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CSX is closing its Erwin Tennessee Terminal along with 60 miles of railroad.  Coal is no longer king. 300 employees getting a 60 day notice.



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Snippy thanks Johnnykruegar.

The 60 miles of railroad they are closing leaves a threatened 40 mile or so stretch they run joint with LAMCO. Hard times in those areas.

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Its only gonna get worse. I see no coming back. The tree huggers have won.

It only brings home how unfair life can be.  Here, I have decent security, ongoing improvements to the railroad for clearances and speed,

uncorking an impediment thats been in the way for decades, so bad and grisly that NS wanted no parts of it, hiring guys off the street,

sending Bosses to Hawg school; etc, and over there they just shut somebodys life down.

Not like I havent gone thru that before. This is the 3rd Career of my liife, I've had to move away from family and friends. Less than 5 years ta go

before retirement and I gotta wonder if a robot isnt gonna be doing this job before I can pull the pin.

They only say 300 employees. Thats a drop in the bucket. What about all the rest of the people down in that area?

The people who provide services for each one of those rail jobs? Floyd the barber. Betty the waitress.

Some people in thier dispair are gonna turn to drugs.

Is any of this gonna worsen a blight that wasnt very good to start with?

I mean, they had to run a Santa Train so some of those Appalation kids would know who Santa was.

Kiss that goodby also.

 

 



-- Edited by Calvin on Friday 16th of October 2015 03:11:45 AM

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Seen it happen before, think of the absolute ruin the creation of CR brought upon railroaders throughout that united system. Some would have called them featherbedders but we know they were hardworking rails who lost their job only because they hired out in the wrong place with the wrong outfit. They didn't know that, Cy knows of mains that disappeared that I would have thought would be there forever, today, not even a rail remains.

Think of the traffic reroutes that've happened, resulting in one man's gain and another man's loss, seen that happen more than a few times, not to mention the furloughs brought on by interdivisional pools that were created.

Cy was lucky and can relate to Clavalin's remarks, although it didn't always feel like it was going to be that secure (but it was).






-- Edited by Cy Valley on Friday 16th of October 2015 05:53:26 AM

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Clalvlin, it ain't the tree huggers. It's the cheap gas and expensive dollar. Coal will be back when natural gas prices go back up and the price of the dollar goes back down.

We and Jonnyspamm0 are export guys. Tree huggers haven't done anything to the export market. 0'bama economic recovery did by making the Real 'Murica black gold priced in dollars cost as much as black gold. Thanks, 0'bama.

Illinois Basin domestic scab coal has taken the thermal stuff from Appalachia.

Big bidness would have treated the environmental regs like the railroads are treating the regs on PTC if the guv'mint wasn't helping them to convert to a cheaper fuel source in tax write-offs.

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For an Idea of the area:

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Erwin is between the Blue Ridge and Kingsport subs.



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Yep, not tree huggers, cheap gas. PTC has caught them flat footed since they figured Congress would automatically extend the dead line. Congress is plucked up they can't pass nothing.

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