DO RR workers own homes, have wives and/or kids?

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, then I guess I won't go into the couple who ran on a particular pool job in the north country, he an Engineer of middle age and stature and she a young buxom blonde new hire conductor. Tale is still told how those locomotive windows sure got foggy, even on moonlit nights on the prairie...

And no, I wasn't involved, I heard the story from the guys who relieved them...

LC

[edblysard]

Dont know.
Ask her!
Sometimes suprises show up at the darndest times!
Ed

[edblysard]

Dont know.
Ask her!
Sometimes suprises show up at the darndest times!
Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

LC,
I dont think the trainengr "babe" is a he![:D]
And she sounds like she has been there, and done that already.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

Geez Ed, been where and done what?!? Do I really want to know?!?

LC

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

LC,
I dont think the trainengr "babe" is a he![:D]
And she sounds like she has been there, and done that already.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

Geez Ed, been where and done what?!? Do I really want to know?!?

LC

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ironken

Kev, you don't know my girlfriend. She is a hellcat! She is a big flirt. That's why I have a gal at the other end of the road now too. That makes her and I even!
Ken

[:0] KEN!!!! [:0]

Mookie !!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ironken

Kev, you don't know my girlfriend. She is a hellcat! She is a big flirt. That's why I have a gal at the other end of the road now too. That makes her and I even!
Ken

[:0] KEN!!!! [:0]

Mookie !!

[Anonymous]

Kev, you don't know my girlfriend. She is a hellcat! She is a big flirt. That's why I have a gal at the other end of the road now too. That makes her and I even!
Ken

[Anonymous]

Kev, you don't know my girlfriend. She is a hellcat! She is a big flirt. That's why I have a gal at the other end of the road now too. That makes her and I even!
Ken

[edblysard]

LC,
I dont think the trainengr "babe" is a he![:D]
And she sounds like she has been there, and done that already.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[edblysard]

LC,
I dont think the trainengr "babe" is a he![:D]
And she sounds like she has been there, and done that already.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1

I have been called alot of things but railbuff is not one til now. geez Now besides being a unihead i am a train buff now.

I don't think the "babe" could be talking about us Wabash. He knows better.

LC

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1

I have been called alot of things but railbuff is not one til now. geez Now besides being a unihead i am a train buff now.

I don't think the "babe" could be talking about us Wabash. He knows better.

LC

[edblysard]

Aw man, all buffed up and nowhere to go!
Hey, why dont you run for governer?
Ed[:D]

[edblysard]

Aw man, all buffed up and nowhere to go!
Hey, why dont you run for governer?
Ed[:D]

[wabash1]

I have been called alot of things but railbuff is not one til now. geez Now besides being a unihead i am a train buff now.

[wabash1]

I have been called alot of things but railbuff is not one til now. geez Now besides being a unihead i am a train buff now.

[Anonymous]

Jim-

I hear you. It is a shame that there are always the guys who think they'll work forever and those who just have to work more than everyone else. I've been jumped so many times on the pools it makes me ill. I guess I'm lucky in a way. I started later in life and although I had to start with at the bottom, I came in at a time of merger and only a few years before the passage of the 30/60 Railroad Retirement law so my seniority has accelerated rapidly and I can hold quite a few decent jobs. Although I have worked on my rest at times for months, I have also been furloughed.

We have a cranky old Conductor who was always the quickest to jump the next guy if he could. He didn't need the money, he had been divorced for years from two wives, but he used to brag that he had cash hidden all over his house. So, when his home burned last month (cause-electrical-old wiring) taking his hoard with it, well we felt for him and the loss of his home> I guess he'll just have to work a bit harder. Maybe now, after 40 years on board it's time to pull the pin, but I doubt it...

LC

[Anonymous]

Jim-

I hear you. It is a shame that there are always the guys who think they'll work forever and those who just have to work more than everyone else. I've been jumped so many times on the pools it makes me ill. I guess I'm lucky in a way. I started later in life and although I had to start with at the bottom, I came in at a time of merger and only a few years before the passage of the 30/60 Railroad Retirement law so my seniority has accelerated rapidly and I can hold quite a few decent jobs. Although I have worked on my rest at times for months, I have also been furloughed.

We have a cranky old Conductor who was always the quickest to jump the next guy if he could. He didn't need the money, he had been divorced for years from two wives, but he used to brag that he had cash hidden all over his house. So, when his home burned last month (cause-electrical-old wiring) taking his hoard with it, well we felt for him and the loss of his home> I guess he'll just have to work a bit harder. Maybe now, after 40 years on board it's time to pull the pin, but I doubt it...

LC

[zardoz]

LC:

I'm there in spirit frequently, but I'm way too old to start over again.

