I am the Chairman, Owner and Chief Operating Officer of the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad. The railroad is a class 1 railroad that was formed with the consolidation of Rail America, Genesse&Wyoming and the Ontario Nortland.
Today I need people for my management team to help me with my railroad.
The positions are…
Cheif Financial Officer
Vice President of Security and Legal Services
Vice President of Intermodal and Development
Vice President of Agriculture and Development
Vice President of Mining Commodities and Development
Vice President of Tourism and Public Relations
Vice President of Chemical, Petrochemical and Waste Management
Vice President of Real Estate and Property Management
Vice President of Research
Vice President of Human Resources
Vice President of Supply Logistics and Development
Vice President of Marketing and Customer Services
Who want’s to join my railroad? [:D][:D][:D]
And remember
We care about our employees but don’t cross the boss.
Sounds top heavy to me, what do you need all those high paid VPs for anyhow ? If your going to startup , you need more practical RR men rather than tossing away large sums of ca***hat you havn’t earned yet on people that sit behind desks . Perhaps in time you will be able to expand.
Randy
I have already been operating for a while. I operate over 400 trains a day. I purchased the several trucking companies including Trans X and TST Overland. I run from Boston to Montreal, Boston to Chicago, Buffalo to Pittsburgh, Detroit to Cincinnati, London Ontario to Toronto plus the Ontario Nortland.
This is why I need all the management and must be decent railfans. Workers aren’t the problem-got plenty from the existing shortline companies.
There is no way your railway will be able to pay the 200 high-priced lawyers that it will need–and who doesn’t–to be able to be a proper company if it has all of those high-priced positions.
While we are at it, we better cut some of the non-managerial positions too. After all, with lawyers on board, do we really need to worry about safety?
Last, but not least, we better make sure we cancel all fan excursions. We don’t want our legal department over worked by all of the legal problems that can result from such frivolous activity.
We should not get rid of the Chief financial officer though; got to keep him or her on board to make sure the lawyers get paid.
Randy, if there’s a phone tapping department, it’s a VP and his ILLegal staff. (Perhaps the socialist government in Canada freely condones wiretaps whenever a philosopher-king railroad president deems them desirable, though ;-})
Why not hire all those poor management types Uncle Pete sacked earlier this year? They need jobs, too…
Don’t laugh, guys – funnier things have happened in the la-la-land which characterises big corporations these days!
Junction – why not pick up some of the trackage on the south shore of the St. Lawrence (the old New York, Ontario & Western) while you’re at it – and maybe the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County too!
I’ll take on art and advertising. Posters for everyone, but I want to lay out the trainmen’s uniform specs as well. Computer tickets should still come out on Association Ticket Paper.
Mitch – start by giving him a herald and logo to replace that ghastly thing he puts in his signature… ;-}
I have a vision of the “Proudly Serving North America” as a banner on the long hood, with paired flags of the two nations in parallel … the US flag leading Canadian on one side, Canadian leading on the other … much like the UP long-hood flags – rather than using the slogan on the cab a la '70s Union Pacific “We Pan-Handle It”
This puts the numbers on the cab, gold outline with some deep color, engine-turning embossed into the (vinyl self-adhesive) stock used for the numbers. What’s the right “company” typeface for the numbers and lettering?
Number boards should be some hue of yellow or orange, in reverse, on dark background (as that’s the most visible by actual test).
Does he use the three-light Canadian-style markers? Be sure there are IR transceivers in there for non-radio line-of-sight wireless communication… ;-}
And, of course, variable-deflection Gyra-Lite type anticollision (you can adjust the ‘wobble’ of the beam, and perhaps also modulate the speed of rotation within limits, so that it can act as a spotlight does). Not a replacement for alternate-flashing ditch lights, of course – those light the roadbed and sides, down low, so provide optics like projector-beam headlights (and perhaps put strobe tubes in the housings that synchronize with signals from ‘grade crossing cams’ to give better lighting to ‘malefactors’ …
Dark blue for the Atlantic
Light blue above for big sky
Gold lettering and striping for wheat? I’d look at a modified NYC lightning stripe for general contour; Sterzing said he’d have picked it for the Sharks if he’d seen it before he approved the Warbonnet model…
Get hold of Raytheon and have them gin up a larger version of the NightDriver system for the engineer – cost-effective, fixes forever any problem with 800-foot visibility for the engine crew, and almost cert