Rule #1 -- Don't get hurt.     Safety is the first priority. Er, or is it the second, after money.... Or the third after getting the trains out....

Webmaster's note: Since I go through the server logs regularly, I just thought I'd take this opportunity to point out that all of the comments in defense of the company seem to come from Jacksonville, while complaints come from everywhere that the company does business. You do the math.

Name: Robert Pines
E-mail: bbtpino40@gmail.com
Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 06 February 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_g1NuoT6s&feature=autoplay&list=PL74E854EFAA43C85C&lf=results_main&playnext=2

Tell me why this track light turned from green to yellow like four
seconds before impact Slackie. Oh I know they were trying to BEAT THE
TRAIN>

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: bbtpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 February 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DFSHmsFzwg Look at this jungled out mess of a crossing Slackie. The minimal sight lights line some goof ball MOW plugged with trespassing signs right in drivers faces. Mikey Ward your boys did good making and maintaining the death trap.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: bbtpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2012 Oh, the old magic video that nobody can see trick Slackie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYoPb-tVYE In this video I see the signals not activated and gate (gates?) sticking straight up with the bumper car train sitting on the circuit, I see like a 2 inch tall median divider for a 104 train a day --- 4 track crossing---I see QUIET zone in the Federal data and no QUIET signs---I see 40 mph track speed limit and the bumper car train was going 55 mph--I don't see any rounded bumpers on the bumper car train ---I don't see the electro magnetic effect of bumper car trains and freight trains on crossing signal action. The gates were down over 7 minutes supposedly --I don't see the rules to prevent 7 minute blockage of public/private roads.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 February 2012 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The driver of an SUV veered around a crossing arm and ignored flashing warning lights before the vehicle was struck by a light-rail train in Sacramento on Saturday, killing an 18-month-old boy and two adults, authorities said. The other person inside the Nissan Pathfinder, a woman in her 30s, was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, said Niko King, assistant chief with the Sacramento Fire Department. Six of the roughly 50 passengers on the light rail train suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital, he said. King and a spokeswoman for the transit line said video from a camera at the crossing clearly shows the SUV driving around the crossing arm. The light rail followed two Union Pacific freight trains, which use separate tracks, and the arms had remained down during the interval, said Alane Masui, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Regional Transit District. "They were down after the UP trains and before the (light rail) train approached, so the crossing arms were properly working," she said. She said the length of time between the freight trains clearing the intersection and the light rail train crossing it had not yet been determined and would be part of the investigation. Investigators also were reviewing video from a camera mounted on the light rail train. The collision, in a working class neighborhood south of downtown, occurred shortly after 4 p.m. and pushed the Pathfinder about 30 yards from the point of impact. "All I heard was a big bang, and I saw a light-rail train heading south with a big truck smashed on it," said Ravin Pratab, 42, of Davis, whose car was among those waiting for the train at the rail crossing, on the opposite side of the tracks from the Pathfinder.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 February 2012 There are still plenty of drivers, though, who ignore the warning signals and try to beat the train. Some of those folks live in Independence. Last week, Union Pacific dispatched one of its trains to travel through Independence while police watched four train crossings to see how many people would try to cross the tracks when they shouldn’t. In the space of two hours, from 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, officers busted 38 people for railroad-crossing violations, Independence police Sgt. John Passiglia said. Give local drivers points for consistency, at least. Independence conducted a similar campaign last spring, and under almost exactly the same conditions, officers caught 37 people for crossing violations. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/08/3254835/beat-the-train-is-a-dangerous.html#storylink=cpy

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2012 Hey Allman Brothers ---Good to see a post on RR safety and not Slackies boats are made of ducks BS. http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Train_accident_ends_with_one_man_dead_138457594.html Train accident ends with one man dead '''“The arms actually started coming down as he was crossing the tracks,”''' This victim of failed gates ---CSX retiree. Still haven't figured out why a autopsy was ordered for someone blindsided by a freight engine.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 February 2012 Hey Allman Brothers: Good to hear from you...sorry it had to be under these circumstances. Thought something bad befell you...I guess you are just enjoying retirement!

Name: Allman Brothers E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 February 2012 Fatal accident Yazoo City Miss. Crossing gates didn't come down and plent of credible witnesses. News crew filming at the site later recorded only six seconds of warning from gate activation until the train hit crossing.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 February 2012 Yeah Pintard: every 10 years? Tell that to the dead people on the duck boat that got hit by a barge in Philly. There are numerous accidents every year due to sucky brakes and no steering on boats, ships and barges as well as all those fast bass boats that kill people every year . Son, you need to check your sources again.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 February 2012 Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/us/barge-crash-collapses-oklahoma-bridge.html Yeah Slackie barge/bridge collisions are my top priority. The last one only happened 10 years ago. ---The barge company owned by Warren Buffett ---The company that rebuilt the bridge owned by Warren Buffett ---The DOT owned by US awarded a $2,000,000 bonus for completeling the new bridge early. It hurt him so bad he had to settle with buying a railroad.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 February 2012 Does a train stop for anything?

Name: PinesisaMoron E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 February 2012 Folks, after that last article posted by Pines, I think we have established that he is an idiot. Guy runs the crossing, through a stop sign, gets hit by train. Whose fault is that? Duh. Buddy you are an idiot of the first degree. Go protest at all the stop signs now.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/us/barge-crash-collapses-oklahoma-bridge.html Yeah Slackie barge/bridge collisions are my top priority. The last one only happened 10 years ago. ---The barge company owned by Warren Buffett ---The company that rebuilt the bridge owned by Warren Buffett ---The DOT owned by US awarded a $2,000,000 bonus for completeling the new bridge early. It hurt him so bad he had to settle with buying a railroad.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2012 Ben Hill man in ICU after train collision http://www.walb.com/story/16665118/ben-hill-man-in-icu-after-train-collision Good job CSX---you pulled off the 3rd blindside in 26 months at this 50 mph---over 30 trains a day ---two track crossing. You PROUD of your crews MIKEY? Maybe you can have a octagonal stock split and pay yourself more millions this year.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2012 """Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 February 2012 Pines, I may be wrong if so someone will correct me. The stopping distance at restricted speed is half of sight distance not 2 times.""" Your right ---you need to going twice as fast as you need to be ---That way you can back up and see what you hit.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 February 2012 Pines, I may be wrong if so someone will correct me. The stopping distance at restricted speed is half of sight distance not 2 times. A yellow flag would be restricted speed regardless of the reduced speed issued.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 February 2012 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The voyage of a cargo boat that carries space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force has stalled in a western Kentucky river after it slammed into an aging traffic bridge. Along with the cruise ship in Italy... Pines: you have alot of work to do with the the sucky brakes and no steering on these vessels...Now get to work son!!! I want a full report from you and the NTSB.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 February 2012 http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Train_accident_ends_with_one_man_dead_138457594.html Train accident ends with one man dead '''“The arms actually started coming down as he was crossing the tracks,”'''

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 January 2012 Actually slow is two times sight stopping distance when the railroads equipment is in danger and pedal to the metal to the wall for the public being ran down by dogs. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-30/railroads-get-5-more-years-to-add-crash-systems-in-proposal.html

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 January 2012 Kyle, This guy has a point. why 10mph? Most of you have seen these, one spot and ya drag down for 5 miles, goes bump and ya drag another mile, then try to resume speed. Silly. M&W has always reduced the speed to slower than slow, to protect their ass. Just the way the RR works. No reason- just job security. Time to turn them loose to reality. The real funny part is as Kyle stated, we run the yard faster than that. M&W always makes a big deal out of whatever patch they are working on, as long as it is DAYLIGHT. Then they disappear, leaving the flags up until they return in the am, and taking the time to pull the Flags, load the truck, take a frigging break. I have seen yellow flags removed Monday morning when no M&W folks worked from Friday afternoon.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 January 2012 """Amazing how inaccurate news reports can be..""" Especially railroad ----That have Associated Press in their pocket thing.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 January 2012 funny cuz if the rails were maintained proper there would be no use for slow orders, but it funny when the m&w puts a slow order on a main track, most slow orders are 10 mph,fuck ya can run 15 mph on broken down yard tracks, ie resticking speed, i have never seen a 10 mph slow order put on a yard or industrial track, means you can run faster on a yard track than on a main line, hell i have run at 30 mph on yard tracks with no problems, not saying it was right but have done it, just did not get caught, fuck i have seen yard hump engines run up and down the hump at 20 mph or more,, just seems the m&w love to put 10 mph slow orders on main tracks, why not make it at least 20 mph slow order on a main, at least the trains can move with out getting bad signals. fuck i have run over broken rail on yard tracks and never had a derailment, the m&w needs to get thier heads straight too.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 January 2012 Hey Robert: Amazing how inaccurate news reports can be...what's even more amazing is how unobservant people are, in this case for 25 years. It's kinda like watching someone grow old...if you see them everyday the aging process is almost imperceptible. If you don't see them but every couple of years, it's pretty obvious!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Seems like CSX let those tracks go 25 years ago NoMo. Reckon they are dazed and confused? Looks like railroads are as bad as cable companies ---every time they sell the profit by the selling railroad has to be made up by the consumer---the profits will never cover expenses so just find new investor suckers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Central_Railroad CSX sold both lines to RailTex subsidiary South Carolina Central railroad on December 1, 1987 http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/ReadingRoom.nsf/8fd5532a0c425c5c8525740f005f36d4/f32e3a64828ee2898525685b0079c16a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Carolina,Piedmont,Railroad http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/ReadingRoom.nsf/UNID/F32E3A64828EE2898525685B0079C16A/$file/30662.pdf Petitioners state that, based on 10,250,000 shares of RailTex and a $9.75 per share valuation for RailAmerica stock at the time of consummation, RailAmerica will pay $138,375,000 in cash and $66,625,000 in RailAmerica stock for all of RailTex’s stock.

Name: Roadrunner E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 A buddy of mine that work for CSX as a conductor for more that 30 year was fired because of a derailment that was not his fault due to a switch that was not properly lock to the main, the head truck of the unit hit the ground with no major damage to the unit and the train, I think that they needed to cover somebody rear end by firing a conductor.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 28 January 2012 A word to all the new "Track Inspectors". DO NOT LET anyone talk you out of protecting your track with either a slow order, 213.9B, or out of service. As long as you have the measurements, stand by your guns. I carry alot of slow boards.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Hey Robert: Looking at the map, it looks like it might have been part of the CSX system at on time, The question is...Did CSX sell the track or lease it? According to the local station reporting the story CSX still owns the tracks. Over the years I've learned that most of these small town media outlets leave a lot to be desired in terms of accuracy and fairness. I don't believe I would hang my hat on anything they report without independent verification.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Guess I had CSX in that Darlington County SC query NoMo. The reason CSX only has two crossings listed in the whole county because they have no tracks in the county and forgot to take those 2 off the record. Now South Carolina Central RR Co., which is part of the jack up prices Rail America Inc. scam has 113 Total Records of open crossings in the county ---even has a office in that town. The CSX thugs must hire out to other railroads? Rip out other railroads property? http://www.railamerica.com/RailServices/SCRF.aspx South Carolina Central SCRF 621 Field Pond Road Darlington, SC 29540 Now go flag one of your 100s of blind crossings and study the 1st Amendment.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Hey Robert: Are you really that stupid or has this just happened to you say, since the accident. It's the RR's right-of-way and they granted the easement. CSX makes the rules, if you want to play, you play by their rules. CSX would certainly require a flagman and the crossing wouldn't take more than two days to repair...hardly a $100K job. I think you need to understand the difference between a threat and a suggestion!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 So why don't tell the truth NOMO? The property owner would be trespassing on railroad property if he did repairs. So CSX probably stuck a $100,000 bill in his face for the railroad to do the work. I didn't see a wrongful detainer notice from the police did you? Yep threats will get you in trouble FROM NoMO"""In the mean tine, get your video camera and stand in the crossing and wait for those incriminating shots!""" FROM NoMo"""Fuck you and the horse you rode in on,""" In fact I've had the go stand on the tracks threats many times. Makes me wonder if the railroad hasn't really done it a few times since injuries cost them more than dead trespassers.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Hey Robert: Make sure you post the response from the FRA...we all would like to see it. I'm sure the FRA's handler will get around to answering your letter when they get finished laughing! At the risk of repeating myself, It's a private crossing which CSX allowed with the understanding that the property owner maintain it. The property owner bitched to the media making it a safety issue for the residence hoping the city/county would assume maintenance. Watch what you post...threats get you in trouble..."10 miles of tracks and ties would be laying in Michael Wards spare swimming pool with a fix your rotten rails notice."

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 If they were related to me NoMo not liking thugs ---10 miles of tracks and ties would be laying in Michael Wards spare swimming pool with a fix your rotten rails notice. CSX trains tore the crossing up and it's the railroads right of way to keep maintained. Anyway I turneed it in to the FRA for un-shoreing ballast creating a derailment pit.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2012 Hey Robert: How is this story derogatory to CSX safety? CSX closed the crossing because the owner let it, because of lack of maintenance, become unsafe! Had CSX permanently closed the crossing the barricade would have been substantial and permanent. The owner said 30 days wasn't enough time to repair it...bull shit! It might have been hard but not impossible. Did they request an extension?. I'll bet the owner didn't have the money or didn't want to spend it to repair the crossing. This is a private crossing, the owner is responsible for maintaining it and any damages due to their negligence! Just a bunch of grumpy old widowers complaining...any of them related to you?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 January 2012 http://www2.scnow.com/news/2012/jan/26/darlington-county-residents-concerned-about-privat-ar-3124092/ Darlington County residents concerned about private drive closure GOOD JOB CSX---Only thing you forgot is the real de-railers on the derailment pile.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2012 Hey Robert: After some of the shit you have posted lately...your the one that needs credibility, It's all part of the plan. You guessed right, It's a huge conspiracy and you exposed it. Mr. Ward offered you a chance...you declined, fully knowing the consequences. Check everything..we have you covered. In the mean tine, get your video camera and stand in the crossing and wait for those incriminating shots!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2012 Then I got to thinking the SEC and IRS need some bigger sacrificial lambs about right now NoMo to get their credibility up. You know a few of "team" to take a hit. Oh what a tangled web. Reported to your bosses yet?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2012 Hey Robert: Feel free to contact them with your suspicions...they might even assign you a "handler" like the FRA did. You might even be entitled to a reward. Keep in mind that the IRS is part of the "team" so you might get audited. We still waiting for those live videos of grade crossing accidents. Brushed your teeth? We're watching...

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 January 2012 NoMo I'll be watching you watching me. Hmmm ---I think I have major tax evasion case on the whole CSX board. The stock split income was 2011 and none was reported until 2012. Wonder what the IRS thinks? http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1165185.htm Somebody explain how the stock can be between $50 and $75 when sold and under $25 when handed out? Start 598,025 shares (@ todays stock price) 10/24/2011 Gift of 160,000 shares by Michael J. Ward to a phanthom 501(c)(3) charitable organization. $22.82 x 160,000 = Ward gave away $3,651,200 to phantom charity. Leaving 598,025 shares which 505,350 were from stock split. So on 6/15/11 Ward must of had 252,675 shares worth $5,766,043.5. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 505,350 shares of common stock. Nice $11,532,087 bonus. Since 252,675 + 505,025 would be 757,700 Ward had to sell 159,675 shares since June 15, 2011. 01/20/2012 Ward was awarded 718,419 more shares awarded pursuant to the CSX 2009 - 2011 Long Term Incentive Plan. 718,419 X $22.82 = $16,394,321.58 Leaving Ward owning 1,316,444 shares. Ward then takes 257,516 shares and puts them into a phantom Withholding of stock to satisfy tax withholding obligation while the government sits with everybody elses tax withholdings for January in THEIR bank growing interest. 257,516 X $22.82 = $5,876,515.12 Leaving 1,058,928 shares but really 1,316,444 shares since tax shares went nowhere. Ward had 397,303 shares CSX Corporation Executive Stock Trust--On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 264,869 shares of common stock--On June 15, 2011 Ward must of had 132,434.5 shares of this stock. 397,303 X $22.82 = $9,664,54.46 which 264,869 X $22.82 = $6,044,310.58 would be a bonus. Ward also had 13,366 shares of CSX Corporation 401(k) Plan ---On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 8,767 shares of common stock.---(8) By Trustee, CSX Corporation Savings Thrift Plan. Reflects equivalent shares of cash value held in CSX Stock Fund, which amounts will fluctuate dependent upon daily net asset value of the fund.---On June 15, 2011 must of had 4,383.5 shares of this stock. Another 215.5 shares must have been added on since On June 15, 2011. 13,366 X $22.82 = $305,012.12 which 8,767 X $22.82 = $200,062.94 would be a bonus.

Name: tom E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 January 2012 LOCO Dont waste your breath with pines. His old lady got smashed by a train and he aint never going to stop crying over it..... He will always blame the rr for it no matter what... what he needs is to get a real life but he doesnt know how. Hes been crying the widowers song for so long he doesnt know anything else...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 January 2012 Now is the time to rid CSX of the Nazi SS Brownshirts. I am sure they are all on pins and needles. Ward should get rid of the Atlanta Sta lag training center and move it out to a more central location and out of the crime and drug infested area it is located.

Name: School Boy E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 January 2012 IF you don't like the company why work there? The good thing about this great country God Made, is that you are free to work anywhere and not forced to work here. So again I ask, why stay here? Why not leave? Oh that's right, you can't get a BETTER job else where.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 January 2012 Hey Robert: According to you this is the CSX safety sucks thread! We'll be watching...

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 January 2012 http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1165185.htm Somebody explain how the stock can be between $50 and $75 when sold and under $25 when handed out? Start 598,025 shares (@ todays stock price) 10/24/2011 Gift of 160,000 shares by Michael J. Ward to a phanthom 501(c)(3) charitable organization. $22.82 x 160,000 = Ward gave away $3,651,200 to phantom charity. Leaving 598,025 shares which 505,350 were from stock split. So on 6/15/11 Ward must of had 252,675 shares worth $5,766,043.5. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 505,350 shares of common stock. Nice $11,532,087 bonus. Since 252,675 + 505,025 would be 757,700 Ward had to sell 159,675 shares since June 15, 2011. 01/20/2012 Ward was awarded 718,419 more shares awarded pursuant to the CSX 2009 - 2011 Long Term Incentive Plan. 718,419 X $22.82 = $16,394,321.58 Leaving Ward owning 1,316,444 shares. Ward then takes 257,516 shares and puts them into a phantom Withholding of stock to satisfy tax withholding obligation while the government sits with everybody elses tax withholdings for January in THEIR bank growing interest. 257,516 X $22.82 = $5,876,515.12 Leaving 1,058,928 shares but really 1,316,444 shares since tax shares went nowhere. Ward had 397,303 shares CSX Corporation Executive Stock Trust--On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 264,869 shares of common stock--On June 15, 2011 Ward must of had 132,434.5 shares of this stock. 397,303 X $22.82 = $9,664,54.46 which 264,869 X $22.82 = $6,044,310.58 would be a bonus. Ward also had 13,366 shares of CSX Corporation 401(k) Plan ---On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 8,767 shares of common stock.---(8) By Trustee, CSX Corporation Savings Thrift Plan. Reflects equivalent shares of cash value held in CSX Stock Fund, which amounts will fluctuate dependent upon daily net asset value of the fund.---On June 15, 2011 must of had 4,383.5 shares of this stock. Another 215.5 shares must have been added on since On June 15, 2011. 13,366 X $22.82 = $305,012.12 which 8,767 X $22.82 = $200,062.94 would be a bonus.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 January 2012 RE: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Sounds like your the one who don't respect the trains or anything else it sounds like. Now go duck tape yourself to the cow catcher and spew your dribble.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 January 2012 Pines, you lost me when you said, "engineer made no attempt to stop." The distance shows a relatively short stop for a train moving over 20 mph. I don't think you realize that if we stop for every douche-bag that stops on the crossing or approaches a crossing, you ain't getting you're Wheaties or any of your China-mart goods in your lifetime. People just don't respect the trains, and hopefully nobody else (besides us poor suckers trapped on the engines) suffers from their stupidity, impatience and misjudgement. Always expect a train, always know where you're at, and never stop on a freakin' crossing, for ANY reason. Every crossing on my system has a posted number to call to report a blocked crossing or malfunction. Many times I must stop or slow my train because some numb-nuts has dialed in to say a perfectly functioning crossing is having a problem. One genius took the time to make several calls to AAA and his wife, and did not call the railroad emergency number on a post 10 feet from where he was standing with the tow truck driver when the train removed the car from the train. People are just not functioning. If it's not on their Iphone app, they don't know what the hell to do. Give it a rest. 99% of all train vs. Pedestrian or Vehicle are caused by the medical condition "head up their ass." My vow is, if I ever hit a vehicle coming around the gates with kids in it- that driver better be running before I get back there. I will say, in my area, Operation Lifesaver is a joke. The guy who runs it is so damn lazy it's pathetic. Numerous times one particular crossing has been reported, never have they set up on it to ticket the morons who constantly run the gates. It's not just us.

Name: LoCoMotion E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 January 2012 Pines We do not stop until we have a confirmed hit. tapes are never given up in discovery unless altered. LoCoMotion

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 January 2012 I hope that NAZI turd David Brown takes his SS Trooper Bob Hoffman with him along with all the rest of the ones he and Ingram brainwashed

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2012 Hey Robert: Yes we have a little work to do... Take your meds. We'll be watching!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2012 ...CSX trains would kill 1,354 people in the same 917,431,119 vehicle miles traveled. Guess you missed the CSX has the second best KILL rate in the country NOMO. Pin on blood and gut badges will be distributed soon to be worn by train crews That CSX labor costs went up 29 million so they cut $22 million in bonuses which wouldn't be from the higher echelon.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2012 Hey APE 20-30: Actually Brown was "Dismissed from the service of the company" or fired. Had he retired, left to pursue other interests or had health problems, the press release would have said that...it didn't. CSX just didn't want to say he was terminated because it would make them look bad. It's all about spin and how to make "bad" news look good! Think back to when Ingram "retired"...his last day was 12/31 and his departure was announced 6 or 8 week prior. I believe Ingram was given a choice, retire or get fired. He chose to retire gracefully which allowed the appearance that it was his choice.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 January 2012 Actually, CSX said that David Brown "is no longer with CSX". Didn't say fired, or retired, or left to pursue other interests, or had health problems, etc. Just no longer with CSX.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 January 2012 CSX has to submit the yearly results to the BLEt for the productivity bonus. Some years you'll get 100% others you won't. You people wanted it. I voted against it. CSX made a profit not a record profit. They did good in a down economy. I read yesterday that there were changes with the COO & CFO. They never mentioned Brown only that Munez was taking over the COO slot. The NS is off the property. Don't know what that means? Hopefully things will change. I hope things improve for everyone out there that people can get back to doing their jobs without intimidation. It would be good for every including management. Hopefully those that liked the brown shirt mentality will get canned. Starting with "Kangaroo Jack" in Newport News a drunk obnoxious Aussie that couldn't run a Lionel train set around an eight foot oval track without screwing it up. Mabey "Mr Potato Head Frulla" will get back to being a nice guy again. One can have hope. He was decent as a trainmaster years ago.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2012 Labor and Fringe expense increased $3 million primarily due to the following: • Inflation related to higher wages and healthcare costs was $28 million. • Training expenses were $9 million higher related to additional resources to enhance customer service. • Incentive compensation expenses were $22 million lower in 2011. • Volume related and various other costs were favorable during the quarter.

Name: btpino40@gamil.com E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2012 Today U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that for normal drivers without sucky brakes and no steering the fatality rate for drivers was 1 person killed per 917,431,119 vehicle miles traveled. But the kill rate for idiot train drivers with sucky brakes and no steering ...Amtrak trains would kill 2,983 people in the same 917, 431, 119 miles traveled. ...BNSF trains would kill 679 people in the same 917, 431, 119 vehicle miles traveled. ...CSX trains would kill 1,354 people in the same 917, 431, 119 vehicle miles traveled. ...Norfolk Southern trains would kill 674 people in the same 917, 431, 119 vehicle miles traveled. ...Union Pacific trains would kill 755 people in the same 917, 431, 119 vehicle miles traveled. Secretary Ray LaHood also said he was covering the railroads mass trail of death and destruction just like the FEDS have forever. http://www.nhtsa.gov/PR/NHTSA-05-11 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood """ with 1.09 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled""" one death in 917,431,119 miles traveled ++++++++++++++++++ 2010 1.03 - Overview Charts By Railroad CSX---78.6 million total train miles 116 deaths 1 death every every 677,586 miles traveled CSX in 917,431,119 train miles has 1354 deaths. Amtrak ---40.6 million total train miles 132 deaths 1 death per 307,575 miles traveled Amtrak in 917,431,119 train miles has 2983 deaths. BNSF---169 million total train miles 125 deaths 1 death per 1,352,000 miles traveled BNSF in 917,431,119 train miles has 679 deaths. Norfolk Southern ---91.1 million total train miles. 67 deaths 1 death per 1,359,701 train miles traveled Norfolk Southern in 917,431,119 train miles has 674 deaths. Union Pacific --- 160.3 million train miles 113 deaths 1 death per 1,214,394 train miles traveled Union Pacific in 917,431,119 train miles has 755 deaths.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 January 2012 CSX had to FLUSH that BROWN TURD down the drain. Too many train wrecks Too much Harassment Too much Shit period. Brown was not qualified to manage just to dick tate his Nazi hatred and intimidation. He should Win by Default the BIGGEST FLUSHED BROWN BANANA AWARD OF 2012 HANDS DOWN. NO PUN INTENDED ON HIS LAST NAME BROWN. Get out the new trophy NoMo and send it to him.

Name: LOL E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Hey Corp.... If its been a record year for csx then why in the hell is Ward not giving the engineers the 100% that they deserve!! Last I heard he couldnt decide between 70 or 80%. We do our job out here. We deliver the trains that we get called for. If we dont its because someone else in another department has screwed something up again. So why should we be punished... Just another crock of shit! Oh, I almost forgot... have any idea what kind of TEAM BUILDING excursion they have planned this year for the big wigs where they get their monetary bonus undercover??? Trip to the casino? Maybe another paintball trip with spending cash?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 January 2012 It's no shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvDFTiHQfU

Name: Corp Comm E-mail: Bye bye Brown Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Dear CSX Employees, I am pleased to announce the appointments of Oscar Munoz as executive vice president and chief operating officer and Fredrik Eliasson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Oscar and Fredrik are respected leaders, both inside and outside of our industry, and people I trust to help guide and energize the organization with the highest degree of success and integrity.  What means even more to me than their leadership and business skills is their passion for our company and its future. Oscar replaces David Brown, who is no longer with the company.  As stated in the press release, the company’s decision to make this change is unrelated to CSX’s financial condition, business performance or outlook, all of which remain strong.  We have a great operating team, and I am highly confident that they will achieve even greater levels of success in the future. Dean Piacente will succeed Fredrik as vice president of sales and marketing for the chemicals and fertilizer business, a position he held previously.  Dean is highly respected among this customer group and the transition will be seamless.  We will quickly identify a successor to Dean for his financial planning and analysis responsibilities. Also along with these new appointments, we are making a few additional organization realignments. Frank Lonegro and the Technology organization will be moved to Operations, reporting to Oscar.  This change will ensure that there is even more integration between Technology and Operations as we prepare our company to implement Positive Train Control and maintain all of the key systems necessary to run our railroad safely and efficiently. At the same time, Fran Chinnici and the Purchasing organization and Steve Crosby and the Real Property group will both report to Lisa Mancini in her role as chief administrative officer. We just completed a record financial year for CSX, and we believe that we are headed together for a strong 2012.  Please join me in building on the leadership changes announced today by continuing to deliver top-notch performance in the year ahead. Sincerely, Michael Ward

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 January 2012 Hey Robert: Brush you teeth or wipe you ass. You don't know who made the video or the chain of custody. You ain't got squat. Your posting old news that has been in the public domain for years. Give us something we can use. CSX operates east of the Mississippi. I know you have a heavy-on for the BNSF but we really don't care what they, the UP or KCS do. Frankly, we really don't care what the Dark Horse does but they at least run the same territory. It a race to the top and we intend to win So quit wasting our time and your whining. Keep up the good work with the FRA. Get your video camera and go get us some live footage as these occur. If you want to continue to be obtuse, perhaps you should start you own blog!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 January 2012 Here NOMO watch the clip again. What --- you think the film maker rented a couple freight engines, a truck trailer, a few Texas cops to make a bogus film. U B Silly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-L6634IKk&feature=endscreen&NR=1 It's kinda confusing since the truck was actually hauling a railroad tanker car. Guess the railroad didn't want to screw themselves on the freight bill. Them there gates sticking straight up in the air ---one would be all kinds of mangled if the gates were down. Now go give your boss the report and leave my horse alone.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Hey Robert: Garbage in...garbage out. You submit a 2+ year old video, that may or my not have been edited, was almost 5 minutes long and showed the cab of the truck being removed. Not to mention forcing him to listen to what can best be described as second rate porn music. Mr. McFarlin blew you off in a subtle fashion. It's all a plot you know...code named the "Pines Agenda" and we're all in on it, Suzannah, RRJ, Slackie and yours truly...you only know by our code names and as shadowy figures in the corner of your eye, watching you. This isn't the twilight zone...check your air, water, food, toothpaste, deodorant even your toilet paper...we have under the RR's control. The RR bosses feed you just enough so you occupy the authorities with meaningless dribble while they rob the taxpayer's blind and murder their enemies at rail crossing accidents with invisible trains with advanced stealth technology that appear from nowhere. Their horns and lights hypnotize them and keeps them from moving off the crossings; Even worse, puts them in a trance and draws them into the crossing. Ever wonder why it's always 2 longs a short and another long? It's saying "come to me". Come with us Robert to the "Dark Side", where you will have fabulous wealth, eternal youth and all the women you can handle. Mr. Ward has authorized me to make this one time offer, it's only good for one day. Should you decide to insult Mr. Ward's by not accepting his magnanimous offer, you will slowly go mad until our friends in Missouri have no choice but to send you to the Funny Farm on Sodor Island, where the trains talk to you! Good night Robert...sleep tight and don't let those nasty bed bugs bite. Sweet dreams!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-L6634IKk&feature=endscreen&NR=1 So I sent the FEDs this Youtube video that a 12 year old moron with a learning disability could see obvious gate failure and the train made no effort to stop ---And I get back garbage thomas.mcfarlin@dot.gov Jan 13, 2012 Dear Mr. Pines: Thank you for your submission of the alleged violation information through the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) website. Your submission involved the highway-rail grade crossing accident occurring in Gregg County Texas at approximately 4:37 p.m. on October 14, 2009, at the Shady Brook Road grade crossing; your suggestion that the railroad filed a false accident report assumedly based upon evidence of the video you provided; and, your questioning as to why a train traveling at 28 mph could not have stopped to avoid the accident. I have been asked to provide a response. Let me first say that the FRA is very concerned with regard to all highway-rail grade crossing collisions and places significant emphasis on grade crossing safety through many various efforts and manners that I know you are well aware of. FRA specifically investigates such types of accidents which involve certain levels of severity, as well as any which involve a failure of an active warning system. This subject event did not reach either of those criteria and thus, FRA did not specifically investigate the occurrence. As for “the appearance” of perhaps the warning system not functioning within the video, it is common practice that upon qualified railroad personnel arriving at most any such a scene and in order to enhance and assist in the necessary emergency response, the warning system is often manually deactivated or “shut off” so that the lights do not continue to flash, the gates are raised, and the audible warning (the warning bell) is silenced. This is to allow the most uninterrupted emergency response and access of those personnel to the site, and it is certainly not indicative of the warning system not having functioned properly at the time of the accident. The railroad reported no failure condition of the warning system at the time of the accident and FRA has no reason to believe any existed. Therefore, the accident report filed by the railroad is deemed as accurate. Note that upon our checking our database, there has not been even one activation failure reported at this crossing location within the last 12 years. As for the 28 mph train not stopping prior to colliding with the vehicle, even at that “low a speed” and upon an engineer visually determining that a vehicle ahead is not going to get out of the way and there is need to apply the emergency brakes, trains take a long distance to stop due to the great weight and momentum involved in a train’s movement. That is why it is so vitally important that vehicle operators use every precaution when crossing a railroad and in adherence to the warning system and associated signage provided for their safety. I trust this has responded to your concerns and thank you again for your obvious interest in highway-rail grade crossing safety. Sincerely, Tom McFarlin Staff Director, Signal and Train Control Division Federal Railroad Administration Office 202-493-6203 thomas.mcfarlin@dot.gov

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Hey Robert: Is that all you got? I told you the other day to think big or stay in bed...must be past your bed time. We'll be watching!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Well today NOMO I put no trespassing signs on my horse because you threatened her.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Let me see if I can dissect Pines' last post... The Email from the DOT was sent on Nov. 08, 2007, more than 4 years ago. A handler? That would lead you to believe Pines was a secret agent working for the FRA/DOT. Maybe, but only in his mind. In fact, some low level employee or even an intern was assigned to patronize him because he became so annoying, he interfered with the taxpayer's business. Pamela Foggin insisted she be taken out of the loop unless Pines made a claim or statement so outrageous, she could get some mileage out of it around the office. As for sinking the railroads ship...I'm not aware of any RR's that have been shut down or even any civil fines or criminal charges brought as a result of Pines' clandestine secret agent type activities! Pines...tell us what you've done lately? Slack...I think you are in the right church but the wrong pew. Fulton State Hospital (Missouri State Mental Facility) is better for his issues

