Ron, you type exactly the way you talk. I read this comment in your voice and delivery and it made me chuckle. Thank you Ron and DJ for some great N scale videos.

@@chadm8868 LOL, thanks.

Chad M me too it sounded like his great, news anchor-ish voice in my head.

I will say, I have worked with train enthusiasts and they lose a lot of luster for it after working for the rr.

I was concerned with the card being signed, a good blue card, a working AC/heater, and a clean toilet.

I have been having a rough time in life lately, full disclosure. I really appreciate that words of encouragement. I have some footage and will be making new videos soon.

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My pleasure!

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Thank you and God bless your country

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Glad to help!

You made my day!

Thank you, I am already planning the next video in this series.

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I appreciate that! There's about 400 videos organized into PLAYLISTS. On my homepage you can search for playlists that best interest you. Enjoy!

I have so many more, please watch them all this weekend, lol

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Sam I am Yes, indeed. He hired on at age 15 as a “call boy”. In 1908 very few people had telephones. When the crew scheduler needed someone from the extra board, they sent a kid on a bicycle to,knock on his door. That was my granddad’s first job. When he was old enough, he got on firing, worked hard, and got promoted to engineer. So he sure saw several generation of steam as well as the transition to diesel.

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Ya think we'll make it to 60? Lol. Or will we be replaced by Ai or a robot? Maybe we can collaborate this year on a video?

I sure hope we can retire in 10 years! I think the mainline trains will all have auto control but an engineer will still be around to monitor it. I don’t think Conductors will be on the main though. I came off the mainline a couple of years ago and bid in roadswitcher assignments. We have a lot on my district. I work a daylight job but due to PSR my off days are Mon/Tues. At least right now anyways. I’d love to collaborate on a video. Hit me up on my Seaboard Central Facebook page. Tim

@@SeaboardCentral I see 214/204, 203/213 being combo'd, and possibly single man soon, and in the future ran unmanned, but I think the southern region is too undulating to run too many autonomous trains effieciently and probably even harder to take the conductor off of all the thru freights with the amount of pointless work stops they make due to psr. But I'm sure they will try anything. I can only imagine how bad y'alls end is with the amount of traffic down there. Its worse every day up here in Linwood. I flowed back for a monday through friday local, cause my engineer seniority kept going backwards to where I couldn't hold a pool job. With marking off for military duty once a month I would forfeit the guarantee on the extra board, and I have never got a ppi bonus because of weekend markoffs for military. I retire from the Guard in 10 months at which point i may go back to the throttle. Ive got almost 18 years in at NS. I hope I last 22 more. I'm only 37... We have about 45 conductors furloughed here. I'd like to hear from a railroader from cp or cn where all phases of psr are long been completed and the stockholders already vanished with their money. Did operations slowly get back to pre psr times and jobs added back, or does it just continue to fall into disarray...

Thank you, and God bless your country

If there is anything you would like me to try to film for you, I'd be happy to.

my goal. The better informed, the better the modeler or rail fan.

djstrains very true about the DP program especially this side of the big river. “Here’s a pamphlet and the help desk number” and I agree that to me most power is just like having a different rental car everyday, they all do the same job.

I agree about the smoking. When I hired, I was a conductor and every engineer chain smoked. I had gone to doctors because after weeks of it, I had a metallic taste in my mouth. They all retired or died and new guys rarely smoke. I am one of the few engineers who takes his garbage bag with him.

That is my favorite one. My friend Jim who passed this year, said his dad was the one who painted it.

Unfortunately, I can't teach how to operate an engine. If the info fell into the wrong hands, I wouldn't want this coming back to me. From terrorism to theft and vandalism, I just can't risk it.

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So this school was NOT run by a railroad who was hiring, but an outside company? I try to tell people that RRs will train you THEIR way.

@@djstrains National Academy of Railroad Sciences, partner of BNSF.

Grew up Penn Hills, lived in monroeville Irwin and Jeannette

Thanks Please go to my KZfaq channel homepage and look for PLAYLISTS: life as an engineer

Or prototype information

A majority of my videos have music. I kinda wanted to get this out there quick, and editing took longer than expected, lol.

I remember thinking of switching to N for more real estate when I was beginning. Now that I'm needing glasses, glad I didn't. Ha.

Bucket list

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Wonder why they don't wanna talk about it

@@ellisjackson3355 Some of the Guys just want to work and they want to leave the work at work. So please respect that.

@@Kevin-ev7hw I considered that but I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder nevertheless. Please tell someone else to respect that.

@@ellisjackson3355 I wasnt jumping on you. Sorry you felt like that. I was just trying to explain that some of the guys who work on the RR just want to leave it there. Maybe it was something that they dont want to remember. Its not that glorious job as everyone thinks. I know I have been there on the rails.

Took my kid to Vegas. Grand Canyon and more!

I'm postponing my birthday until the virus is gone, lol.

I appreciate all your comments about the experiences you had as an engineer for UP, but no need for the daily good mornings. Thanks

We did get a quick run through with a road foreman, but then...here..read this...

@@djstrains I may have gotten a computer class during a simulator session, but by then we had all been running DPUs for months. The only challenge was linking up to the DPUs.