Female brakeperson

[sanvtoman]

 

    While watching NS switching yesterday in Maumee Ohio i saw my first female trainperson.It was a nice break from the men. And to her credit she was out in the rain bending the iron! GO AHEAD GIRL!

[ndbprr]

When women frist hired into the steel mills in the Chicago area one of the lowest paying jobs is the person who walks the ground with a crane attaching the hook to the load.  Up until then this job was known as the "hooker".  Very quickly it got changed to "Crane assist person".

[oscaletrains]

i should hope.

wow, a female brake-um uh women? hmm... kinda odd dident know that girls liked trains, (Scientific anomaly?) i wonder if theres more out there.

[trainboyH16-44]

Yeah, they're scattered around there...perhaps one day you'll also realize your dream and see one of these 'Ladies of Steel'

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Female train crew are not that unusual anymore.  I have seen female conductors on Metra, Amtrak, and Metro North, female engineers on a variety of roads, etc.

[ndbprr]

I just recalled that in the late eighties I talked with a woman engineer at Summit, California about to take a train down Cajon pass.  She was being held up by a brush fire for awhile.  I believe it was a UP train.

[sanvtoman]

  

     I do remember Trains having articles in the 80s about woman in train service out west. This was the first in Ohio i have seen. Although when i was working a lot of the clerks and tower ops were woman.

[mackb4]

       I've worked with several women conductors.

       I've also worked with and trained a few women Engineers.

       Most done a very good job,and with the added paper work since the NS's CYO garbage took affect,they handled the paper work better than most men.

       There is several out of Bellvue,Ohio,Portsmouth,Ohio and out of Williamson,WVa on the NS.

      The NS employs some women dispatchers in the Bluefield dispatch center also .

[WCL]

Theres a female conductor up here as well...She works at the paper mill up in Brokaw Wi....She was riding a boxcar....

[WCL]

Well seeing that it didn't let me edit my last post to add this other pic...Here is one more...."Jordan here is the switcher up in Brokaw" (if ya haven't seen it already that is)

 

[zugmann]

Ack... not a good place to ride a boxcar! She even has her foot on the coupler... *shakes head*

[spikejones52002]

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.

[oscaletrains]

this is off topic but, why is there a michigan city in IN?

[spikejones52002]

For the same reason there is a "Chicago" in Illinois.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

this is off topic but, why is there a michigan city in IN?

For the same reason you have Arkansas City, TX; Kansas City, MO; and Virginia City, NV.