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Slackie you could say county lock up but then you could say was he gathering enough video/audio evidence to sink the railroads ship. I liked this one ---How many people have their own FRA handler. The information is PUBLIC since we pay for their wages and equipment!! From: pamela.caldwell.foggin@dot.gov Date: 11/08/2007 12:11:19 PM To: beth.crawford@dot.gov; stan.ellis@dot.gov; pino40@fidnet.com; List-FRA-SAFETEAM@dot.gov Cc: tom.woll@dot.gov; ronald.ries@dot.gov; Inga.Toye@dot.gov; robert.portsche@dot.gov Subject: RE: Closed crossings Stan: wish to add my two bits to this. Ron sent me an email earlier that affirmed that there is someone who was identified to handle Mr. Pines’ emails. Not sure who, but it would be a good thing to find that out. Who knows, maybe it is someone you included in the original response. That being said, if you want to continue to help him that is great, and a good thing… Since I do not want to risk sending a mixed message w/whatever response is generated by the person who is addressing Mr. Pines’ concerns, I’d just as soon not be included in the email responses/updates on his issues unless the resolution is something I will need for future use w/others. always eXpect a train Pamela, 3-6291

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 January 2012 Pines has been warned by the FRA, NTSB and numerous other federal agencies as well as local authorities for his actions. You notice Pines was gone for about a year... HINT: can you say county lockup.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 January 2012 Hey Pines, Better be careful when posting information from personal emails you receive from the FRA! Seems a few of them may not be to happy with you posting replies with their names on here! Be funny if you get bit by the hand you are trying to get fed from!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 January 2012 Pines All one has to do is ignore posts that you feel aren't pertinent to the subject matter of "Safety First". That's what I do with your postings. lol

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Hey Robert: Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, If you don't like it, feel free to go elsewhere!!!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2012 Seems like NOMO and RRJ think their on a CSX Company suck butts page. Hint BOZOs this is a CSX SAFETY sucks page.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 January 2012 NoMo In a way you're right CSX does own a person to a degree. The individual in the same degree also owes their lifestyle to CSX without it most likely it would mean some sacrifices starting new somewhere else at the bottom. One is free to leave at anytime nothing is preventing them from their own destiny. I know a few individuals that got out after 20 years (240 months credit in RRB) started their own businesses. Which under RRB rules they never broke their connection by working a job paying into social security. Once a person leaves the railroad working another industry that pays in to social security the RRB transfers the tier II money upon their retirement. The railroads make out the tier I never gets paid. So, the idea of vesting has a double edge to it mostly it only comes into play with a disability. I have a friend who took a buyout in the late '80s from the railroad he had a little over 10 years. He thinks he'll have a small retirement from RRB. Problem is when he left he worked for Coors at a brewery for a few years before starting his own business. I haven't the heart to tell him he screwed up. That he'll solely be dependent on what little social security will allot. Not a lot of places a person can retire at 60 years old with a full pension working a blue collar job anymore plus a stipend for the spouse. I look for social security to up the age of full benefits to 67-68 in the near future.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 January 2012 Hey RRJ: Interesting observation. I don't know for a fact but an educated guess, especially for the old heads is that between 50 and 60 percent of their net wealth is tied up directly or indirectly in CSX stock. Even the new hires with only a year or two. CSX contributes up to 7.5% in your 401K. Gives you stock and allows you to buy stock through an ESOP at a discount. You have to have 10 years of service to be 100% vested in your 401K. After 10 years RR Retirement kicks in, as do the vacation and PL days. You seniority should allow you to hold a good job...etc. When you really thing about it, unless your willing to take a sizable financial hit, CSX owns you. So if CSX fails so do you.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 January 2012 Railroads aren't going anywhere especially CSX. CSXtitanic that's a good one. What ya'll don't realise is CSX is in better shape today then it was in the '90s under John Snow. Snow nearly had this railroad in bankruptcy with his purchase of 49% of Conrail. The NS wasn't any better with the 51% of Conrail. They set off a bidding war which both ended up paying 5 times what it was worth. Snow didn't spend on the infrastructure the railroad was deteriorating. Times change that's a fact. One can't compare Google to CSX. 60 Minutes has done shows on the like of workplaces like Google ect...no structure which might work there but this is a railroad no comparison. I just find it ironic people commenting on CSX failing which the only thing that would happen is you would be out of a job. Ward & the top echilon would walk away multi-millionaires. You would walk away with nothing. If one hates it that much not talking about the job but CSX itself quit put in applications for other railroads then relocate. There are thousands waiting to fill the slots. People who are hungry that have been unemployed or working at low paying occupations. Even those that make a simmiliar income know the benefits on the railroad are far superior to those elsewhere especially the retirement system.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 January 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079408/Fifty-Chinese-rail-bosses-punished-Wenzhou-train-crash-killed-40-people.html Fifty-four Chinese rail bosses to be 'punished' over train crash that killed 40 people Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079408/Fifty-Chinese-rail-bosses-punished-Wenzhou-train-crash-killed-40-people.html#ixzz1k4YMxmKk It was not yet clear if those officials will be prosecuted or ultimately receive the death penalty

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 January 2012 APE You just described the CSXTitanic Holy Freakin Cow

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 January 2012 Everyone who looks at RR history to see where it leads to will realize that increased efficiency leads to greater profits, bonuses, and stock sale prices. You can become more efficient in many ways, in various economies. However, the simplest way for a non clever person to improve efficiency is to cut staff and maker each employee work HARDER, not smarter.The really smart folks work for Google, etc. Given that fact, everybody that works here should be preparing for the day when they bail out. CSX have just tightened up their tuition assistance program, as example, but you can still get a lot of stuff paid for, to help you in civilian life when needed. A lot of this is available on line 24/7. You can learn to run a small business or get skills in many ways. If you used to do brake work or remodel kitchens try to do some on the side to keep your contacts and experience. I know this is a killer w/work schedules but push hard. What you can't do is sit around in a blue funk making you, your family, and co-workers unhappy.If you are on a cruise ship you hope everything is fine during your journey, but you know the emergency exits and keep a life preserver handy, just in case.Don't rely on the captain of your cruise ship or your company to take good care of you - he might be looking out for himself instead. So, keep your options open and your parachute packed - just in case. There are a lot of talented people working out here who have other skills in storage, or can learn them. Keep them fresh in case you are activated for a new job.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 January 2012 He Brakeman: Enjoy your retirement, I'm sure it can't come soon enough. Just remember those kinder, gentler days of John Snow...a lot of younger guys probably don't believe that CSX was once a great place to work!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 January 2012 http://www.bnsf.com/media/speeches/pdf/railroader_of_the_year.pdf ________________________ Help me with the math here train crews ---the benefit ratio is 22:1--- How does the railroad figure this ratio? $454.5 million for payouts for the death and destruction in five years without the proper safety equipment which makes it pre-meditated murder I figure or $10 billion with the proper safety equipment What about the next 10 years? What about the RRs savings/earnings the years before now? Personally I think a railroad track television channel would be much better. ________________________ In fact, there is a clear trend in recent years toward making our business more difficult and costly. The best example that I can give you is the positive train control mandate--a $10 billion expenditure by 2015. The cost benefit ratio is 22:1. The railroads will have to cut other expenditures to pay for it. We spent $9 billion last year on maintenance and expansion, and we’ll spend $9 billion this year, except $700 million of that will be on the first steps of PTC implementation. What will fall out of the budget? What will fall out when the PTC spend is $1.2 billion a year in 2011? Expansion? Certainly! But what about tie replacement and other things that make the railroad safer? It’s not a threat, it’s just the way it is. Something has to give. There needs to be a more reasonable deployment of PTC, and Congress has to help us pay for it. Congress should enact a railroad tax credit this year! _____________ $454.5 million

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 19 January 2012 Nomo Life after the PTC will be a one man Engineer on the train. Failing to protect your job and doing it rather than sleeping will help prolong it. CSX has had 3 rear enders of recent and 3 of the 5 the NTSB is looking into for why? Ward should cut his losses and fire Brown for his antiquated safety Nazi tactics of harassment and intimidation plus his no day off for any freakin reason. Leavin Soon to Retire

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 January 2012 Here's a little light reading while you enjoy your morning cup. http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10186068-railroad-companies-fight-safety-rules-with-help-from-gop-and-obama

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 January 2012 Pictures are worth a thousand words. Here is 2k http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=386573 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=386574

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 January 2012 Hey Robert: Why does the sun come up every morning in the east? Because it just does...so why ask why? Because if you couldn't,you would be dead! Now here's a question to ponder...If God created the heavens from nothing, who created God? There may be 30 billion Earth like planets in the universe that spans a diameter of 93 million light years. If that's the case, certainly several million are capable of life...are we truly the most advanced species in the universe or did we crawl out of the primordial ooze? Pour yourself four fingers of the good stuff, sit back and think deep thoughts...in other words, do it big or stay in bed!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 January 2012 Does the media ever think Hmmm 1. Why wasn't the train video camera paid for by the tax-payers not seized "immediately"by OUR cops and is being taken off the train by the RAILROAD? 2. Where is the railroad guy/gal going with that train event recorder with the train speed, lights, horns, brakes, etc...recorded? 3. Why is that railroad worker taking that box out of the signal house? 4. Why is that train crew not being tested for drugs/alcohol? 5. Where is the track video linked to the trains to compensate for the sight distance the train can't compensate for and get stopped? 6. Why under the trains there 100s of square feet to have better braking and there is not? 7. Why there is little fencing along tracks and no lookout towers along the tracks? 8. Why train stations don't have gates to open AFTER the train stops so people won't fall on the tracks? 9. Why trains go 50/6070/ mph through train stations/towns and they don't through railyards? 10. Why RR keep out signs are MILES apart in many places? 11. Why their had to be witnesses and never are against the railroad and our cops use railroads hear-say? 12. Why the railroad is allowed around the crime scene at all? 13. Why the railroads get to self-investigate and Jeffrey Dohmer wasn't allowed to? 14. Where the equipment the railroad removes after killing/ injuring someone goes? 15. Why we are paying the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal Transit Administration millions and they never show up unless the media attention is beyond local level and the railroad needs a good cover story? 16. How the NTSB /FRA never finds fault with the railroads. And on the phoney Operation Lifesaver/Officer on the Train stings ticketing everything in sight. 1. Why nothing is ever mentioned about any of the above? 2. Why nothing is mentioned about blind crossings? 3. Why nothing is mentioned about the missing signals at blind crossings? 4. Why the so-called Operation Lifesaver people are all ex-railroad or work for the state DOTs? 5. Why that train is just sitting there forcing the crossing signals to work DARING people to cross? 6. Why OLI never mentions train speeds which are set too high through populated areas? 7. Why OLI never mentions the highly toxic cargos of these train bombs going too fast? 8. How in the world the police can ticket the drivers for stopping behind the gate and not at the stripe on the street which is supposed to be 50 feet from the tracks? 9. Or if the driver needs to stop 50 feet away why isn't the gate 50 feet away from the tracks? 10. Why the railroads crossing signals fail Federal road standards that a signal has to give the drivers time to obey? 11. That the no green light(safe to proceed) and no yellow light (proceed with caution) on the decades old crossing equipment design are completely missing and the drivers are ticketed when the red comes on right in their face and they can't possible stop? 12. That the other 364 days a year the railroads do nothing to keep away people from the tracks and just on the day with media attention they become dirty rotten trespassers with un-Constitional high fines? I DON'T GET IT BIG DAN

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 January 2012 Again, Pines just shows his stupidity.....

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2012 Hey Slackie finally found a RR subject you might know something about. Where do zippers go? http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20FCO%2020120111139.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR ---he saw another supervisor on his knees near XXX while the latter pretended to zip up his pants.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2012 So Slackie The green light in the picture is for the squirrels to scratch for nuts or what? http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/index.html?story=9872091

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 January 2012 Pines: I tried to help you out, The answer is a TRACK LIGHT IS RED , are you stupid: I answered your question... LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: ARE YOU A RETARD?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2012 So Slackie What does a green light mean in train crash territory? http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/index.html?story=9872091 Or is a green light guardian Angle in the picture ---top left middle if your blind.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 January 2012 Doctor Pines: Your question is, why is a track light green? A: A track light is not green it is red in TC territory A green line means a train has a signal in TC territory. THERE IS NOT A TRACK LIGHT IN DTC, TW OR ABS TERRITORY I hope this helps you out.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2012 CSX have like a file drawer with excuses to use Marked "In case of _this happening___ use this excuse?" Open the drawer to many workers get sick file and it says blame Jimmy Johns. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/jimmy-johns-valparaiso-train-crash-wreck-emergency-responders-health-department-sick-food-poisoning-20120111 Jimmy John's Made Train Crash Rescue Workers Sick

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2012 http://www.chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/111122%20was_it_something_they_ate_trainw.htm Was it something they ate? Train wreck responders reported flu-like symptoms """LaFlower said that throughout Friday night there were well over 100 personnel at the scene of the train wreck: firefighters, police officers, EMS, CSX officials, federal investigators, and haz-mat specialists.""" I guess the CSX officials, federal investigators, and haz-mat specialists must of eat steak and caviar than.

Name: tom E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 January 2012 ? Sure would like to know where you work. Might considering taking a transfer there. A supervisor who is actually human and might have a heart. There are supervisors where I work that love to test. They live for it. When the crews are on their toes and they dont get any hits they go out of their way to come up with ideas to "GET YA"! Just had one put 3 switch tag testers out on one guy... They also banner tested a crew twice in the same damb track in the yard. Talk about overkill! CSX loves recruiting these kind of people. These kind of tactics have nothing to do with safety. Its just their way to get a nut!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2012 Hey ?: I have no doubt what you say is true. Back when I left there were plenty of Supervisors that would go out of there way to look out for you. Unfortunately, CSX put them in a no win situation...do you job and someone will hate you. I am and have always been of the opinion that supervision is there to help labor do their job, not hinder them. When Ward hired Ingram he fucked labor, the stakeholders and supervision...most of all he fucked himself. He never has and never will obtain the award he so desperately wants...being the safest Class I. When Brown ascended to the thrown, I thought he might cut his own trail. He didn't, it was easier to follow Brown's...what a douchebag. There was a way to handle the testing that the men would have understood...just be straight forward and tell them when, where and what they were going to be tested on and that each of them would receive failures and that your hands were tied...just don't do anything that would result in any extra attention being drawn to yourself. The supervisors could and should have raised hell...they didn't, not that it would have made any difference. Ward is so far removed from the line that it's laughable. Reminds me of Les Miles...when things are going good be jovial and act Presidential and take credit...when things go bad you look like a Deer in the headlights and pass the buck!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@g-mail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2012 Seeking of scrap ---Why don't you all arrest yourselfs for theft? http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=23:1.0.1.7.27&idno=23#23:1.0.1.7.27.2.1.6 (3) The State and FHWA shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to inspect materials recovered by the railroad prior to disposal by sale or scrap. This requirement will be satisfied by the railroad giving written notice, or oral notice with prompt written confirmation, to the State of the time and place where the materials will be available for inspection. The giving of notice is the responsibility of the railroad, and it may be held accountable for full value of materials disposed of without notice.

Name: JJ E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2012 is so right it hurts to say it but now we can start getting rid of bY the old blind coots.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 January 2012 NOMO, Thank god someone finally has seen the light. Now maybe they will lay off of us. You may not believe it, but there are alot of supervisors out in the field that are sick of having to find failures on employees that they didnt deserve just to get our mandatory failure rates. Its all just a scheme to make it look like no matter what the industry leaders do, the employees arent going to follow the safety rules. Looks so much better in court when they try to defend themselves against injury suits. If the big bosses wont get that bonus anymore maybe they wont be so worried about the injuries. Let the lawyers battle it out in court!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2012 CLARENCE W GOODEN cashed out $775,239 in stock 01/03/2012 on a expired license leaving him like $8 million in stock left. OMB Number: 3235-0287 Expires: December 31, 2011

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 January 2012 I would not expect any great change in the Railroad Safety Culture at the NS or CSX. It takes a lot of time for things to change. You can expect a faster change when you change the upper management who are educated and experienced to do it all differently. These Leopards are not going to chance their spots. It might have come to a peak of Nazi practice maybe for a while. The real item of money will control how they chose to act. If Ward and Brown put out a carrot to eliminate something or someone then some middle manager will take it and try to catch it. Now maybe the UTU and BLET might have some backbone to fight for workers who elected them to fight for what is right.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2012 Take note of this...this may be a very big deal! http://utu.org/2012/01/10/rails-scrap-controversial-safety-award/ Rails to scrap controversial safety award January 10, 2012 It has taken more than a decade for railroads to connect the dots and recognize that their annual Harriman Safety Award contest, which tied managerial bonuses to low reportable injury rates among workers, was creating an unfortunate incentive for supervisors to intimidate and harass workers not to report minor on-duty injuries. This week, the Association of American Railroads said it would send to the dust bin of history that controversial annual safety award. Indeed, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) observed in 2011 that one railroad’s culture of intimidation and harassment permitted that railroad to “maintain the appearance of an exemplary safety record.” Of another railroad, OSHA said that the carrier had “created a climate of fear instead of a climate of safety,” and that the railroad “must take immediate steps to change this unacceptable pattern of retaliation.” For years, the UTU collected file drawers full of verified complaints from members of carrier intimidation and harassment following an on-duty injury. An attempt was made – in collaboration with the Federal Railroad Administration – to convince railroads to change the formula for judging carrier safety records so as to discourage employee intimidation and harassment. When that effort failed, the UTU turned to Congress — the result being a section of the Federal Rail Safety Act of 2007. The law’s purpose is to protect rail workers from retaliation and threats of retaliation when they report injuries, report that a carrier violated safety laws or regulations, or if the employee refuses to work under certain unsafe conditions or refuses to authorize the use of any safety related equipment. The law also prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for requesting medical or first-aid treatment, or for following a physician’s orders, a physician’s treatment plan, or medical advice. Following passage of the law, and with assistance of UTU Designated Legal Counsel, evidence of intimidation and harassment of workers by railroads was delivered to OSHA, which began imposing significant fines and punitive damages. The AAR said, in announcing cancellation of the Harriman award beginning in 2013, that “a yet-to-be-determined program” will be created in its place to “encourage the sharing of best rail-safety practices across the industry.” Said UTU National Legislative Director James Stem: “We congratulate the industry for moving in the right direction. A much less controversial process — one by which labor, management and our suppliers agree rewards safe operations – will benefit the entire industry. We look forward to turning the page and working positively with the industry in this effort.”

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2012 http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2012-01-09/one-person-dead-railroad-tracks#.Twyglm_OVcI Railroad accident kills BNSF employee Rail grinders don't have safety shields like my skil-saw? Rail grinders---ear plugs---cold weather ---communications devices. Kinda like the rabbit traps I use to build.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2012 Hey Bartley Boy send the complaint to the FEDs http://www.fra.dot.gov/ Alleged Violation Reporting Form (right side about seven things down) or send it to me and I will since the FRA will turn you in.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2012 http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/car-49774-maintenance-vehicle.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150457136523255_21198830_10150458544223255 DUH ROBIN---WHAT GATE??? Rail maintenance vehicle hits car Norfolk Southern Corp. Director of Public Relations Robin Chapman said Wednesday night that the driver allegedly drove around the crossing gate at the intersection before the rail maintenance vehicle struck the vehicle.

Name: RUKidding E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 January 2012 To LE 30+: You mention that you are "pro union", yet the facts you cite in your diatribe on the current state of unions is a little off the mark, as are your comments on who is to blame for the current state of affairs. First, union officers who make $300K a year? really, I suggest you look at the DOL website and search for your respective unions LM reports where the salaries of those union leaders is a matter of public record for all to see. I also doubt you'll see any salaries in the range you suggest. As to our current contracts and situation, it can be argued that the UTU placed us in that position, or on the path of going the PEB route, but the fact remains, that the unions within PEB243 were told by the people in the congress that if the issue actually came to them, they'dve shoved into us even more, quite possibly wrecking the RLA and RRB in the process of "helping us". This should be cause for concern because it shows where the real issue lies, that being the congress we elect of office doesn't represent us, they represent those special interests who supply the most dollar wise. Now who might that be? Surely not the unions who essentially operate on a shoestring money wise. Hell we get grief from our repective memberships for a $1.00/month increase in dues while the bozos in congress take 10 times that from us without so much as a whimper from those same folks who gripe at the $1.00 increase. Most union members don't care about what goes on between contracts, either within their union, or the congress. They only look at things from that brief time and say to their union "what are you going to do for me?" Nevermind that in between when that union member should have been caring and paying attention the whole time, congress cuts the rug out from under the union by being beholden to the Carrier who supplies those congressmen with the $$ for re-election. And we wonder why we're in the proverbial pickle? That union that you seem to despise is in actuality protecting you rights and helping to keep your standards of living at par or better than the nation as a whole, all while you happily go to work in between contracts and pay no mind to what gos on. The whole time protecting you from forces that would love to strip that which you have away from you. If they could do it all at once they would. They can't because of some of things the union brought to you (i.e. RLA, mediation, workers rights laws just to name a few). We all need to wake up and see where the process has gone wrong and start doing something about it instead of standing in the shadows, and then bitching about the very folks who do our battles for us 365/24/7 .

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2012 Hey BB: Thanks...I went back and found the original post after I made my last post. Don't have the slightest idea what the rules for a highrail operator are with regard to speed or crossings. You're right though about a double standard...we'll see if CSX holds Frulla to the same standard as they do the contract employees. Some years back a LORTM in Mobile rear ended a wagon in the yard with a crew in it...I think it was covered up because the only thing I heard about was posted by a yard clerk here.

Name: Bartley Boy E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 January 2012 NoMo, He hit a coal truck on a flashing crossing while he was high railing the subdivision all alone. The highway was on old KY Route 7 at Huueysville, KY. He hit a coal truck belonging to BRC trucking. It is definitely a fact and soon Mike Ward who is CEO and used to be VP Coal Sales years ago will know very soon about it after I get ithe KSP report scanned into an email! Hope this clarifies it for you!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 January 2012 Frulla is not the first DM to get in some rule violation. He will boogie out of it unless The Fuehrer approves of his hanging. CSX Quasi Justice

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Hey BB: I guess I'm a little confused...was Frulla on a public street or was he highrailing? Seems a little odd the police would be called for an on-track accident involving a highrailer and just as odd that he would not be qualified on the sub driving on a public road!

Name: Elroy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 January 2012 Any news, comments,or information on bob frulla having a highrail accident?Its all over the Huntington division, whether rumor or truth.

Name: Goober E-mail: CSX sucky brakes . com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Pinenuts & Nelson still at it. Leave this site for a year and smae old same old. Rolay Tide puts SLU In spin. Take Bamma in 28 point win! RCO's have at it. Twinkies for all.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Hey BB: Sounds like they should have given him a sobriety test! That may be a lot more common than you think...I know at least one TT that was put on "Medical Leave" for getting a DUI. See if Frulla disappears for a month or two...if he does, you know what happened!

Name: Bartley boy E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 January 2012 To NoMo Frulla is the manager and he called for his own wrecker, and he was alone in the vehicle as it shows only 1 occupant. It was a 2008 suburban and I checked and they DID HAVE ANTILOCK BRAKES THAT YEAR!! So he lied to the police about tried to stop and it slid. The truth is that he was not qualified to run the subdivision , but that is ok because I am going to email Mike Ward a copy of the accident report and ask him if he is going to protect the stockholders interests by placing Frulla on the street for a few months or life for all I care. They preach Safety but don't hold a division manager accountable? Seems rather odd!!! Especially when he is trying t cover it up. Frulla needs to MAN UP!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Hey Goober: You think the RRs trades up every couple of years...some of their power is almost as old as you :) Although BNSF has some nice power. Some of the newer jacks with all the bells and whistles had screens with gauges on them, some have dials on the top of the tank, most still rely on sight glasses. There is more to the story than the BNSF is telling...at 1930 it's pitch black out and there no way you could see a sight glass without standing on the ground and virtually impossible to see a dial on top of the tank. The fuel should have been check before they departed so low fuel shouldn't be a concern on that leg...the inbound YM may have asked about the fuel and they may have been short of time. The con didn't know his territory and if the engineer did, he didn't do anything to stop the con from doing something stupid...totally avoidable!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Sight glass on the fuel tank? I would think with today's technology, It would be on the dash. I do not know, so kill me not.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Thanks NOMO I'll be sending Matt Rose this article. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge1.htm

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 Hey Robert: The fuel gauge is a sight glass on the side of the tank.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 http://www.theeagle.com/local/Inquest-ordered-in-train-death--6852287 I'm confused ---Why wouldn't the train have a fuel gauge?

Name: btpino40@gamil.com E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 January 2012 http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/index.html?story=9872091 I'm confused ---Why is the track light green?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 January 2012 Hey Loco 10-20: Would that be Bob "Potato Head" Frulla?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 January 2012 Has anyone heard about the Huntingotn Division Manager hitting a coal truck while high railing on territory he was not qualified on? I also do not think he was operating with 100% rule compliance The accident report floating around on the Big Sandy Subdivision shows the division manager BOB was going too fast and was at fault. He should have been operating prepared to stop at the crossing or approaching it making sure it was clear i believe, and also should have been at LEAST qualified on the territory. Hard to lie about the vehicle sliding when the newer model vehicle had antilock brakes!! Good try Bob! I am going to email this report to the CEO Micheal Ward and see if he cares about safety once and for all and 100% rules compliance or if this is just what they tell the FRA! If Ward has any gumption about him he will fire BOB for lying to the police about the sliding vehicle. Isn't it still against the rules and a chargeable offense if you lie about matters under investigation? bye BOB!!!! P.S. - How does it feel?

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 January 2012 Name L&N: I agree with you, I would answer Pines on ANY safety matters because he does not understand how the railroad operates, which was evident with his response to your post. Pines has been asked numerous tmes what makes him so qualified on RR operations... and he REFUSES TO ANSWER THE QUESTION? I really feel sorry for the poor FRA people who have to deal with his idiotic letters and phone calls on a regular basis. I wonder if Pines told the FRA they need to put a steering wheel on the eng. OH man , I bet they are laughing so hard if he did.... Boy, I bet they are getting tired of his stupid antics. Pines here is a little hint... please trespass and walk down the middle of the tracks while texting, listing to your ipod, talking on the phone because a train will stop every time before they hit you. The gene pool needs some thinning out...

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 January 2012 Hey Other That's not counting the one in downtown Indy by the old GM plant, Who knows how many others arcross the system, may have been a single day record!

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 January 2012 1-5-2012, beaver falls pa, ns rr 15th street road crossing- 18 yr old highschool girl walks in front of a double stack train going 50 mph, county corner said it was a sucide, engineman & conductor had to watch when she did it, gates down,red lights flashing.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 January 2012 So how does the injured crew work? The yard master like thump them in the chest yelling "GET UP YOU AIN'T HURT" like my high school football coach did. robert.portsche@dot.gov to btpino40@gmail.com, RCorrespondenceStaff@dot.gov, Jacqueline.Harris.CTR@dot.gov9:05am Mr. Robert Pines: Dear Mr. Pines: Yes, I can imagine that this rear-end collision and subsequent derailment and fire involving CSX in Porter County, Indiana, could have been the reason for the accident reporting personnel being busy yesterday afternoon. However after I left work on Friday evening, January 9, I did receive a email from the CSX Manager responsible for accident reporting. I was provided with the record keeping documents for the conductor and the engineer that were involved in the October 5, 2011 highway-rail grade crossing accident in Bradner (Wood County), Ohio. This documentation reflects that both the engineer and conductor initially complained of some pain immediately after the impact. The engineer complained of pain in the right side of his back, and the conductor complained of pain in his hand and back. However after both employees were examined by EMS personnel at the scene of the accident, the EMS personnel released the employees without need for medical treatment. Therefore based on this documentation, neither of the train crew members involved in this accident sustained injuries that would have required CSX to file a Form FRA F 6180.55a under our accident reporting regulations at 49 CFR Part 225. In this accident, I see that the railroad crossing over U.S. Highway No. 6 is equipped with gates and flashers, that were operating properly. The truck driver apparently observed the flashers begin to activate and when attempted to stop, his motor stalled while his truck-trailer was foul of the crossing, causing the accident. I also checked the grade crossing accident history for DOT ID No 228816S, and find that it is recorded among the other grade crossing accidents that have occurred at this crossing since 1975. Thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention so that we could ensure that the data reported by the railroad, and as shown in our database, are as accurate and complete as possible. Sincerely, Bob Portsche Federal Railroad Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Mail Stop 25 - Room W35-117

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 January 2012 """Any more news?""" Yep---CSX can afford to pay Michael Ward $20 million a year but can't afford the on train/track equipment to prevent one train from rear ending other which side swipes the third train. How much along track video monitoring linked to the trains could have been bought with these damage costs. Last check two employees hurt.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 January 2012 Three train wrecks at one spot including a rear-ender. That's not good! Any more news?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 January 2012 Evan Sounds like sour grapes. With over 70% voting in favor of ratification the majority rules. I figured seeing you cried about it on every thread I'd do the same. lol

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2012 Jun 9, 2011 12/09/2011 So Slackie ---Why would you post months old BS articles over TODAYs train crash? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/freight-trains-collide-in-nw-indiana/1?csp=34news http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/train-accident-porter-county-indiana-136825653.html 3 freight trains collide in NW Indiana, trigger massive fire

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2012 That's good Slackie Did you see the real safety message? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlm34c35FoM What Engines Are Really Thinking: CSX SUCKS! Buccephalus I see now how that UP Scheme worked. Hmmm--Metras (tax-payers) part would be what $66 million ---Total work was maybe $16 million and UP made $50 million!!! The “Another Train Warning System” is part of a $132 million project funded 50-50 by Union Pacific and Metra and comes at a time when the railroads are lifting “train curfews” to allow freight and commuter trains to approach the West Line stations while commuter trains are stopped and offloading passengers, including during rush hour.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 January 2012 IDIOT DRIVER BEWARE CHICAGO (CBS) – When it comes to train crossings, Metra says close calls happen way too often. On Thursday, police set up stings to stop them, CBS 2’s Kristyn Hartman reports. If a train is barreling your way, common sense dictates you stay off the tracks. But not everyone has common sense. You’ve probably seen video of people running in front of the train. Longtime Metra passenger Carol Boltz sees it all the time. “All the time,” Boltz said, “It makes me angry.” It frustrates Metra, too. So, for International Grade Crossing Awareness Day, the rail agency got the word out about those gates you see and those bells you hear. The rule is simple. “When they start coming down, or when the ringing of the bells begins, vehicles should stop. Pedestrians should stop,” Metra Officer Henry Palm said. During a sting at a Tinley Park station, he had to make a driver stop and back up away from the crossing. You need to download the latest version of flash player to use this player Need Help? During that same sting, CBS 2 observed cars and a bike press to beat the train, even as the gates were on their way down. That’s hardly everything. Metra conducted a near-miss experiment and reviewed video from crossings from a 24-hour period. It shows all kinds of bad behavior, such as a man dangerously close to the tracks, and clip after clip of pedestrians walking or running to beat the train. “It’s not worth the ten seconds,” Metra Spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet said. Last year, a woman who had a child in her arms tried to outrun the train. They didn’t make it. Tickets for trying to beat the train can run up to $500. During the Tinley Park sting, police verbally corrected bad behavior. At some of the others, they wrote tickets, and even arrested a driver who tried to get around the gates

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2012 IDIOT DRIVERS BEWARE: Union Pacific conductor Mike Howes radios instructions Friday. Police and railroad officials stepped up enforcement around rights of way as a message to stay safe near trains. (Andy Holzman / Staff Photographer)With six people killed by trains in the San Fernando Valley this year, police on Friday issued new warnings about rail safety and stepped up efforts to cite people for violations. The new enforcement effort came even as Anaheim authorities were investigating the death of a man hit in his car by a freight train Friday. Police on Friday cited a total of 34 drivers for railroad violations and six pedestrians for trespassing, including several homeless individuals who had cut through fences to set up encampments, police said. Anyone not using designated railroad crossings, such as those walking parallel to the tracks - even on the shoulders - can be considered trespassing on private property, police said. Pedestrians and drivers who go around lowered gates can also be fined. Of the six train deaths in the San Fernando Valley this year, two were by suicide. Three were reported within just the last two months. "The force of a 30-car freight train hitting your car is equivalent to the force of your car crushing an aluminum soda can," said Capt. Ivan Minsal of LAPD Valley Traffic. "You're talking about tons and tons of force coming across that rail against your 5,000-pound car or your 200-pound body." Last month, a 72-year-old woman was killed by a freight train in Pacoima. Police believe she was talking on a cell phone and did not hear the approaching train. "That phone call can make you lose your life," said --- Union Pacific Railroad spokeswoman Lupe Valdez. "You'd be surprised how quiet these huge trains can be." An engine weighs about 400,000 pounds and carries 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Passenger trains typically travel about 68 mph. Cargo trains move about 55 mph and can take up to one mile to stop. The trains extend about three feet from the tracks on both sides, but that doesn't include hoses, pipes or equipment attached to the cars, police said. Officials recommended that pedestrians stay at least 15 feet from the tracks, and to get out of cars stalled in a train's path. "Trains always have the right of way," Minsal said. "They're the big guys ... you will never win."

