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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl LC I'ts hard to admit that the years are catching up fast, I'm sitting here thinking that 15 years ago I was swinging a spike mall after one of the many layoffs I had to endure, alot has changed since then ( ask my ex wives). It's a difficult time for me here on the CN watching my friends gettin canned. Who knows maybe a spike mall will find it's way into my hands again..LOL Randy [/quote] Good mechanical folks, especially electricians are always in short supply. I'm sure you can find work if you need it. Also, if you will bear with me for one more anecdote, here we have a small mechanical facility that has electricians, one machinist and several carmen and one supervisor. In the CR days it was just carmen. Employment has actually grown there since NS took over our district. During the takeover the FRA caught on to the fact that there was no maintenance facility there for locomotives. They came in like gangbusters. In short, the big RRs can only cut so far. There will always be a need for folks to keep stuff running. We engineers need someone to send notes to. Have you ever seen that list of airline pilots complaints and their mechanical guys responses, hilarious...think of it every time I need to fill out a defect report. I think once CN shakes out the new acquisitions a bit things will settle down, unless they buy CSXT of course, in which case, it will ba a MAJOR CLUSTER.... LC
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