UP Train Stopped in the middle of Vegas

[Taboma]

Wait until you find out that in America we don't drive trains, we run trains.

Well, run it, drive it, derail it, what happened to the position previously or commonly known as --- Locomotive Engineers ?

 

[Kachina26]

Well, run it, drive it, derail it, what happened to the position previously or commonly known as --- Locomotive Engineers ?

PTC & Trip Optimizer took over.
We still have a seat warmer with that title though @02HoWaRd26

 

[satellitemike]

Medic, rail employee...or do you do pressure washing?!
I didn't know it happened so much. On average, we hear about 3 a year near Flag.

We have the maintenance contract for track and signal.

 

[Rogers Hopeful]

Nobody told me shit and to this day I’ve never seen anything in writing saying the conductor has to go back and check on the trespasser that was hit. And that’s all I’ll say on the subject.

there's also not a rule saying you have to put it in emergency when you hit someone either. just a running air brake test after striking debris

 

[monkeyswrench]

Radio news blurb this morning, there was a train vs pedestrian fatality in Flagstaff Friday evening.

 

[Rogers Hopeful]

Nobody told me shit and to this day I’ve never seen anything in writing saying the conductor has to go back and check on the trespasser that was hit. And that’s all I’ll say on the subject.

If I have a newer conductor I tell them you don't have to go see the body. just be close enough to verify there is one and direct first responders when they get there

 

[C-2]

What I wanna know...do the freight guys flip the commuter train guys the bird when passing by? Or is it all Kumbaya and junk?

 

[02HoWaRd26]

I'm not as concerned about getting hit by a train as I am to learn that the folks driving the trains are now Conductors, not Engineers.

There’s still two of us in the cab, won’t be long they’ll be “driving” themselves.

Wait until you find out that in America we don't drive trains, we run trains.

Hold on a second, then why everytime we need to turn does the Engineer tell me, a Conductor, to run out back and turn the steering wheel on the side?

 

[02HoWaRd26]

What I wanna know...do the freight guys flip the commuter train guys the bird when passing by? Or is it all Kumbaya and junk?

We have a lot of names for those guys…..
Highball Amtrash! Is very common on my subdivision.

Radio news blurb this morning, there was a train vs pedestrian fatality in Flagstaff Friday evening.

Yea i worked with the engineer of that incident yesterday. Said it was wild and there were cars in both directions sitting there watching it. I’m sure someone videoed it as well, people just don’t think to look when the rear of one train goes by, said the guy walked out onto the eastbound track, when the westbound was about 5 cars from clearing and he was a few cars from entering.

 

[Kachina26]

We have a lot of names for those guys…..
Highball Amtrash! Is very common on my subdivision.

Government local. Used it on the radio a few years back telling the Corona local what they were waiting on, went over like a fart in church.

 

[Kachina26]

Hold on a second, then why everytime we need to turn does the Engineer tell me, a Conductor, to run out back and turn the steering wheel on the side?

Happened to a guy in a class behind me. They were leaving diesel circus in one of those units with the handbrake on the very rear. They had him get out to steer. One of the LA guys in my class was told to call the DS to let them know they were good for both tracks and had plenty of sand.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Suicide is a helluva thing. I feel for the people who are impacted by this act that have to live with it in their minds for a very long time.
The engineer who saw this guy turn and smile at him has a long road to get it sorted.
For me...it was always the kids...the young people.
When a younger person ends their life over some pointless problem it was just so damn sad.
Counting back, it was some 30 years ago I rolled to a missing person call where the folks wanted a place checked. It turned into a suicide scene where a teen age girl went to her fathers vacation home and took her life while listening to some of the most vile "music" I ever heard.
The stereo was on, the tape had played to the end.
One night when visiting Parker many years ago, I told RD the details on this one out on the back patio of the house he had in The Keys. I remember his reaction.

I can say this here and now, because I don't really care what people think anymore.
I have only felt the presence or sense, or whatever... of real evil at a handful of calls over my career.
It was always around at the scene where a young person, with every reason to live, had ended his or her life.
Always.
Laugh, make fun all ya want.
I was there.

 

[coolchange]

Suicide is a helluva thing. I feel for the people who are impacted by this act that have to live with it in their minds for a very long time.
The engineer who saw this guy turn and smile at him has a long road to get it sorted.
For me...it was always the kids...the young people.
When a younger person ends their life over some pointless problem it was just so damn sad.
Counting back, it was some 30 years ago I rolled to a missing person call where the folks wanted a place checked. It turned into a suicide scene where a teen age girl went to her fathers vacation home and took her life while listening to some of the most vile "music" I ever heard.
The stereo was on, the tape had played to the end.
One night when visiting Parker many years ago, I told RD the details on this one out on the back patio of the house he had in The Keys. I remember his reaction.

I can say this here and now, because I don't really care what people think anymore.
I have only felt the presence or sense, or whatever... of real evil at a handful of calls over my career.
It was always around at the scene where a young person, with every reason to live, had ended his or her life.
Always.
Laugh, make fun all ya want.
I was there.

I’ve had that, don’t want to call it “feeling,” more of “sense”.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Suicide is a helluva thing. I feel for the people who are impacted by this act that have to live with it in their minds for a very long time.
The engineer who saw this guy turn and smile at him has a long road to get it sorted.
For me...it was always the kids...the young people.
When a younger person ends their life over some pointless problem it was just so damn sad.
Counting back, it was some 30 years ago I rolled to a missing person call where the folks wanted a place checked. It turned into a suicide scene where a teen age girl went to her fathers vacation home and took her life while listening to some of the most vile "music" I ever heard.
The stereo was on, the tape had played to the end.
One night when visiting Parker many years ago, I told RD the details on this one out on the back patio of the house he had in The Keys. I remember his reaction.

I can say this here and now, because I don't really care what people think anymore.
I have only felt the presence or sense, or whatever... of real evil at a handful of calls over my career.
It was always around at the scene where a young person, with every reason to live, had ended his or her life.
Always.
Laugh, make fun all ya want.
I was there.

A kid a few years younger, from my high school, used the commuter line behind the school. It was before school, many witnesses...
Horrible for all involved. I'm not the type to blame those who do it. Some things most can't understand. Pain is pain, and some have more than they can endure.

 

[boatpi]

My grandfather long dead was a train conductor starting it after World War II. Can you imagine how cool of a job that was?

In the late 1960s it took me to a train in the downtown Los Angeles train yards pretty cool stuff.

 

[02HoWaRd26]

Radio news blurb this morning, there was a train vs pedestrian fatality in Flagstaff Friday evening.

Another this afternoon in Flag, seems to be about 12-15 a year.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Another this afternoon in Flag, seems to be about 12-15 a year.

Apparently they don't talk about them all. I only find out about them when they talk about them on the radio down here. Damn, one or more a month.