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2012 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/freight-trains-collide-in-nw-indiana/1?csp=34news http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/train-accident-porter-county-indiana-136825653.html 3 freight trains collide in NW Indiana, trigger massive fire

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2012 'International Park:' Name changed to alleviate dangers at railroad crossing http://www.times-herald.com/local/Change-made-to-alleviate-dangers-at-railroad-crossing--2014977 When truck drivers attempt to cross the tracks at Walt Sanders Road, they often get stuck -- with more than 100 such incidents since 2003.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 January 2012 The majority members of the BLEt ratified the contract. They could of rejected it. You state screw CSX, UTU, & BLEt but you like those yearly bonus checks and pay raises in the CSX/BLEt on-property SSA. Those BLEt members who don't have on-property contracts like the Union Pacific had a bigger stake then those on CSX. Can't blame them for wanting a 20 1/2% increase compared to only 18% if it went the distance and congress forced the PEB. It only affects your healthcare the BLEt did manage to get delays for 18 months on full implementation compared to the UTU contract. Blame the UTU they're always first to sign if they had a backbone by joining the other rail unions it might of been different.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2012 The national was ratified. This proves the carrier can and will do whatever it wants. Healthcare isn't what it was just wait till next contract. We will even give up a little more. The time I retire the carrier wont contribute nothing. Utu, Ble, Csx FUCK YOU

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 January 2012 Seems like BNSF can find some gates to steal real quick when it's their employees getting blindsided! Safeguards installed at site of fatal BNSF train collision Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway installed automatic flashing lights and crossing gates at the three-track crossing Dec. 20 where three people died in March when a freight train struck their van, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Federal Railroad Administration's investigation into the March 23 accident should be ready for public release in the next two months, spokesman Mike England said Wednesday. Killed in the crash at the Kelso train yard were Coach America shuttle van driver Steven Sebastian of Castle Rock and BNSF employees Tom Kenny of Shoreline and Christopher Loehr of Seattle. A third railroad employee, Dwight Hauck of Auburn, was injured. State officials say a parked train would have made it difficult for the driver to see the Seattle-bound train that struck the van. 092454B--Private At Grade---Passenger Service: AMTRAK---Total Trains: 53---Maximum Time Table Speed: 75---Type and Number of Tracks: Main: 2 Other: 1--Crossbucks:2 Highway Stop Signs:2 ====Accident 1 ===== RR report NW0311200 ===== Crossing ID 092454B ===== On Mar 23, 2011 a FREIGHT TRAIN operated by BNSF Rwy Co. [BNSF] hit a VAN at approximately 4:25PM in Washington in COWLITZ county on PRIVATE road. The incident occurred in/near KELSO city. The rail equipment was reported to have been traveling at 047 Mph with 3 locomotive(s) and 106 cars(s). The VAN had been traveling in an easternly direction at 009 Mph. The railroad was operating on main line track over a private road crossing. It was cloudy, during the day and the tempe rature was 59. There were 3 death(s) and 1 injured in this incident and a Railroad Injury/Illness Report (form FRA- 55a) was also filed. The 59 year old male driver was moving on the crossing and was reported to have not stopped. There were 4 occupant(s) in the vehicle. The view of the track was obstructed by standing railroad equipment. Hazardous material was not being transported by rail or highway vehicle. The crossing was protected by: Stop signs, Crossbucks --GRAND TOTALS--Retrieved 1 report(s) For 1 accident(s) invoving 3 locomotives and 106 cars Causing 3 deaths and 1 injuries

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 January 2012 L@N """Just a little hint, don't walk down the middle of the tracks listening to your Ipod because you will be a hood ornament for an EMD.""" So your a murderer railroad safety guy who can't give examples?

Name: L&N E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 January 2012 Name Pines: Son, when you understand a little more about the RR, I will try to explain RR safety to you. For me to explain what I have done to a person who thinks the answer to safety is puttin a steering wheel on a train, that would be a hugh waste of my time. You need to educate yourself alot more about the RR and how it OPERATES, ( Hint, it has nothing to do with the Roman Empire ) Then I will tell you. You seem you are not even interested in learning. you are just being bone headed. Either you don't listen or you don't want to learn. You need to grow up. Just a little hint, don't walk down the middle of the tracks listening to your Ipod because you will be a hood ornament for an EMD.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 January 2012 So L&N my safety task for today. This report shows train crew were injured in the cause but not entered in the injury count or any other injury report I can find. Is that legal? Crossing collision history shows 5 other CSX crew hurt in three other collisions. They also left this collision off of the crossing collision history because like 3 collisions in a year isn't good. Now your keywords are US6 road: Lack of yellow before red on the junk signals: Write your report =====Accident 23 ===== RR report 000095293 ===== Crossing ID 228816S ===== On Oct 05, 2011 a FREIGHT TRAIN operated by CSX Transportation [CSX ] hit a TRUCK & TRAILER at approximately 8:56AM in Ohio in WOOD county on US6 road. The incident occurred in/near BRADNER city. The rail equipment was reported to have b een traveling at 035 Mph with 2 locomotive(s) and 75 cars(s). The TRUCK & TRAILER had been traveling in an easternly direction. The railroad was operating on main line track over a public road crossing. It was clear, during the day and the tempera ture was 65. There were 0 death(s) and 1 injured in this incident and a Railroad Injury/Illness Report (form FRA-55 a) was also filed. The 54 year old male driver was stalled or stuck on the crossing and was reported to have (unknown) . There were 1 occupant(s) in the vehicle. The view of the track was not obstructed. Hazardous material was not being transported by rail or highway vehicle. The crossing was protected by: Gates, Standard flashing lights, Bells (audible), Other devices E43403 WAS EASTBOUND ON #2 MAIN ON PEMBERVILLE SUB WHEN A TRACTOR TRAILER INITIALLY WAS NOT SLOWING DOWN FOR THE CROSSIN G BUT WHEN PROTECTION DEVICES ACTIVATED THE TRUCK DRIVER APPLIED HIS BRAKES AND SLID TO A STOP. THE TRUCK ENGINE STALLED AND DRIVER WAS UNABLE TO RESTART IT. THE TRAIN STRUCK TRUCK IN DRIVER SIDE DOOR. TRUCK DRIVER AND TRAIN CREW WERE INJUR ED. PROTECTION ALSO AT CROSSING: ADVANCE WARNING AND PAVEMENT MARKINGS.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 January 2012 So L@n you've done nothing for railroad safety you can write about? American railroad tracks are 56.5" wide (the "gauge") because the English built the first railroads in America and they used that width. Why did they use that width? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that were used for building wagons which used that wheel spacing. Why did wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Because older wagon ruts throughout England used that spacing, and if they changed it, wagon wheels would break by either falling into or being forced out of the old ruts, which were 56.5" wide. The old ruts were that size because the roads were built by the Romans, who arrived in England in 54 BC and left about 400 AD. Their wagons, and their chariots before their wagons, used that spacing, and that spacing was used all over Europe and wherever Rome conquered, because their wagons used the identical wheel base everywhere. So the modern railroad track width derives from the Roman chariot. Why was the Roman chariot track width 56.5"? Because that was the width of a chariot that would equal the width of two "standard" Roman horses. Thus, wagon and horses would fit through the same narrow street. Specifications and bureaucracies live forever! Such curious dimensions continue today. A space shuttle sitting on its launch pad has two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs, made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is just wide enough to accomodate a railroad car, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds, (and we now know why) so the booster rockets were made to fit. The major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!

Name: L&N E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2012 Name Pines: I stated that you did not know how the railroad operates and you bring up Roman chariots... Just what the hell are you talking about. Chariots have NOTHING to do with how the railroad operates. You just do not make any sense. You talk about loads being top heavy and tipping over, again your lack of railroad knowledge is coming out. Loads DO NOT tip over you idiot. What have I done for railroad safety, you ask. I have done more than you can possibly fathom. I would explain all that I have done but your lack of railroad knowledge would just be a waste of my time. Besides, you would not understand it anyway but I will tell you this, it does not include steering wheels on engines. You say you are pushing for the RR to be charged 3 times the amount for violation? First off, who the hell are you any way? What are your qualifications? What makes you an authority? Son, you are a wanna be foamer. How about stiffer fines for people who put engr and condr lives in danger when they BREAK THE LAW and run through gates, talk on the cell phone. How about I I D installed in all automobiles. People who do not pay attention put everyone on the road in danger. When they do not pay attention and go across RR tracks they put there own lives in danger... People who pull out in front of trains do not live. But you have to ask yourself a question, Do I feel lucky, well do you ya, you moron...Son, you need to wake up and smell the diesel fuel...In a way I kind of feel sorry for you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 Just a comment on Sucky Brakes. Pines is a nut, however he is on the topic when he says Trains have Sucky Brakes. Light engines in my time (with a cab) were the worst. It was so unusual, every move (Main track) was dangerous. Just moving a locomotive is easy, stopping is something else. The old brake shoe is so obsolete.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 What? So 2012 is going to be one of those years!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 January 2012 Pines, are you for real? Get a life and stay the hell off this site....

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 Name: L&N '''Mr Pines: It is obvious you do not know how a train or the railroad operates.''' Sure I do. The tracks were put into the Roman chariot ruts and are two horse asses wide. The idiot railroads haven't figured out wider is better on the top heavy loads tipping over. I sent Mikey Ward my Christmas lights to light up the front of the stupid blue colored trains. Also some used sneakers and blue prints of the hydraulics and arms to be fitted in between the existing wheels for better breaking. What have you done for RR safety? Also am pushing for state/feds to fix all found railroad violations and charge the railroads three times the costs. Oh --- In case you never heard of defensive driving::: The standard Safe Practices for Motor Vehicle Operations, ANSI/ASSE Z15.1, defines defensive driving as "driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others."[1] This definition is taken from the National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course. It is a form of training for motor vehicle drivers that goes beyond mastery of the rules of the road and the basic mechanics of driving. Its aim is to reduce the risk of driving by anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the mistakes of others. This can be achieved through adherence to a variety of general rules, as well as the practice of specific driving techniques.

Name: L&N E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2012 Mr Pines: It is obvious you do not know how a train or the railroad operates. What you have purposed is absolutely ridiculous. First off, a train runs on tracks and is operated not driven. I guess you do not know the laws, regulations and personal accountability when you drive a car. Maybe there should be a law that every car STOP at every railroad crossing at grade and the driver be responsible for his/her own actions. I have scrolled back and read some of your comments, and frankly son, you really do not have a clue.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2012 http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=23:1.0.1.7.27&idno=23#23:1.0.1.7.27.2.1.6 (3) The State and FHWA shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to inspect materials recovered by the railroad prior to disposal by sale or scrap. This requirement will be satisfied by the railroad giving written notice, or oral notice with prompt written confirmation, to the State of the time and place where the materials will be available for inspection. The giving of notice is the responsibility of the railroad, and it may be held accountable for full value of materials disposed of without notice.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2012 Hmmm-- Like using my sneakers for brakes on a my run away go cart the train steering wheel would run the belly brakes on the bottom of the rail cars and brake parachutes on the top of the rail cars. In the middle of the steering wheel the video monitors linked to the along tracks video monitors of the mile of track coming up. You know to make up for the non swerve capability of the train. Swerving is any defensive driver book. Just the other day a gas truck was blocking my road.

Name: PO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 January 2012 GET the vacations in.. Jim, get off your fat ass and put the vacations in..

Name: Jim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2011 Ringing in 2012 and CSX still sucks!

Name: L&N E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 December 2011 I don't know much about this Pines guy but it looks like he is a self proclaimed expert in an industry he knows absolutely nothing about. How can this guy be taken serious about railroad matters when he thinks a train needs a steering wheel, he has zero creditbility. I still think he a drunk or like Suzanne said, a little boy playing with his daddy's computer. But hey, maybe he can tell us how a steering wheel would work on an engine. Maybe Pines can start installing them on roller coasters, monorails, trolley cars, then he can move up to putting steering wheels on Kentucky Derby horses. Man, that would be a jockey's dream but we all know horses have sucky brakes.

Name: Cariline E-mail: Treecherries@yahoo.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2011 http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111227/ZONE10/312270063/CSX-Bullitt-County-train-wreck-court-criminal-Brooks?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 December 2011 Hey Suzannah: I thought you were in Florida enjoying the sunshine and drinks with paper umbrellas? Pines goes back a long way. I thought he had died because he was gone for a long while.I have now concluded he was taken to Fulton by the men in white jackets and butterfly nets. He either convinced them he was sane or escaped;) I haven't seen Dave Nelson on here in a good while, last I heard he was living up in Tennessee on a farm. At least there were some lively discussions on here when they were both posting. At least the topic stayed on safety.

Name: SUZANNAH E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 December 2011 Kyle, I put my very first post on this site in 2006. OH how time "flies"(HA! Railyard joke). I distinctively remember Pines constantly posting on here about all the accidents at public road grade crossing and blah blah blah about the gates and how the steering didnt work and train had sucky brakes...... 6 years later and its still the same crap.... I think its pine Jr posting the junk. As many times as the "old pines" was corrected you would think he would get a clue! I think its a mini-me version of pines! Apple didnt fall far from the tree!

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 December 2011 Hey pines--- steering wheels on locomotives, LMFAO, you better start watching that tv program,, are you smarter than a 5th grader, you would get a big f on the 1st question, and hmmm just what are SUCKY brakes? You don,t even know the proper piston travel for rail cars & locomotives.......

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 December 2011 Train going by too fast with sucky brakes and no steering. Looks like they are just drunks trying to get attention or someone who is mentally challenged is what I always thought. http://www.jessupmfg.com/updates/GB_EgressPathwayStrips_&_GB_Tape.pdf

Name: L&N E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 December 2011 This Pines guy is one stupid moron or he is just as clueless as a Christmas Goose. He can't really be serious because if he is I hope he does not drive a car. He seems to have all of the answers but zero solutions. Just how would a steering wheel work on a train, would they come with blinker lights. I don't think he understnds how a train operates because he sure made some ignorant statements. Looks like he is just a drunk trying to get attention or someone who is mentally challenged.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 December 2011 Hey RRJ: His argument is rather juvenile...reminds me of the old come back "is to" or "is so" or even "my Dad is better than yours"!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 December 2011 Pines LOL! I could give a crap if these people ride their ATV's, dirt bikes ect...on CSX property. It's your hypocracy that is in question. It was you who posted the article with all it's flaws trying to pin blame on CSX. That makes you a fool.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 December 2011 http://www.jessupmfg.com/updates/GB_EgressPathwayStrips_&_GB_Tape.pdf Brandy Bowen, 34, was killed when she ran into a metal beam on NE 25th Avenue. Police say Bowen didn't see the bar because the ATV was not equipped with lighting equipment. So I sent Michael Ward a roll of illuminating tape for Christmas --- You reckon A. He will have it put on the the horizontal gillotine so somebody else doesn't run into the deadly trap or B. Write : I'm a greedy low life on his 18th spare bedroom wall? NOMO/RRJ ---Three times over the limit is the moron driving a freight/passenger train too fast with no brakes nor steering. Tell me the difference!!! Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Riding at night with no helmet or lights on private property with a suspended license while being 3 times over the limit. What could possibly go wrong there? Frankly I'm surprised she could sit up and wasn't passed out. I don't know about the territory you ran but this is a big hunting area and these guys don't think twice about riding the rails. I've seen a few get strung out on trestles and barely make it off. The look on their faces is priceless...don't know if it was from a near death experience or that warm mushy sensations in their pants! Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 December 2011 NoMo He's as blind as riding an ATV without lighting equipment. It's his article that states she didn't see the barrier because the ATV didn't have lighting equipment. Even in areas without these barriers signs are posted CSX private property no trespessing. You're right if it didn't have barriers he would blame CSX for something. lol Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 Hey Robert: Give it up...you lose on this one...CSX placed the barrier on their property to keep trespassers off the tracks. These people get on the tracks and ride for miles. If there wasn't a barrier and the woman was killed, you would be whining because CSX didn't have the path protected. You can't have it both ways so which is it? Posting stories like this one only hurts what little credibility you have. Or are you saying it's okay to operate a vehicle while you're 3 times over the limit?

Name: numbutt E-mail: csx is king Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 December 2011 Csx is good at putting nothing in writing. I mean notta. God Bless ! Happy Shunuka ! Thank your lucky stars for Intermodal & containers. The fudge is packed in the slammer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Sounds like Flo is blowing some CSX Sunshine up our Butts Company Suck LOL LOL LOL LOL LMAO LMAO Have a Happy CSX Christmas and Happy New Year

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2011 ????? Im guessing numbutt, ward1 aand brown1 are trying to be funny???? NOT LAUGHING!!! Christmas time is a time to be HONEST, LOVING, and a time to show good will towards all men/women... Do us all a favor and let those who obviously cant do that speak for themselves.

Name: Billy E E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

Name: brown1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Your bonus will be sent by the 24th Dec. Merry Christmas

Name: ward1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas We're shutting down Thursday the 22nd at 2359. Everyone enjoy your family and friends. Don't worry about rushing back to work. We will start dh on the 2nd of Jan.2012. thanks for a great year

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for N/A Posted: 20 December 2011 Numbutt What exactly is CSX best at??????????????????

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 December 2011 NoMo These social media sites are BS. I tried to explain it to a friend that if I have 500 people on my list and they have the same up to 25,000 people have access to my information. Those that embrace it live in a non-realistic world. I'm afraid the younger generations are losing social skills needed to adapt to the real world. The only reason I'm on it is my high school was in Korea and most of my classmates live all over the country & world. It's pretty ignorant to use it as a venting site for problems, personal relationships ect....It's also irresponsible of parents with young children if they don't monitor these sites. Just have to read the news of bullying, suicides, rapes, murders ect....I'm sure that wasn't it's original intent.

Name: numbutt E-mail: csx is king Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 December 2011 Thank you Santa. You will get a shot & beer chaser when you come down my chimney. Don't let Prancer poop on my roof. Numbutt.

Name: santa E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 December 2011 Hey numbutt, When you get that big peice of coal in your stocking, its gonna be from a csx coal train! Merry christmas!

Name: numbutt E-mail: csx is king Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 December 2011 CSX is the Best ! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 December 2011 Hey RRJ: If she had stayed in the Bayou she wouldn't be loading boxes and probably not slipped and broken her leg. My oldest daughter made a comment about her supervisor on her Facebook page and it cost her three days. She and my oldest son are at odds over comments he made on Facebook. I wonder what makes people think that their friends really care what, who or when they are doing someone or something. Once that information hits the web, it lives forever. Besides, a little mystery makes it a lot more interesting!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 December 2011 NoMo My sister ended up in Long Beach, Ca this past summer staying with a friend. Wasn't there a couple days had a freak accident broke her leg in three places a teloscopic break. Doctors were puzzled breaks like this only occur in falls like skydiving, 4 story falls ect...she slipped off the bed of a pickup truck taking boxes out of a storage unit. It's getting better the past couple weeks she's been able to walk. It's delayed applying for a job. She figures LA area the job market in her field would be better. My feeling and that of her daughters if she would of stayed in Houma, La kept applying she would have already moved on to another job.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Sorry to hear about your sister...where did she end up? A CSX Facebook page??? I checked it out, looks like it's for all the pubescent foamers. I think you're right...I don't believe CSX will allow anything critical of them to be posted...imagine that!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 18 December 2011 Kyle My sister who works in the healthcare industry got fired earlier this year for posting on Facebook. She was the director of a department at a hospital she has a Phd highly educated. She thought she sent me a private message about frustration over someone that worked for her. It wasn't a PM it posted on her FB wall. By the time she got to work that morning she was terminated. A co-worker did a rant on the FB CSX site they barred him from posting on it. Lucky that was all they did. I know he was worried that it put a target on his back. At least here one can keep their identity shielded.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 December 2011 You are correct rrj you can and will be fired if you give out company info to news media peeps, I was always told in event of accident not to talk to news media peeps about it, Ie name, rank, serial # i can,t blame the rr for that cuz we all know how the news media will twist a storie and 99% news peeps have no clue about rr operations, Hell some tm,s & rfe,s dont even know about that today.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 18 December 2011 One thing right CSX is a tough place to work. The one you're wrong on is the pay. A slacker on CSX can make an easy $55,000+ with some effort $75,000+ a go getter $100,000+. Money isn't the problem it's the harsh disciplinary policies. Facebook? The average consumer doesn't matter they haven't any impact on CSX. There is a CSX site not like this one. The biggest concern a person could be fired for publically discussing company business. I know people that have been kicked off the CSX FB site.

Name: Aaron Cross E-mail: cindermydawg@gmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 December 2011 I think you guys should make a Facebook page mimicking this site. Now days if you want things changed you need a petition to do it. Its the next best thing to a strike and actually losing your job. Facebook now days boosts companies' reputation with the "LIKE" button, or it can destroy them or even make it better for their employees.. all it needs to do is spread like a disease over facebook, regarding the lack of pay, compensation, and general "fuck you work anyway" attitude CSX has for its employees, and once the bad publicity spreads enough CSX will have a hard enough time finding buisness from companies wanting to use their rail cars for transport for fear of a strike or bad morale the employees who transport their goods hold for CSX. im gonna tell you a story, I learned this in a leadership course in the NAVY. its called "The 10 monkeys Story" regarding how to change things. There are 2 monkeys in a cell. the cell has a banana hanging from the ceiling and a fire hose pointing inside the cell.. both monkeys tried reaching for the banana and got blasted by the fire hose every time they attempted for it. after a week another monkey was placed into the cell... the new monkey went right for the banana and the other 2 monkeys beat the shit out of him.. 1 and then 2 and then 3 more monkeys were added to the cell and each time the new monkey went for the banana the other monkeys beat the shit out of him.. and pretty soon this happened still when there were ten monkeys in the cell.. they would just beat the shit out of whatever monkey wanted to go for the banana not realizing the fire hose was already taken away. point of the story is, the fire hose is one guy, one guy who set rules or procedure maybe 10 years ago, and everyone back then followed it, and after awhile that one guy (fire hose) left and everyone else just kept implementing and beating the shit out of everyone else because thats just how its always been.. Just because things were that way once, doesnt mean it cannot be changed or someone else can make changes.. for example, A boss(the fire hose) got sick of one person in particular sitting down when there was no work to be done, so he set a rule that even if its -0 degrees outside when theres nothing to be done you will stand outside in the cold untill something comes up. well it goes on like that for awhile 1 year goes by and that old boss (the fire hose) is gone, and people are still standing around outside waiting for work to do, even the other bosses inforce it not even knowing the original reason for it.. and then it never changes.. you will always be standing out side freezing your ass off unless you question why it came to be like that or do something about it. Im sorry for the long statement, but I really feel for you CSX employees makin 40k for a job you should be making 50-60k doing. and what is worse is that for the low money you do make, you are treated so shitty and get screwed over so much. <<<Not an Employee>> so I can speak my mind since the employees who think complimenting CSX on this site will earn them brownie points or extra money in the future are too stupid to realize it wont.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Riding at night with no helmet or lights on private property with a suspended license while being 3 times over the limit. What could possibly go wrong there? Frankly I'm surprised she could sit up and wasn't passed out. I don't know about the territory you ran but this is a big hunting area and these guys don't think twice about riding the rails. I've seen a few get strung out on trestles and barely make it off. The look on their faces is priceless...don't know if it was from a near death experience or that warm mushy sensations in their pants!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 December 2011 NoMo He's as blind as riding an ATV without lighting equipment. It's his article that states she didn't see the barrier because the ATV didn't have lighting equipment. Even in areas without these barriers signs are posted CSX private property no trespessing. You're right if it didn't have barriers he would blame CSX for something. lol

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 Hey Robert: Give it up...you lose on this one...CSX placed the barrier on their property to keep trespassers off the tracks. These people get on the tracks and ride for miles. If there wasn't a barrier and the woman was killed, you would be whining because CSX didn't have the path protected. You can't have it both ways so which is it? Posting stories like this one only hurts what little credibility you have. Or are you saying it's okay to operate a vehicle while you're 3 times over the limit?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2011 NOM """Three times the legal limit and not wearing a helmet. The article didn't say how fast she was going but you can rest assured it was too fast for the conditions.""" The condition being some CSX morons without a clue on traffic control put a horizontal guillotine with a drunk paint job across a used trail without permission? There is no legal limit on private roads and drivers licenses aren't needed so the cop needs fired for jury tampering. CITRA, Fla., -- An ATV driver is dead after an accident in Marion County. Brandy Bowen, 34, was killed when she ran into a metal beam on NE 25th Avenue. Police say Bowen didn't see the bar because the ATV was not equipped with lighting equipment. The ATV flipped, throwing Bowen and a passenger, George Krisher, 31, to the ground. Bowen died at the scene. Krisher was taken to UF & Shands Gainesville with serious injuries.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 December 2011 I just voted NO.

Name: Un-Lucky Louie E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 December 2011 How is it that you can send in resumes for 100s of CSX jobs and never get an interview?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 December 2011 Hey Robert: I hate to say it but this woman did it to herself. Three times the legal limit and not wearing a helmet. The article didn't say how fast she was going but you can rest assured it was too fast for the conditions. Try again!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 December 2011 http://www.ocala.com/article/20111214/ARTICLES/111219868 Horizontal guillotines CSXs new invention to kill more people. Slackie ---the kid was working ---played college football you low life.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 15 December 2011 The NTSB also failed to mention he had 5 previous dui's and had been smoking dope all day long at the local beer joint and was driving way too fast for the conditions ( over 100 mph ) He did not have a operating thump meter in his truck and was a practicing terrorist from Sullivan, MO. He really had some sucky brakes because he did not even put in truck in emergency before the wreck...His did not know how to use his steering wheel to swerve out of the way..People like this steal road side prevention tax funds from the public every day...

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2011 Hey HTL: Glad to hear from you and that retirement agrees with you. Come back when you can stay awhile. I hope you're not talking about "bedroom" golf...got to have the owners permission before you play the back nine!!!

Name: htlong E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2011 hey Nomo, I see you & RRJ are still kicking! and I see Pines is back......too bad well I am heading out the door to play the back 9 boy do I love palm trees! retirement has been berry goud to mee! ht long

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2011 The GMC Sierra pickup was traveling 55 mph when it slammed into a Volvo truck tractor that had slowed to a stop while approaching an I-44 construction zone. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/driver-was-texting-in-deadly-interstate-crash-near-gray-summit/article_45bdf5f5-0576-5633-adea-dd76ece9ffad.html#ixzz1gb4drRBe Soooo how you run a remote train with no electronics? The bus drivers weren't texting. Hmmmmm So the construction zone for an average 75 mph traffic wasn't set up right for a stopped truck when the mininum speed limit is 40 mph on that stretch--- a fact the NTSB left out along with no seat belts on buses and crash worthiness of vehicles.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 December 2011 A federal safety official says a 19-year-old pickup truck driver involved in a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the accident. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said this week it's clear the pickup driver was manually, cognitively and visually distracted. In connection with the findings, the NTSB recommended on Tuesday that states ban all driver use of cell phones and other hand held electronics, except in times of emergency. The ban should apply to both hand held and hands-free electronics, the Board said. Investigators said the young driver sent six texts and received five texts just before his pickup crashed into the back of a tractor truck, beginning a chain collision. The pickup was rear-ended by a school bus, which in turn was rammed by a second school bus. The pickup driver and a 15-year-old student on one of the school buses were killed. Thirty-eight other people were injured in the Aug. 5, 2010, accident near Gray Summit, Mo. Texting while driving has been identified as a scourge on U.S. roads by the Department of Transportation and several states, which have enacted anti-texting laws.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 December 2011 Dear Mr. Pines: Thank you for your e-mail message of November 29, to the Federal Railroad Administration. Would you please clarify your concern, so I can assign appropriate staff to respond? What information are you requesting? Sincerely, Michael Lestingi Acting Director, Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance From: btpino40@gmail.com [mailto:btpino40@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:31 AM To: Web Inquiries (FRA) Subject: Violation Reporting at 11/29/2011 1:30:31 AM From: btpino40@gmail.com Sent: 11/29/2011 1:30:32 AM Violation Reporting Date and Time: 11/29/2011 1:30:31 AM Name robert pines Email btpino40@gmail.com Phone Number 5732478113 Preferred Contact Method Email Railroad or Company that Committed the Alleged Violation Norfolk Southern Type of Alleged Violation Grade Crossing Date of Alleged Violation 02/07/2010 Time of Alleged Violation 10:50 AM Alleged Violation Location Theft of Federal/state property --- false report Please provide a description of the Alleged Violation My complaint? Recording devices stolen that tax payers where charged for byrailroad. Whistle posts at 17 seconds and not required 20 seconds for 50 mph trains. No train brakes with 17 seconds warning according to crews own statement. There is no thump meter on the train so train speed couldn't be determined especially with brakes applied (speed would be 0 while sliding wheels would be 49 mph) It would be physically impossible for a vehicle going around a gate on a 18 foot wide road to cause damage to the opposite gate since the vehicle would be even with the gate to start with. www.fra.dot.gov/rrs/ViolationReport.aspx# http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2010/hq201007.PDF ""There are no recording devices in the grade crossing control house."" btpino40@gmail.com Nov 30 to michael.lestin. http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2010/hq201007.PDF You don't know how to read your own reports? On Nov 30, 2011 4:40pm, michael.lestingi@dot.gov wrote: > Dear Mr. Pines:Thank you for your e-mail message of November 29, to the Federal Railroad Administration. Would you please clarify your concern, so I can assign appropriate staff to respond? What information are you requesting?Sincerely,Michael LestingiActing Director, Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance

Name: GOB Jax E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 December 2011 The Touchstone story seemed to quiet down. Maybe she is behaving.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 December 2011 Clean These railroad girls all have a black book with ratings and sizes to rat out anyone they might need too to keep them in good situations. Sounds like Touch has some good stuff in her book.

Name: mr clean E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 December 2011 Loco 30, Nothing, thats whats happening. What do you expect. Unless someone took pictures, which would get them fired for conduct unbecoming, not a thing is going to happen. Second they will probably ask you why you are bitching at getting a peice of tail. Shouldnt have tapped it if you didnt want it. If she really is getting around like everyone claims theres a damb good chance shes been with a few higher ups who prefer she keep her mouth shut! Piss her off and bet she squeels like a pig on the way to the butcher! HHMMMM wonder if she has a black book!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 December 2011 Whats happening with Touchstone?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 December 2011 So why do you lie and say you have been on several strikes RRJ when you have never been on one? A real railroaders Harley http://www.ecrater.com/p/11802584/1989-mattel-inc-arco-barbie-size-3

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2011 Hey Goober: It's taken me 33 years to learn to look interested while my wife's talking...it gets easier though with every cup:)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2011 Listening skill is a learned skill. If ya keep on killing the few old timers on this place, you will see a blank screen. They are not always up to date, but just send the message as they lived it. I see nothing wrong with a wrong post, just was one way and now something different. we can all learn from that. let everyone rant as much and cuss as much as they want. The truth is in the details. GOOB

Name: cya E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 RRJ, What are you putting in that morning coffee? We all read a lot of dumb shit from you.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 It's not an educational site anymore. I stated it once was one. Get the facts straight. It's now a cry baby site. It's a site for drunks to rant on with obsenities and other dribble. I'll keep posting till I get bored. Seeing that I'm only online in the morning not glued to the internet like most people these days getting bored might take along time. lol

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2011 Educational site rrj must have fell off his rocker again. I've red some silly post on here from him, but that one takes the cake. Old man it's time to put the pc down and feed the squirrels..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 Kyle You took my comment in the wrong way which happens in a written format. I not under social security it's railroad retirement. That doesn't mean I'm against it. I'm against anyone in government who wants to dismantle, change ect...social security. Ronald Raygun raided it in the '80s the government hasn't paid back the loan. The conversation of overhauling social security you should have with the younger generations that are being snookered into believing by the right wing conspiracy that baby boomers are going to drain it dry. The same goes for medicare. Both issues are under attack by republicans led by Boehner & Cantor plus in the republican debates it's a hot topic. As for my statement on unemployment I do believe 2 years collecting is way to long. I'm a firm believer in taking responsibility. Recessions aren't new. I lived through the recession in 1973 which ran till the early '80s. It happens every 10 years or so. I mearly stated facts that those who decided to collect for 2 years are now being considered unemployable by some employers.

