Dark windows...

[Anonymous]

And, for the steamers:
1. Forget your "Sweeney" stack, get a "swinger" stack
2. Spinner set of Walschearts Valve Gear
3. Chrome plated smokebox interior (useless ostentation at its finest)
4. When it comes to controls, purple and green are the new red!
5. Gold-plated safety chains around the engineer's neck
6. Replace headlight with searchlight (the light, not the signal), and install nuclear fission dynamo
7. If you think long enough, you'll understand painting the Rock Island's initials on the tenders
8. Replace equalizing hangers with "equalizing hang loosers"
9. Replace all pony trucks with "dawg" trucks
10. Un-counterbalance, to make added "impact," figuratively and literally
11. Hook up microphone to speakers, broadcasting whistle even louder than it already is
12. Replace builder's plate with vanity plate saying "LOCO 1"
13. Stretch locomotive into Beyer-Garret, and add side ditch lights
14. Put smoke machine under exhaust nozzle, and add feature to sand flues continuously
15. Install three more petticoat pipes, because to the layman it sounds "interesting"
16. Keep "equalizing reservoir" until you're number one, then throw it away
17. The Main Track is YOURS--who needs Rule 6.13?
18. Make it an oil burner, so you can have not one, but two "super heaters"
19. Tamper with safety valves because "You don't fear death"
20. Replace seat boxes with LaZ-Boy recliners
21. Cast and install trust plates in your own name

Sincerely,
Daniel Parks

[Modelcar]

....Don't forget the big dice to hang on the rear view mirror.....I know, none inside but put one up anyway.....{Just to hang the dice on}...Ha.

[rvos1979]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

And dont forget the chromed chain reverser, diamond tuck upholstery, velvet headliner, and the fringe trim around the cab roof.
Oh, and we need some LED lights under the locomotive...the kind that fla***o the sound system!
Wonder if we can get Chip Foose to do it in seven days?

Ed

The hard part would be trying to swipe it and keep management in the dark!!

Wait a minute..... management's usually in the dark anyway......

Randy

[CSXrules4eva]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-ydm-gr

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

yea i do realy work for csx.... and if that is the reason for the window tint..they need to go back to the drawing board...becouse it dont help that much...
csx engineer

If you worked for BNSF out here in SoCal ....not only would you get tinted windows, but chrome spinners on the wheels AND subwoofers to go back in the radiator section!

sweet.... new show for MTV..PIMP MY LOCOMOTIVE... i want all gold trim...and a sick sound system so i can be pumpin out the toons of my dog snopp when im crusin for the hoes in my pimped out loco...can i get air shocks that make a low rider?
csx engineer

HAY you hit the nail right on the head. I've been telling a couple of my friends that I'd like to pimp out tConrail's Big blue SD80MAC with neon blue lights under the trucks (get rid of the ditch lights), and chrome exhaust, along with white leather seats in the cab (with big MAC or something engraved in the head rest, a stereo system in the cab w/ cd player that has a blue face plate, also got to have hydralics on the locomotive wait maybe I'll stick with phenmatics since there is a nice 4 cyl compressor in the rear. I think we also need a graphic design on the top of both winsheilds ( don't know what that will be), black carpeting on the floor. all that good stuff..................OH AND I've got to have spinners on the loco too. Man I would really be looking forward to going over a busy grade X-ing with that. I'll put the seat almost all the way back and look cool in my pimped out loco. lol

[railroadnut675]

ooh I'm so scared

[edblysard]

And dont forget the chromed chain reverser, diamond tuck upholstery, velvet headliner, and the fringe trim around the cab roof.
Oh, and we need some LED lights under the locomotive...the kind that fla***o the sound system!
Wonder if we can get Chip Foose to do it in seven days?

Ed

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-ydm-gr

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

yea i do realy work for csx.... and if that is the reason for the window tint..they need to go back to the drawing board...becouse it dont help that much...
csx engineer

If you worked for BNSF out here in SoCal ....not only would you get tinted windows, but chrome spinners on the wheels AND subwoofers to go back in the radiator section!

sweet.... new show for MTV..PIMP MY LOCOMOTIVE... i want all gold trim...and a sick sound system so i can be pumpin out the toons of my dog snopp when im crusin for the hoes in my pimped out loco...can i get air shocks that make a low rider?
csx engineer

fo shizzle dog!

