have laws on your side. I wish everyone would follow your lead and do what is right and do the job the way they where trained to do it. Not let these manager pricks off the hook all the time so they can get there bonuses, so there fat wife’s don’t throw them out of the house. Get some balls people like this guy.

Name: notscared E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Trainmaster Your wrong. You don't pay me to do a job. You don't take one dime out of your pocket to pay me. The man pays me, just like you. They pay me to work for them and part of that requirement is for me to take my rules test and pass it. To follow ALL the rules including FRA rules and operating rules. That's what I'm paid for. Not to make you look good by breaking rules and cutting corners to help you out because you cant get your trains built on time and out of the yard on time. You wont every be able to intimidate me into breaking laws and taking piece of crap motors that are non compliant. I have shopped and will continue to shop motors every week if they aren't up to guidelines set by the FRA. When you run your mouths to me about it I call the FRA and the mechanical desk every time and tell them why and what happened. Tell them start a paper trail on the unit. Get er done! You got your suck asses who do anything to help you out and the ones who just don't care and take what ever piece of shit you give them. They are also the ones who are standing in the crew rooms crying like little bitches because they got screwed on the job or didn't get paid what they were supposed to. Just gets me laughing! You suck the company and break the laws and help out the man then turn around and cry cause they screwed you on the job. HA! Quit your crying. Union isn't going to do squat and the company knows it. So go ahead Mr. trainmaster and think that you always got the upper hand on all of us. Got news for you pal, you don't! Now go back into your office and get that train ready for me and get it done on time. Your making us all look bad!

Name: ??? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Watchdog You only posted about a third of what is going on. How about the illegal bogus air brake test they are doing on trains. The illegal brake slips that are being left on the locomotives for outbound crews. No information and the outbound crews are being rushed out of the yards and not allowed to do them properly and document the times properly. Yard switching crews are being rushed to build trains and not doing all locomotive brake test and EOT testing properly. Documentation is not being provided properly for inbound locomotive from other railroads that is being used on outbound trains. Just one more big fat joke that the FRA is turning their heads on and don't give a crap. Its just sad that so many hoggers are just worried about themselves and getting out on the road as fast as they can instead of doing what is right and following written FRA laws. Got news for you hoggers. When you take control of that train YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for everything that is on that train. You are responsible for making sure before you leave that your info is correct and up to date. If the FRA does a surprise boarding your lame excuse of this is what they left me is not going to cut it. Maybe that's what needs to happen. Make an example out of a bunch of you then maybe you will start doing what is right and put a stop to the rushing and intimidation that supervisors are putting on crews to get out. We all know its the fault of the white collars sitting at their desk in Jacksonville harassing the supervisors to perform miracles but that's no excuse. They know we are supposed to follow the law. FRA 232.1 FRA 232.11- Any person including but not limited to a railroad: any manager, supervisor, official, or OTHER EMPLOYEE or agent of a railroad.....etc, who violates any requirement of this part or causes the violation of any such requirement is subject to a civil penalty of at least $839 but not more than $27,455 per violation. Better read up on this rule hoggers. Your not exempt unless you can prove you were intimidated and rushed to overlook the rules and procedures and you did not do it willingly. Good luck with that one! Did you ask for time to do what is right? Did you inform them that the info on the train is wrong or missing? Good luck with boo hooing your way out of this one when your boarded!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2018 I wish they would do away with all the engineers jobs. Yard, road, locals ALL OF THEM. Then they could all flow back and roll your ass TURBO.

Name: Lizard Lips E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Hello Union, do you think you could get the cap raised on personal days? They are allowing one per day, that's a little pathetic.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Turbo We gave that shit up because we wanted a guaranteed 10% pay increase not just a possible 10% bonus. But hang in there and you will get it back. Next 6 years everyone will have to be an engineer. You will be able to earn your DD's but you won't get your holidays because you'll be on the road.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 September 2018 AMMO PISS. Check it out!! Drink one ounce glass of water mixed with one cup of gun powder and PASS ANY DRUG TEST. Works every time!!

Name: Retired now E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2018 To all CSX people, and it is still going to get crazier. Everyone is just a guinie pig. The boys in the ivory tower are going to demand the impossible and there puppets will try and push everyone.

Name: watchdog E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2018 Turbo Go back under your CSX rock. We all know your just one of the distractors hired to draw attention away from the real issues. Just like the idiot trying to start arguments on here with threats of fighting. Trip optimizer isn't working correctly and the company has failed to set up radio communications in the cab. This is encouraging engineers who do not have the common sense to stay off of their personal cell phones to call and get help because they are afraid they will get in trouble if they don't use it. The computers have been reduced at most terminals to a point that people are waiting in line to mark off. Just stood there and watched a conductor argue with the crew caller about marking him off. The caller went off on him and told him he could stand there in line like everyone else. He said he was getting ready to outlaw and wanted to mark off and didn't have time to wait for everyone else to mark off. It took getting a supervisor on the phone and agreeing to do it before it was done. Supervisors are under pressure to get trains out of the terminals within an hour in all yards. Totally impossible to be done. This has been tried before and failed. Wont work a second time either. Crews are being rushed to knock down departing signals way before the trains are air tested and the PTC is set up. Just another smoke and mirror tactic. Some trains are knocking down the departing signal and sitting for more than 30 minutes before they leave. That is not a departed train. Trains are still being built too long and the head end and EOT devices are losing communication on a regular basis. Fra is still not stepping in and putting a stop to it. PTC was reprogrammed to remove the yellow warning line. This was done to increase train speeds. It had nothing to do with safety and the safe movements of trains. It was reported that someone with clout was upset that engineers were slowing down to early when they saw the yellow line and the PTC program was sending out a warning for engineers to reduce speed too soon. Velocity first, safety second. Train swapping is now taking place in the north. The trial runs have started. No one knows how this will effect pay rates and if hotels will still be utilized. Crews are left in the dark on the plans and the Union reps cant tell anyone anything. Once again, crews are left in dark as to their future working conditions and no one knows what to expect next. In the meantime the UTU has done nothing to secure a bonus for the conductors, continuous held away and all the other perks that the BLET was able to get for the engineers. Sorry turbo! Guess your just going to have to keep crying that river until the conductors get some balls and take control of their union.