Name: KYLE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 December 2011 You must have a 1 track mind RRJ as yer comment as you don,t care about ssi or unemployment to those out of work, yer comment-i don,t care about ssi is the most assnine thing i ever heard from a working person, What would you say if those rotten no good neo-cons took yer pension check away or cut by 30%??? Yes you would bitch high heaven and you know it and they are after it too cuz you see your rr retirment check is a goverment check too! Man you better wise up in yer old age and stop watching FOX IS NOT NEWS & jerk offs like beck & rush limpballs, At least now we all know which polotical party you favor, And don,t forget it wuz yer hero ronnie raygun who put a tax on rr unemployment & rr sick benefits back in the 1980,s, don,t believe me? do some research on that one, I know how neo-cons think,all for me,me,me,and to hell with everyone else.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: ANYONE Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 December 2011 CSX IS NO BETTER THAN THE EMPLOYES MAKE IT... CSX IS NO BETTER THAN THE COMPANY MAKES IT,!!!!SO,,,BOTH MUST TRY TO WORK TOGETHER... REMEMBER,,,,,THE UNION IS PAID OFF BY THE COMPANY,,,,,,SOME STATES HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORK LAW.......BUT,,STILL HAVE TO BELONG TO THE UNIONS THAT ARE NOW RUN OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE.!!!! PEOPLE .....YOU NEED TO WAKE UP.....BEFORE WE ARE LIKE EUROPE... GOVERMENT CONTROL OF MAKING JOBS NEVER WORKED AND NEVER WILL... COMPANIES,,,,INCLUDES MEN AND WOMEN,,,,MAKE JOBS... ALL THE GOVERMENT CREATES IS CONFUSION..... I DO NOT HAVE THE ANSWER.......BUT,,,I DO KNOW ENOUGH,,,THE WORKING CLASS OF CSX,,,,HAS NO CONTROL OF THE UNIONS....THERE BELOVED UNION,,,IS 99.9% PAID OFF BY THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT AGAINST YOU.!!!

Name: mmmmmmm E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 Educational page called csx-sucks. You have to be joking.

Name: Sonny E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 December 2011 rrj YOu must live on this site or do you work for csx-sucks? Everytime I read something on here you have some silly remark. You must patrol this site.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 You only need to post on one thread it's ignorant to post on all. No this isn't a CSX bashing site. That's just your interpetation. It's intent is to discuss the issues related to CSX. Not a bunch of obsenities, racial slur's ect...it's become a joke that CSX monitors and most likely laughs at by seeing how uneducated some of their employees really are these days. lol. I have to agree with them on that issue. lol

Name: Willy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 December 2011 RRJ CSX-Sucks is the name of this site in case you didn't know. It's not like when you worked out here referring to certain ones like yourself " safety sucks, csx sucks, company sucks." this is a negative site bashing csx. I hope this helps. Now go feed your pengions old man..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 Pines I haven't a clue my guess would be 1996 or 1997. It was a safety strike just on CSX not nationwide. It began at 2300 lasted about 30 minutes. The BLE did manage to shut the railroad down on 3rd trick that night. Hey cable guy, it must of been shortline railroaders homes you went to, to do an installation. lol. Whoever said railroaders would get rich? It's decent money some what above average. It's also up to the individual. Yearly income flucuates depends on traffic. I never got a paycheck that was ever the same amount. Some were higher some lower. It all balanced itself out at the end of the year. Working on the railroad in T&E incomes run the gamut from $50,000 to $150,000. The lower end most likely a yard job the higher end someone who never marks off working a higher milage mainline ID run.

Name: truth E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 December 2011 Boyles, You talked about guys taking rules classed and failing but still walking out the door with a passing grade....Well thats the way it should be..Thats the way it is for company officials...EVERY SINGLE rules book, pod test, timetable, etc... has errors in them. Every year you take your pod exams you WILL find an error in them. Every single timetable has errors in them. They cant possibly expect us to be held to a higher standard when they dont proofread a damb thing they publish. FRA laws states very clearly that in order to be able to go out in the field and test employees on safety rules and operating procedures the supervisor have to have full knowledge of such rules that they are testing their employees on. Cant count on fingers and toes how many times a supervisor had to be corrected for trying to fail someone on a rule he didnt know shit about! Have to tell them to go look it up! So as long as the company is not being held accountable for their stupid blunders then why should we! As for the unions, you are right...NO BACKBONE...They should be sueing the company for failure to negotiate with the union in good faith. When they signed the aggreement they did just that...agreed to honor and pay all claims set forth in writing.... But they dont. Once they deny a claim several times after it was agreed upon in writing thats when the union needs to step in and hit them hard. This shows that they had no intention of paying the claim in the first place. They knew that when they signed the papers. And this bullshit of settling with pennies on the dollar instead of making them pay the full amount that was agreed upon is bullshit. They violate an agreement that clearly states you will be paid an 8 hr pentaly claim at yard rate, then thats what they should pay. NOT .50 on the dollar! As long as the unions bow down and take it backwards our unions dues are just good hard earned money pissed in the wind!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 December 2011 Name: RRJ Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years So did you take a bullet in the gut for safety? ORDERED would be slavery. What years were these these strikes so I can look up the Presidential mandates. By the way---I have worked cable at a lot of railroaders mediocre houses and po-dunk apartments. Sooo the pay isn't all the wine and roses you're your trying to portray. Why at exactly this time one would ask.

Name: Boyles E-mail: NOMO Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 December 2011 NO PROBLEM HERE, I LIKE YOU,,,READ THEM ALL, HAVE A GREAT DAY,,,,,, ,BOYES.....RETIRED.!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 December 2011 Hey Boyles: Do us all a favor and please only post in one topic...we read them all! Thank you.

Name: Boyles E-mail: RRJ Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 December 2011 RRJ, THANKS FOR A GOOD POST......WIFE AND I BOTH DO ENJOY THAT RAILROAD RETIREMENT CHECK ALSO...,,,,,,I DO HOPE AFTER 2 YEARS OF NO INCREASE,,,WE DO GET A RAISE THIS YEAR... I HEARD WE WOULD,,,,BUT,,THAT STILL WILL NOT CHANGE MY VOTE.!!! I SEE ALOT OF CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE COMPANY SINCE MY REITREMENT ......ALOT OF GOOD FRIENDS AND CO WORKERS HAVE PASSED AWAY,,,AND,,,ALOT OF THEM,,,STILL YOUNG... I REALIZED,,,JOBS THAT WERE ON CALL 24---7,,,AND THE MONEY WAS NOT INMPRTANT ANYMORE.. LIFE,,,DOING THINGS WITH FAMILY,,,FRIENDS,,MEANT MORE TO ME THAT THE MONEY,,,AND,,AFTER R.R. TAX,,,,YOU MAY GET HALF,,,,,,,... ....YES,,,RAILROAD PAYS GOOD AND OT HELPED,,,BUT,,RAILROADS DO CUT ALOT OF TAX......I HIRED IN,,,I MADE $3.50 A HOUR AND I THOUGHT I WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD.. RAILROAD WAS GOOD TO ME AS FAR AS MONEY,,,,,AND,,,I WAS GOOD TO THE RAILROAD AS WORKING......BUT,,IT GOT TO A POINT,,,,CHANGE WAS COMEING AND I SEEN IT....... I TOOK EARLY RETIREMENT AND HAVEING A BLAST ,,,WIFE AND I AND OUR CAMPER.!!! I HAVE ALOT OF STORIES I COULD TELL,,BUT,,,I DO NOT WANT TO NAME NAMES AS IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT.... SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD STORIES ABOUT THE RAILROAD...... ......I DID SEE THIS COMING,,,,SO,,I PAID EVERYTHING OFF AHEAD OF TIME,,,,,,,I RE ADJUSTED MY SELF TO MY MONTHLY RETIREMENT INCOME,,, HAVE A BLESSED DAY,,,,,,,BOYLES..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 December 2011 Boyles Claims till around 3 years ago were left up to local management to approve or decline. Today it goes through payroll and labor relations. Sounds like you had a bad trainmaster. Till around 6-7 years ago I was getting just about every legit claim paid on time. The BLE didn't help by going to the SSA in 2007 they pretty much gave up most claims especially runarounds. After 2007 CSX could do anything turn a crew back on short rest while a rested crew was in the lodging ect....no claim. That started happening a lot. We like any industry union & non-union had/have our fair share of lazy people. Nothing is going to change it's just some people nature. It's a lame excuse by the right wing media against unions. Whose to blame? We were by letting these people get away with being lazy not the unions. I had plenty of arguements with those I deemed lazy. I wasn't alone others did the same. No, I wouldn't turn them in but I could make life miserable if they worked with me. I'm a firm believer in a honest days work for a honest days pay. A friend of mine who has worked union & non-union over the past 28 years asked me why I preferred unions. It was for the fact they can't fire me on a whim. He lost his non-union job of 17 years in 2010 because someone in management nephew needed a job. I applauded him because he didn't sit around collecting unemployment never drew a dime. He survived by working some home improvement constuction jobs with friends as a laborer and aggressively looked for work. It took him 4 months to find another job not making what he was starting at $15 an hour. Jobs are out there the government has made it to easy for people to collect unemployment for up to 2 years. I've never heard of any such a thing it's made a lot of Americans lazy. It's coming back to haunt them employers want to know why they've been out of the job market so long. They're almost unemployable now the government wants to step in to protect these deadbeats. I'd been through recessions during the '70s. I moved a few times from east to west coast and back to look for work. The last move in 1977 I got hired on the C&O. I don't know where you get the rich pay 75% of the taxes. They have accountants who specialize in tax loopholes ect....besides if they did pay the max it's 36% lowest it's ever been. The middle class pays on average 20% add in retail taxes, gasoline, alcohol ect...we pay our fair share. You're right to many deadbeats these days crying poverty. It the past it always balanced itself out. Cut off these extended unemployment benefits force people to get back to work. Social Security taxes need to go back to where they were get rid of the SS payroll tax reductions that happened 2 years ago. The government is wising up on that one. It doesn't matter to me about SS. I draw a Railroad Retirement check every first of the month.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 December 2011 Name: RRJ Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years So did you take a bullet in the gut for safety? ORDERED would be slavery. What years were these these strikes so I can look up the Presidential mandates.

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNION Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 THE GUYS I WORKED BESIDE WERE SCARED TO WRITE UP CLAIMS,,,,,SO,,,I WROTE THEM FOR US.......OF COURSE,,MOST WERE DENIED.!!!! A 100% GOOD CLAIM,,,MOST,,,WE NEVER GOT,!!!! NOW AND THEN,,,A CLAIM WOULD BE PAID,!!!!,,,,,, THE COMPANY SIGNED THE SAME AGGREMENT AS THE UNION,,,,,,SO,,IF A CLAIM IS LEGAL,,,,PAY ME,!!!!! BUT,,THAT IS NOT HOW CSX WORKED.. I HAD A COMPANY MAN,,TELL ME TO MY FACE,,,,,,,YOUR UNION IS NOT WORTH A DAMM,!!!!! CLAIM ALL YOU WANT,,,,I WILL PAY NOTHING,!!!. IT IS SAD,,,,HOW THIS R.R. HAS BECOME SO EVIL.......I HAVE BEEN OFF OVER 10 YEARS.......AND,,IT WAS BAD THEN,,,BUT,,FROM THESE POST I READ,,,,,,IT IS ALOT WORSE NOW,,!!!!! ....FRA RULES,,,,,,SAFTY RULES,,,,,,A JOKE.......MANY RULE CLASSES...THERE WERE SOME THAT ALWAYS FAILED.....BUT,,,THESE MEN LEFT THAT RULE CLASS WITH A PASSING GRADE......NO ONE FAILED.!!! IS THIS SAFTY.???......I SEEN FRA TEST GRADES,,,CHANGED,,,,,, BUT,,,NOW,,,I TRY TO FOCUS ON THE ROAD AHEAD.....I HAD MY TIME ON THE RAILROAD,,,IT IS YOUR TIME NOW,,,, GOOD LUCK,!!!!!!!!

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNIONS Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 I DO AGREE ,,MOST OF THE TIME ,,,I PERFERE UNION JOBS... BUT,,IN ALABAMA.TENNESSE AND MISSISSIPPI THEY NOW HAVE 4 MAJOR CAR PLANTS,,,,,NO UNION......!!!!!!! THESE PLANTS,,PAY AS MUCH OR MORE THAN UNION PLANTS,,,HAVE VERY GOOD BENIFITS...AND,,,AS LONG AS YOU DO YOUR JOB,,,,NO PROBLEM,,, I HAVE WORKED UNION JOBS,,MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE,,,,,LAST 30 ,,,RAILROAD.... I HAVE SEEN SORRY,,NO ACCOUNT..LAZY WORKERS,,,GET SAME PAY AS THE GOOD WORKERS....AND LAUGH AT THE EMPLOYE THAT TRIES HARD... SINCE ALL WORKERS,,,GOOD AND BAD,,ARE ALL PROTECTED UNDER THE UNION... IF THINGS ARE NOT CHANGED,,,IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS,,,,,PEOPLE THAT ARE 65,,,WILL NOT GET A RETIREMENT.....MONEY FOR RETIREMENT COMES FROM TAXES COLLECT OUT OF WORKERS CHECKS.....IF MORE PEOPLE GET ON FOOD STAMPS,,,WELFARE AND ECT,,,,,THERE IS NO MONEY COLLECTED FROM THESE PEOPLE...TO GO INTO RETIREMENT FUNDS.!!!!!! WHO IS GOING TO PAY.!!!! THE RICH,,,PAY ABOUT 75% OF ALL THE TAXES......THE MIDDLE CLASS 25%,,,,,,,,....,THE POOR OR WELFARE,,GOVERMENT CHECK PEOPLE,,,PAY NOTHING... AT SOME POINT OF TIME,,,MONEY WILL BE GONE... THERE MUST BE A STOPPING POINT FROM GOVERMENT TO UNIONS,,,, AMERICA IS AT THE LAST ROAD TO BECOMNG A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY... THE 3 RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE NOW,,,PASSING AMERICA.!!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 December 2011 I'll agree Obama's bullschidt with the EPA if successful will jeaprodise thousands of jobs in the coal fields & possibly the railroad industry. Wind & solar can't generate enough electricity for anything except small locations. Power plants change all the time between coal & natural gas which ever is cheaper. Nothing new there it's easy to transfer the plants to one source then back again. It's not entirely Obama's fault America could become a third world nation. The republicans are doing their part to make it happen with coddling corrupt corporations & destroying public unions which has drawn bad sentiment towards private industry unions. Rail unions since the 1920's have been under federal control with the Railway Labor Act which includes the airline industry. The rail unions had their chance to win back lost gains in the '90s under Clinton but chose to become complacent. I blame them for it. Still I'd much rather belong to a mediocre union then no union at all.

Name: Boyles E-mail: STRIKE Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 BY THE TIME ONE GETS THE SIGN,,,,,PLACES STRIKING EMPLOYES IN PROPER PLACES,,,,,THE STRIKE IS OVER,,,,GOVERMENT CONTROLLED RAILROAD TELLS YOU GO BACK TO WORK,,OR,,YOUR FIRED,,!!! BOY,,,WHAT A UNION WE HAVE.....TODAYS UNIONS ARE BOUGHT OFF BY THE GOVERMENT,,,IF YOU DO NOT BELEIVE,,,JUST LOOK AT WASHINGTON,,,, THE GOVERMENT CONTROLS THE UNIONS AND IT MEMBERS,,,,,BUT,,,YOU HAVE TO PAY HIGH DUES,,WHICH ARE THEN,,,DONATED TO THE DEMOCRATE PARTY... PEOPLE,,THE DEMOCRATES THAT YOU THINK LOVES YOU TODAY,,,IS NOT THE DEMOCRATE OF YOUR DADS ERA........ ,,AND,,,AMERICA IN 4 MORE YEARS,,MAY NOT BE THE AMERICA YOU ONCE KNEW,!!!! OBAMA AND DEMOCRATES ARE TRYING HARD TO STOP ALL COAL MINES FROM EXPANDING,,,,,,,WHICH ,,,REMEMBER,,,WE HAVE UNIT TRAINS TO SHIP COAL.... GREEN JOBS,,,DO AWAY WITH COAL.!!!!!! ....1000,S OF OIL PIPE LINE JOBS ARE AT STAKE,,BUT,,,OMAMA VETOED THE BILL OF THE PIPELINE FROM CANADA TO U.S......WHICH WOULD CREATE HUGE AMOUNT OF UNION JOBS.!!!! AND,,ALSO...LOWER THE PRICE OF GAS HERE.!!! MY CAR WILL NOT RUN ON WIND,,,!!!! WASHINGTRON DEMOCRATES WANT WIND POWER.!~~~ GREEN,,,,WELL....WHAT ABOUT THE ELECTRIC CAR... HUGE FLOP....OWNED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT.!!!! DEMOCRATE OR REPUBLICAN,,,DOES NOT MATTER................ JUST LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPEN THE LAST 3 YEARS,,!!!!! AMERICA IS GOING FAST TO BE A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY,,,AND,,,,THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS.......... UNIONS,,,,OBAMA LOVES THERE MONEY,,,BUT,,,,,CARERS LESS ABOUT YOU,!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 December 2011 Pines I know all about it. I've been on quite a few safety strikes. In most cases by the time we shut the railroad down placing pickets ect...they already had a court injunction against us. I was referring to the process of contract negotiations nothing more. The rail unions haven't used safety strikes since the mid-'90s. The last one was when I rode up to the picket line on my 1980 Harley Davidson "shovelhead" Tourglide. That's how I know the timeframe. After each safety strike the railroads then try an sue the unions for their earning losses which ends up in court for years till settled ot tossed out.

Name: Boyles E-mail: ROBERT Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 ROBERT, YOU ARE CORRECT...OVER MY 30 YEARS,,,I DO REMEMBER SEVERAL STRIKES,,,BUT,,,THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT WOULD MAKE YOU GO BACK WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS... SO,,,NOTHING WAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED.!!! AS I READ ALL THESE POST,,,I SEE THE RAILROAD OF YESTERDAY IS GONE AND A NEW BREED OF PEOPLE ARE IN... CHANGE ,,,MOST OF THE TIME IS GOOD,,,BUT,,,I SEE CSX HAS ,,,WHAT MOST PEOPLE POST,,,CHANGED FOR THE WORSE.!!!! ....I JUST HOPE THIS COUNTRY MAKES IT ANOTHER YEAR.... IN LESS THAN 4 YEARS,,,THIS COUNTRY HAS FALLEN FROM A WORLD LEADER... AMERICA MADE IT ON HARD WORK,,,,,,,NOT A FREE GIVE AWAY PROGRAM.. AMERICA DOES NOT OWE YOU ANYTHING,,,YOU OWE AMERICA ,,,,, I AM TALKING ABOUT WASHINGTON AND WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.!!!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 December 2011 Actually the railroaders can strike for safety matters legally RRJ. You have 30 years and nothing you have done. http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/UnmetMandates0611.pdf The report identifies 18 unmet statutory mandates as of December 30, 2010, and specifies actions to implement or address each of them. The report also identifies 44 open recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board and 2 open recommendations by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 December 2011 Grow up. If you haven't learned by now seeing it's states you have 10-20 years you'll never learn. The government has so much control under the Railway Labor Act plus add in Obama's resorting to the PEB striking is not an realistic option. Let's say Pierce took the BLE to a strike. Then the U.S. Congress forces which is their right the less desireable contract down your throat without the recommendations of the PEB & the gains the BLE has achieved over the past 60 day cooling off period. The first thing you would state the BLE screwed us should of taken the PEB offer. Pierce and the BLE negotiating committee did there job no real news yet on the total tenative contract but it stated they managed to get over 20+% wage increase over 6 years instead of the 18 1/2% the PEB recommended. So don't cry crocadile tears on here that the BLE sucks. Leave that to the UTU members when they see the difference in contracts they'll have a real reason to be pissed.

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 December 2011 Pierce formally notifies General Chairmen of tentative agreement CLEVELAND, December 5 — Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) National President Dennis R. Pierce has formally notified General Chairmen representing employees impacted by national health and welfare bargaining of the Tentative Agreement reached between the BLET and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) late last week. Not able to strike=no union ble wasted our money and time with this bullshit when there was no way we were ever going to be able to strike republican democrats they're all full of shit they don't care about the unions just reelection no one stood with us why should we stand with them

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 December 2011 I understand CSX now runs the NS playbook. And we have the nastiest Nazi of them all Brownshit.

Name: Pointspread Pauper E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 December 2011 Oh...by the way ...this refers to Norfolk Southern Internal Audit #2009-178. Squad 3 of the Cleveland, Ohio FBI and the Norfolk FBI Field Office will now first be involved with a chap named Mark XXXXX from Virginia Beach, Virginia who had at least one guest from his house on Thanksgiving 2009 who had the 2009-178 file with them. Norfolk Southern is going to let this guy hang himself before the FBI because Norfolk Southern can never admit what they did to me... ..their strategy won't work and before the e-mail presence of the Chief of Squad 3 of the FBI and the US Attorney for the Judicial District of Northern Ohio.... ...Norfolk Southern is going to LITERALLY BEG the US Attorney to allow the fashioning of a sixteenth-century "star chamber" where Norfolk Southern officials & agents plead guilty to all counts and ask for maximum sentences to run consecutively on all counts... ...just in order to spare themselves the embarrassment before their stockholders(NYC Comptroller Pension Funds) and SEC Enforcement who will be freezing their assets & halting all trading of their stock. It became obvious reading the sanctions decision of Judge Ellen Maas that this drag-your-feet obfuscation by BNSF Railway was a strategy aimed at the presumption that law firms WOULD NOT shell out their own dough. This law firm did and because of it BNSF attorneys are squirming before the Minnesota Supreme Court Also, BNSF altered their response by removing a line from VP Aimbler's pathetic explanation... it said something like, "BNSF employees have gone through further training on the proper disposition of evidence" ...oh, this was accidentallll???!!!??? The reason they removed that line was because the new set of attorneys for BNSF had to go before the Minnesota Supreme Court and admit to 'bad conduct'; to wit, a euphamism for "total contempt of the judicial system, the court and the court's officers" Well, NoMo.... you pay real close attention to what Judge Maas spoke about her authority... powers granted specifically to her by enumeration... but most importantly "inherent" powers to cover exigencies not clearly defined by statute, ordinance or within the body of "case law" Couple that with a DoD administrative law decision defining administrative proof as "something less than a preponderance of the evidence but more than a glimmer or glimpse" http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/02-16379.h1.html Sheriffs, Police Chiefs, Mayors(Executive Branch), Fire Chiefs, County HAZMAT officials too have inherent powers as well as "enumerated powers" These inherent powers will successfully clash with this cite by Norfolk Southern Chief Counsel, John Edwards in the Ethanol Transloading Terminal Case before the NTSB: "The purpose of the Federal preemption is to prevent a patchwork of local and state regulation from unreasonably interfering with interstate commerce " ...remember in the John Grisham movie, The Firm, where Mitchell McDeer (Tom Cruise) submarines the entire Memphis Law Office with an oblique yet devastating attack.. ..he tells the FBI Agent played by Ed Harris that the hundreds of uses of a postage stamp to commit overbilling mail fraud was not glamorous but it had teeth(5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine per incident) The reason Tom Cruise was able to figure that out and not the FBI was because he was successfully able to collate what he had learned in law school with the misconduct he observed as an insider. You will all be getting to have a sideline pass to watch how "inherent powers" beat the "federal preemption" in US District Court. The "postage stamp" in this case is that the US District Court will FIRST PERFORM a "test" to see if the Alexandria, Va officials will have had sufficient "administrative proof" to have acted unilaterally... ...if that is settled in their favor then it is dispositive. Norfolk Southern never gets a chance to present the Federal Preemption argument nor the Interstate Commerce Act of 1870 nor anything else. This will be the biggest upset of a prohibitive favorite(Norfolk Southern) in the United States since UTEP beat #6-ranked BYU straight up as 42-point underdogs in NCAA Football... somewhere around 1989. I of course was at Bally's Grand in Reno and bet BYU -42 (another loser in a lifetime of losing bets)... ...the ironic thing is I RESEARCH ALL MY PICKS IN FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL & BASEBALL for hours-and hours to pick losers this bad... I'd be better of going 50-50 by having my Magic 8-ball pick games for me.... BYU -42, Mr Magic 8-ball??? "All signs point to yes" Okay...my Magic 8-ball is not so magic since it picks losers also but at least I can research 10 or 15 games in 5 minutes as opposed to 7 or 8 hours. I also got to quit betting so many games... the 11/10 house edge of 52.38% grinds you down much, much faster when you bet alot of games. Hey, if any of you want to freak out Norfolk Southern by dropping one shoe and letting the other shoe dangle from your arm... you can e-mail the link to these posts to... Norfolk Southern VP of Law william.galanko@nscorp.com Norfolk Southern Senior Counsel John.Edwards@nscorp.com ...due to the criminal & regulatory misconduct of Norfolk Southern's Agents, the hegemony has flipped 180 degrees in favor of the communities in the 22 states. The first casualty will be an attorney for a Norfolk Southern Drug Testing Agent who will surrender his law license (as opposed to being disbarred)and then surrender to the FBI for "felony intimidation" of the family members of someone reporting regulatory violations to the FRA and criminal conduct to the Norfolk Southern Police

Name: Pointspread Pauper E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 December 2011 Hello, NoMo How are you doing? The appellation, "whoop ass express" crystalizes perfectly what is about to happen. Some folks were hoping they'd be able to trash US DOT documentation pretty soon... ...but just like Lucy used to yank the football away from Charlie Brown prior to him kicking it... ...they're going to realize they never had a chance. I was never going to let that happen from the beginning of their threats against my physical safety

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 December 2011 Was that the "Whoop Ass" express?

Name: Pointspread Pauper E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 December 2011 Of course, David... ..if you, George Knapp or Anjelica Palank have ever been place kickers in the National Football League, I take all of those platitudes back and deny them forever... ...missing field goals wide right... shanking point-after-attempts. I couldn't pick a winner against the pointspread if my life depended on it... and not just in the NFL I dislike placekickers in NCAA Football just as much for the very same reasons. Statistically, it is just as difficult to pick 11 losers in a row against the pointspread as it is to pick 11 winners in a row against the pointspread. Guess what I picked?... 11 losers in a row... ...followed by a push/tie... ...followed by two losers 0 wins 13 Losses 1 push/tie

Name: Pointspread Pauper E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 December 2011 You're a good man, David Nelson, you and your family paid quite a high price for you sticking up to the ethical principles some good parents must have instilled in you all. The $1.18 million you received was not that much when attorneys' fees were taken out. Your family suffered too, David... they too are owed a great debt by the citizens of this nation and somebody is going to do something to let that be formalized in writing. It's easy to make Attorney jokes - - yet look at what SHINING STARS the attorneys fighting against BNSF Railways' lies and foot-dragging showed themselves to be... ...they did what MOST OTHER LAW FIRMS would not do...spent TONS of their own money to hunt down BNSF's lies ....slogging slowly through the mud and the swamps... never losing their resolve...never allowing themselves to be intimidated...just like Lord Baltimore kept coming after Robert Redford & Paul Newman in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". This nation owes those attorneys a debt of gratitude. The former FRA Inspector who informed George Knapp of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.. another good man.. note how Union Pacific took issue with the safety issues even though it was an expert formerly within the FRA who brought up the seminal issues for the KLAS-TV producers of that story. Now it's time to put these buzzards "out of the olive oil business" as Al Pacino/Michael Corleone said in the Godfather movie. Dave Nelson wrote: "If I have limited Signal Knowledge as you claim, then there is nothing I can say that is of value [to potential terrorists], so don't worry about it." Excellent point, David You look at TV Journalist, George Knapp's expose on the Union Pacific Railyard in Las Vegas... ...the conduct of CSX termminating the employment of an employee who failed to meet the Federal Hearing/Audiology Standard when no such standard exists ...the $4.2 million awarded in sanctions alone against BNSF Railway for the countless lies and blame shifting in the case heard by Judge Ellen Maas in Minnesota and BNSF's totally reprehensible response which detoured from the issue of "public policy formation"; to wit, "why are stewards of regulatory testing acting unethically and frustrating the efforts of the court's officers?" ...Norfolk Southern's recent loss in an OSHA case where the Administrative Law Judge dragged in all 22 US States where Norfolk Southern operates and damned the entire NS culture of non-compliance effectively saying Norfolk Southern was pretending to be something they're not by discouraging employees who were injured to NOT FOLLOW Federal Regulations and report those injuries so that Norfolk Southern could win the EJ Harriman Safety Award. Amazing that the spineless political whores in politics and the bureaucracy would take someone who won a $1.18 million whistleblower lawsuit awarded by the US Government and then have a DIFFERENT ARM of that government basically call him a troublemaker and potential threat. The threat is the rail industry that has that kind of stranglehold on the political & bureaucratic apparatuses in this nation. Anjelica Palank... a woman who went to law school to familiarize herself with the nuances of what was happening in the CSX/Amtrack case where the judge called CSX's "rusty nail" securement "borderline criminal" She gave the $60 million she was awarded for the death of her husband, Police Sergeant Paul Palank to charity. To the brave CSX employee who approached her and risked HIS FAMILY's livelihood to tell Anjelica Palank that things were either "being covered up" or maybe "just hurried along" There's alot of evil in this world... I'm not the person who should be talking about it since I was willing to participate in regulatory violations to get/keep a job. The reason that I have to talk about it is because I'm refusing to let these buzzards successfully beat me in the game of musical chairs they played.... I found out about all of you... I'm not a better person because of it; I am what I am..... but I won't hesitate to acknowledge what you have all shown yourselves to be and paid the price for. Name: Dave E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 July 2010 RE: Slack Action Sorry man, I'm going to spill my guts on this site. Remember? I'm the Dave Nelson listed on the NO FLY LIST as a potential threat to National Transportation Security. I have no options but to take these guys on in order to get off the list. If I have limited Signal Knowledge as you claim, then there is nothing I can say that is of value, so don't worry about it.

Name: Boyles E-mail: BOXCAR.... Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 December 2011 BOXCAR....,,,I WAS IN KENTUCKY,,,,CORBIN EK,, DIVISION...MR. OAKS WAS IN CHARGE OF THE COMPLETE DIVISION,,,,MR, EDWARDS WAS SECOND IN CHARGE...,,,,,,,,YES....CSX WAS LIVE AND WELL.,,,I HAVE CSX RULE BOOKS,,CSX,,TIMETABLES FROM THE EARLY 80,S,,,, WE HAD TO COVER UP THE SCL/L&N THAT WAS ON OUR HARDHATS..VEHICLES AND ENGINES.....CSX WAS LIVE AND WELL IN THE SOUTH.... IT MAY DEPEND WHAT PART OF THE TODAYS...CSX SYSTEM YOU WORKED FOR... I HAVE EVERY CHECK STUB SINCE THE DAY I HIRED IN................ CSX WAS IN EARLY 80,S IN THE SOUTH.....WE HAD TO COVER UP SCL/L&N ON HARD HATS,,,ENGINES ,,,VEHICLES,,,WITH CSX STICKERS..... ,,,I WAS IN KENTUCKY,,,,,,WE HAD TO CHANGE ALL STICKERS ON HARD HATS,,,TRUCKS AND SOME ENGINES......WE HAD TO COVER UP..ANYTHING THAT SAID,,,.L&N....SCL/L&N OR ANY OTHER SIR NAME........WE STUCK ...CSX STICKERS OVER THE OLD STICKERS........ ...I HAD TO GET USE TO ANSWERING THE RADIO,,,,WITH,,,CSX,,,,.. I WORKED ON THE EK DIVISION....CORBIN DIVISION OFFICE...,,IN 1981---1983,,,..ALL DIVISIONS WERE NOT THE SAME,,,,,SOME WERE LATER THAN OTHERS.....,,,,CSX WAS LIVE AND WELL IN EARLY 80,S IN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTH......I HAVE ALL PAPER WORK TO PROVE....CSX WAS STILL IN THE EARLY STAGES OF COMPLETLY TAKING OVER....,,,I HOPE THIS WAS A HELP TO YOU.. THANKS FOR REPLY.....BOYLES... ,,,

Name: boxcar E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 December 2011 Boyles, Educate me... You hired in 73? Your first 10 years were perfect. I wasnt aware that csx took over in 83.. they were still doing conrail book of rules in 95 in the indianapolis area then went to the blended book of rules till 2000. Where were you that csx took over in 83? Was I mislead?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 December 2011 Y- You're an idiot.