But you know what was kinda too bad? Back in the 80's there was talk at the CNW about trying to get assigned work periods for on-call employees. That would mean that your window of opportunity was a particular time period (8-12 hrs) where you would be subject to call, and if no call comes in, you were off until your slot came up next day. The reason it was turned down: the men didn't want it cause they were worried they might miss an occasionally day. So the ultra-hungry guys had more clout (more of them) that those of us that actually wanted a life away from work once & a while. And since they had already gone through one or two wives, they had nothing to go home to, and would rather be at work than home alone. I'm sure their ex's appreciated it on alimony day!

But I sure miss being an Engineer. For me it was the coolest job in the world!!

[zardoz]

LC:

I'm there in spirit frequently, but I'm way too old to start over again.

But you know what was kinda too bad? Back in the 80's there was talk at the CNW about trying to get assigned work periods for on-call employees. That would mean that your window of opportunity was a particular time period (8-12 hrs) where you would be subject to call, and if no call comes in, you were off until your slot came up next day. The reason it was turned down: the men didn't want it cause they were worried they might miss an occasionally day. So the ultra-hungry guys had more clout (more of them) that those of us that actually wanted a life away from work once & a while. And since they had already gone through one or two wives, they had nothing to go home to, and would rather be at work than home alone. I'm sure their ex's appreciated it on alimony day!

But I sure miss being an Engineer. For me it was the coolest job in the world!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz1

Had fifteen years railroading when I got married. Five years and two kids later, I had to decide which I wanted to keep. I chose the wife & kids (and my health and my personal life) rather than the big money and long hours. So I quit railroading after 20 years. Occasioally, but not often, have I regretted the decision.

In time, you'll be back...

LC[:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz1

Had fifteen years railroading when I got married. Five years and two kids later, I had to decide which I wanted to keep. I chose the wife & kids (and my health and my personal life) rather than the big money and long hours. So I quit railroading after 20 years. Occasioally, but not often, have I regretted the decision.

In time, you'll be back...

LC[:D]

[Anonymous]

Ken.. i'm sure your girlfriend is faithful.

[Anonymous]

Ken.. i'm sure your girlfriend is faithful.

[Anonymous]

Hey trainengrbabe, I'm not a foamer and I posted a reply to Ney! I'm out there with ya! I tied up today first out, so much for hangin' with my girl. That's OK. As you said, somebody else will be there to enjoy her at the bar!
Ken

[Anonymous]

Hey trainengrbabe, I'm not a foamer and I posted a reply to Ney! I'm out there with ya! I tied up today first out, so much for hangin' with my girl. That's OK. As you said, somebody else will be there to enjoy her at the bar!
Ken

[Anonymous]

Dude, you just don't get it. What you wrote before I emailed you and said take a LONG AND HARD look at your current situation and see if you are willing to change that. The railroad is all about SENIORITY and just getting hired you will have none. You will be traveling away from home hundreds of miles when you work and no that don't pay for it. You will be cut off in slow times I.E. winter... and you won't have enough in for any kind of unemployment pay. I can tell form what you have written you will not cut it, what was written in your 1 thru whatever is pretty much true. You need to go to a yard and talk to the people who do the works and quit listening to the railbuffs and the friends of friends who have posted. By the way holidays, family get togethers and working 30 days a month every 8 hours, that is NOT A LIE, get used to it. If you are a young single guy, give it a shot, you don't have anything to lose, but once again remember the key word, SENIORITY, and no matter what the UP management you interview tell you, once you are hired you will bounce all over hell and you will soon find out. In answer to your latest question, yes, RR'rs do have homes, wives, kids, etc., they just often aren't the ones who get to enjoy them. SENIORITY!!!

[Anonymous]

Dude, you just don't get it. What you wrote before I emailed you and said take a LONG AND HARD look at your current situation and see if you are willing to change that. The railroad is all about SENIORITY and just getting hired you will have none. You will be traveling away from home hundreds of miles when you work and no that don't pay for it. You will be cut off in slow times I.E. winter... and you won't have enough in for any kind of unemployment pay. I can tell form what you have written you will not cut it, what was written in your 1 thru whatever is pretty much true. You need to go to a yard and talk to the people who do the works and quit listening to the railbuffs and the friends of friends who have posted. By the way holidays, family get togethers and working 30 days a month every 8 hours, that is NOT A LIE, get used to it. If you are a young single guy, give it a shot, you don't have anything to lose, but once again remember the key word, SENIORITY, and no matter what the UP management you interview tell you, once you are hired you will bounce all over hell and you will soon find out. In answer to your latest question, yes, RR'rs do have homes, wives, kids, etc., they just often aren't the ones who get to enjoy them. SENIORITY!!!

[Anonymous]

Aye...hopefully they will give me that chance.