Name: Highball E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Trainmaster...just continue to live on 2 hrs sleep drink gallons of bad coffee and eat evernow and then a quarter pounder with cheese..and last but not least....make those wonderful judgement calls

Name: Twin Turbo Dude E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 September 2018 That's right Hogger and if it was up to me I would take half of all the engineer bonuses and give it to conductors! Better yet I would give it ALL to conductors for as long as engineers have had it the when we were even start splitting it. I'd also make sure conductors still got demand days like engineers do. Equal work should be equal pay so while we are at it start paying conductors twice as much as engineers since conductors do twice the work, work in hot, cold, dirty, wet conditions, and walk on ballast more in one day than you do in a year.

Name: Train master E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 September 2018 We pay you guys to do a job.I don't need to hear all this back talk.now shut up and go to work

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Turbo. SCREW YOU. Take a hoggers job away. Bet you play with your little train set at home too. Your day will come.

Name: Twin Turbo Dude E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Hey Steve why is the Y125 and Y323 still conventional? Make those jobs remote for a month and see how it works. While you're at it add on a hostler job to put power on trains and get them ready. They can catch dog laws too. If they get bored throughout the day they can always grab a cut and switch it out. Or don't do anything and just keep trying the same process everyday that doesn't really work all that well. Be bold Steve, it's your terminal don't be scared to make changes and see what works. Try something for a month and if it don't work change it back. The only reason Y125 and Y323 was conventional anyways is because of Ford. Now that that is out of the equation change it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 September 2018 When push comes to shove, BLEAT is MIA. And if you do happen to find ANY rep that will talk to you, they are not going to help you out because 1. It’s too much work; 2. You just a little guy and don’t matter; 3. The rep just got promoted to a company lobbiest job and your SOL. Help us help you. Decertify BLEAT and come run with the Big Dogs.

Name: Hogger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 September 2018 CSX Just thought you would be happy to know that your company sucks are alive and well. Just heard 2 engineer pups talking about how they use their personal cell phone to call the TO desk while their in the cab to trouble shoot. They were saying you won't do shit to them because you want us using the program and you won't push the issue because it makes it easier for you. If you let this shit slide then you better be letting other shit slide! No reason to be 25 feet from the motor when your stopped in a siding to make a phone call. Stupid, ignorant rule to begin with. Guess we all better bring this issue to the FRAs attention. NO MORE CALLING "TO" FROM THE CAB!

Name: Xlc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Brothers The fact is the carrier can change any job they want. All they are required to do is give the unions notice they are changing job conditions and rate of pay. It is their right. The union has absolutely no federal right to dictate how the carrier restructures if doing so helps them save money and become more profitable. You can't strike. All the union can do is file charges within the scope of their rights. In the meantime you Will do what the company decides or you can quit. Plain and simple. So get used to the changes coming. You have no choice. I can say one thing though, if your pay rates go down then your union dues should be reduced. If they don't then the members need to stop their dues and file a class action suit against the union for failure to ajust dues based on your rate of income. You have the right by federal law.

Name: To sink hole E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 07 September 2018 Foote learned from Hh not to honour anything. Fire people to make others fall in line intimidation and fear, union busting 101. Myself I was fired and pulled out of service twice. Returned to work threw the union arbitration with pay. Myself I have a lot of respect for the union. When this regime breaks all the rules, the union files paper work and it has to work its way threw the system. This regime knows they will be long gone before, a lot of these issues get worked out. The people are the union, and if you have been affected personally you have to file a grievanc in order for it to be heard. Everything takes time to get resolved CSX knows this. My personal experience with the union I got my monies worth for what they did for me. I was able to retire because of the work of the union. You all have to file grievances to be made whole. Rome was not built in a day! You think things are bad now, if you did not have the union it would be a nightmare!

Name: RRJim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 September 2018 Ricky Gates it wasn't about marijuana or watching the Super Bowl on a mini-TV. It was about Ricky Gates saving his own ass from going to prison for along time. I think he ended up doing 4 out of the 7 years in prison. To do that he testified before Congress. Congress made railroads the second employer in this country to drug test, the first was the military in 1976.

Name: Train master buster E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Your a pussy.I bet your wife , or to be politically correct your partner if you have that persuasion probably beat your ass

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 September 2018 Unions have no power. They are carpet baggers. Taking your money. Giving you nothing. Make your jobs safer by decertifying the Union. Increase your income. Get more benefits. Have more security.

Name: One man crew E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 September 2018 With the one man crew when something goes wrong. That train can tie up the main line for hours and hours. Till two mechanical staff in a truck on overtime drive hours to investigate issues. I can see it now one man crew walks back to investigate and lays in a ditch with broken ankle waiting for help. Then they have to find new crew hogger. I don’t think they CSX knows what there in for if this happens ! The law suits from public will bankrupt CSX.