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2011 A union not able to strike is useless what a waste of money Congress kiss are asses

Name: BOYLES E-mail: BOXCAR Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 December 2011 BOXCAR,,, I DO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,,,MENTAL ABUSE,!!!! I RETIRED EARLY TO GET THE HELL OUT,!!!! THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF MY RAILROAD WAS PERFECT.!!!! THEN...CSX TOOK OVER.!!! FROM THAT DAY ON,,IT WAS DIFFEENT.!!! I WAS HARRASED,,,PUT DOWN BY SEVERAL BOSES.!!! AND,,NOTHING I COULD DO BUT TAKE IT,,,,,,,WHILE SOME OF THE YOUNGER GUYS UNDER ME...THAT THE BOSS LIKE,,,GOT AWAY WITH ALOT OF THINGS.!!!! THERE WERE ALOT OF UNLAWFULL THINGS GOING ON,,BUT,,,I WAS ALONE,,,IF YOU DID NOT DRINK WITH THE BOSS,,OR IF YOU DID NOT RUN AROUND WITH THE BOSS,,,YOU WERE THE OUTCAST.!!!!.... YES,,,I DO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,,,IT MAY BE ALOT WORSE NOW AS YOU SAID.... I HAVE BEEN BACK IN THE YARD,,,,2 TIMES SINCE I RETIRED....I HAVE LOST NOTHING THERE,,,IT IS NOT THE RAILROAD OF YESTERDAY..... IT IS A NEW GENERATION NOW,,,,,BUT,,,ALL OF YOU GUYS STAND IN THERE,,,,,,,,MY WIFE AND I LIKE OUR RETIREMENT CHECKS,!!! I HAD TO THROW THAT JOKE IN,!!!! ..... I USE TO GO TO MY UNION,,,,,THAT WAS A MISTAKE,,,,,THE COMPANY AND THE UNIONS ARE THE SAME,!!!!! BEWARE OF WHAT YOU SAY AND WHO YOU SAY IT TOO.....I HAVE LEARNED,,,YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS ON THE RAILROAD.....YOU THINK YOU DO.!!! ,,,,,,TO ALL YOU NEW GUYS,,,HANG IN THERE,,,AND PROTECT WHAT IS YOURS.!!!!,,, UNION,,,WHAT UNION,,,,YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN,!!! ALL THE UNION WANTS IS THE MONTHLY CUT DUES.!!! UNIONS ARE A JOKE NOW,!!!,,,,,,RETIRED...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2011 Boxcar, You are only half right, always remember the old heads are around to not only tell tales of years ago, some have a few from last month. Listen it is a learned skill.

Name: boxcar E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 December 2011 Boyles, You retired 11 years ago.. You havent a clue how bad it has gotten. You got out in the nick of time. So please dont bash the people for getting on here and venting about the hostile work enviornment that the people have to endure on a daily basis. You cant possibly be getting out of bed everyday heading out to a job that you have to prepare yourself for mental abuse before you even get out of your car. Dont tell people to quit. Thats what they told all the chinese workers in the factories, but it didnt work because they had nothing else to go to at the time. The company plays on that. They know the economy is unstable. Quote from high ranking csx official..."Sometimes you have to punish your workers to keep them in line. They are like children and need to be disciplined!" IF you cant support those who come on here to vent their frustrations in their work place then you need to move on. A website called CSX SUCKS is not for you. Maybe you can find a site for retired railroaders who want to reminisce about the life and times of the old railroad.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: KYLE Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 November 2011 ...KYLE,,,,, THANKS FOR YOUR POST......YOU ARE 100% CORRECT...!!! I HIRED IN 1973,, RETIRED IN 2000..... THE WORKERS ALONG WITH THE SUPERVISORS,,,,,WERE A DIFFERENT BREED OF PEOPLE... .... I REMEMBER THE DAYS,,,I LOOKED FORWARD TO GOING TO WORK,!!!THE OLD RAILROAD WAS A FUN PLACE TO WORK,,,,I HIRED IN,,,MAKING,,$3.50 A HOUR,!!! ...AND,,,I WAS PROUND TO BE A RAILROADER.!!!!! WHEN I LEFT THE NEW RAILROAD,,,,,IT WAS NOT THE SAME MORALS OF YESTERDAY.... ....MANY POST ARE CORRECT,,,,,,TODAYS CSX AND OTHER RAILROADS DO NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT YOU ARE WHAT YOU STAND FOR...... THE RULES ARE FOR THE WORKERS TO GO BY,,,,,,,THE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CARE WHAT UNION CONTRACT STAND FOR,,,,,AND,,BE HONEST,,,,THE UNIONS OF TODAY ARE BOUGHT OFF BY THE COMPANIES AND DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE WORKERS TO A DEGREE....THEY LIKE THE DUES PAID MONTHLY.... LOOK AT ALL THE BENIFITS TRANSPORTATION AND ENGINERS HAVE LOST.... I JOKE ALOT ON HERE TO GET A RESPONCE FROM SOME OF THE POST.... ..BUT,,,TODAYS RAILROADS ARE A EMBARASSEMENT TO THE OLD HEADS OF YESTERDAY..... BUT,,,THIS IS NOT ONLY IN RAILROADS......THE UNITED STATES HAS CHANGED......THE YOUTH OF TODAY,,,HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DO OR,,HOW TO DO IT... WE HAVE A LOST GENERATION,!!!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 November 2011 Pines Snow & ice build up on brake riggings isn't a new problem. Actually there is a solution not sure if it's still in the rules but an automomatic brake application is to occasionally be made to prevent it from happening. If I remember correctly in a heavy snowfall it's every 15-30 minutes. This can be done by streach braking or bunch braking the train. It doesn't have to be for long just enough to cause friction & heat to melt the snow & prevent ice. This should be a must especially before reaching a decending grade. The other problem which hopefully they still do in colder regions is putting alcohol in the brake line to prevent it from freezing. We had a train get by a stop signal years ago snow prevented it from slowing & stopping. In my area it's a bad winter if you have snow on the ground for more than a week. Usually we get snow and it's gone within a couple of days. Areas like this winter preventive measures are nearly non-excistent.

Name: KYLE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 November 2011 All i know is many do not quit a rr job period cuz no were can you make this kind of money with only a high school education, just try it somewere else and see what ya get without a colledge degree and many colledge grads cant even find a half decent job today, and were else can you find a job were you get payed for sitting on yer bum most of the time and even sleeping too? the problem with the class 1s today is that the management peeps did not come out of the rank&file like they used too and that i blame on the rr,s themselfs cuz they should know better,You cant be a tm or a rfe unless you have had the experince of being in the field yourself and untill that changes we are going to have to put up with these morons they now hire in the manager jobs, I have talked with real old heads now retired who worked for the ex, prr & b&o, the rr back then what they told me was like a big family and its sure not like that today, If only the guys in those ivory towers would wise up already?

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 November 2011 IF ANY OF YOU DO NOT LIKE YOUR JOBS,,,,,,WALK AWAY.!!!!! WALMART IS HIRING ,,,GREETERS,!!!!! CSX IS NOT MAKING ANY OF YOU STAY.!!! BUT,,,I BET YOU LIKE THE MONEY AND BENIFITS,!!!!! SOUNDS LIKE OLD CROWS ,,,CROWING,!!!!!,,,,, DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOUR JOB IS,,,DO A GOOD DAYS WORK FOR YOUR EMPLOYER......BE RSPECTFULL......BE KIND,,,,,AND,,YOU WILL GET KINDNESS BACK,,,,,...

Name: Daily Rant E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 29 November 2011 The Jar & Two Beers... When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the jar and the 2 Beers. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.' The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.. 'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else---the small stuff. 'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand. One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.' The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Beers with a friend. Please share this with someone you care about. I JUST DID! Sorry this is CSX We sweat all the small stuff and drink alot of Beer.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2011 NOMO that was 65 mph train speed AFTER no throttle and being in emergency brake mode for 6 miles. A obvious train brake problem. I would think 17,300 pounds (downhill) would challenge the train brakes with just dew on. BUT Mikey has a million bucks to give away and can't fix the problem. http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=535044 CSX Corp. Chairman Michael Ward...plan to announce a $1 million challenge grant Wednesday from the Michael and Kim Ward Foundation for infrastructure improvements at the college campus. In addition to Ward... 1:30 p.m. Wednesday February 6, 2010 at 2:15 a.m. The train was 6581 feet long and had a trailing tonnage of 17,300 tons. The derailment occurred while descending the 1.47% Sandpatch grade U88303 DERAILED DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED ACCOUNT EXCESSIVE SNOW AND ICE BUILD UP ON BRAKE RIGGING.

Name: economy slave E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 November 2011 HEY BOYLES... Obviously you are the IDIOT!! GET A LIFE? What kind of joke is that. WE WORK FOR THE RAILROAD! Take more than 1 sick day a month and you get a nasty gram from the nazis. Thats why our medical is going up. get sick and cant see your doctor have to go to med care or emergency room just so you can prove you were sick. Hit someone in a car you get a few days off but you dont get paid for them unless you kill the person....OOOHHHH theres moral support.. Cut the boards so short that your phone rings all night long cause they are running the rosters trying to find someone to work. Forget that your family suffers as well. Baby woke up and spouse tired as hell...Agreement they signed says they will keep enough people hired and on the rosters so this shit doesnt happen. Spend the day working with a new guy who got the worst piss poor training ever seen on any rr because cheap bastards dont want to cut into the company profits and pay to keep them out there until they learn the job! Now your spending the whole day stressed and babysitting praying you dont lose your job by the end of the day! Lets not forget the hundreds of dollars you have to fight for cause they decided they didnt want to honor the agreement that they signed their damb john henry on! Oh, I forgot, its just an agreement. No better than a hand shake! How about the bullshit failures they put on peoples records just so suck up management can get a pat on the back from the Jacksonville Nazi's! Off to monkey court you go.... Always guilty until proven innocent. Thousands of dollars wasted on unnecessary investigations. Money that could go to the employees. Just too damb much to print on one page...Oh...before you say "if you dont like your job then quit", when the economy gets better you might be surprised how many of us do!In the meantime its our responsibility to let the people know exactly what goes on! GET OFF THIS WEBSITE MORON! Your doing nothing but wasting good space for the people who understand what its for..CSX SUCKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2011 Hey Con 1-10: There's no doubt that Mr. Pines has a personal agenda, he's annoying and some of his posts are dated. However, information like this is important and should be disseminated as widely as possible. Not only for the T&E employees but the public as well. CSX and the other carriers hate bad press...this certainly qualifies. It took getting as far as box 29 on pg.1 to figure out the cause. Not that it couldn't have happened if the speed was 50 MPH. Besides, this is a safety issue and this is the safety thread!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 November 2011 Whoa Conductor ---your profanity is showing your railroad intelligence. Have you read these so-called investigations? A real FRA would find the idiot railroad should have been not running at all. Was the coal going to rot? http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2010/hq201006.PDF There were 24-30 inches of snow on the ground and near white out conditions. 130 loaded coal hopper cars. Estimated damages including equipment, track, and signal, is a reported $2,200,500. http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2010/2010summary.pdf

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 November 2011 ......... ;;;;;;;;;;;;PEOPLE...GET A LIFE..!!!!!!!;;;;;

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 November 2011 Dear Pines, Shut the fuck up. No one cares! Webmaster, please block this stupid son of a bitch. Thanks, OUT!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 November 2011 If government employees had to abide by USMC General Orders. 1. To take charge of this post and all government property in view. That means the FRA airheads huh? My complaint? Recording devices stolen that tax payers where charged for by railroad. Whistle posts at 17 seconds and not required 20 seconds for 50 mph trains. No train brakes with 17 seconds warning according to crews own statement. There is no thump meter on the train so train speed couldn't be determined especially with brakes applied (speed would be 0 while sliding wheels would be 49 mph) It would be physically impossible for a vehicle going around a gate on a 18 foot wide road to cause damage to the opposite gate since the vehicle would be even with the gate to start with. FRA your DIRTY. www.fra.dot.gov/rrs/ViolationReport.aspx# http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/Accident_Investigation/2010/hq201007.PDF ""There are no recording devices in the grade crossing control house.""

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 November 2011 Hey APE 10-20: Thank you for the Info, it's been duly noted and the tally sheet marked. Miami of Ohio is called the cradle of coaches because of all the successful big time college football coaches that got started there. I afraid Boyles in Birmingham is developing their own reputation for all the POS that got their start their. Conner, and Danny Spenser to name a few...funny how these types tend to follow each other around. Didn't Spenser spend some time in Indy before he landed in Lafayette?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 25 November 2011 Thank you APE I will place that in the Rolodex and appreciate the info. Maybe that info will come in handy for the future.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 November 2011 Update for your rolodex: The Division Manager on the GLD is: T. Scott Conner(scott_conner@csx.com) formally ADM Huntington Division(West), formally Terminal Supt. Birmingham, AL. Engineer by Craft His Number 2 is ADM Jack Vierling III(Jack_Vierling@csx.com) formally ADM Huntington Division(East) formally STO Huntington Division(Jax Ops Center) Train Dispatcher by Craft. Hope this helps, they are not NS "Nazi's" or David Brown lovers however....More like a couple of Frulla's good ol' boys...

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 November 2011 Hey Nazi Exterminator: Exactly who would the Great Lakes Head Turd in Charge be? So all the uninitiated readers know who you speak of...besides, I can't count your nomination for the "Brown Banana" without a name! Might be we have a repeat winner this year?

Name: Nazi Exterminator E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 24 November 2011 The Great Lakes Head Turd in Charge is loyal to The Rooster Fish Express and Davey NS Shitbag Brown just his kind. So until Brown is GONE expect more of the same. Call Wards office, FRA, Senator Lugar see if they like the calls. Nazi Exterminator

Name: Bo E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 November 2011 Hey No Name On Your Post "Avon - would one of the managers doing this illegal testing happen to be David Harris" What do you mean by one? Try all of the managers at Avon. Under Scott Conner, all of Avon's managers running so scared for their job, and their fear of not getting their 15 failures a month, that they've resorted to doing what ever it takes in order to keep their job. If this means that they need to lie and cheat, even fire you for good, consider it done. The CSX Ethics policy be damed.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 November 2011 Avon - would one of the managers doing this illegal testing happen to be David Harris

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 November 2011 Pines That article doesn't make sense. Why would the locomotive engineer tell a trainmen to jump up run over pull the emergency brake lever when he has the automatic brake handle right next to him? I've had to put trains in emergency during my carreer for various reasons including grade crossing accidents not once did I tell a trainmen to do it for me. lol. I'm not saying it can't happen. I've never heard anything like this before. It's sounds more like trainmen panic more than anything else then he tripped over his own shoe laces.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 November 2011 http://www.startribune.com/investigators/111461899.html?page=3&c=y """When the train's engineer realized a pickup truck was not going to stop at the crossing, he yelled a warning to Richardson, who jumped from his seat to activate a brake on the front wall of the cab, according to the railroad's account.""" How long does this take and what genius did the engineering?

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 November 2011 GOOD HEALTH IS FAR BETTER THAN BEING HURT FOR REAL,,,AND,,,THE MONEY WILL NOT HELP....,,,,,MAY HELP YOUR WIFE .!!!!!!! BOY,,,AT SOME OF THE POST I READ,,LOOKS LIKE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS,!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 November 2011 This is the situation,A man went to work for CSX and worked for 18 months.He then got in trouble and lied and said he got hurt {but did not at this time}Had a lawyer within a week and was sent to doctors that the lawyers sent him to.To make the story short he recieved 900000.00,But was hurt for life,his choice.Be thankful for your job,remember it only takes 6 weeks to train someone to take your job.I am not an employee but have seen both sides.

Name: Bo E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 November 2011 Railer, What do we do when we see management testing crews using altered testing strips in the switches? Is there anyone we can report this to? How do we document what we see when we're not allowed to carry any electronic devices? There has to be some way that we can prove that Avon Management under Scott Conners is out of control. In my opinion. Avon Management needs to go back to the Redi Center for retraining on testing procedures, or at the very least get two round trips with Bill Pack. (I believe this is now the prefered method of retraining for people at Avon.) Thanks

Name: Bo E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 November 2011 Railer When Avon management violates the rules, or the testing procedures they use on us, what can we do to correct this situation? Is there anyone we can report this to that will actually do something? The way management treats us is nothing like they told us railroading would be when we were at the Redi Center Thanks

Name: railer E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 November 2011 ALERT AVON CREWS Watch your ass avon crews. Your supervisors are putting those testing strips in several switch points at a time. If they ask you to set a car out off your cut check every single peice of the rail. They are putting them underneath the ball of the rail as well. I have been hearing that they also have altered the stip with a tape tab so they can place it farther down on the rail instead of placing them they way the fra insructed them to do. They are pissed cause they cant get failures on them if they put them on the rail like they are supposed to. So now they are altering the things so they can try and get you better. It aint o testing no more. Its lets do what ever it takes to get a failure on someone.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 November 2011 All i know about the rr since i have been on it is that they will spend millions to do away with a 100 dollar a day job, what i am talking about is all the towers they closed a min expence to put in these big dispatch centers, they came after those tower operaters big time and operations worked very well with the block stations, those dam things worked if it was 100 outside or 20 below zero, and ow you just get a lil thundersorm and half the system gets knocked off line, I talked with sme signal men and they tld me how well built those old towers were, ie the equiptment, it was made to last 300 yrs or better, think he told me wabco built most of that stuff in the 1920,s,, i seen the insides of many of the old signal towers, 100 lil braty kids could not harm that stuff as that is how well that it was built, now today, wind, rain, snow puts these new disp centers out of commission, yup that the rr managment thinking today spend millions for a system that alaways fails just to get rid of a few jobs.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 November 2011 Imagine that a Avon YM builds a huge cut for the Departure. Never enough. Indianapolis has no Clue about large trains running down hill into Indy. Many close calls just never made it to Indy. Getting on and off moving equipment for Safety Reasons is permitted especially if you are a Train Master, although you might get killed doing it. Just enter a O test failure in his history if you got the Balls.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 November 2011 Avon loses control of a remote? imagine that! Dragging a cut way heavier than the rules allow for a single unit out the main to shove a departure track...Con forgets to cut the air in on the head three and guess what? Con is on head end but because the rules say you can't be on the walkways at 15 MPH he didn't tie the hand brake. TM boards (moving equipment) and ties hand brake as train starts up the only hill for miles and saves Indianapolis from certain doom. Lets see if CSX can cover this up! While on the subject of Avon, I understand the O-testing has gotten so out of control that bad things could happen to snakes in the grass. Watch those inbounds...might be a train load Whoop Ass!!!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 November 2011 Slackie if you had goggled "idiot that is clueless about railroad crossings" that would come up all the cops the railroads gave the GCCI (Grade crossing Collision Investigations) to. Now google google for what google means and that what you get on your google ability.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 November 2011 One of the best highlight stories of a remote happened a few years ago. The Remote was dragging out a cut on to the mainline one of the remote operators was standing on the lead locomotive front platform protecting the head end. He was passing a track force working on the main all smiles and waving. What he didn't realise he was in a 707 and never got permission to enter. lol. CSX covered it up. Lucky no one got hurt and even luckier that there wasn't any rail missing. lol. Then not long after CSX cuts the switchmen off goes to one man remotes.

Name: in fear for safety E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 19 November 2011 AVON LOSES CONTROL OF REMOTE TRAIN! SEEMS THIS MORNING AN AVON REMOTE LOST ITS LINK WITH THE LITTLE GREEN OPERATOR BOX IS HEADED DOWN THE MAIN LINE AT 14 MILES PER HOUR. LAST HEARD IT WAS BEING CHASED DOWN BY A TRAINMASTER!! LOOKS LIKE A NEW MOVIE FOR THE BOX OFFICE.....THEY CAN CAL IT"TONKA TOY GONE WILD" WATCH OUT PUBLIC... TONKA COMING THROUGH LETS SEE THEM COVER THIS ONE UP!

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 November 2011 Robert, no not stalking you , I just googled "idiot that is clueless about railroad crossings" and your name came up... There is no such thing as a 40 ton train.. Now read this slow 8.845 " stop,look and listen... then you live So, if a cop sees a person run around the gates and get hit by a train , he is lying. If a cop see the gates not come down and a car gets hit, he is telling the truth.. Can you say flip/flop Pines or just a liar... You are way out of your comfort zone. I hope this helps you out. Remember: 100% of all crossing accidents are preventable.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 November 2011 THE LAWYERS WHO READ THIS LOVE IT,,,,,,,,GET MONEY FOR THE PRIVATE PEOPLE EVERY TIME,,, DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS ON PURPOSE OR JUST HATE THE RAILROAD.!!!! IF SOME OF YOU HATE IT THIS MUCH,,,,FIND ANOTHER JOB,,, THIS SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF OLD HENS,,!!!!

Name: Whore Bitch E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 November 2011 Anna Stayton gets pregnant and what happens? Daddy and stepmother gets her a job in Florida. It's amazing when the whore bitch fucks the help and gets promoted. Where's the core values, between Anna's legs!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2011 Wow Slackie ---you ah stalking me? That's good. http://www.topix.com/forum/com/cni/T6A0T23CHAJLAB9HN/p4 From 2007? Now read this slow ---"""Rail maintenance vehicle hits car""" Not a 40 ton train. Now read this slow 6.50.2 """Approaching Road Crossings""" On-track equipment must approach all grade crossings prepared to stop and must yield the right of way to vehicular traffic. If necessary, flag the crossing to protect movement of on-track equipment.""" Where's the railroads fail to yield ticket?

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 November 2011 Quote by Pines: Police: Faulty railroad stop arms led to accident Qoute by Pines: I agree the gates were faulty. The train detection circuitry being used is deadly junk. The turn off circuitry turns the gates on when the train is like two seconds away setting up the driver to be blindsided and killed. It happens all the time and is coivered up. The cops and railroad falsely reporting the gates as working need to be in a very nasty prison for a very long time. Federal statutes call for the FRA to come out on failed signals. Where they at? SO, by your own admission the cops and witnesses falsely report the gates as working. So which is it. Do they lie or don't they... SOUNDS like the only person lying is YOU. Also, a train will weigh more than 400 tons. I hope this helps you out. Remember 100% of ALL crossing accidents are preventable

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2011 MORE railroad jury tampering http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/car-49774-maintenance-vehicle.html Norfolk Southern Corp. Director of Public Relations Robin Chapman said Wednesday night that the driver allegedly drove around the crossing gate at the intersection before the rail maintenance vehicle struck the vehicle. http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/burlington-49795-police-railroad.html Police: Faulty railroad stop arms led to accident http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/11/17/article/2_in_burlington_escape_injury_when_car_hit_on_tracks Witnesses said the railroad crossing arm did not come down. “The lights and gate were operating properly,” Chapman said. “The driver drove around or under the gate. There were no injuries.”

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2011 Hey Dis 10-20: How do you think Ward and his minions get around...by train? I'm willing to bet CSX has a substantial Aviation Dept., probably a couple of Citations or the like. Maybe even a chopper or two.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 November 2011 Thank god this company doesn't fly airplanes!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 November 2011 Hey Jax YM: You're worried about Pines and his obsession...you seem to be obsessing over L. Touchstone!

Name: Jax E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 November 2011 What is up with Mr. Pines obsession with crossings?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 November 2011 suzannah Definition of the word Occupy: 1) To take up 2) To take or hold possession or control of 3) to fill 4) to reside in. These don't refer to 1/2 or 3/4 of the space. It about common sense. I can't figure our why someone wouldn't lay on the horn for an extra second or two. That to me is laziness. Were they taught wrong? Most engineer trainees go with a quite a few engineers while training. It sounds like this person just felt like doing it their way. You made a case scenario that no one would try to beat a train once they entered the crossing. I've seen accidents where people have hit the side of a locomotive at a crossing. If the download shows the engineer quit using the horn figuring they were in the space of the crossing but not entirely through it a lawyer would have a field day against CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 November 2011 Are you saying Brown likes to blow all the way across the road crossing. Sounds real Queer, just like him. Nazification of CSX Fetch Rover Association

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 November 2011 The key word oh Susieanna---is """PUBLIC""" crossings for train horns not private. So for 10 years or more you have been blowing train horns at private crossing which have no whistle posts? WOW that's magical. The real for no train horns reason at private crossings ---FED money don't cover private crossings and railroads are greedy bastards too cheap to put up $10 whistle signs and maintain them. """2 long, 1 short and 1 long. The horn must continue to sound until the lead locomotive or train car occupies the grade crossing.""" The key words here """lead locomotive or train car occupies the grade crossing""" which is confusing. A. When cow catcher first enters the crossing. B. Who is in the train car to blow the horn? C. How long is long? D. How short is short? E. Why have horn rules and whistle signs instead of horn signs. F. The entire locomotive must occupy the crossing. G. It doesn't matter ---the railroad will change the data anyway. This explains http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/305-death-on-the-tracks-bnsf-railroads-24-million-dollar-cover-up-part-i.html Whoops http://www.fra.dot.gov/Pages/1773.shtml

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 November 2011 I love a good debate...I forgot what I was going to say because I copped a feel! Oh yeah...I don't know how it is today but I was always told that "when in doubt, take the safest way out". That was back in the days of the pre-job safety briefing and the safety word of the day. Just take the most conservative interpretation and let the chips fall were they will. When production starts to effect the bottom line, CSX will fire Brown. It happened at the NS and it will happen at CSX...Ingram's gone and Brown's next in line!

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 November 2011 RRJ, Thats the proper interpretation??? You say?? I believe that was the point of sick and tired and his general chairmans request. NOT EVERYONE interprets all words the same. If there is a problem with the wording of a rule that causes any kind of confusion with any employee then it is the responsibility of the company to make sure that confusion is addressed. You have been out here long enough to know that there are numerous "GRAY" areas in our rules as well as rules that conflict with each other. Lord, how many times have you seen a bulletin come out just to be cancelled a few days later because it wasnt correct! Numerous times there have been conflicts between management and crew members about what a rule "REALLY MEANS". It only takes one time for someone to get a failure over a rule they didnt understand because of the wording used in that rule to send up a red flag. This topic was brought up at the VOE meeting I attended. We asked that a 24 hour hotline be set up so when we ran into this problem with management we could call and get it settled by someone in OPR department. I asked them if it was fair to assume that when they wrote the rules they knew what their "meaning" was when they wrote them. Of course I was told...."I would think so"! They are supposed to be looking into the idea. Wait and see as usual. If they can circulate a notice telling you to set your clocks back then they should have no problem circulating a notice to all employess clarifying what they expect to be done on a rule that people are still obviously(since someone was wrote up on it) misinterpreting and DIDNT HEAR THE RUMOR! God, can you imagine what our military would be like if all new orders or problems were addressed by rumor only!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 November 2011 suzannah Blaring the horn thru the entire crossing is the way it's been forever. I understand the concept that being 1/2 or 3/4 of the way is basically occupying the crossing. In my area 3-4 years ago they were nailing people for this and blowing the horn beyond the 20 seconds limit. Is it rumors? Blaring the horn ringing the bell for the entire crossing is the way I was taught 31 years ago. What's changed? One e-test they loved to do was a stop & flag at a crossing a lot of people flunked over not using the horn till the locomotive was entirely across it. Why not do what they want? If there isn't a rule in place the LC & GC shouldn't have a problem wiining the investigation. On the charge letter it should specify the rule violations. Operating rule 13b which deals with the engine bell states 'it must be rung while approaching and PASSING public crossing at grade' this should also apply to the horn. I know it states under operating rule 14 'horn & whistle signal section' until the engine or train OCCUPIES the crossing. Why is it difficult not to interpet that to mean till the front of the lead locomtive is entirely by the crossing. That is the correct interpatation. This isn't a free for all to do as one pleases. It's called common sense.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 November 2011 RRJ, OK, now that you have me thinking about your comment alittle more, let me give you another thought to ponder on. Rule states you must be blowing your horn no less than 15 seconds and no more than 20 BEFORE entering the crossing. They want the gates activated and down for at least 20 seconds if possible before you enter the crossing. So the gates are down and the lights are on and you enter the crossing and stop blowing when you are halfway through it. You are in this massive piece of equipment. Not some teany weenie little scooter. Do you honestly think its going to make one bit of difference? It wouldnt make a bit of difference if you were still blowing or not. If some idiot tried to run around the gate in front of you after you were already in the middle of the crossing Im pretty sure they are going to end up running into the side of you instead. Maybe if you are going 5mph they might get in front of you but most of us are not traveling that slow. So lets say you are out in the country and you enter a private crossing with no lights or gates. Again, you are halfway or even 3/4 the way through and you let off the horn. Again, you are already in the middle of the road! In order to hit someone that driver had to already be there before you got to the crossing or they are idiots who think they are superman! Again, I dont think anyone would have enough time to even get in front of you in order to get hit after you have half the road blocked and your still on the move. I have never had anyone try to run around the gates or outrun me when I was already in the middle of the road. It is always just before I get to the crossing. And we all know in that circumstance we are going to be doing more than just blowing our horn. Its not a matter of being lazy. I have done it before. Maybe you just let off alittle earlier than you planned on. Maybe you just forgot to look out your side window at night to make sure you are completley across. It happens. We all know that some engines have longer noses than others. It can be decieving when your 5'4" and your seat wont go up and you can barely see over the console. Once your in the middle of the road with your massive peice of equipment I believe you have occupied it.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 November 2011 RRJ, That wasnt the question.. Apparently you never saw it. And if the FRA said they didnt care if you blew all the way across as long as you were in the roadway(which I heard personally and they didnt want to get into nit picking)then why the big deal from the supervisors. The question was brought forward because you cant start disciplining people on a "RUMOR" that is started on.....Well thats the way we see it and just do it! Once again someone was written up for violating a "RUMOR" they never heard!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 November 2011 sick of it Why would someone decide to only blow the horn ring the bell halfway thru a crossing? That sounds pretty lazy. It's always been till the lead locomotive has passed over blocking the crossing. Just like it's only 20 seconds to activate the horn where some have thought it was from the whistle post when running less than MAS. It's a matter of safety & liability. There are no short cuts.

Name: Busted E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2011 YM JAX..the safety concern is the bad neighborhood.Drug busts in the hotel.Pimps and prostituted.Week-end parties.etc The last straw for the person who refused to go there was the armed robbery of the hotel and a patron of the hotel and pistol whipping of the hotel clerk.Numerous reports of safety concerns were filed with the company with no results.I understand the problem with the hotels is not just Chicago.It is system wide and until the employees stand up for themselves the problem will only continue!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 November 2011 http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/305-death-on-the-tracks-bnsf-railroads-24-million-dollar-cover-up-part-i.html Slackie sez" Jury tampering usually starts with the crooked, corrupt lawyers who pay off the jury to sway them to give huge settlements to plaintiffs who have lied under oath and guilty of breaking the law. This cost the tax payer hundreds of millions in frivols lawsuits. I hope this helps you out.""" Slackie your watchin' comprehension must really suck ---It was the railroad bribing witnesses---falsifying documents --- videos---etc... The question would be why this RR corruption doesn't open up ALL old cases against the railroad.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 November 2011 I SEE ALOT OF MOANING AND GROANING,,BUT,,I HAVE YET SEEN ANYONE LEAVE THERE JOBS AND HUNT ANOTHER.... RAILROADS HAVE YOU RIGHT WHERE THEY WANT YOU,!!!!! IN DEBT..!!!! IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE MOTELS,,,ASK FOR A OLD MAINTANCE OF WAY CAMP CAR TO STAY IN,!!! I HAVE SEEN INSIDE OF THEM,,,,PRETTY BAD,,,,, A TRANSPORTATION MAN WOULD REFUSE TO STAY,!!!! MOST RAILROADS HAVE DONE AWAY WITH THEM .....AND,,,MOST STAY IN MOTELS WHERE THE RAILROAD GETS CUT RATE PRICES,!!! IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY THE R.R. CAN SAVE,,,,,,NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE OR DO NOT LIKE.!!!! ..,,,AND,,,,AGAIN,,,,YOUR UNIONS ARE DOING VERY LITTLE FOR YOU .. ,,CHECK YOUR CONTRACT,,,IT IS NOT AS GOOD AS THE LAST ONE,,,AND,,ALSO,,YOUR BROTHERS ARE SELLING OFF THERE JOBS TOO... SOME YARDS,,,ONLY REMOTE CONTROL.!!!!!..WHERE ARE THE MEN.!!!! AND,,,IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP WITH THINGS,,,,,IT WILL ALL,,,NON UNION WORKERS SOON,!!!!

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 November 2011 GUESS WHAT,,,,,,,FEDEX IS NONE UNION AND DOING WELL.!!!! NO LOCAL CHAIRMAN TO TELL LIES TO THE MEMBERS...NO BIG UNION BOSS TO GIVE YOUR OVER RATED DUES TOO.!!! ....PEOPLE,,,WHERE DO ALL YOUR DUES GO.!!!! DO YOU REALLY KNOW,,,,OR,,JUST WHERE THE UNION BOSS TELLS YOU THE DUES GO.!!! ...TRUTH BE KNOWN,,,,,,,3/4 OF THE DUES IS UN ACCOUNTED FOR.!!! HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOUR CONTRACTS LATELY.???? NOT AS GOOD AS PAST YEARS..!!!

Name: sick of it E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2011 To all concerned, Does anyone recall if they saw a system notice or system bulletin published for the interpretation of the horn "J" rule. If you dont remember there was a big disagreement about what the word "Occupy" meant in the operating rules book in regards to the instructions of this rule. A previous employed TM told a few people they would be written up if they didnt blow all the way across the crossing until the entire engine was covering the crossing. This TM also said it was an FRA violations which turned out to be a crock of crap. They use the same exact "wording" in their rule and couldnt care less if you stop blowing halfway across or all the way across. Now that someone has been written up for this so called "RUMOR RULE" which this person NEVER HEARD, the general chairman wants to know if anyone ever saw a notice circulated to all employees that the company expected us to interpret the word occupy as "blowing your horn until your engine has completely covered the crossing"! Disciplining someone for not hearing the rumor doesnt cut it!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 November 2011 There were a bunch of idiots running around in the motel in 400 ton trains @60 mph with no brakes or steering through blind hallways and the conductor thought he was still at work.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 November 2011 Hey Busted: If it wasn't Pines, it would just be someone else. The hotel issue just didn't pop up, it has been going on for sometime now and it's not just Chicago, it's all over the system. The LCs should be able to get the crews put up in better lodging. Frankly, I have never understood why CSX doesn't buy distressed properties and rehab them to house their crews. They could hire ex employees to manage them and provide balanced meals for them. Most terminals are in shitty parts of town and have an abundance of old abandoned motels near by. They may not be able to go for a stroll before bed but at least they would have a secure and clean facility to lay their heads. It seems to me that this is a no lose situation for CSX... First, their crews have safe, clean housing, close to their terminals. Secondly, they get three buffet style homemade meals a day which are far healthier than Big Macs and KFC. Thirdly, the vans are at the terminal when the crews arrive. Fourthly, CSX is improving the neighborhoods they operate in which would likely spur further redevelopment and increase the tax base. And Fifthly but probably foremost...not only would CSX save Millions of dollars in room, board and cab fares, in the fullness of time they would make money on their investment. Best of all, this could probably all be done with Federal and State grants! Now that I said that...I may need to get into the real estate business. The CSX, NS, UP, BN, KCI, CP, CN, UPS, FEDEX, all airlines and drayage lines have the same problem and that's just the U.S. and Canada!

