spikejones52002 wrote: When the C.S.S. & S.B. Passenger service began hiring women at collector, conductors, motoroperators. Then were happy, until they found out they ahd to go out on service trains for maintenance.Then they screamed it was not a job a woman should be doing. Also when they became pregnant. They wanted a man take over for them so they could rest.
When the C.S.S. & S.B. Passenger service began hiring women at collector, conductors, motoroperators. Then were happy, until they found out they ahd to go out on service trains for maintenance.
Then they screamed it was not a job a woman should be doing. Also when they became pregnant. They wanted a man take over for them so they could rest.
Shame on you, and your sexist sentiments.
I realize there are not many women who work for the railroad. I am one of only 3 in our conductor school.(Approx. 75 students all together) It is not a genetic anamoly that we love trains as well. Women can do the same jobs as men do, and we do them just as good as men. Maybe the entire concept of social conditioning and gender roles reinforced early in life have a lot to do with why we dont see more females with an active interest in trains...how many of you guys had sisters that got cool train sets for x mas? I know I never did. In fact, I threw my barbie doll under a train, since I grew up next to a factory spur.
Once I get hired ( not for a while, so don't hold your breath ) I'll be sure to post pictures and make a big deal out of the fact that women are working on the railroad, too. I personally think it's far more rare to find a girl who dorks out with model trains than to find one out there bending steel.
this is off topic but, why is there a michigan city in IN?
Because Michigan doesn't have one?
ANything you can do I can do better....yadda yadda yadda. First off its nothing new to see women firefighters,cops truck drivers,construction workers, etc etc. Does it mean they can do the job to the level needed? Depends on the person honestly. so dont get your nose out of joint until you know you can do the job you want to do to the standards needed.
I know a few lady conductors that can one arm some switches here just like us big burly neanderthal ogres.I also know guys who need to get a run up the lead before they can budge the same switch.
Let me make an obvious statement. Men and women are DIFFERENT! We have our own strengths and weaknes'es.Women dont have upper body strength like a man, UNLESS they work out the specific muscles to gain the same amount of upper body strength.
Now before you start bashing me, my wife not only drives a semi ( I taught her and she does great thanks)but is also a volunteer firefighter.The reason she does this is not to prove a point or say I am woman hear me roar.But because she wanted too and succeded at it.If she COULD NOT have done it she never would have pursued it,or wanted special treatment to give her a place where she didnt belong.
Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train
oscaletrains wrote:this is off topic but, why is there a michigan city in IN?
Well it just might have to do with the fact that Michigan City is on the shore of a big lake. Guess what the name of the lake is?
An "expensive model collector"
I sat on the train and listen to these EQUAL PAY women do the complaining when they were ordered to do the JOB they hired on to do.
I do give equal respect to the few who did the required work. I do not mind when they (like I did and most others) commented about the hard work but did it.
Some are still working, Some quit because they could not handle it.
WCL wrote:Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....
Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....
csx engineer
i just saw one on sunday
Check out the gal on this WSOR train on video 3 at :50 and make sure ya watch all 4 of the vids...She does a pretty nice job...But in the video number 4 she rides on the back right in the middle just like the pix I posted of the gal on this XM....I guess they teach all female conductors to ride back there so if they fall they can get rid of them....
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaV61SuK3k2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuE1TLbZzzo3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6YWHmmOho4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOkEIPTlLA
There are a couple of good first person accounts about working for the railroad by women.
Boomer - Linda Niemann - Brakewoman on the SP
Railroad Voices - Niemann and Bertucci -Bertucci worked on the Milwaukee
Woman Operator on the Milwaukee Railroad During WWII - Byington - she was a boomer telegrapher
Ma Kiley - The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher - Jepsen - The original title was The Bug and I by Kiley - Jepsen wrote a new introduction to the work and added historical fact about female telegraphers
csxengineer98 wrote: WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....cant see her face..but her body is damn fine..wish we had some eye candy like that around here... we have 1 woman still in reguler train service where im at.. and a few to the east and west of my location.. but none are as "good"looking as her...lolcsx engineer
WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....
She must be punished for riding the car incorrectly ,violating many rules.... any ideas CSX ?
Randy Stahl wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....cant see her face..but her body is damn fine..wish we had some eye candy like that around here... we have 1 woman still in reguler train service where im at.. and a few to the east and west of my location.. but none are as "good"looking as her...lolcsx engineer She must be punished for riding the car incorrectly ,violating many rules.... any ideas CSX ?
csxengineer98 wrote: Randy Stahl wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....cant see her face..but her body is damn fine..wish we had some eye candy like that around here... we have 1 woman still in reguler train service where im at.. and a few to the east and west of my location.. but none are as "good"looking as her...lolcsx engineer She must be punished for riding the car incorrectly ,violating many rules.... any ideas CSX ? i got a few but i 1..cant stay them here..and 2..if i was to try any of them in person i would get suied for a form of harrasment...lol
lol gonna be hell to pay for that one csx, but seriously what the hell is she thinking that's a tragedy waiting to happen.
Rail-Roadwarrior wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: Randy Stahl wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....cant see her face..but her body is damn fine..wish we had some eye candy like that around here... we have 1 woman still in reguler train service where im at.. and a few to the east and west of my location.. but none are as "good"looking as her...lolcsx engineer She must be punished for riding the car incorrectly ,violating many rules.... any ideas CSX ? i got a few but i 1..cant stay them here..and 2..if i was to try any of them in person i would get suied for a form of harrasment...lollol gonna be hell to pay for that one csx, but seriously what the hell is she thinking that's a tragedy waiting to happen.
csxengineer98 wrote: Rail-Roadwarrior wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: Randy Stahl wrote: csxengineer98 wrote: WCL wrote: Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....cant see her face..but her body is damn fine..wish we had some eye candy like that around here... we have 1 woman still in reguler train service where im at.. and a few to the east and west of my location.. but none are as "good"looking as her...lolcsx engineer She must be punished for riding the car incorrectly ,violating many rules.... any ideas CSX ? i got a few but i 1..cant stay them here..and 2..if i was to try any of them in person i would get suied for a form of harrasment...lollol gonna be hell to pay for that one csx, but seriously what the hell is she thinking that's a tragedy waiting to happen.yea it is..but sometimes you do what you got to do.. it is an unsafe place to ride a car..but if you have to ride a car for a while.. hanging off the side of it is hell on your arms and legs..the ideal car to ride like that is a hopper covered or not.. you can crawl up insde the end where the slope sheet is on the end of the car and ride there protected...and you have alot more to grab ahold of to suport yourself like structual elements of the end of the car..not just the grab bar like this chick is holding on to...csx engineer
yea I usually ride inside the ends of the covered hoppers. Got a ten mile shove most every day and riding the side of one that long is pure hell.