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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 ok..ill start off with a yard day... since im in yard service for the time being...and when i get a few mins later today ill try and come back and give you the lowdown on a road day i leave for work around 2200 hours...and drive to be at work by 2300....i arrive at the yard..and park the car...go inside the office...put my grip down out of the way..take my coat off... and grab a cup of coffiee...i go over to the computer and check to see where other people i work with are..and what trains and jobs are out working.....then i sit down...and drink my coffiee... and when the carman comes in..or another engineer that i know...we sit down and play Gin and talk shop and just poke fun at eveyone in the office...and b&$@h about the yard master not getting our lists to us by 2300.....about 2310 or so..i go into the yard masters office and see if my train bullitins came over the printer yet...if they didnt..i call the dispatcher to get a set issued.....and i look over the yard masters shoulder to see how the lists look... then i go back to the crew room if i have the messages...and play more Gin while waiting for the switchlists...if the train messages didnt come yet..and after i call..i hang out in the YM office untill they are done printing...between hands of Gin... i look over my train messages...remembering if anything on them pretains to what im going to be doing....around 2340 or sometime till 0001 the yard master will come over to the crew room with the switch lists...and gives a job brieffing and a power assinment to the engineers...after the job brieffing..i gather up my stuff..and head out to my power...once on it...i fill out the required paper work like a calinader day inspection and the locomotive work report and airbrake slip..knock off the hand brakes..and i sit and wait for the forman to come out...when he gets on..we head into the yard.... once in the yard... its stop...back up....3 step...releace 3 step..give me a strech...go west any number of cars...stop...back up 4 to a pin....kick....stop.... pull west...bla bla bla bla bal...( you get the idea) this goes on for as long as we have work to do...once in a while we get a call from the yard master telling us a road train is comeing into the yard..and we need to get into a clear track..and to tell him when it is ok to run the road train past our location so it can do its work in the yard.... after the road trains..if any leave..we go back to work....with the stop 3 step kick pull west..shove east...ext ext ext.....and when we get done switching we call the yard master to find out how we are getting back to the office..and where the power is going to put...when we get that..we start back to the office..and when we get to where the power is going to sit..i tie on hand brakes..test them... gather up my grip..and head back to the office...where if we can go home..i go home...or if we have to stick around for a little bit..we play Gin..drink some more coffiee...and make fun of everyone in the office..(i get picked on too) is just not me doing all the picking..lol......and b&$@t about the yard master for haveing us do some stupid moves..talk shop some more.....and when we are released...go home this is the nuts and bolts of a day in the life of a yard engineer lol csx engineer [/quote] Is belt pack coming to your terminal?
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