To the Fellow Railroaders

[Anonymous]

What do you guys do while waiting for a signal? Waiting for Maintenance in the way? Any hurry up and wait time? Please Exclude Sleeping!!!

[csxengineer98]

sleep...sleep... sleep... eat ...sleep... get up and walk around if i cant sleep... read... and nope..we dont get payed to sit... once we are on duty..we dont make any extra money unless its OT... or an extra day for doing extra work...
csx engineer

[route_rock]

Well we sit and bad mouth the dispatcher ( my job is in dark territory on a class IIs line not ours so guess how much time we spend doing that!) havea snack watch the waitresses at the local steak house ( if going the right way in that siding) Discuss how the railroad is screwing us and themselves. Talk about the next switch move, call the other crew of our road getting screwed as well and see where our cars are from them. Watch people get on and off the gambling boat ( again if in the right spot)Walk over to the gas station and get more chips and soda.Pretty much all that stuff..

[Anonymous]

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RIGHT ON Route_Rock...THAT'S THE TRUTH...LMAO I've heard that story so many times from my roommate who is a conductor!!!! Thanks for the laugh!

[coborn35]

LMAO!!
But I guess tha is true!

But.....who does the sleeping? According to GCOR, one person has to be awake to man hte radio and watch the train.......is it the highest senority guy?
Or is it...."im just gonna close my eyes....""me too" lol

[Anonymous]

Max.. that is the most broken rule in the book. every one sleeps.. Watching movies are fun too.

[Anonymous]

Kind of a dumb question, but do they allow radios (music, whatever) in the loco? Obviously you need to hear the dispatcher, radio chatter, etc, but I would die of boredom if I couldn't listen to music during the shift....anyone?

If it's against the rules, do people break it?

-nate

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by redrabbit

Kind of a dumb question, but do they allow radios (music, whatever) in the loco? Obviously you need to hear the dispatcher, radio chatter, etc, but I would die of boredom if I couldn't listen to music during the shift....anyone?

If it's against the rules, do people break it?

-nate

they are aginst the rules...but some people do carry them..as well as other things to enterain themselfs when stopped..or while at the hotel...
csx engineer

[Ham549]

Ya I can just see the conductor and engineer linking up there game boys and playing eachother in Pokémon. LOL

[coborn35]

WTF.............
LMAO Thats weird! (or bringing a laptop and playing MSTS!!)

[wctransfer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

WTF.............
LMAO Thats weird! (or bringing a laptop and playing MSTS!!)

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Man, if that really happened, that would be some funny $H*I

Alec[}:)]

[PBenham]

I know of some one that when stopped within walking distance of a casino, went in,[:p] and played the slots until called back to fini***he trip![8D]