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-ydm-gr

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

yea i do realy work for csx.... and if that is the reason for the window tint..they need to go back to the drawing board...becouse it dont help that much...
csx engineer

If you worked for BNSF out here in SoCal ....not only would you get tinted windows, but chrome spinners on the wheels AND subwoofers to go back in the radiator section!

sweet.... new show for MTV..PIMP MY LOCOMOTIVE... i want all gold trim...and a sick sound system so i can be pumpin out the toons of my dog snopp when im crusin for the hoes in my pimped out loco...can i get air shocks that make a low rider?
csx engineer

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-ydm-gr

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

yea i do realy work for csx.... and if that is the reason for the window tint..they need to go back to the drawing board...becouse it dont help that much...
csx engineer

If you worked for BNSF out here in SoCal ....not only would you get tinted windows, but chrome spinners on the wheels AND subwoofers to go back in the radiator section!

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-ydm-gr

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

yea i do realy work for csx.... and if that is the reason for the window tint..they need to go back to the drawing board...becouse it dont help that much...
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

in australia it is for cooling ,same as for cars. .australian loco driver

[ericsp]

It appears that nobody knows the real reason for the tinted windows. It is to keep the Martians' death ray out of the cab.[:)]

I have got to go, there is a black helicopter circling.[;)]

[edblysard]

Yeah,
And there is a reason we keep old switch lists!

Ed

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Uh,

In our next national contract, we plan on asking for toilet paper to actually be in the toilet compartment.

Ed

Recycling the old contracts huh?

[Anonymous]

Hey
Csx engineer98 you really dont work for the railroad do you?
the reason they have the windows tinted is so the sun does not over power the computer screens .

[Modelcar]

....Never knew you had it so good Ed....All the comforts of home.

[edblysard]

Uh,
Guys, on newer locomotives, there is a little ice box, just inside the middle door in the stairwell, big enough to hold two 6 packs of bottled water.

National labor contract perk, we demanded drinking water at work.
(the nerve of us union guys!)
Older locomotive have nothing, so the carriers provide "coolers" or ice chest which the crew fill with ice and bottled or caned water.

I was on a SD9 a few months ago, it actually had the old "office water cooler" stand still in place, although the bottle was long gone.

See, the carriers really do care about us, they give us a camper style toilet, and a ice chest cooler...all the "perks" of a real world working enviroment...

In our next national contract, we plan on asking for toilet paper to actually be in the toilet compartment.

Ed

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Now if the crew only has something cold to put in the cup holders.....!

On Sunday, an engineer (UP) tossed a bottle of water out for me (I tried to tell him I had a drink in my vehicle), it was cold.

[Modelcar]

...If yer sleepin...who's steerin it to keep it on the tracks.......

[Anonymous]

Actually, if the truth be known, the tinted windows are there so no one can see me sleepin'.............................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Virlon

save your ticket.....zzzzzz.....the P.E. will rise again.

[Murphy Siding]

Hot enough for ya ?

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

[:)] The smiley should have indicated it wasn't a serious statement. Maybe I should said "it's not the heat, it's the humidity".[;)]

i know..im just a smart a$$..lol
csx engineer

[Murphy Siding]

[:)] The smiley should have indicated it wasn't a serious statement. Maybe I should said "it's not the heat, it's the humidity".[;)]

[Modelcar]

....Now if the crew only has something cold to put in the cup holders.....!

[Modelcar]

....I've seen the humidity down to 3 to 5% on official instruments in the desert south of Kingman, Az...{Yucca flats}, and the temp at the same time 100 or 105 or so and believe me dry or not....It is still HOT. Hot enough to get one in real trouble.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Yes on the visor, no on the mirror...
although some locomotives do come with cup holders.
Ed[8D]

Hopefully the cup holders are not on the sunvisors.

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

Oh,sure,but's that's a dry heat.[:)]

trust me.. dry heat or not..its F-ing HOT... i use to fire a steamer befor i got my start on CSX... bib overalls..long sleave shirt... 95 out side..with a crap load of coal buring in a HOT steel box about 2 feet from you.... its HOT no matter what you do
csx engineer

[Murphy Siding]

Oh,sure,but's that's a dry heat.[:)]

[BaltACD]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFGP38

Lucky you got air conditioning...........Im still the the GP-38 and GP-18 world. [xx(]

In days gone by you could have been behind the boiler of a 2-8-2, just imagine how conditioned the air coming off the firebox was.