Hey Greg

[Tacoma]

From here: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10/cool-road-rail-vehicles.html

Neat site, has a bunch of other cool stuff worth clicking through. Found while looking for Cummins conversion parts, if yer wondering.

 

[Thursty]

 

[Greg]

There's a museum in Ouray that has quite a bit of narrow gauge hy-railers and some of the passenger hy-rail trucks from the Galloping Goose that used to run up there.

Some of the old timers I work with talk about when they used motor cars on the tracks we maintain... tiny little 2 man track cars they used for inspection & maintenance. They actually lifted the motor cars off and on the track... a couple times they ran out of time before the next train and wiped out a some motor cars.

They also talked about how a foreman, in a motor car headed West, ran into the manager, who was in another motor car headed East, in the middle of a tunnel. Oops!!


Hy-railers have changed a little bit from those days... here's my truck, when we were moving a bunch of rail in the Glenwood Canyon this Summer.

 

[TRNDRVR]

 

[Herzog]

You train guys are a strange breed.

 

[TRNDRVR]

You train guys are a strange breed.

Trust me, it's the hours we keep. :sick:

(try pooping on my schedule)

 

[Anchor_Mtn]

train schedules cant be as bad as 24/7 on-call oilfield.

 

[TRNDRVR]

train schedules cant be as bad as 24/7 on-call oilfield.

24/7/365.....90 minutes to report to work. You get 'home' from work and the railroad is calling you to go right back out as soon as you're rested.

12 and tow going, held-a-way while you're out of town, 12 and tow coming home, and out on your rest when you're home. That's why I work passenger. No disrespect, unless you've experienced the railroad, you haven't a clue!!!

Is the oil field that bad?

 

[Herzog]

Trust me, it's the hours we keep. :sick:

(try pooping on my schedule)

I'll take your word for it!

 

[Tacoma]

I'd totally sh*t on that schedule, it sucks.

 

[Anchor_Mtn]

24/7/365.....90 minutes to report to work. You get 'home' from work and the railroad is calling you to go right back out as soon as you're rested.

12 and tow going, held-a-way while you're out of town, 12 and tow coming home, and out on your rest when you're home. That's why I work passenger. No disrespect, unless you've experienced the railroad, you haven't a clue!!!

Is the oil field that bad?

24/7 on call.... 30min to return calls... 1 hour to report to the office. out of town for up to 35 days at a time. You only get 10 hours off to reset if you make it back to the house. Beyond that you run wide open till you pass out. I avg. about 100-120hrs a week at work.

 

[Greg]

I work 4, 10 hour days... then have 3 days off. Holiday weekends are the worst, it's hard to go back after 4 days off.

But I am on call 24/7 and expected to be able to report within an hour if there's an emergency... and we can be held at work for days at a time, if required. The derailment we had last October had me away from home for over 36 hrs, working to get the track repaired.

 

[Jeremy]

you guys have no clue. my hours blow. 7-4 mon-fri. 1 hour lunch, 2 15 min breaks. nobody says a thing if you show up 20 min late or leave 20 min early. our 15 min breaks can range from 15-30 min. long lunches are common. never on call. never work weekends. all holidays off, with pay, even pioneer day. do what i want, when i want, at the pace i want. as long as the job gets done.

some days i wonder why i put myself through this every day.

 

[Chevycrew]

Mine is rough for railroad, 6am to 4:30pm mon-thurs, overtime is on my terms. If I do get a call out, its optional, and its worth 4 hours of pay to leave the house.

Hey greg, we had a UP crossing about rip the front pilot (plow) off a loco today, it may be up a little high...

 

[Greg]

Mine is rough for railroad, 6am to 4:30pm mon-thurs, overtime is on my terms. If I do get a call out, its optional, and its worth 4 hours of pay to leave the house.

Hey greg, we had a UP crossing about rip the front pilot (plow) off a loco today, it may be up a little high...

We get 3 hrs pay for any call outside of our scheduled work hours.

I think the plow was just too low, better find a carman to fix that...

A high crossing, on the UP? Never!!

 

[Chevycrew]

LOL, it was at 3 1/2 inches, now its more like 2 1/2 after being folded under. Ill get out the torch in the morning and fix it.

 

[Devel]

Im on call 24/7 minus the times im at the Fire Academy, winters are the worst. u work 22 hours a day and the other 2 hours are bits of sleep broken into 5 to 10 minuites gotta love drivin wrecker

 

[anderson750]

24/7/365.......and I dont get any extra pay when there is a crisis or problem. Hell, I get paid last and have not had a raise in over six years even though the cost for my health insurance has gone up about 40%.

But on the positive side nobody can fire me.:greg:

 

[Greg]

So before this became about work schedules, it was about hy-rail vehicles... I'ma gonna git it back 'on track'...

I spotted this awesome Centurion hy-railer today at the Depot in Glenwood Springs and thought it was pretty damn cool. Figured this was a good place to share.

 

[Tacoma]

Heck yeah, those are cool enough on their own, for a Ford... but even better as rail trucks.