Who are you?

[edblysard]

Now that ought to get him a lot of e-mails!
Ed

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rdganthracite

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by rdganthracite

I am a rail customer who receives carloads of corn starch, soy flour, and various vegetable oils.

do you make them into chocolate cakes?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Mookie

no wonder they make you swallow them whole and with lots of water! Ugh![xx(]

Mookie

Actually we use them to produce pharmaceuticals.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by rdganthracite

I am a rail customer who receives carloads of corn starch, soy flour, and various vegetable oils.

do you make them into chocolate cakes?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Mookie

Actually we use them to produce pharmaceuticals.

[BentnoseWillie]

Have no fear - we got Pringles about 15 years ago. And we certainly don't need you to send rock stars - we have our own. They even know how to curl!

'Course, free chips would be nice...[:p]

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BentnoseWillie

I bless the day I could finally buy Pringles! ..[:)]

[:)][:D] Man, if I had only known things were that bad in Canada.........something has to be done about this untapped junk food market in the great white north. I say we get some well meaning but naive hollywood celebrities and pop singers and form an aid group and have a big concert to raise money to send Pringles to Canada....We can call it SNAC AID ...Send Canadians American Chips...........[:D][:D]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rdganthracite

I am a rail customer who receives carloads of corn starch, soy flour, and various vegetable oils.

do you make them into chocolate cakes?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Mookie

[Anonymous]

I am a rail customer who receives carloads of corn starch, soy flour, and various vegetable oils.

[Anonymous]

Let me know if Any of you have any Questions?

[BentnoseWillie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by sommerkamp

i am definitely turned off by the cn--was can natl--grabbing up territory
south of their border. if the same were happening in reverse, you could
hear the shouts from ottawa all the way to the equator.

Um, some points on that:

CN has owned GTW since its formation in 1929. DWP and CV weren't much later. So this has been going on for nearly 80 years. It's not new, and it's no secret.

55% of CN stock is held in the USA. The largest single shareholder is William H. Gates III of Redmond, Washington. He owns 15%, which is the federally-mandated limit for a single shareholder.

The president of CN is E. Hunter Harrison, a US citizen and former president of the Illinois Central. He became VP of US operations when CN and IC merged, and replaced Paul Tellier last year as president. His old job was filled with another ex-IC executive, hardly surprising since he's in charge of US operations.

I don't think it's accurate to characterize the CN-IC merger or CN's more recent acquisitions in the US as a Canadian "incursion", since CN is essentially under US ownership now. The reverse scenario you describe happened almost 10 years ago when CN was privatized, and I don't mind a bit. It's not as good to railfan or to work for, but at least it's still there.

We're partners. We sell you our resource stuff, you sell us your manufactured stuff. We'd buy more of your stuff if you didn't outnumber us 10 to 1.

I bless the day I could finally buy Pringles! ..[:)]

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-dispatcher

Hello from Indianapolis

All Right! We have a dispatcher - I bet there are some really good stories here! I hope you will let us in on some of them! This could get very interesting!

Mookie [8D]

yes all these railroad people and now a dispatcher.wow[:)]
stay safe
Joe

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csx-dispatcher

Hello from Indianapolis

All Right! We have a dispatcher - I bet there are some really good stories here! I hope you will let us in on some of them! This could get very interesting!

Mookie [8D]

[Anonymous]

I am not a rail fan.I worked for CP Rail for 24 years and moved on to work for myself.
I repair Steam Locomotives.I travel about 8 months out of the year fixing Steam
Locomotives and Private cars.

[Anonymous]

I am a railfan, I think that describes me. For more info see my profile.

[Anonymous]

a railfan extraordinary. but glad to stay in that category. i can enjoy the
plus without the minus, but every occupation has plus and minus.
i am definitely turned off by the cn--was can natl--grabbing up territory
south of their border. if the same were happening in reverse, you could
hear the shouts from ottawa all the way to the equator. hope the ntsb will
declare a halt to these incursions and do it quickly. theo sommerkamp

[Anonymous]

Hello from Indianapolis

[clinchfieldfan]

Definitely a rail-fan, living near N & W right of way most of my life (now near NS and CSX) I have had a life long facination with trains.
I have a serious "addiction" to model railroading, according to my wife! She does let me induldge though. She has even let me put a retired Clinchfield block signal in her flowerbed.
Due to my career choice I have gotten several cab rides with operation Lifesaver!
I have to say most of the railroaders I've met are not railfans. When you find one they are definitely the "exception". TRAINS RULE!

[eastcoast]

I have been studying Rail Transportation most of my life,although never worked with one, have lived near tracks with lots of activity. Currently, I am studying the movements of the P & L.

