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I started w/BNSF in Kan City in 1998. Prior to that, I worked 17 yrs (starting right out of high school) in a KS flour mill. This work was always dirty, filthly, noisy & miserable. For several of those yrs, I spent inside airslide hopper cars scraping them out and preparing them for loading w/ bulk flr. I don't love the rr and at times it is miserable but I can bear it--all I have to do is think what I was doing 10 yrs ago. I have little interest in modern day rr's (working in the industry had changed that) I do however continue to hold an interest in the history of days gone by. I continue to purchase books & tapes that have a historical theme to them. For example, I have just ordered a book on the history of Pacific Fruit Exp. I have not really come across any railfans working out on the ballast. My feeling is leave the Trains., Model RRailroader and the cameras off the job and just do your job. I make good money for doing very little back breaking labor. I put 25% (the max) into my 401k. My goal is to work another 18-20 yrs and be out no later than age 62 then maybe at that time I can go back to being a railfan again.
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