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John E Ringo
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I've watched all the "Stobe the Hobo" videos a couple times. I've watched all the "Ranoutonarail" videos a couple times. Then out of the "MIR Blue" another "hobo" comes recommended by youtube. I liked the first one and second one and now I just about watched them all. John E Ringo of course is an intere...
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Hello Strangers!
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Long time no see most of you....at least those who I can remember, I am still railroading, got 8 years to retire...I have come down with Multiple Sclerosis since last we met and that could pull me out the seat early, but so far I am in good shape. My skin still thick as leather, or wallpaper paste....not su...
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FRA falls in line with thier owners; or FRA reaches end of it's choker...
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https://www.progressiverailroading.com/federal_legislation_regulation/news/FRA-withdraws-proposed-train-crew-staffing-rule--57649 The Federal Railroad Admibistration (FRA) has withdrawn its 2016 proposed rulemaking that called for federal regulation of train crew staffi...
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Bridge Shanty
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In 1983 I bid back to Everett GREB qualified as an operator and the first place they sent me was Bridge 10. I'd been out there as a clerk delivering supplies in the early 70's and noticed it still had "levers" in the tiny office the kind that takes a little muscle to align switches/etc. So to get to Bridge 1...
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Skill Set
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-- Edited by Cy Valley on Wednesday 4th of May 2016 01:33:01 PM
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Truth, or bullschitt?
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Railroads having surgeons on duty in rail yards? When I hired on BN in '79 at Hillyard in Spokane, there was a nurse on duty on day shift, week days. Her name was Beryl something... She's been there since it was GN, before the BIG merger of GN, NP, CB&Q, and SP&S that created BN. Hillyard was named...
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Seattle to LA...trainhopping the I-5 Corridor
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I still have this "I just walked out of a theater buzz" after watching this 2hr video on YouTube. This video is amazing and action packed the entire 2hrs to where it forces you to put it on pause a few times because the tension is tuu much tuu watch at times. This guy Owen or "RanOutonaRail" delivers a "vide...
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??? What happened to the Yard Shanty?
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The Weighmaster
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Within my first year of service on the BN I became a certified weighmaster. Pretty easy to become one as I don't think there was a test to see if you can weigh a railroad car. It was more of a pledge that you will weigh the car and make the "punch ticket" as accurate as possible. So when weighing a car and the ba...
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Drugs, Man, Drugs
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Number of U.S. railroad workers testing positive for drug use skyrocketsEarly this year, a railroad worker who had just been briefed on his duties for the day was discovered in a restroom, dead from an overdose of illegal prescription drugs. In the months that followed, tests conducted after three...
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Hero HAWG
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The four big 'murican roads would find fault with this, somehow, some way: http://tinyurl.com/zyaekqa
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Graffiti Timeline
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Its pretty incedible how many boxcars still traveling the nations rails have been "tagged". It not just a "tag" but almost a new paint job. Has to be disheartening for the railroads...I mean you send the graffitti boxcar in for repaint and a month later it looks the same and so th...
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Oh, That's Right
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Doom and Gloom
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I guess it's time to start hanging crepe around the yard office: Jim Cramer's Top Takeaways: Alcoa, Union Pacific, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Disney Union Pacific (UNP - Get Report), CSX (CSX - Get Report) and Kansas City Southern (KSU - Get Report)Report): Some investors may look at...
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Huey P. Long Bridge
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Incredible Video: Train Blown Off Elevated Bridge During Storm in New OrleansPOSTED 2:34 PM, APRIL 27, 2015, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE NEW ORLEANS Several train cars were blown off the Huey P. Long Bridge on Monday as strong storms hit t...
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Station signs with your last name
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I already know I got railroad blood in me and whats really interesting is there seems this distinct trail of towns with my last name from the east coast working south and west and even into Canada which seems to follow my geneaolgy almost to a T. According to the May 1966 Official Guide of the Railways th...
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Order Boards pointed up and upside down
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The GN/BN used the semaphore signals with straight up meaning green. The UP on the ex-Spokane International used the upside down semaphore which I have nevered figured out. How could a standardization of either "up or down" go on so long. Thankfully the tri-color street light came to the...
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Switchpersons nightmare...riding a flatcar
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Looking back at pictures I took in the early 1970's at Bellingham and I got some interesting pics of switchmen riding point on a flatcar. You got to be an acrobat to to get aboard a moving flatcar with nothing more than "one hand grip and a stirrup step". One of pics has the switchman hanging on...
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Operators Manual For a Sellers 50 inch car wheel Lathe
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Was thinking about *** when I saw this on Drain Oders. Think he might know something about it. Operators Manual For a Sellers 50 inch car wheel Lathe http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3643455
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Homemade Boxcar
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I saw this "boxcar" sitting in Lynden WA served by the MILW at the time in 1972. No reporting marks whatsoever. Looks to be corregated tin roofing shaped in box on top of a 40ft flatcar. Whens the last time you saw a 40ft flatcar? Still has air hoses but I bet its never been hooked up to the "...
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Scumbags
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So, I'm looking at the hometown newspaper website and see this: http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20141222/AP01/312229955
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Western Railroad Discussion > Map of North American Crude by Rail
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Well thanks to a map we can see this crude is running rampid all over the USA currently. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3423952 http://priceofoil.org/rail-map/
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Torpedoes
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I dint know what a torpedo was before I got on the RR. Learned quick. They were available at just about every depot I worked. Mostly used by train crews in certain situations and by trainmasters hiding in the nearby bushes. I had to think long and hard if I had to ever go out and "strap" one of the...
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Seats
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I don't have my CFR's with me, but I do have you guys. There has to be a seat on the locomotive for each man on the crew, right? So if you had a unit on a local that only had 3 seats you couldn't have a 4 man crew. Right?
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Its Official. Emergency Order has been released.
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Read er and weep. http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/us-dot-takes-new-emergency-actions-part-comprehensive-strategy-keep-crude-oil
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