Name: Jax YDM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 November 2011 What is the safety issue at that hotel?

Name: Busted E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2011 My point is Mr Nomo that an Unsafe hotel was being used . The company knew about it and nothing changed till an employee refused to stay there.That is a safety concern and all I have seen pines do is bury pertinant info with blather!!

Name: Jax YDM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 November 2011 Mr. Pines, what ever happend to stop look and listen?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 November 2011 Hey Con 1-10: Pines has been posting on here since at least 2005 and ONLY on the Safety thread...which is not so much about safety anymore!

Name: Busted E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 November 2011 Ever wonder why pines posts whenever something happens where the employee gets the better of the company,looks like pines wants to bury the story of someone refusing a unsafe hotel and winningAm I the only one who has seen this happening?

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 November 2011 SLACK ACTION,,, THIS IS THE NEW TYPE OF PEOPLE AMERICA IS PRODUCTING.!!!! THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE DAY IS OR THE TIME,!!!! THEY TEXT,,,,AND TALK,,,,,,,THIS IS ABOUT ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OUR YOUTH HAS NOW,,!!! I HATE TO SEE THE CHILDREN OF 10 YEARS FROM NOW,!!!! THEY WILL BE TOLD WHAT TO DO ,,,BY THE GOVERMENT,!!! AND,,WHEN TO DO IT BY THE GOVERMENT.!!! GOOD WILL BE EVIL,,,,EVIL WILL BE GOOD,!!!! WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO AMERICA.?????

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 November 2011 Make that frivolous lawsuits...

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 November 2011 Robert, that was a great article you posted. Well, that is if you want to believe the lies, fabrication of the truth, and pure deception. Read this carefully, what you posted was all LIES. The article was written by a low life scum of the earth lawyer who main objective is to deceive the public about the truth...HMMM no mention of people dying while trying to beat a train, running around gates, driving too fast for the conditions, talking on the cell phone, texting while driving, listening to their IPOD, IPAD IPHone or I Screwed up by not paying attention to my driving, trying to derail a train. trespassing... Hey, the list goes on... All should be considered a terrorist act. Jury tampering usually starts with the crooked, corrupt lawyers who pay off the jury to sway them to give huge settlements to plaintiffs who have lied under oath and guilty of breaking the law. This cost the tax payer hundreds of millions in frivols lawsuits. I hope this helps you out.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 November 2011 this is to mr pines, i really hope you took physics in high school cuz if you did then you will know why yer wife got mowed over by a train which was not the fault of the train crew or the rr company, i am so sick and tired of peeps like you bitching about one of your loved ones getting hit by a train when it was thier own damm stupid fault and i am not a company man but i do stand with the rr company when people do stupid things on rr property cuz i have seen it more than 1 time. i rest my case!

Name: Gofigure E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 November 2011 Lafayette Engineer refuses to stay at Baymont Cal City Chigago due to unsafe atmosphere.Was sent home in cab not knowing if they had a job or not!! Good for them! If more people would grow a pair and shove safety in CSX's face then maybe we could take back a little control of our jobs!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 November 2011 Anyone ever figure out what the cause was on the Monroe, NC collision back in May? Apparently the site was down for a couple of days around that time and no one was able to post much.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 November 2011 http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/305-death-on-the-tracks-bnsf-railroads-24-million-dollar-cover-up-part-i.html Here Slackadorksky ---The law of crossing investigations --You need to read carefully ---whoops I mean watch carefully and see how CSX and the others do theirs.

Name: CSX Corporate Rat E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 November 2011 Brown fires everyone that gets injured PERIOD. Get a lawyer. They roll the dice and usually win. It sends a message do not report any injury or you are fired. NS does this to win the Hairyman. CSX is a Gay Friendly Company screw the familys

Name: A "Wife" E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 As a "Wife" to an Employee of Radnor Yard... KARMA!!!! I sure hope those men keep their jobs because they are going to be BROKE paying all that child support ( yup, even to you Anna)!!! I personally don't think these woman are that stupid not to know what is going on! All those meetings, training seminars, derailments and overtime or extra shifts are total BS!!! And if the wives and spouses know about what is going on and want to tolerate it, well shame on them and they are just as twisted!! CSX is not a place for families.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 much more to come

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 Off 5 months with injury at work! Every one heard I was going to get fired but after I told medical I was going to lawyer up corperate is soooooooooooooo nice. Still have to pass a 100 question rules exam to mark back up. After that I will mark up as an enginneere soon after while not running for over 2 years!

Name: John Doe E-mail: datsomebs@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 *****MUST READ******* IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE OR YOU HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR NOT PASSING THE ENGINEERS TRAINING PROGRAM YOU NEED TO READ THIS. AN ATLANTA DIVISION CONDUCTOR ON THE A&WP SUB-DIVISION FAILED ENGINE SCHOOL AND IS BEING ALLOWED TO GO BACK ON HIS CONDUCTOR SENIORITY. OTHER GUYS THAT WERE IN THE CLASS WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL SAID HE GOT BY EVERY STOP SIGNAL ON THE SIMS AND COULD NOT EVEN PASS THE SIGNAL TEST OR ANY OTHER TEST HE WAS GIVEN. I KNOW SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WERE FIRED BECAUSE THEY FAILED AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COME BACK ON THEIR CONDUCTOR SENIORITY AS THE LETTER YOU SIGN STATES BEFORE YOU BEGIN ENGINE CLASSES. GET THE WORD OUT TO THOSE THIS HAS HAPPENED TO.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 November 2011 Boy ain't you on it there company suck Slackie. Why didn't you say that in 2005 when the post was made? The law ---well in Florida the state prosecutor is given an award by the railroad killer boss. HMMM ---conflict of interest taking an award from a killer railroad??? State Rep. Mike Weinstein, R - Jacksonville, has been awarded the Government Award from the Justice Coalition, a Jacksonville-based victims advocacy group. "Mike Weinstein has a long, distinguished history of government service in his city and state. With nearly 25 years of law enforcement, financial and management experience, he has devoted much of his leadership and expertise to the public sector," the coalition said in a newsletter. Weinstein currently serves as a prosecutor and the Executive Director for the State Attorney Angela Corey. “I am honored to be recognized by the Justice Coalition and appreciate the work they do to serve victims each and every day”, Weinstein said. The award is being presented by the Michael and Kim Ward Foundation, which was started by Michael Ward, CSX's chief executive officer. Weinstein will receive the award at the Ted Hires Legacy Dinner. Hires was is the founder of the Justice Coalition.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 30+ years Posted: 10 November 2011 Destroyer Only thing I see at the moment is PSU Sandusky was a Queer and was pimping out boys to big donors. Maybe the high up CSX Gays are pimping too. I know for a fact there are there and make advances to keep your job or get fired. Just more facts that Gayward Fockers and Brownshirt Nazis are on CSX property, beware!!!!

Name: Destroyer E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 November 2011 Do not let your families attend family days! You do not want those you love to be familiar with others who work for CSX. This is across the board, Supervisors, Co-workers, Saints, Sinners, and Degenerates. It serves no purpose to expose your spouse, friends, or children to any of this. They will be framed in a newsletter photo to promote a culture that is not family/human oriented. Watch the downfall of Penn State closely as an example. These are "great men". They are the leaders of an institution. They were followed with loyalty and without question. The similarities between that organization and the one you work for is starkly similar. Power has corrupted all. Doing right is no longer a standard operating procedure. They would not risk damage to the brand to protect a child. They will fuck you, and they will fuck your family. Stay away from the happy-ass PC team building if you are not getting paid to do it. The less your family knows about the workings of this institution the better they will be.

Name: Radnor Trash E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 November 2011 Why is Ted not at the top of this list? If anyone would put up with Scott's crap he might of made the list. He is still dreaming that he's the ladies man. Other than that, I might agree with the list.

Name: boyles E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 November 2011 ,,,,no one failed the safty test or fra test that were given... NOW,,WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO BE WITH A MAN THAT FAILED THE TEST,,BUT,,WAS GIVEN A GOOD GRADE,,,,, ...I SEEN THE FEDERAL FRA INSPECTOR COME AND GIVE OUT SMALL VIOTATIONS,,,,,A JOKE.!!!!! AND,,IF WE HAD A BAD RAIL,,,SOMETIMES,,,THE BOSS WOULD PAINT OVER IT,!!!! NEVER FIX IT,!!! WHAT A JOKE,!!!!! AND,,,,THIS IS REALY SAD.....CSX,,,,DO THE HIGHER UPS KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.??? ,,,,I SEEN SO MUCH,,I COULD HAVE WROTE A BEST SELLING BOOK,,, AND,,,,THE SUPERVISORS MEETINGS,,,,MOST OF THE TIME ARE IN THE LOCAL PUB.!!!!!.......HOW SAD,,,,,THE RAILROADS HAVE GOTTEN..,,,I REMEMBER,,WHEN THEY WERE A GOOD PLACE TO WORK,,,,,I COULD NOT WAIT TILL THE NEXT DAY,,,,,,BUT,,THEN CAME THE NEW BOSSES,,,IF YOU WERE FROM THE OLD SCHOOL....YOU CAUGHT HELL.!!! BUT,,IF YOU GOT IN THE GROOVE,,,YOU MADE IT,!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for N/A Posted: 07 November 2011 Solution to CSX Problems Cut the Head off the Snake In this case 3 Heads Fire Brown Sanborn and Ward

Name: BOYLES YARD E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 November 2011 WELL, I HAVE READ ALOT OF POST ,,,I LIKE THEM ALL AND ABOUT 99.9% ARE CORRECT... NEW HIRES SAVE THE CSX MONEY,,,BUT,,IN THE LONG RUN,,,IT TAKES LONGER TO GET A NEW MAN IN THE GROOVE.!!! AND,,,,THE COMPANY IS MAKING THE NEW HIRE IN THERE VISION,!!! NOT A GOOD MOVE,,AS MANY OF THE SUPERVISORS,,ARE NOW RIGHT OUT OF COLLEGE.!!!!,,WHICH,,SOMETIMES ,,WELL,,MOST OF THE TIME IS BAD.!!! IN BOYLES YARD,,,TRAINS ARE SITTING IDLE,,DOG LAWING IN THE YARD,,, REMOTE CONTROL ENGINES ARE DERAILING....REPORT SAFTY CONDITIONS,,,,,YOU GET A SLAP ON THE HAND.....CSX,,,,DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU,!!!! I WENT TO A MEETING ONCE IN ATLANTA,,,,,THE FIRST STOP ,,THE EMPLOYES WERE TOLD,,TO MEET IN THE LOUNGE,!!! YES,,,THE LOUNGE.!! ,,,,DRUG PROGRAMS,,,,DRINKING PROGRAMS,,,,NEED TO START WITH UPPER LEVELS ,,,,THAT IS WHERE THE ABUSE IS,,,,........ ...IT IS SAD HOW CSX HAS BROUGHT DOWN MORALS......BUT,,AT THE SAME TIME,,THEY DO PAY MY BILLS AND MONEY IN THE BANK.!!! AND,,TRANSPORTATION DEPT......YOUR UNION HAS SOLD YOU OUT,!!!!!

Name: Re: Nashville E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 November 2011 Nashville If anyone that made it to "Family Day" could have noticed who is who. You had married employees that did not bring their spouse, employees that did bring their spouses and limited them on conversations with fellow employees, of course the glares from the ones that have had relations with one another. There needs to be tighter restrictions against the "Power Houses" that are ruining families and the companies name. Now let's start with that list. 1. Ted (swinger) 2. John (watch out for your wives, girlfriends and daughters) 3. Jeremy (better get tested when your done with him) 4. Mike (old school)

Name: L&N WORKER E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 November 2011 SIR, I STARTED WITH THE OLD...L&N RAILROAD,,,,OVER THE YEARS IT CHANGED TO CSX.......FROM 1983--TILL MY RETIREMENT 2000,,,I WAS HARRASSED BY OFFICALS...CSX.....IF YOU WERE A OLD L&N,,YOU MEANT NOTHING...BUT,,NOW,,NOT ALL OFFICALS WERE LIKE THIS,,JUST SOME,,, MY BOSS WAS A SCL MAN,,,,,I REPORTED BROKE RAILS,,UNSAFE CONDITIONS,, THIS MEANT NOTHING,,,,I WOULD MAKE COPYS OF THIS ,,,I WAS ON SAFTY COMM,,,,88% OF MY FINDS,,,NEVER GOT REPAIRED...THROWED IN TRASH CAN.....I HAD NO ONE TO GO TO,,,YOU NEVER KNEW WHO WAS NOT YOUR FRIEND... AND,,FRA TEST FOR EMPLOYEES,,,,,WELL,,NO ONE EVER FAILED,,,,IF YOU FAILED,,WHICH ALOT DID,,,BY THE END OF DAY,,,YOU GOT A PASSING GRADE...IS THIS SAFE......????? Claims....legal clams always denined.!!! M.OF W UNION A JOKE.!!!!! CSX,,,,HAS ALOT OF NON UNION RAIL WORKERS...BUT,,,THEY SAID,,,THEY,,,CSX,,HAS STANDARDS OF HONOR.... THANK YOU L&N FOR ALOT OF GOOD YEARS,!!!!!!

Name: never safe E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 November 2011 HEY Other non-employee Not sure where you got the idea that csx would not make you stay in an unsafe hotel. A lafayette engineer refused last night to stay at the baymont last night because they were scared for their safety. On the 25th the hotel clerk was pistol whipped and robbed by 3 gunmen. It was in the newspapers. GUESS WHAT!!! They pulled this engineer out of service and put them in a van home! So lets just wait and see if the union comes to this persons rescue! I hope this engineers screams to the roof tops. Like to see this on the front page of the csx gateway!

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 November 2011 Professor Pines: You are now acting like you know the legal system when you do not even understand the LAWS. To help you out on one of your dilemmas. YES, it is legal to reconstruct a crime scene on private property. It is done every day. I hope that helps you out. But you are doing great asking questions, that is the only way you are going to learn. You need to focus your line of questions on simple things, so you can understand the answer. Just a little hint, don't tread in waters when you don't know how to swim. Remember: 100% of ALL railroad crossing accidents ARE preventable.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 November 2011 http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2011/510888.pdf So 6 years this low life CSX dragged this family through the mud. My question is why not a class action against the Supreme Courts for ALWAYS taking railroad cases KNOWINGLY knowing the cases are BS? Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 April 2005 http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny-brf--train-pickupf0407apr07,0,5316578.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork One of the articles says the state collision reconstruction team was sent in. Is that LEGAL on private property? So the jury tampering starts right there to start covering the city, county, states, and railroads butts. How can they reconstruct without knowing the real train data which THEY don't download OR without the drivers? This same parallel road running by the tracks collision has been reconstructed 1000s of times. Did CSX pay Joseph Budik to increase the trains from 16 to 56 in 2001 or if they could drive like idiots at 50 mph not even blowing the train horns for the "private" road? Did they ask him if it was all right to install one of the 1000s of sets of crossing lights they have stolen or have just sitting doing nothing on dead tracks on his road?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 November 2011 CSX does it too? How bout ya Matt Rose ---So you lied when you told me the railroad causing deaths/injuries bothered you """very much"""??? http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/305-death-on-the-tracks-bnsf-railroads-24-million-dollar-cover-up-part-i.html

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 November 2011 CSX, will not force any employee to stay in unsafe lodging. Now are ya ready to refuse lodging? That is the question! Get a pair and do it, many will thank you. That is how the train crews got out of the caboose. Hell they were humping sleeping crews. Oh I have a lot more on this topic.

Name: Jeff Middleton E-mail: Iluvsuckingcox.com Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 November 2011 ....my ex-wife hates me, my kids hate me, everyone hates me. The only pleasure I get in life anymore is firing employees in radnor yard especially if they are black. Pete Burris can't do anything about me because he is scared of me. The unions can't do anything with me because.....well because the unions can't do anything about anything anymore. So fair warning....if you want to keep your job with Csx, stay away from my yard or me and my big ass buffalo head will come down on you whenever and however I want......especially if you are black.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 November 2011 Hey Pines Maybe the crew didnt know what they were realy seeing in front of them because they were tired from lack of sleep from being kept up all night by the noise in their hotel. You know.. the moaning and groaning from the hookers and the gun shots from the crack heads!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 November 2011 Do the math on this (train was going 73.3 feet per second) and tell me why all railroaders and the state and Feds in charge of safety don't turn themselves in for MURDER!! http://multimedia.dailyreportonline.com/2011/09/csx-transportation-inc-v-smith/ Defendants placed significant reliance in their motion on Lacona's deposition testimony that he could not see decedent's truck until it moved toward the tracks when the train was 100 to 150 feet from it and, thus, defendants contend that the accident was unavoidable and sounding the train's whistle would not have helped. The critical facts regarding the distance and the movement of decedent's truck were exclusively within the knowledge of the movants, which generally is not a proper basis for summary judgment (see Tenkate v Moore, 274 AD2d 934, 935 [2000]; Zwart v Town of Wallkill, 192 AD2d at 833-834). However, even if this proof satisfied defendants' prima facie burden, plaintiff produced evidence sufficient under the reduced burden to raise a triable issue. In response to questioning at his deposition about the events immediately before the accident, Lacona acknowledged seeing decedent's truck, wondering if he was going to stop, saying twice to the conductor, "Is he going to stop?", and hearing the conductor then respond, "I don't know." All of this occurred before impact. Although circumstantial, this testimony is sufficient to raise an issue as to whether Lacona observed decedent farther away than his estimate of 100 to 150 feet and, thus, whether there was time to warn decedent by sounding the -3- 510888 train's whistle. There is also ample proof to raise a factual issue regarding plaintiff's contention that vegetation in CSX's rightof- way obstructed decedent's sight distance contributing to the accident. Initially, we note that we are unpersuaded by defendants' assertion that, under the facts alleged by plaintiff, this issue is necessarily preempted by federal law (see 49 USC § 20106; Shanklin v Norfolk S. Ry. Co., 369 F3d 978, 985-988 [6th Cir 2004]; Peters v Union Pac. R.R. Co., 455 F Supp 2d 998, 1003- 1004 [WD Mo 2006]; see also William E. Kenworthy, Transportation Safety and Insurance Law § 3.04 [4] [c]; cf. Russell v Fusco, 267 AD2d 738, 739 [1999] [obstruction caused by overgrown vegetation considered as part of common-law negligence action arising from collision between vehicle and train]). Plaintiff stated in her affidavit that CSX had not cut the vegetation in its right-of-way since the late 1990s, she described growth in the right-of-way, and opined that "sight distance was . . . 100 to 150 [feet] when stopped at a point where the train would not strike your vehicle." In addition, a police report in the record lists limited sight distance as a cause of the accident, and Lacona answered in the affirmative when asked at his deposition whether vegetation blocked his view of decedent's truck. There are triable issues and, accordingly, defendants' motion should not have been granted (see Russell v Fusco, 267 AD2d at 739-740; E. Mower & Son v Consol. Rail Corp., 249 AD2d 809, 810-811 [1998]). Peters, J.P., Spain, Stein and Egan Jr., JJ., concur. ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and motion denied.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 November 2011 I don't think the Hotel issue just appeared...I'll bet it been going on for quit a while. Who has been putting the nix on moving? One of the LCs or is it an official at Barr of the Division office? Some one has a financial interest in the property or is getting "finders fee" for directing traffic to the Hotel!

Name: advice E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 November 2011 Tom, Im not suggesting that you do anything that could get yourself hurt, but pictures of the prostitues and pimps in the hallways as well as the drug pushers is great evidence in the event that you or any of the other crew members in the hotel get hurt. One scratch or one hair on your head pulled out and it will be welcome to hell lawsuit. The company has to be aware of the issues at this hotel. As for the union having the responsiblity to make sure this is taken care of, thats totally untrue now. It became the sole responsibility of csx to take control of this situation and correct it. They claim that they are a company that prides themselves on high moral standards and good ethical values. If so then you would think they wouldnt treat their employees like they are "blue collar" trash that do not deserve to stay in accommodations that you all know CEO Ward would not stay in himself. Frankly I would find it rather insulting and a slap in the face. Yes, there are a few handful of employees who might have "not so nice" values, but the majority come from decent families with decent values and do not desreve to be put up in a place full prostitues and thugs. I have to wonder if you are actually getting a good nights sleep knowing that these people are possibly standing in your hallway or even outside your door at any time. If they are in the lobby when you check in, then the police should be called. Tne hotel manager should be having these people removed. If it has come down to the point where the clerks are afraid to take action in fear of retaliation then your in a more serious situation that any one of you know. I suggest you get together with your fellow crew members and talk to a lawyer. You might need your job but it is not worth getting seriously hurt or even killed by a thug.

Name: LC E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 November 2011 TOM: No one will be staying in this motel for very long. It is not as simple as it should be to find motels any where. This motel has been a problem from the first day we were placed there. Some areas wanted this motel both from the carrier and unions. Some of us like me knew this was not as safe as it could be and were against it. While some union officers fought to be placed in this motel, but hopefully anoth motel can be found quickly.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 November 2011 tom I don't know what the problem is all that needs to be done is get the LC's involved. That means go to the union meetings in force not one person complaining but get a group together. We moved lodging serveral times when it became known drugs & prostitution were at the hotels. When police started raiding these places. It's the unions responsibility just like CSX. In fact it's the LC's who go around looking ar an inspecting places for suitable lodging. Then they bring it to CSX and corporate lodging tries to get a contract. I'm sure within 30 minutes or 30 miles from the terminal they can find accomidations.

Name: Tom E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 October 2011 Jax YDM True, people get killed in a lot of different locations. The difference being is that CSX didn't knowingly put OJ's wife in an unsafe environment, then force her to stay there after they knew it was unsafe, expecially when other options were available. For God Sakes, this is Chicago after all, hotels are all over the place. For the past several years, multiple crews have filed complaints with CSX after watching the police make arrest for the illegal activity that's going on inside the hotel. Complaints have been filed about the weekend party guest getting into fights, and weapons being drawn as crews are trying to get to their rooms. Guns are being fired in and around the hotel on a regular basis. The area is so unsafe that even the neighbors have bars on their windows and doors. What makes my life worth any less than yours, in that I should risk being hurt, shot at, or killed in the hotel that CSX choses to put me in because it cost less than a safer hotel on the other side of town where some of the other crews stay? CSX is always preaching SAFETY FIRST. What about putting the safety of their crews first? We work for a fortune 500 company. Haven't the lawyers explained what liability is to whoever makes the decisions on where the crews stay?

Name: Jax YDM E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 October 2011 Tom: People are robbed and killed everywhere. OJ's wife as killed in a super rich neighborhood. Keep your door shut and get your rest.

Name: tom E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 October 2011 Masked gunmen rob Cal City hotel If you haven't heard yet, on 10/25/11 the hotel that the CSX crews stay in, in Chicago was robbed while there were CSX crews in the hotel. Several Local Chairman have asked CSX to give the crews an additional option of places to stay, as they've expressed a concern for their safety. Read the details below. By Lauri Harvey Keagle lauri.keagle@nwi.com, (219) 852-4311 | Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:45 pm CALUMET CITY | Four men wearing white masks and black hoodies robbed a Calumet City hotel clerk and patron at gunpoint early Tuesday, police said. According to Assistant Police Chief Dan Zorzi, at 12:25 a.m., the offenders entered the Baymont Inn, 510 E. End Ave., near the intersection of Sibley Boulevard and the Bishop Ford Freeway. One of the men allegedly hit the hotel clerk with a weapon, causing minor injuries. Zorzi said the men fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash and cellphones. Police have not made any arrests in the robbery. Anyone with any information about the crime is asked to call Calumet City police at (708) 868-2500.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: Btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 October 2011 So Tinkerbell and Peter Pan drive the train if the engineer doesn't there Slackley? http://multimedia.dailyreportonline.com/2011/09/csx-transportation-inc-v-smith/ Oh I get it ---CSX employee gets hurt they just say the employee was fired and call in the Supreme court safe house. Wow that must be a good place to be. Maybe the employees should run to the Hubbard House for protection. The ex Mikey gives a Million for a SAFE house I think is what they call it. What would a million buy for safety equipment, lighting, crossing gates, etc...? The mission of Hubbard House is Every Relationship Violence-Free. Our priorities include providing safety for victims and their children, empowering victims, and social change through education and advocacy. Hubbard House gets $1 million gift: 'You just can't help but think what that can do' Money from the longtime backer will be distributed to the center over 5 years. Hubbard House, the domestic violence center serving Duval and Baker counties, has received a $1 million gift from a longtime supporter who brought a service dog to visit children there more than 10 years ago and never really left. The gift, announced Tuesday, came from Terry Ward of Jacksonville, a member of the center's board of directors who "cares deeply" about the victims of domestic violence, particularly children, CEO Ellen Siler said. "Once she saw the place, once she saw the needs, that was it," Siler said in an interview. Hubbard House has received sizable gifts in the past - including a $2.5 million gift from Ward and her former husband, CSX Chairman Michael Ward, in 2006 - but Siler reacts to each one as if it were the first. "I start crying. I get pretty emotional," she said. "It doesn't matter if you've had it happen before ... they get the tears going. You just can't help but think what that [amount of money] can do." Terry Ward could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, but in a statement issued through Hubbard House she said was proud to support the cause and Hubbard House. "I have a real special place in my heart for victims of domestic violence and I know that it touches individuals from all levels of life," she said. "I am proud to make this donation in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and in support of Hubbard House and its staff, who continue to work tirelessly to provide much-needed services to our community." Siler said she was stunned not only by the size of the gift, but also by its long-term commitment. The money will be distributed over five years. Each year, $100,000 will be dedicated to the organization's reserves and another $100,000 to its operating fund, with the focus on services for children. Many donors prefer to give a lump sum and see their money used immediately, she said. "Knowing we can depend on these funds for the next five years is a blessing," Siler said. Also unusual is the reserve fund designation. Large gifts are typically designated for capital purchases, endowment or operating needs. But Ward's $1 million gift is the first pledge that included money for reserves. With demand for its services up 13 percent since 2008, with revenue sources not keeping pace and reserves depleted, Hubbard House will be able to exhale thanks to that designation. "It's scary as a nonprofit," Siler said. "I have been in nonprofits 40 years and I have never had a donor give to reserves ... to realize that this is an organization that needs to have reserves. It's emergency money." As supporters go, Ward has been a godsend, dedicated to the cause on the board and in the community. "She cares deeply about children. She cares deeply about maintaining commitment to the issue," Siler said. "It means a lot." Founded in 1976, Hubbard House has sheltered over 28,000 victims of domestic violence and their children, and helped more than three times that number through outreach services. Last year alone, the center provided emergency shelter, outreach services and batterers' intervention services to 6,044 individuals, a news release says.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 October 2011 Kyle never stated once he was pro-CSX. That's just your clouded thought patterns getting the best of you. All he stated was make the best of what you have to work with if not it'll be a bad experience. Just like someone on another site complaining it was CSX fault the FRA is forcing manditory rest days. Get real anyone whose been out here for a while knows CSX would love nothing more than to glue a person to the job never letting them get days off. The attendance policies are proof. Some people just have to complain. lol

Name: sick of it E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 October 2011 Kyle, Yeah you need rules in everything you do..driving your car, paying your taxes, joining a club... but most companies dont have rules set in place to deliberately use against you as a whipping tool. Take csx for example. They started out with this so called o-testing procedure as a learning tool for the employee. GO out and observe your work force. If you see someone doing something wrong you approach them and ask why and explain to them the proper procedure If they did it again then you had good reason to give them a bad mark. Then they started getting greedy wanting a turn over rate, replacing the 100% employees with the 80% to put more money in the big wigs pockets. Then they want to recoup the cost of the training at that school. Lost their ability to charge people to go to their school cause they got sued for false promises in the past. Whos fault is that! So now they have turned just about every rule you break into a serious crime and just a few bad marks and your on the street. Its a serious crime if you dont stretch your stupid cut after you couple it together even though you stood right there and watched your slack roll out tight and your pins drop. You been railroading 20 years and you know the shit is together so out of habit you just go make your next move. Too bad dumb ass.... WE GOT YOU! Dont matter what you say, you are getting a write up. The o-test program started out as a honorable idea and now its turned into a shipping tool for a turn over rate. Its one thing to have rules, its another to have so damb many that someone is going to get busted everyday because there are to damb many to remember. Another joke is the stupid parties they have for going injury free for a year. They think busting people and putting them on the street is keeping them injury free? HA! HA! Think writing someone up for not having their sideshield on their glasses helped them get that award. HELL NO. I havent seen anyone lose an eyeball yet in 16 years because he was missing one of his side shields! Just another petty ass mark on another poor saps record getting him closer to be replaced by that 80% guy!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 October 2011 Kyle, Stop being a slow learner. Praise your employer, why ? because it makes sense. You can fight the system, be a man and stand alone, if ya want and the RR will be drawn to stupid. Listen-- not to me, but those that have retired and really know. Sit down Shut up take the call and have a really nice life with a little cash at the end. If ya want real work, daylight hours, weekends off, go find one. P&G is looking for you. May bee/ kinda sorta.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 October 2011 Poor old Pines: He does not understand how a 3 for 1 split works. He thinks the engr drives a train, ( big hint, no steering wheel). He does not understand how the braking system on a train works. He thinks financial information has to do with SAFETY... Just how clueless can you get? I guess I really feel sorry for him. It must be tough to face simple challenges on a day to day basis. I hope he does not drive a car with his condition.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 October 2011 Kyle I've sort of backed off from those complaining about the attendance policy. I know I wouldn't like it if I was still out there working. The attendance policies in effect a couple years ago were bad enough. This guy was complaining for not wearing the proper equipment like safety glasses ect...Even when I was working not wearing safety glasses or hearing protection was like wearing a neon sign on your forehead saying "Bust me, I'm Stupid". I knew Bob Frulla when he was a trainmaster around the mid '90s. I think Richmond was his first job as an official. He was easy going good person to work for back then. His nickname back then was "Mr Potato Head". He's definitely changed. Unfortunately under Ingram that's what happened.

