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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by chessking Hey LC, do you ever get that feeling I do some days with my line of work, where you simply don't want to work it? I look at railroad work for the engineer as highly adventurous, somewhat lucrative, and an overall noble profession where the work never gets monotonous. Yes there are risks with what you do just like where I am now. Every day I report to work to go about my daily job walking on top of tanks having an approximate 30 kt blast yield (B 322 Propane/Propanone Tank Farm). [/quote] From the point of view of someone who has done the work of trainman, conductor and locomotive engineer as well as many other occupations, I can safely say that your view of the locomotive engineer's job is unrealistic. I don't think it is nearly as adventurous as you think and consists of equal parts of fear, loathing, sheer terror, sleep deprivation and occasional euphoria... I can't speak to walking around a propane farm. I have however been a firefighter at a station protecting a quadrant of a town including several major tank farms. The tank farms even paid for a separate foam engine for our station. Oh, I can speak to the danagers of working around key trains with 30 to 40 loads of propane, butane, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid and other nasty stuff. Walking trains like that is as bad or worse than a propane farm... and probably about as exciting... (that is, not very) So, yes, there are quite a few days when I'd rather be elsewhere. It is, after all, a job. Still, I wouldn't do it if I didn't get some enjoyment out of it... LC
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