[Anonymous]

Having grown up practically on the tracks of the former Frisco Railroad, I've had an interest in trains for most of my 55 years. I'm not terribly thrilled about BNSF. I have a cap that a guy I met years ago gave me, that I think is really great & would improve my opinion of BNSF somewhat. It has the BNSF letters on the old Frisco coonskin logo.
In my humble opinion BNSF should repaint all motive equipment in the Santa Fe War Bonnet (passenger) color scheme with BNSF on the coonskin logo under the cab windows.

[Anonymous]

Have been railroading for almost 30 years. Started with Milwaukee Road in 1974,
to Soo Line & now CP. Like the work, no 2 days are ever the same; some great,
most good, & a few I'd rather not remember. Changes to numerious to mention,
some good, most not. Traffic is up, employment down. Work is NOT for everyone,
long hours, very hard on family & relationships. LOTS of BS from mangement. All
in all, I have enjoyed my career, but will not mind when I can pull the pin & retire.
Am glad I started when I did, suspect I would have liked working more, back in
earlier days.
Good luck to you all, enjoy railroading any safe way you can. Cheers & 73's

[PNWRMNM]

Working rail in the Pacific Northwest.

Mac McCulloch

[edblysard]

Mark,
I live in Houston also, down the street from BNSF main to Dallas Fort Worth, the old Ft Worth Denver and Colorado line along Mangum, crosses Antione, Tidwell, out towards Willowbrook mall.
I work for the PTRA down on Clinton and Wayside.
Ed

QUOTE: Originally posted by blondjocktx

Greetings,

I live down the street from the BNSF Mile Post 76 in Houston. Been a railfan since I was a kid. Now Im a big kid at 40.:)

I have lived near the BNSF since 1976. Always enjoy seeing the trains go by.

I do miss the old CRIP and the Burlington Northern. But times change.

Any other railfans in the Houston area? Also am modeling in HO scale.

Mark in Texas

[Anonymous]

I agree should of had a place for us, as I also am a ex-railroader. It was the best job I ever had, ex-cept for this retirement. There were many days, when I wished that I could have stayed, but the steel mill decline in the NE would not premit it.

[Bergie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by unionswitch

I worked for a major railroad in Southern California as a trainman. I won't mention their name but they like the color yellow alot.

I enjoyed the work when I had it, however I disliked the B.S. they dish out to their employees. I decided to leave because I did not want to spoil the railfan in me.

I am now back in the profession where I came from and have many stories to tell. People find it very interesting that I once worked on the railroad.

I do not regret making the move to the railroad and I have enjoyed the experience.

Welcome aboard! We can't wait to hear your stories and hope you share your insight with us.

Erik

[Anonymous]

My mother worked for the Deutsche Bundesbahn but that had little influence with my infatuation with trains. Behind my Uncles garden outside of Nuerenberg a Saddle Tanker Steamer used to roll by a couple times a day. The whistle and noise used to scare the daylights out of me, that had little influence. But hanging out a little later on in Elizabeth NJ, watching GG1's and CNJ stuff stop or roar past really did. Especially when a GG1 stopped and the engineer turned out to a real good looking woman. I live now in north western NJ where railroads where once plentiful but now are just memories.

[Train Guy 3]

I've been looking at trains ever since I could see them. I'll chase a a train anyway i can, car, bike, foot....... ect. I collect all sorts of train things; i have horn handles, side panels, i even have a antique railroad gate that I " acquired ".

[Anonymous]

I'm 48 years old, working on my third railroad, in my third craft. I started with the DT&I as a shop laborer in Flat Rock, MI, in 1973 (between high school and college). After a short stint of attempting to be a high school ag teacher, I went to work for Amtrak as an NEC block operator. Spent 9 years working towers between Balto. and D.C. Took a buyout from them in '88 when the Phila. division went CTEC. Worked on aircraft for a gov't contractor for 9 years. Got RIFfed in '99. Since 2000, I've been a switchman/conductor for CSXT, trying my best to stay in Sibert Yard, Mobile, AL. I haven't got the good sense to stay away from railroading. Altho I enjoy my job, its benefits, I must tell all of you who dream about a railroad career that you are far better off dreaming about it. It'd sure be nice to have a job that worked "normal" hours and had weekends off. Juggling this job and a life is difficult. And it'd be really nice to not have to pay nearly $77 per month UTU dues to be (mis)represented. As the engineman on my crew remarked the other night, "it's the only place I've ever been where you start on the bottom and work down."

[Anonymous]

I am working with Rail operators to clean trains safer. HF acids are used way to often and have killed people, just to get a clean train! I have developed a train cleaner that is non-acid and cleans as well as hydrofluoric, I am looking for all avenues to get rail maintenance to try this safe cleaner.

[Willy2]

Definately a big rail fan! I've only been around for 13 years, but for 9 of those I have loved trains.

[Anonymous]

Put me down as an

"Extended-leave-of-absense-for-education-puropses"