Name: KYLE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 October 2011 To RRJ you hit it 100% correct, There are going to be rules to follow no matter if you are in school, military,work place, and yes i know of a lot of colledge grads who will jump at the chance to work for a class 1 rr, The only thing that has always irked me on the rr is some of these guys who think the rr can not operate without them and most peeps like that are also big suck asses to management, Thats 1 thing i will not do is suck ass to a tm or rfe, Ie no one, i just do what i am told even though at times i don,t like it and that rr pay check always looks good to me, I am not pro company, but a old hogger told me when i hired on that without disipline you will have total cahos.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 October 2011 Where else can a person make a lot of money for basically doing nothing? It is time consuming. Mostly especially on road jobs you sit and ride. Do your job correctly then who cares if officials are hiding in the bushes. That's funny advicing people not to work for CSX. In reality there are thousands applying waiting for that chance. A lot of them have been stuck at low paying jobs or unemployed. I guess you didn't starve enough before getting hired. Why is it some people thrive out there but others don't?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 October 2011 CSX is a Piss Poor Company to work for and I would NEVER EVER recommend anyone young or old Applying for a job with this company.From day 1 they try to Fire you and Hide in the weeds to Pray that they can catch you doing something wrong or at least Hope they Can LIE about something you did to get an O-test failure.The Huntington Division has to be the Worst division for Employees as Bobby Jack Frulla has a Hardon to Fire everyone that has on o-test failure.He and his Henchmen on the system could give a shit less about you,your safety or you feeding your family.He just wants to Fire EVERYONE I dont care if you have NEVER marked off,never had a Miscall,worked Everyday of the year even Holidays,Never had any Previous negative work history or attendance issues.The first time you get busted without your Studded Rubbers in the snow or Without your safety glasses your on the road to Termination in Bob Frullas mind he is out to Fire every employee he has.People like him are the ones who will Drive this company and companies like it into the Ground.No matter if how Stellar of an employee you are your still the Shitstain under the Officials and Bigwhigs shoesoles.You can never be a good enough employee and work hard enough for this company your just a # and if they dont like you for any reason there are schmucks waiting in line to replace you.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8imPmQ0js Financial information has everything to do with safety ---the X factor is directly proportional to what these sleeze bags pay themselves for nothing. Either fix the problems sleeze bags or quit talking your LIP SERVICE SAFETY CRAP which is fraud and MURDER since they know the problems and do nothing.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 October 2011 Pines, Wrong forum! This is for safety issues not financial info...once again your drawing attention away from what is important. Thats a csx supervisor tactic!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2011 Hey Robert: The stock that all the senior executives and even most mid and lower lever executives own as well as other insiders, Directors, family members and other entities owning 5% of the stock is "Lettered". Meaning the SEC must give permission for them to sell their stock. The sale must be in accordance with Rule 144. You can google Rule 144 for the details.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 October 2011 suzannah The ERAD, black box, GPS ect...they've been out there for a while. I remember getting calls from the RFE that the erad showed I was using my independent brake while in full throttle. I always told him who in their right mind would do that. lol. The thing was I did do it, it was an old trick while trying to make an incline grade when it was raining to stop the wheels slipping put 5-7lb of independent hold it for a few seconds till you got traction back. I could tell by his voice he knew what I did but would tell me the erad isn't always accurite. lol. The black box when they use to download it I was never worried about myself more concerned for others seeing it held info for up to 72 hours. I never cared if I was on a declining grade and got over the speed limit as long as I got it under control. The rule is it's not speeding if it shows action was taken to correct it. Speeding would be if someone went 5 miles without taking action then it's intentional. I don't think they screw with oldheads to much because they know their time is short. Over the past year CSX did give two people a choice they were oldhead screw ups they always were retire when it's time or will take action. Both left. lol. That's not to say oldheads are immune from the harassment. The example in an earlier post of the conductor who got 15 days for multi-tasking has around 35 years he still has 4-5 years till retirement age. No easy answers.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2011 Hey Robert: Hypothetically...you or I buy 1000 shares of stock for $24,000 or $24.00 each (cost basis). The price of the stock increases over time to $75.00 a share and the BoD declares a 3:1 split. You now have 3,000 shares each worth $25.00 and your cost basis is $8.00 a share.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2011 "Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise" - Peter Lynch ==> http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1165185.htm http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/277948-2.htm So if Ward knows the prices aren't going up and sells $12 million this month ---WHY NOT ALL SHAREHOLDERS? Still don't understand the 3 for 1 split ---Couldn't you have bought the railroad the day before and then sold the next day and tripled your investment. And did the brass adjust their MANY at a boy ridiculous bonuses to come out at the original price? My hickerbilly calculus tutor doesn't think so.

Name: syuzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 October 2011 STAR, I believe you have missed the entire point of pissed and Toms post. Especially pissed. Your right,it doesnt matter were they use their testing devices if you are doing your job properly, but that was not the issue here. Again, it was stated that some company officials were refusing to use a particular device because it was too obvious and I believe stated that only an idiot would miss it. Even an idiot(no pun intended) can figure out what what the intent is here. Now, you say you are a safety cordinator??? Would it not be better to use this so called get off easy device if only an idiot would miss it? I would think that an idiot would be just the person you would be trying to weed out of your industry? Apparently not. So go ahead and use the device that maybe some of your best but tired and overworked employees might miss because it is so well hidden? RRJ, No hope for the future. The erad, little black box, positive train control will end up costing everyone a perfect record in the future. The order out now is to download all engines that go into emergency. How far back can they go in your trip to see what you have been doing? Guess we will have to wait and see. Watch out perfect engine running old heads. Your time is coming!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 October 2011 NoMo There have been so many changes in the past two years it would be difficult to fathom. lol.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 October 2011 Hey RRJ: I always contacted the EIC...I guess I should have got fired:) I always wrote down the instructions and time for MY log and then discussed then with the Engineer. I guess it's all in how the Division Super. wants to do things. Never had a RFE or TM say anything to me or the Engineer that I knew of. I did get a O-test failure once for not announcing the train I was on pulled ahead to the light in the siding after sitting behind one for an hour...didn't feel to bad though because he failed the Con that pulled in behind us too. I never worried too much about those o-test failures, just took it as part of the job...everybody gets them. The supervisors have to play that game too. The one I mentioned was by the relief LOR TM. He was/is the type that would come in and write the men up to keep from having to write up his own men...that's why he was about a popular as a turd in a punch bowl down here!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 October 2011 NoMo Unless they've changed the rule in the last two years the engineer is the only one who get could contact the employee in charge to get permission by a 707. Before I left the road the EIC was also asking for both train number & who they were speaking to. I guess if the TM or RFE were listening they could bust the crew for lying if it wasn't the engineer. Why I haven't a clue? The only answer I got from the RFE was CSX wanted to make sure the engineer had a clear understanding. Which never made sense the frigging radio is right above their head or on the left side blaring in their ear. I'm sure somewhere an engineer had the reciever turned down way to low and screwed it up. CSX loves creating new rules instead of looking at it as an isolated incident just change the rule. Everything else the conductor could handle calling signals talking to the TD & YM ect...

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 October 2011 Hey RRJ: I always thought it was the Conductor's responsibility to handle the radio communications. I always did...has that changed? I know several of the Engineers would handle the radio rather than let some of the "Conductors", you know the ones I'm talking about, sound stupid. I guess nothing really changes except the names and faces!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 October 2011 In Stars defense she's right. It's a lot tougher today on the job then it has been in 80 years. Most places can do whatever they want tons of applicants waiting to take a persons place. I know people vent on this site that's one of it's functions. In her defense if you're doing the job correctly why worry if management is watching. Since I retired most of those who have gotten time in the street or even terminated it was due to sheer laziness doing short cuts at times not even doing their job. One example a crew doing a set off then a hand brake test all seemed to be well done over the RADIO in reality that's all it was because they pretended to perform the test not actually doing it. They did this while being observed by a couple TM's. Why would people be so lazy? I can't explain it. The conductor got time in the street. The engineer got terminated. On the otherside of the coin CSX seems to be making up the rules as they go along. A conductor doing a set off a train on #2 main comes by he tells them their train looks good he gets 15 days in the street for "multi-tasking". This was something we've done since railroads began it's even simpler these days with radios compared to when we use to do it by hand signals. In this case it's easy to put one over on CSX. When approaching a 707 the engineer needs to contact the employee in charge just stop the train this would be a case of multi-tasking by operating the train and talking on the radio. Stop at the closest location not blocking any crossings don't move if it's a dead spot contact the TD leave it in their hands. If one stops to far away they could be charged for delaying a train. I never understood this rule when a conductor doing nothing on the otherside of the cab could contact the EIC. For every move CSX makes there is a counter move just have to use your head to find it.

Name: Star E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 October 2011 Tom, I do feel the pain. My company isn't the best either.. LOL... But our family has just learned to adjust. No one in our family has a birthday ON their birthday it is always early or late but no less the birthday,anniversary or graduation it is all in how you spend the time you do have. And with my company the big heads change so often I don't spend my time even worrying about how they do their job, someone else will be doing it next year. My primary doctor is listed at the patient first. We all stand in fear of loosing our jobs especially in this day and time. I just stick my money under my mattress (not the stock market) and wait for the day I retire and can spend it like crazy doing what I want when I do retire.And that is satisfaction enough for me and my family.In a sense I work for me not the company. Be safe and be happy. Maybe it will catch on and things will be better one day.

Name: Star E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 October 2011 Why do you care where the OTD's are set up if you are doing things safe ALL of the time? So you want to know where that OTD is so you can wipe your nose and smile for the camera... and do thing by the rules for that second and three minutes later you texting or on the phone and MISS the one you don't see... I in no way work for the RR.. But I do work for a large cooperation as a safety coordinator. I don't announce to the supervisors when a safety inspection is going to take place. I am just saying if you keep your nose clean you don't have to worry about having a bugger on you nose in your next picture. And maybe a few more hours in that Nazi school wouldn't hurt any of us. Just saying injuring or killing someone is an awful way to learn a safety. Be safe my friend stop being so pissed all the time enjoy life. OH and I will convey your condolences to my brothers (a fellow RRers)wife and family.

Name: tom E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 October 2011 Star, Your brother is right, working for the railroad is a great job, THAT IS IF..... you don't mind missing your families birthdays, graduations, holidays. Its great if you don't mind looking over your shoulder constantly for management hiding in the weeds trying to fire you, or management making false failures on your record. Its great if you don't mind fighting false failures put on your record by Avon management, as their trying to get their 15 failures every month so that they don't get fired by Scott Conners, the new Great Lakes Superentendent. Its great if you don't mind paying $150 a month for UTU representation, and you can't get hold of your east end union rep, because he's marked off Union Business for month's at a time. Its great if you don't mind paying for health insurance that you can't get off of work to use. When you do schedule a doctor's appointment, and you need off, management tells you to use your personal days or vacation time. After all, that's why "they" gave you those day. You didn't earn those days, the company GAVE you those days for things like this. Like many I work with, I enjoy what I do for a living, and I work with some really great people. I just hate the unethical company I work for, and the way they treat the T&E employees.

Name: pissed E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 October 2011 Star Your an ASS! No just another no nothing who sits on the side lines and runs their mouths or just another manager who is trying to stir up shit! Quit our jobs in this economy! The company knows what kind of shape this country is in and they will whip and beat, harrass and intimidate all they want because they know us with kids and a family cant afford to quit our jobs. So you think its just whinning! How about this.. The officials in the gl divison were giving operational testing devices to use in the switches to simulate an improperly lined switches. The tms and rfs at big 4 yard in avon decided not to use one of them because they thought it was TOO OBVIOUS and only and idiot would not see it. TOO OBVIOUS!! That right there shows you they dont give a rats ass about safety, they just want to bust somebodies ass and get a pat on their backs for getting a mandatory failure required by the division manager. TOO OBVIOUS! They cant deny they said it either because the safety committee members who were doing a safety blitz in the yard told everyone that is what they were told to tell us and then they showed us which device they were going to use. You think thats right! The company gives it to them to use and they toss it out because they think there is no way they will bust somebody with it. You havent got a clue what goes on out here. Tell you what.. go to the nazi conductor school and get a job out here. Then you might have a right to run your mouth. But until then you need to shut the hell up or put something meaningful on here that might help protect us from the abuse!

Name: Star E-mail: starden54@hotmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 October 2011 My brother worked for the RR and really honestly loved his job. I fondly remember his stories of the beautiful fall trees this time of year..... Although everyday wasn't perfect...He never brought his work home unless it was positive. Until that tragic day his life was taken on the job he worked the hardest on and gave a good piece of his love and devotion to came to an end. I see posts from employees moaning and crying about working on the RR and it sickens me.. If you don't like your job no one is forcing you to stay. Enjoy the trees along your travels and learn to thank God that you are still here to have a job,because you never know when your time will come... Let the last words you speak be positive and caring. Be safe and enjoy your experience and maybe just maybe you will have that house in woods and a loving wife,children and grand children to retire to. And maybe if everyone is positive and happy the work place will be safe for everyone. If you are distracted with all the moaning and groaning you don't have a good attitude you just might miss something important you need to see or hear..

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2011 I know 1 thing, these wall street protests have these rich neo-cons shaking in thier shoes right now,ie the GOP & THE COCK BROTHS, it was you dummy voters who are to blame for this too when all of you voted for ronnie RAYGUN in the 1980,s, that prick even put a tax on rr unemployment bennys and you dumb asses voted for him 2 times, guess all that religion talk and gun things got to ya, we are in the problems today because of him and his de-regulation ,, i have nothing bad to say about captisim its a good system but these rich pricks took advantage of it, they made themselfs rich at the expence of the middle class & poor, greedy dogs just like the rr barons of yrs ago, ya man read some history books you dumb asses cuz yher cutting your own wrists by voting for these neo-con teabagger loons who should be in mental asylums with lots of happy medication, ha ha i am sure ya get the drift, ha ha the neo-cons said in 2010 they were all about making new jobs, ha ha LMFAO and you dumb sheep fox listernes fell for that lie hook,line & sinker! YEA YOU DID!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 October 2011 We've had this discussion several times...if you're curious about the "Occupy Wall St." movement. This has a lot to do with it! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44893005/ns/business-forbes_com/

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 October 2011 http://www.fra.dot.gov/rrs/pages/fp_2305.shtml Let the states do it the FRA says. The states are like do what. I don't find anything about the FRA safety meeting on the 11th NOMO Now on the 10th the FRA handed out $133 million to the railroads for TIME sake for a private owner which is as un-CONSTITUTIONAL as it gets.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 October 2011 Good morning Robert: You will need to re-post the second link, there is an error and the article "can not be found", I've ask for a report from attendees...as of now no one has reported in which makes me think no one went or more likely were too afraid to go. I'll guarantee the suits were there...probably took the FRA out to lunch at someplace like the Chicago Yacht Club!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 October 2011 http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/SA201102.pdf Well NOMO you got the dog and pony show right. What does the phonie FRA really say here? If you don't have eyes in the back of your head don't go in between two heavy objects I read it. OH ---They put it all legal like to keep the RRs liability down. Ain't the FRA head clown like a ex-RR union guy? http://www.fra.dot.gov/rrs/pages/fp_2305. The FRA is useless ---Read all this in the railroads pocket BS.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 October 2011 Senior Trainmaster Patrick York of the Huntington Division on the Kanawha Sub. Is a worthless, spineless, gutless, beefy eyed, with little man syndrome. He will screw you anyway possibile. Watch out crews he will go all out for a O Test failure even when you do nothing wrong.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 October 2011 Today being the 11TH it was the FRA "Town Hall" meeting...hello Chicagoland, come in. Anyone make the FRA Dog and Pony show? Do tell if you did, enquiring minds want to know!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 October 2011 About the clerk being hacked with fake e-mails: NO COMPUTER IS HACK PROOF. HOWEVER, A MORE LIKELY SCENARIO IS THAT SOMEONE GUESSED OR OBSERVED YOUR PASSWORD AND UTILIZED IT FROM EITHER A WORK COMPUTER OR A HOME COMPUTER THAT HAS ACCESS TO CSX. GENERALLY SPEAKING, A NON OBVIOUS PASSWORD WITH A GREATER MIX OF LETTERS AND NUMBERS IS A WISE CHOICE. IF YOUR NAME IS KERMIT, AND YOUR WIFE'S NAME IS PIGGY, TRYING KERMIT1 WOULD BE A GOOD GUESS, WITH PIGGY1 AS THE NEXT CHOICE.THIS CAN BE MADE MORE DIFFICULT BY CHANGING TO !KERmIT!841 (NOT 1234)OR WHATEVER IS ALLOWED THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER (SO YOU DON'T WRITE IT DOWN AND TAPE UNDER THE DESK)AND YET NOT BE TOO OBVIOUS TO OTHERS. AND OF COURSE, SOOO MANY PEOPLE THINK SUPERSTUD69 OR SIMILAR IS A HIGHLY INNOVATIVE NAME ONLY THEY WOULD THINK OF.just fyi.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 October 2011 That's no pimp...that's Huggy Bear!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 October 2011 Chicago hotel update..... Be careful when you enter the hotel in chicago. Good chance you will be approached by a pimp trying to sale boody call at 6:30 p.m. looks like something that stepped out of the 70's. Fur coat and all! Probably packing under that coat! Wonder if ward would bring his family there to stay for the weekend!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Hey RealVet: It isn't necessary to post your comments under every topic!

Name: RealVet E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Mr. Ian - you are an idiot. You can't even get Monte's number right. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. LMAO at you dumbass. Maybe you can put some movement sensors on that rock you live under so when someone lifts it you can crawl deeper under it. What a poser.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 October 2011 Wow Slackie --your game ---drunks being killed ---trains derailing and still the trains are going too fast with sucky brakes. Are train drivers suicidal? Now read the first with the emission fix that would cause a cut in executive compensation for a few years and then the token railroad fix. Why have I never seen a employee shareholder proposal? It's really easy and makes the executives squirm!!! http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-sec&secCat01Enhanced.1_rs=71&secCat01Enhanced.1_rc=10#7280936 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/csx-announces-results-of-partnership-to-address-climate-change-2011-09-28

Name: RealVet E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2011 Hey Mr. Ian Murphy, You are a poser and a loser. A quick google of your name shows what you are about. How about you just change your log on name to Convict? How about SEAL Imposter? I am thinking you just be the POS that you are and flush yourself.

Name: abc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 October 2011 csx doesnt give a shit about safety the bo conductors aren't even allowed to lay off but one day sick every 28 there isn't anything safe about a sick person going to work on the rr B Edwards you can suck my dick

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2011 I wonder how many CSX employees will be attending the FRA "Town Meeting" on Oct. 11Th. They should be coming from far and wide...marking off if necessary. There should be a large contingent from Chicago Land. Here's your chance to voice your concerns and find out how serious the FRA is about safety and harassment!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2011 Rail safety concerns? Questions? FRA all ears October 1, 2011 CHICAGO — Here is an opportunity to voice your rail safety concerns directly to the administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. A 90-minute town hall meeting on rail safety will be held Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Chicago. FRA Administrator Joseph Szabo will take questions and hear concerns as part of the agency’s outreach to rail labor. Szabo, formerly the UTU’s Illinois state legislative director and a fifth-generation railroader, promises “a frank and often safety discussion.” He also will share with the audience details on the FRA’s risk reduction program, which is a non-punitive approach to addressing safety in advance of an accident or injury. FRA Associate Administrator for Safety Jo Strang wrote of that program some months ago in an exclusive column that appeared in the UTU News and on the UTU website. A link to that column is provided below. Here are the details of the town hall meeting: WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 9-10:30 a.m. WHERE: Chicago Laborers District Council, 999 McClintock Drive, Burr Ridge, Ill. Burr Ridge is 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. To read the Jo Strang column on the FRA’s risk reduction program, click on the following link: http://utu.org/2011/04/21/help-fra-stop-harassment-improve-safety/

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: hotelpatrol@ln.csx-t.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2011 Hotel condition? If the carrier knows about the hooker hotel; call the local sheriff and file a complaint. If the hotel is so substandard and affects your ability to sleep; notify the hotel, your union, FRA, and the carrier. It's easy to understand how minor problems gets magnified if you wait for the next person to solve your problem. Looks like the strike will happen!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 October 2011 Barry No one has any guts to do anything about it? I wouldn't of tolerated substandard accomedations to boost any LC's pockets with illegal gains. If no one complains they must like the perks. I never would of give up & shared a room with any co-worker for a frigging discount or an occasional BJ. Everyone talks of CSX ethics but ignore something like this. That makes anyone who condones this behavior an accomplice. This type of behavior has nothing to do with the union. If either union became aware well at least the BLE under the IBT criminal charges would be brought upon these people. A quick confidential call to the local vice department would end it. I'm sure that Indian owner would spill the beans. To ignore it is just as bad as commiting the act.

Name: Barry E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 October 2011 Most of the hotels on the Chicago Division are beyond sub par. I know first hand that when we ran out of Garrett, and stayed at the Days Inn on Torrance Ave. the Garrett LC's were running a prostution ring in the back. The guys didn't mind that the hotel was NASTY, because if they shared a room with one of the guys, and gave their CSX paid for room to one of the LC's "Girls" both guys got either a discount, or "extra" services. The Indian guy that ran the hotel didn't say anything to CSX, as long as he got his cut, everyone was happy, except those of us actually staying in our rooms. Like the LC said to me personally, if you take care of the men, they'll take care of you. Unfortunately, he didn't mean taking care of the men as in, better accomidations, better wages, better treatment. Oh wait he did mean better treatment, but that was to those that were sharing rooms. Long story short. The rooms won't get any better in Chicago until you get an LC that has to stay in the hotel, or isn't on the managers kick back payroll. BTW I hear that Shawn Rosslli UTU LC 1518 worked with the BLE LC from Div 25, and over the stringent objections of BLE LC Bob Denlinger, the two of them were able to get the Great Lakes Division men moved out of a drug and rodent infested Motel 6 gone bad. (AFTER TM RICK REED LEFT.) The two LC's were able to move their men into a safe and clean hotel. They moved them into a DoubleTree by Hilton. Why can't we all have a good LC that actually care more about their men vs loosing their position on the Cab Commette, and their "FREE" monthly trip to Jacksonville (Bob Denlinger) or the kick backs that they're getting from their managers.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 October 2011 NOMO, Checked pool at midnight last night when bid system repositioned engineers.. 2 engineers bid on job and one was force assigned. Only one showed up on the board. 2 marked off late last night and the other one was still out of town and I didnt see one conductor assigned to it... Supposed to force assign junior conductors to the job if no one bids. Juniors just marked up 2 weeks ago.... Still saying they will not provide a conductor who knows the run to qualify the new guys. Still saying they are going to make engineer who is qualifying the new engineer qualify the conductor at the same time.... Yes,,,,safety and proper training is the CSX way.........HA!HA! HA! HA! Just hope nothing goes down with the new engineer while the old engineer(maybe RF Im hearing) is messing with the conductor.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 October 2011 The thing that really irked me is when i hired out we had some old head trainmen who never had to get promoted to conductor, they were ex switch tenders & the rr abolished all the switch tender jobs and they never had to get promoted to C, same goes with that spider web were all those guys from the rr,s who merged with conrail, ie esp those wise asses from the ex erie lacakwanna, they gave those guys senority over us home yard boys,some of the worst enginmen i ever worked with came from that old erie lackawana, they could not understand the ex prr-pc b-o-r and they were so dam cocky & rude, f them i can,t help it they hired on another rr that went belly up and the union gave them every thing they wanted as far as senority an dthat still tiks me off.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 October 2011 Hey Suzannah: We were in a Days Inn on Reed Blvd. in New Orleans East. Same deal, hookers, druggies but only 5 minutes from Gentilly. Moved to Metairie, a 20 minute drive off rush hours. The hotel set aside an entire floor for us travelers but too far to walk to Lakeside Mall...they have since moved across the interstate. There were always a bunch of old heads that wanted to go back to the East. It later came to light that a LC had "deal" with the Days Inn. I don't remember what it was, if I ever knew, but it kept the crews in the Days Inn way past the time they should have been gone. Now for the F2 pool, I guess CMC has staffed it? Why would CSX abolish and rebid the job? Sounds like some politicking from the LCs for additional jobs at Avon. I just don't see CSX putting a job on that is sure to increase their costs. It's got to be 175 miles between Indy and Chicago and unless you have high green the entire way CSX is guaranteed a crew change. Lafayette to Chicago has to be a real push.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 October 2011 Are there no other hotels in the area? All the BLEt & UTU LC's have to do is request a change of lodging concerning the fear for people's safety. Then both scout the area looking for suitable lodging. After that Corporate Lodging negotiates the price. The railroad is required to provide a safe envirement.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@fidnet.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 October 2011 Wow Slackie ---You have your own railroad gameboard. Kool-aid beans. Is the cover like your head sticking out the execs pocket? Don't call me mister by the way ---Means you want something. Slackie sez ---"""First off Mr Pines does not understand how the SEC, FRA, DOT, or any other Federal Gov agency works.. He really does not understand simple things... Sure I understand how they work. Just take this music and add the lyrics """SCREW YOU PUBLIC ---WE DON'T CARE"""over and over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDTnegJvB3I Does your game have like William Miller saving the atmosphere from train fall out NOW and the brass STUDYING the problem?

Name: joe E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 September 2011 You know there's a problem with the hotel when you hear from several people that use to work out of other terminals the same story. They've opened the door to the hallway to see what the noise is outside their room. Its always the same thing they see. The cops havw a man face down, and a shot gun aimed at his head. Some of the people talk about the cops having a dog, some don't. Yeah, this is a place that exemplifies CSX's moto, "safety first" I'll take my safety vest lined with kevlar please.

Name: Suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 September 2011 NOMO, "ME" is right. Not qualified past lafayette yard and have no desire what so ever to be. I havent heard one good thing about that run or the hotel they stay in either. Hear its in a dangerous neighborhood. So bad you dont dare venture out at night to get food. Not safe even in a group. Supposed to be drug dealers hanging out around there and in the hotel as well. Nope, leave that run for the big boys... All theirs!

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 September 2011 First off Mr Pines does not understand how the SEC, FRA, DOT, or any other Federal Gov agency works.. He really does not understand simple things... Then I went to Pines World and found out that I can Blame everyone for my own screw ups. I have developed a new board game called idiots at crossings with Rorbert Pines serving at CEO. Idiots sue RR for being stupid.. Move 1: Why should you look for a train at a RR crossing at grade? Duh... there might be a train It's a drunk driving trying to fly a truck over a crossing trying to beat a train at a RR crossing at grade. Move A: Have the truck driver get qualified with the DOT. Move B: Have cameras on all engines to catch idiots like PInes trying to beat a train.. RR"s can save millions in frivolous lawsuits Move C: Triple the cops at every crossing to catch violators and charge people like Pines and charge them triple the crossing violating tax fund on his income tax return.... Move D: Put idiot / drunk - o - meters in all cars to catch idiots that try to derail trains and commit a terrorist act

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 September 2011 Hey Robert: Quit deflecting...where were you? The Effingham incident was the drivers fault, he got hung up on a crossing that was slightly elevated...surely you can do better than that!

Name: HAW E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 September 2011 tell doug running his mouth not only hurts him but everyone he works with.best watch what says after a few beers.much less at work.best just shutup for awhile and stay put.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 September 2011 Forced seperation ? Like was I Purdyzized by the Feds? I still have all that stuff as a part of a SEC public file if anyone needs it. Took me awhile to find a good pair of wing tip shoes with non slip soles there NOMO.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw Then I went through the self check out at Wally World and waited forever for the results. Lately I've been developing a new board game called railroapoloy ---Safety vs. railroad director compensation. http://effinghamdailynews.com/archive/x597285986 Move 1 ---Why is there a WATCH YOU STEP sign in this picture and no step. http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x1953746100/Train-semitrailer-collision-closes-crossings Its trailer — carrying an 86,000-pound piece of equipment for a dump truck — became high-centered on the tracks and got stuck. Unable to stop, the train moving about 40 miles an hour collided with the trailer, ripping it from the truck and shoving the piece of equipment onto the ground on the north side of the tracks. Move A --- Have the crossing leveled where a truck can't get centerhung MOVE B ---Have multiplex cameras where the train would know there was truck stuck on the tracks in time to stop MOVE C ---Triple the directors compensation again this year. MOVE D ---Just have the train driver calmly drinking his/her kool aid while battering """an 86,000-pound piece of equipment for a dump truck.""" as usual.

Name: Yardmaster Jax E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 September 2011 Ref: Name: LOL E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2011 NEWS FLASH! Looks like we scored again! Avon remote crew backed into the side of an INRD outbound train as it was leaving the yard. Trashed one of the engines and spilled fuel as well as a car load of grain all over the yard. Hazmat had to clean up mess! Seems conductor was so preoccupied with looking over his shoulder in fear of getting an O-test failure that he forgot to line a switch! Looks like hes going to get that failure anyway! HA! Score...Trainmaster-1....conductor-0 ----------------------- So you are going to blame CSX on a remote conductor not protecting his shove? The TM did not fail. You are a moron. The conductor could have killed someone. Don't you understand that? You are blaming a TM for being there to prevent that...for making his required checks? Sounds like simple minded person that can't do his job when the boss is watching.

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 September 2011 NoMo, I work at Lafayette and Suzannah (Susan Lucas) has never been past Lafayette on a train.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2011 Hey Suzannah: Have you gotten your bid in for the F2 pool yet? Sounds like a money maker. I didn't realize your were qualified that far!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2011 Hey Robert: Compared to you, we're all dimwitted! You still haven't shared with us where you went for those couple of years...it was obviously a forced separation. Was it prison or the mental hospital? Get back on your meds or give your therapist a call, we'll fell better!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2011 NOMO sez """What happened to the crossing safety issue""" Are you really this dimwitted NOMO? OK really slow now --- Would like just 2 shares the directors ripped off in the three to one pay out pay for like two stakes and piece of string to stretch across this crossing to see the TRAP for big trucks? How about a few hours labor and a little material to level the crossing out? http://effinghamdailynews.com/archive/x597285986 http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x1953746100/Train-semitrailer-collision-closes-crossings Train-semitrailer collision closes crossings Third, Fourth and Willow crossings to be closed most of the day Samantha Newburn Effingham Daily News EFFINGHAM — Railroad crossings in Effingham at South Willow Street, Third Street and Fourth Street will be closed most of the day Wednesday due to an early morning train crash along the CSX tracks, according to Effingham Police Department. Authorities are asking motorists to use the Banker Street overpass instead and avoid the areas on Willow and Third Streets. An eastbound train collided with a trailer pulled by a semitruck around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Third Street crossing. After the semi-driver missed the turn onto East Fayette Avenue from U.S. 45, the oversized truck crossed the Third Street tracks. Its trailer — carrying an 86,000-pound piece of equipment for a dump truck — became high-centered on the tracks and got stuck. About a minute after the driver got out of the cab and tried raising the trailer off the tracks with an attached motor, he noticed train lights approaching from the west. Unable to stop, the train moving about 40 miles an hour collided with the trailer, ripping it from the truck and shoving the piece of equipment onto the ground on the north side of the tracks. The damaged engine came to a stop east of the Willow Street crossing. There were no injuries and authorities expect to be on the scene most of the day.

Name: John E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 28 September 2011 I just got an email telling me that CSX has decided that it is safe to pilot crews with an engineer ONLY. They're testing this out on the newly created F2 pool that runs between Avon, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. CSX management is openly saying that conductor's don't need to learn the territory the train runs on, just the yard where they're putting the train away in. When the train gets to Barr Yard, CSX alledges that they will provide a UMan to train the conductor, putting the entire burden of training the conductor on both the engineer, and the engineer pilot. (like Barr yard is an easy yard to learn on your own.) It seems that Scott Conner and John Bradley forgot to watch CSX's September Safety video. In the video CSX stresses how important it is that the engineer and conductor not be distracted from doing their job. How is the engineer and the conductor to stay focused on learning the territory that they're being forced assigned to when there is no conductor on the train to pilot the conductor? Does the engineer stop the train so that the engineer pilot can work with the conductor? Suzannah, do you care to comment on this? Avon is your home terminal.

Name: LOL E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2011 NEWS FLASH! Looks like we scored again! Avon remote crew backed into the side of an INRD outbound train as it was leaving the yard. Trashed one of the engines and spilled fuel as well as a car load of grain all over the yard. Hazmat had to clean up mess! Seems conductor was so preoccupied with looking over his shoulder in fear of getting an O-test failure that he forgot to line a switch! Looks like hes going to get that failure anyway! HA! Score...Trainmaster-1....conductor-0

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2011 Hey Robert: No body cares what you or your "Hickabilly High Economics/horse manure spread sheet instructor..." thinks. It's the way is is and has been for years. If you don't like it do something about it, complaining here won't get it done. You should really find some new material, this rant is getting old! What happened to the crossing safety issue and why did you drop off the map for a couple of years?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 September 2011 So NOMO ---I checked with me Hickabilly High Economics/horse manure spread sheet instructor. He seemed to think it doesn't take 13 directors making millions to run/ruin a railroad.Coalate inverse and subtract the square root of the dangle of the angle. Rule #1 -- Don't get hurt. Safety is the first priority. Er, or is it the second, after money.... Or the third after getting the trains out.... The web-master wrote this slow just for you NOMO because you must not can't read too fast. POINT GIVEN::: If all the clown brass has all these bucks to give away ----why NOT GIVE IT TO A SAFETY EQUIPMENT charity. How bout you Mikey W. ---might take some of the ghosts out your closet. +++++++++++++++++++ Let's see---CSX gave $110 a share for CONRAIL like 15 years ago and the stock is like $20 bucks a share now. WOW ----The brass needs performance medals or just chests to pin it on? Can someone explain the 3 for 1 fireworks sale on CSX stock in June? Did the brasses bonuses like triple and the 3 shares should be like 7$bucks apiece now? http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277948/0000898822-96-000533.txt http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/109694/000118143110009824/xslF345X03/rrd266409.xml http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934612/000118143110009742/xslF345X03/rrd266564.xml http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934612/000118143110009617/xslF345X03/rrd266542.xml Explanation of Responses: 1. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 25,564 shares of common stock. 2. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 92,894 shares of common stock. 3. By Ellen M. Fitzsimmons, Trustee. 4. Gift of 20,000 shares made to the Ayco Charitable Foundation. 5. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 13,276 shares of common stock. 6. By Trustee, CSX Corporation Executive Stock Trust. 7. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 6,583 shares of common stock. 8. By Trustee, CSX Corporation Savings Thrift Plan. Reflects equivalent shares of cash value held in CSX Stock Fund, which amounts will fluctuate dependent upon daily net asset value of the fund.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2011 If Pete Burrus was a descent human being maybe the good lord would have blessed him with a normal child.

Name: Throttle * E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2011 Living proof that alcohol and a computer doesn't mix....lol

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 September 2011 What a putz! Undercover Brother. To long winded need to cut the posts down by 75%. Ranting after the second paragraph is tedious. No one needs to read it on every thread one is sufficient.

