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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Zuna I don't work out of Bennings. I used to go there on coal trains when I worked out of Brunswick, but now I work as a conductor out of Cumberland, Maryland. Supposedly, we are supposed to be going to TWC and getting rid of the DTC blocks. Dave, I thought your name looked familiar! I remember seeing your name on the computer at work. I never did get a chance to meet you, though. Where did you hire out of? I've been with this company for a little over 4 years now and it feels like an eternity! -John Zuna [/quote] Hey there John, I hired out on July 31,2000 in Baltimore, but was promptly furlowed upon finishing my conductor training that December. I was then sort of saved by the Brunswick Trainmaster who put me in qualifying status on the D756 starting 12/26/00-jan 31, 2001. Then I qualified on the Pope's Creek branch coal trains and Benning yard operations throughout the rest of the winter. After that the only place I could mark up was Richmond, VA-quite a haul for someone who lives in Millersville, MD. Crew Manangement (or mismanagement as I like to say) re-opened up Baltimore to me that fall and I managed to work the rest of that fall sporadically out of Baltimore while trying to avoid bankruptcy due to the lack of extra board slots to mark up on (thank you crew management-pin heads!). CSX furlowed me again about a month after my father died and I decided that I'd had enough. I never went back and forgot all about the fact that they might call me up to work again. They did call me in May and I never responded.............. ........................................sometime in August 2002, I was looking up my status on my friend's computer (he's still working for them) and saw that CSX had terminated me as an employee. So that was that. Sorry about rambling so. I keep toying with the idea of trying to get my job back, but I don't want sporadic work like I had that last Fall that I worked.
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