Name: Proudly! Ian A. Murphy E-mail: ravensceo@ravenswoodinc.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2011 First Amendment rights are invoked here. I would like to thank the gentleman who commented on my last comments graciously and with a bow. And once again, the crew that saved me from the swamp that PTI sent me to after 7.5 hours of downtime and drive time combined,..again a great big thank you! Ohh, and a special thanks to the PTI or is it CSX RAT squad and Monty Wheaton (812) 430-4450@14:00, gee so nice to know that you can count on your fellow employees to back you up From what I have discovered from the corporate culture of the chicken crap express or should I say common sense excluded Corporation that while they think that they're doing one thing correctly and there doing nothing more than creating difficulties and hell for all persons involved. As to the poor PTI drivers; most of your assumptions are correct but there are a few exceptions. PTI does not give a damn about their drivers at all in my professional and personal opinion.First Amendment rights are invoked here! They really don't quite care so long as those vehicles are running round the clock seven days a week 365 days a year just like the railroad and it seems just like me common sense excluded Corporation. Could someone please explain to me why it is required that there be zero accidents with the exception of the fact that corporate liability would then come into play and the simple fact that corporate stupidity is grossly evident by the suits who are hired out of college and have no idea how to run a railroad. The railroad looks great on paper and for the shareholders of which I am one. I do plan to be at that shareholders meeting and I do plan on bringing other shareholders with me and we will bring about change so that the employees have a say in their pensions and their healthcare costs and other costs that they must bear at this time. Please do remember something chicken shipped express; it takes one person to start a revolution and I am that person a will go ahead and start that revolution if I have to stand outside of every one of your yards on public property and I will have full audio and video surveillance with me at all times this way there is no discrepancy in the reports. It is time that someone stands up for these guys and takes his stand for them for they work hard and they are in danger every day because of your corporate policies and the simple fact that not one hand knows what the other hand is doing. Now I understand that none of use CSX employees can go ahead and jeopardize your jobs for this; but since I do not have to work; I can go ahead and stand outside of any yard and handout company corporate shares (preferred and common)and other things such as water, food, shares of stock and all will be courtesy of myself as a gift to make sure that this does not occur again. The days of the robber railroad barons are coming to a close very quickly and if corporate security wishes to go ahead and start an investigation into me why not call me and we can start playing games that way. I have a background in Full military technical surveillance and countermeasures background and the equipment to back it up. Got an OSCAR Green unit there boys, how about a CPM700, Got a broom (NLJ Detector) got multiple Spectrum Analyzers that goes from 0- to 300 GHz. Got Night vision, laser grid detectors, got any of it? Got bugs, fiber wiretaps, got ways to bypass spread-spectrum broadcasts. You have no clue! Nor do you have an allowance to even start against me. I am fully in support of CSX employees, but management just pure sucks! I don't think so and if so I have the countermeasures to flood your spectrum's with light, RF and Microwave to stop you while picking you up. you have a background in being a cinder dick as the saying goes. Don't worry I have high speed very long-range telephoto lenses I can take pictures of anything I want from anywhere I want and then of course there is Google Earth which by the way if you notice one of your particular yards to have a strip club near and and you can read the license plates on the cars in the strip club which means that I can read the license plates on the cars in the yards. Can you say electronic surveillance? Can you say satellite surveillance? Can you say information warfare? Can you say you are far beyond anything you ever dreamed of? I'll and by the way the joining a union so that I will have full access to the properties so that I may speak to various union members about their complaints. Have a nice day corporate security; I used to work for people like you and I know what sort of idiot you are. I'm out to help the workers you're out to screw the workers along with the Board of Directors. And let me add this I happened on over 100,000 shares of this railroad stock held in trust funds and there's not a damn thing you can do about it except maybe purchase me out. Remember what Gordon Gecko said: greed is good taking them over is better. And may the vote go forward and may you all succeed in shutting down this this disgusting Corporation and its attitude and its management. In addition I would like to bring to your attention that if you feel that you are getting into any of the buses and you see that any of the indicator lights are on then I would highly suggest that you not be bus out of service. This way maybe PTI will get the message when so many buses are taken out of service by crews that don't feel safe riding in the death mobiles. I'm so glad that I found this website and I will be buying the website master of beer, doughnuts and a meal at a five-star restaurant with the finest line possible for he is continued efforts to get the truth out. To that gentlemen I say bravo! And if anyone in corporate security wants to try me just remember I have better surveillance capabilities then you do and I am a professional computer hacker. Got it! I know more about you than you know about you. All I have to do is pick up a phone and tell them that you're attacking me. Next time you should do your background checks a little deeper and find out that I used to work in information warfare and intelligence. Not some funky ex-cop who got hired on as a railroad cinder dick looking for vagrants and the occasional box car broken into. That's why they call it insurance have a nice day boys and to my CSX brothers I say go for the strike and shut them down. But I expect that the federal government will get an injunction to stop you and that is a real shame. So maybe you should work by the rules, or if not don't work by the rules and document, document, document everything you do. Have a good day I hope you win.And just remember, I am on the boys side, not eh corporate side. I see how stupid the corporate side is. Bring it on! CSX can't run without employees and either can PTI. You just screwed with the wrong person.Remember you are always under surveillance. Or my corporate Motto: "Everyone is under surveillance and Security; Who's watching you?" @copyright 1984 And to the conductors and the IBLE nad the switchman and the yardmen, if you see One little bitty thing wrong with a bus, yank it out of service and watch PTI fix the things right. After all, rules are rules, are they not?????? Go IBLE, GO UTU, Go any other union that can shut them down for at least an hour; it will cost them millions! And one other thing, I not some poor kid desperate for a job, I went under cover to see just how bad it really is! And PTI, welcome to the new Federal Whistle Blower Law! The new law went into effect in 08/2011

Name: mark E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 September 2011 to strike....proof read dummy.

Name: mark E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 September 2011 Wow,that last post IS CSX!..sorry murphy, no one should have to go through that kind of stuff...and hey are we really going in strike?

Name: Proudly! Ian A. Murphy E-mail: ravensceo@ravenswoodinc.com Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 September 2011 first off, I would like to thank the crew whose save me from the swamp that PTI put me in, in the first place. PTI is nothing more than a disgrace and a complete sham when it comes to driver training, driver competency and the simple fact that their vehicles are mechanically unsafe and unsound. PTI stands for nothing more than making a dollar and has absolutely no clue as to what they put their drivers through. The Tampa division has absolutely no leadership, no idea of what it's doing, and does not care with the exception of getting out the drivers to the crews stranded out in the middle of nowhere to rescue them while they had to rescue me. Sending drivers out after sitting for six hours of doing nothing and then to have them drive 1.5 hours to a location that they have absolutely no idea where it is; and then to only by the grace of what ever God being able to find a locomotive light on and walking through a swamp area screaming CXS,CSX, What radio code? the crew was kind enough to respond channel 84 and then informed me that there were alligators and diamondback snakes and rattlesnakes in the area that I was walking did not give me a comfortable feeling. I frankly don't give a hoot if corporate security or the cinder "dick" as railroad cops are known; (nothing more than glorified mall cops!) Even think if they can think. I learned more in a few days from the locomotive engineers and the conductors than I ever wish to know about an operation such as this railroad and its insane policies. Let us take for example the idiot train master or would it be the idiot yard master who was complaining about the way my vehicle was parked 300 yards away from any other vehicle. At three o'clock in the morning he comes out and sates what's wrong with this picture? I see absolutely nothing wrong with the picture; but he seems to point out that my vehicle was pointed in the wrong direction that it should have been rear in and nose out, not the way it was parked. In addition he was complaining that there was water dripping from the condensate line from the air-conditioning of the vehicle, inferring there could've been a slip and fall hazard. Well if someone is going to walk over 300 yards over gravel and dirt and sand and proceed to slip and fall then I would consider that to be grounds for stupidity. This lamebrain at the same time while I watched multiple bags of 50 pound ice bags being smashed at the front steps of the same building while there was multiple puddles of water and ice cubes which could create a slip and fall hazard was not addressed by this complete and total moron. Yes I was told that there are no addresses or names or physicality or GPS coordinates or latitude or longitude coordinates for any of these yards but it does seem interesting that Google Earth seems to have all this information available on the touch of a tablet, laptop, iPad, Annie's form of intelligent device that is able to access Google Earth. My deepest sympathies to both the CSX employees and to the PTI pasts current and future employees. Please be made aware that I personally will be filing a federal whistleblower lawsuit against CSX and PTI and made corporate security who have visited this website for well over 19,000 times enjoy the fact that I used to be a corporate security officer myself and not some mall cop. Yes you are a bunch of retired feds and other lower life forms of law and tried to get a job in the corporate world to supplement your income. To bad for you that you chose Csx for your place of employment. It seems that they will hire anyone to become a railroad cop let alone a yard master or a train master. And if you don't like my opinion then please look up the First Amendment.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 September 2011 Hey Robert: I think the only person here with ghosts in their closet, is you! If you have a point, be direct...don't beat around the bush. There is absolutely no correlation between your posts of 9/21 and today. Additionally, you should be ashamed to write "The web-master wrote this slow just for you NOMO because you must not can't read too fast." That makes you sound like an uneducated Ozark Hillbilly! If your not careful they'll take away all your sharp objects and put you in a rubber room!

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 September 2011 Was it not the utu who sold out the flagmans job?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 September 2011 Rule #1 -- Don't get hurt. Safety is the first priority. Er, or is it the second, after money.... Or the third after getting the trains out.... The web-master wrote this slow just for you NOMO because you must not can't read too fast. POINT GIVEN::: If all the clown brass has all these bucks to give away ----why NOT GIVE IT TO A SAFETY EQUIPMENT charity. How bout you Mikey W. ---might take some of the ghosts out your closet.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 September 2011 Who the heck reads "Train" magazine? A foamer.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2011 Hey Robert: Your meds aren't working! What does the BNSF have to do with the point you're trying to make? Which is? What does any of this have to do with safety? We know you hate all RRs and their employees but you won't change anything because nobody cares. Besides, going off on these tangents doesn't do anything for your credibility!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2011 Let's see---CSX gave $110 a share for CONRAIL like 15 years ago and the stock is like $20 bucks a share now. WOW ----The brass needs performance medals or just chests to pin it on? Can someone explain the 3 for 1 fireworks sale on CSX stock in June? Did the brasses bonuses like triple and the 3 shares should be like 7$bucks apiece now? http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277948/0000898822-96-000533.txt http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/109694/000118143110009824/xslF345X03/rrd266409.xml http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934612/000118143110009742/xslF345X03/rrd266564.xml http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/934612/000118143110009617/xslF345X03/rrd266542.xml Explanation of Responses: 1. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 25,564 shares of common stock. 2. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 92,894 shares of common stock. 3. By Ellen M. Fitzsimmons, Trustee. 4. Gift of 20,000 shares made to the Ayco Charitable Foundation. 5. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 13,276 shares of common stock. 6. By Trustee, CSX Corporation Executive Stock Trust. 7. On June 15, 2011, the common stock of CSX Corporation split 3-for-1, resulting in the reporting person's ownership of an additional 6,583 shares of common stock. 8. By Trustee, CSX Corporation Savings Thrift Plan. Reflects equivalent shares of cash value held in CSX Stock Fund, which amounts will fluctuate dependent upon daily net asset value of the fund.

Name: Did U Read Reply E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 September 2011 Did you all read the great article about CSX in this past issue of TRAINS Magazine? MAYBE CSX PAID THEM TO RUN IT OR SOMEONE CALLED IN A FAVOR. WHY THE HECK ARE YOU POSTING ON HERE ? TO SUCK UP ??????? -50 POINTS YOU FAIL!!!!! Sure seems like a company thats (punctuation -1)moving for the better. Micheal(spelling deduction -2) Ward is doing a great job running the company. HE HAS DONE SOMETHINGS BETTER THAN OTHERS BEFORE HIM BUT HE HIRED THE NAZI CRIMINALS TO RUN TRANSPORTATION FIRE OLD EMPLOYEES HIRE NEW ONES AT 80 PERCENT AND FIRE THEM TOO KEEP EVERYONE IN FEAR OF YOUR JOB. HIRE YES MANAGERS WHO KNOW NOTHING BUT WILL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP THEIR JOB AND GIVE THEM A CARROT UPPER MANAGEMENT CAN STEAL THE BIG BONUSES AND TAKE CREDIT FOR WORKING THE DOG SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE ELSE. So why the need for such a negetive (spelling deduction -2) website? BECAUSE THIS NAZI OUTFIT HAS FUCKED OVER SO MANY PEOPLE AND RUN A UNSAFE OPERATION THAT LIES AND COVERS UP ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. IT IS FRAUD AND CORRUPTION. NOW YOU KNOW WHY CSX-SUCKS.COM EXISTS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME BALLS TO POST ON THIS SITE TOO. CSX MANAGERS RUN THEIR OPERATIONS BY READING POST ON HERE. THEY FEAR SOMEONE TO WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THEM SINCE JACKSONVILLE KEEPS TABS ON EVERY POST ON HERE.

Name: Did you read? E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2011 Did you all read the great article about CSX in this past issue of TRAINS Magazine? Sure seems like a company thats moving for the better. Micheal Ward is doing a great job running the company. So why the need for such a negetive website?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 September 2011 I don't think compensation for railroad CEO's is all that outragious. One can't just look at CSX it's all the railroads. When compared to Wall St, bankers, oil, auto ect...railroads are on the low end of the pay scale.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 September 2011 Hey Robert: I agree executive compensation, across the board is ridiculous, just not at CSX. Cover up? Their compensation and the guidelines for which a published in the proxies. The BoD sets the pay and stock option grants for the key employees and the shareholders elect the BoD. As far as the lawyers are concerned the stock is lettered and falls under rule 144 of the SEC code. These are in-house lawyers and that's part of their job. Guess who does their taxes and who pays for their investment advice?

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 September 2011 And you care to cover up the out of control CSX brass salaries why NOMO? I was thinking more like a class action suit against the brass for them having a company lawyer do their personal finance deals to the SEC and the company not paying for ALL attorney fees on stock transactions for all stockholders. Just check the signatures on the SEC filings.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2011 Hey Pines: You point being? Call the DoJ and the SEC with your concerns, I'm sure you have them on speed dial. EVERY public company offers key employees stock options but you already knew that. Get back on your meds...you'll feel better!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 September 2011 NOMO a stock option would be atta boy go sick them. Not gifting to wifee 1,000s of shares at a time. And if the amount the mickey mouse stock is $20 ---with the brass saying like $70 ----well that is fraud. http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/own-disp?action=getowner&CIK=0001165185

Name: Switch to BLET E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 September 2011 Railroads Disappointed with NMB Decision to End Mediation September 6, 2011 Unions refuse to consider 17% wage increase and freeze on employee health care contributions WASHINGTON (September 6, 2011) – The National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) issued the following statement today on the decision by the National Mediation Board (NMB) to release two coalitions representing 11 unions from federal mediation with the nation’s largest railroads. The statement can be attributed to A. Kenneth Gradia, Chairman of the NCCC, the railroads’ bargaining representative. “We are extremely disappointed by the Board’s decision to end mediation. It is clear this action reflects the enormous pressure the unions have placed on the Board to obtain what we believe is a premature release given that neither coalition has bargained in good faith. “The carriers, with the assistance of the Board, have reached agreement with the industry’s largest rail union, the United Transportation Union, covering nearly a third of railroad employees in collective bargaining. However, the two coalitions have rejected this contract as a pattern for discussion. They have refused to address the constantly escalating costs of employee health care in any meaningful way, despite the railroads’ offer to freeze employee cost-sharing contributions. And they have dismissed as insufficient a proposed 17% wage increase for employees who are already among the nation’s most highly compensated workers. Their intransigence undermines not only current negotiations, but also the time-honored process used to reach voluntary agreements in the rail industry. “Although the railroads accepted the Board’s offer of binding arbitration, the coalition unions did not. We fully expect that a Presidential Emergency Board will be appointed before October 7, the end of the statutory ‘cooling off’ period. This will defer the possibility of any service disruptions for an additional 60 days. In the past, PEB recommendations have provided the basis for voluntary settlements. We hope that will be the case in this round and that the nation will not experience disruptions to rail service that could threaten the nation’s already fragile economy.� The NCCC represents more than 30 railroads, including BNSF, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, in national bargaining with the 13 major rail unions. Railroads Disappointed with NMB Decision to End Mediation :: RailLaborFacts.org

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 September 2011 to rrj, someof those crestline hoogers were real good at power braking, ie stretch braking i assume on the old b&o had one that power braked a 10,000 ton coal train 1 day, he was so good at it that he came to a stop 3 car lenths from the home signal, from 40mph to a safe stop like that, not many today would even know how to do it, the guy scared the hell out me doing that too as when we seen the approach distant signal he did nothing, just kept the trottle in run 8 until he picked his mark then wam he makes a full service and stops like that on a dime, i seen that power braking done a lot with light trains like van trains but never with a coal train, thats what you call knowing the territory yer running over, thats what ya call real railroading, heck ya get a hooger today and they panic when something happenes to the dynamic & so do the di,s.... just wonder how they did it in the steam days cuz there was no such thing as a dynamic on a steam engine.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 September 2011 As a conductor, more and more I begin to understand why this site exists. I used to read this site before I worked for CSX and thought, how can some of these things be true. Well, I understand a little better now. It is amazing to me how quick you can be involved in an investigation simply for just being in the general vicinity of what ever they're investigating. I don't want to get into the problem because it's an active investigation, I will say, fellas.... be careful of what is going on around you, they will hold anyone within radio distance responsible for any reason. Even if you are not part, attached, or associated with the crew that is in question. What a shame, they can't understand why morale is low. Before CSX I was a supervisor, I'm not saying I'm the brightest bulb... but, they seem to thing everyone in T&E is a uneducated idiot. I don't know everything...but I know from the management labor classes I've had, CSX defies everything I was ever tot in how to deal with labor issues and insubordination. They seem to want to have a " one size fits all" solution, and it's just not possible without "shooting yourself in the foot" so to speak. Put simply....morale killer in my humble opinion. I understand that rules must be complied with and safety is priority one, I'm all for that. We do have dangerous occupations. That being said, at the same time....you can't have employees going to work so worried about the rules to an extent that they begin to lose focus on what they're doing... fearing that someone is in the bushes watching them. Unfortunately, this is what they will never understand sitting in an office. Instead, it is much easier just to start to spread blame and begin investigating, and firing. Again, what a shame, that's mutual accountability on their terms. If any of us ever wondered what true socialism would be like....I'd have to believe that CSX is a decent model. Remember, socialism is for the people....not the socialists. It does not matter what the circumstance, you will be wrong, it's the way they designed the rules...as employees of T&E we will always be wrong and in violation. I can honestly say, this incident will definitely have an effect on me. I am a employee that has a clean record and I go to work when I'm called without issue. That's how I make my living....isn't that why we are all here? Point being, it doesn't matter...if you are around when the hammer falls, you will more than likely fall to. Be careful and safe fellas.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 September 2011 Hey Pines: You know exactly how a stock option works. If you don't see it it's because you're looking in the wrong place, but you already knew that...try looking in the Proxy Statement. However, make sure your glasses are on and you're lucid or trying to understand it might drive you crazy!

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 September 2011 to rrj, yea i do re-call that some hoggers would use the stretch braking when i hired on, some were real good at it while others were scared to even try it, heck i even seen some hoggers,old heads, they would take a tonage train down the mountain by using the feed valve which is a NO NO today, ALso a few times i had to set retainers when the dynamic would conk out in route, seen some hoggers also get in big trouble with that dynamic, had i a few yrs ago, he had 24 traction motors on line and went into dynamic on a s curve, he wiped out 4 main tracks, those cars were stacked 3 high,lol that curve became a monument for him.

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 September 2011 http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODYzNDd8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1 I don't see that option of receiving variable common rate stock and selling it at 4 times value for the so-called directors NOMO do you? Or is that how you cook the books? Let's see INCOME --- That would be GROSS minus TARE = NET profit. Soooo the billion a year CSX income shown would take 22 years to pay off the $22 billion debt YET the brass are paying themselves millions for some magic reason and not hiding. By the way do the accountants here actually know decimals? In millions would be 6 0s' added to the number given not 3 0s'. A 33% percent depreciation would be 33% not the 2% shown.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 September 2011 kyle I had at least 12 times where a helper had to stay attached for up to 40 miles when CSX would run one unit on a 150 car coal train to make sure I didn't stall. I always told the helper engineer on a decline don't use the dynamics I'd handle the speed with my dynamics and an automatic air brake reduction with bunch braking all he had to do was keep the independent bailed off on his locomotive. When I had engineer trainees I always taught them streach braking & bunch braking. I had permission from the RFE to teach streach braking seeing it's against the rules. Someone had to show them how it's done in case a locomotive lost it's dynamics.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 September 2011 good point rrj about the slack action, can ya just imagine how much slack is in like a 70 car van-tv train with those 90ft tofc flats or a train with all high cubes,, and i still think its a dangerous practise to have helpers on the rear using dynamic when going down the mountain with a tonnage coal train.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 September 2011 No one will ever know what really happened, the only thing you can do is speculate, and that is what CSX is doing. And CSX is never at fault, when they speculate. I hope everyone keeps him and his family in your prayers and thoughts.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 September 2011 it is sad that the employee lost his life yes there are a lot of if's involving this tragic accident don't let your guard down guys and gals stay safe for yourselves and your families.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2011 Pushed many a train over the hill, in the old days, I am sure the rules have changed. No Air on the pusher, to the train, we cut them off on the run. Pull the lever and watch the slack come to us. No harm no foul no one on the ground. Looks like the rules are causing a few problems.

Name: mongo E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 September 2011 the paper i saw today stated he released 3 step and walked between the cars and engine and i assume did not account for the slack. There are alot of "What If's" and some "Why Didnt He..". Its a shame.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 September 2011 Kyle I just reread the article. It states that a southbound was having trouble making an incline so another locomotive coupled for a shove. When he detached & separated the slack came back pinned him between the rear car & locomotive. To many "what if's". Did he still have 3 step while in between the rails? Did he release 3 step? Did the head end engineer release the automatic prematurely not thinking of slack? That I've seen happen on many occasions while working helper service. That's why I always adviced people to separate at least 3 cars. Do they even teach that there is at least 25 feet per 50 cars of slack? It's probabley more today with the 100 & 120 ton hoppers that estimate was when we were still running 50 & 60 ton hoppers. You're right he could of just became complacent doing it for so many years. I misread the other comment on here the person who stated they went to school with him listed themselves as non-railroad. I'm taking it at age 59 he had a lot of years working for the railroad. Sad part less than a year from retirement age. Statistics show the most dangerous times on a job are the first 5 years and the last 5 years. Any loss is sad & difficult on the family members & co-workers. If there is a positive it's opening up peoples eyes that it only takes a second for bad to happen.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 September 2011 To rrj--- i did not know that fatal involved a helper move, but the only way he would have been crushed is if the slack ran out and the drawbars by passed and i think that is what did happen, i give those things a wide birth so ta say even with a blue flag & 3 step protection, or maby the guy did get caught between the 2 knuckles, if its 1 thing i ever learned, its that you NEVER assume anything as far as rr operations go as if ya do then you are a invation to trouble, it only takes 1 time to let yer guard down for a thing like this to happen, I would bet the dude who got killed had done this same thing manyh times were it got to be just routine, no such thing as routine on the rr as it only takes just the 1 time for a thing to go wrong and most of the time you don,t live to tell about it, hell i work in a big yard and i have seen cars de-rail for no apprent reason at all, they just did it.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Hey CorrUPtion Blogger: This is at least 3x I've asked you to quit posting on every topic. Evidently you're not too bright...pick on Charlie Koch, he's worth a $100 billion, These guys that work for the RR are chumps!

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 A strike at least 2 days could seriously disrupt Railroad operations and could restore a "little" credibility in--international, general, and local leadership. The recently ratified UTU agreement is nothing but comparing apples to oranges over healthcare cost. The healthcare cost could easily be absorb by the 20-fold pay increases to Railroad executives over the past few years when wages were going in opposite directions. The membership got looted of leadership during the times of international (from both unions) indiscretions and the carriers took advantage of that and now the carriers is taking advantage of the current political leadership crisis. Once again: The combined accumulated wealth of the top CEO's is over 1 BILLION DOLLARS. Why can't that be exploited when negotiating a contract? That's enough money to pay for all the employee contributions for the next 30 years. TE&Y members working in a demanding hazardous environment of train operations should be compensated--not degraded as a normal occupational hazard! Use your unique skills as leverage; not as a submission to Robber Barons! May God bless the family of the conductor killed in a switching accident reported today by: UTU.org.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2011 Kyle CSX wouldn't at least I hope CSX doesn't use a remote for a rear end shoving move. I've learned with CSX to never say never. From what I gathered from the limited info in the article it appears to be a train assisting another over an ascending grade on a mainline. What do reporters know it wouldn't be the first time they incorrectly identified a crew member. Someone on here stated they went to the REDI with this guy the article states he was 59 years old. I'm not sure how many years he had on the railroad it didn't give it. Still a lot of people if unfamiliar with helper operations both head end and rear end don't take in to consideration the possibilty that slack could come back. We usually backed up at least 3-4 cars lengths after detaching the locomotive from the rear of the train.

Name: kyle E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 September 2011 to rrj, did this death have anything to do with a remote operation?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2011 NoMo It would of been dense to allow stock options to expire. There isn't a person on here who wouldn't do the same. Pines, you stated CSX stock has never gone above $25 a share. I don't know where you got your info but the stock was at $72+ a share when it split 3 to 1 this year plus an increase in dividends. I'm so confident about CSX I've added more shares to my portfolio seeing the market is in a downturn. CSX price is attractive at $20 which is still above the recession price but below the split price. I'll add more if the price is right. It's all $$$$$$ to me. Just have to be in it for the long haul not day trading BS. All railroads are down not just CSX. NS & UP has taken a hit worse than CSX. NS down over $6 a share UP around $15 CSX is around $3.50.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Hey Pines: Don't hand us your BS...you know exactly how a stock option works, if you don't you might study up before you make yourself look stupid. Those options were granted years ago at a fixed price and have an expiration date. There is no money required to exercise the options so anyone that didn't take advantage of them would be an idiot. Everyone could use a couple of extra million!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2011 What I read with the incident with the conductors death it was an assist. They referred to him as an engineer but that doesn't make sense. Why would the engineer be in between the rear car & locomotive? Apparently he didn't give enough of a separation to allow for a roll back. Not sure if people in that area are familiar with working pushers. I worked pushers a lot one thing I always stressed to conductors especially to those new or unfamiliar with the job give plenty of room before going in between to open knuckles to couple or put on the EOT because the train could roll back. The head end engineer should of had the air brakes applied if 3 step was in place. I guess if a camera was installed on the assisting locomotive it'll explain somethings.

Name: Joe T. Plummer E-mail: rrstrike.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Imminent strike looming for at least one day....In the mean time; take all pit stops needed for personal health! Bring back the good old days of unity and trumping greed!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 September 2011 Dennis Hemme was killed near Botkins Ohio. Crushed between the loco and a hopper. dennis was a good classmate and friend

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Tell me Slackie --- Would positive train contol would keep a train engine from rolling backwards? Yeah NOMO Cramer would think HUH why don't the railroad execs keep the stock if its so good? Hmmmm 2% return isn't a good investment I wouldn't think. Unless http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-sec On Jan 13 Ward got like 90,000 shares @ like $16 bucks and sold them the same day for $68 ea. A $52 a share profit but yet the stock hasn't ever been over $25 a share ---much less a $52 increase in value in one day. Quick investor? Would $4.5 million pay for some train controls?

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2011 Gee Pinester: I do not think you need to call CSX and tell them about PTC... If you work for the railroad you know what it is . It is people like you who are not familar with the way the railroad operates that do not know what PTC is. But you keep asking questions ergo, you will learn alot. Mr Brown made a good move... Little hint: you can learn about how the stock market works by watching your buddy Cramer. Keep on asking and you will learn, it might take a little time

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2011 Brown sold the stock pre split and filled out paper work for the SEC.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 September 2011 you should stop after 8 if you dont want to work. They need to give you at least a four hour grace period, after the grace period you should not have to be forced. This is worse than state laws, and some of you are in some of the most powerful unions in the world, But I can see that your unions, on the local level are not much. There are things you can do, sign petitions, to have your representatives removed, over throw these corrupted unions, if they cant get you better conditions than what you have. These sub-standard unions at the railroad are not working for the members, instead they are in CSX pocket. The RR unions are responsible for these sub-standard conditions

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2011 Another employee dead: http://www.whiotv.com/news/29115901/detail.html

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2011 Robert that was a great post of CSX management , insider trading, NO LOSE SITUATION like the major banks BAILOUT. FYI: Brown is the Head Nazi Brownshirt creating the Gaystepo work environment to make T&E work like slaves with never taking a day off while he collects more bonus money at our expense. Keep posting and we shall see that jackass going out the door sometime soon.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2011 It's funny listening/reading this stuff. It's kinda like watching Jerry Springer, you bitch about work, you bitch about making overtime, you bitch about this and that. If the job is so bad, WHY STAY? Try working a real job where you have to actually sweat for a living making minimum wage. Worrying if you're going to make your bills or not. where else can you make this kind of money, sitting, eating PB and Jelly, watching the scenery, getting hotel rooms for free and reimbursed for your meals? The ones who bitch all the time should get off their high horses and realize how damn lucky they are to have a job! If you don't like your job, or it's causing you that much grief, F*cking Quit! Go fry burgers for minimum wage.

Name: KYLE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 September 2011 T&E have no choice in the OT matter cuz all reg yard jobs are advertised with only a reg starting time & 99% road and locals are now called as needed also with only a starting time, so yer stuck with working maby 1 hr or 12 and if you refuse to work after 8 hrs they can charge you with insbornation, in fact when i hired out it was like that probably has been that way for the past 100 yrs or so even before the rr was union, all the other union crafts like m&w, m&e, clerks, ym,s etc etc, thier reg jobs are advertised with both a start & finish time, usualy 8 hrs so they can refuse to work after 8 hrs, i know some ym,s who have done that without any re-precussions, yea see ot is a option for the other crafts, But not for t&e, just see what would happen if you were on a road job and you stopped your train out in 10 buck 2 and said i am not working after 8 hrs, you can bet yer last dime that you are going to be in for a world of shit unless it was some type of medical emergency, Not saying these rules are right but i knew this when they hired me and i accepted it or not have a job.

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2011 Lay-Off restrictions: A "day" constitute a 24 hour continuous time period....If your union allows that to be cut in half; you need stronger leadership. Lay-off issues seems to be the prevailing problems for most of the complainers. You all are pissing in the wind if you don't change leadership. One less hired American is an additional thousands into the pockets of the Robber Barons! America is a great country with doctors and lawyers on both sides of the isle!

Name: Robert Pines E-mail: btpino40@gmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2011 Boy Slackie I'm sure glad you explained PTC as positive train control. Maybe, think I should call CSX and have them put that info onto their railroad definitions page. I kinda figured out the PTC thing reading the NTSB findings on about every train vs. train investigation the NTSB has ever done when they say "positive train control was needed to prevent collision. Ergo MASS MURDERs on the railroads and feds part. Now a real railroad question David A brown who ever that may be sold 5,000 shares of CSX stock in May at $76 a share when the stock was like $25 a share. Would Jesse James be proud of this train robbery? http://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-csx/company-overview/railroad-dictionary/?i=P Brown David A Common Stock 05/20/2011 Disposed 5,000 shares @ $76.595 share http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-stockquote

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 September 2011 Hey Friend: I don't know where you get your information but CSX can hold you over. They can't make you come in on your off day but if you're at work they can old you're job over. Just remember, they can work you long, only you can work you hard! If you're lucky the double you to a new ticket. I worked the yard extra board and got called for an R10 on the Hill's off day, Saturday. 95% of the time we would've been out by lunch but there was some re-railing we had to do. It was 1500 and the relief was in the shack...there was a cut of 20 or 25 cars that we hadn't gotten to; the Yardmaster told us to finish it. The Engineer got pissed and told the YM that if he had to stay for 10 extra minutes to switch the cut, he would just as soon make 12 hours. It took us 10 minutes to drag and switch the cut and the YM told us to go sit in the car shop lounge...we did for 3:50. The only easier money I ever made at CSX was sitting in the hotel in NOLA on detention for 56 hours!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 September 2011 Didn't anyone ever tell you people once on the railroad expect anything to happen. I've never seen a bunch of wimps like some you out there today. Once your called you belong to CSX. Go cry to the union that CSX forced you to make overtime they'll be laughing for years telling that one. Heck, I'm laughing now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 September 2011 Some people dont want the overtime, and it is their choice, no matter what CSX tells you. Your union has betrayed you also, by letting them force you into OT without a reasonable grace period. The man doesnt want the OT it is his choice. It is worms like you, that make unions weak.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 September 2011 WOW! Someone complaining about making money. Let's see if I had a choice lodging or going home making 4 hrs overtime. That's a no brainer I'll take the OT & go home. Once there claim max rest even on an extra board if you have one minute over 8 hours a person can claim max rest without penalties. I was wondering when it would get to this point. Get a yard job work a remote you'll get your 8 no OT.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 September 2011 trainmaster told pti we were going to motel but not true. going home. trainmaster made me $175.00 in overtime, but it my life and i dont want to waste 4 fucking hours for it. they dont care about you one bit. its time for the empolyees to shut this shit down anybody that thinks being railroad would be diffent is full of bs