Uncle Pete is having more issiues Trains are still back up especially on the West Coast and in Texas also on the Sunset Route Auto Racks are still sitting there I wonder if crews are in those Locomotives they must be hot as Horse also UP needs 3,600 more crews but guess what a ton of people are being regected alos their is a power shortage and yard capacity is being cut when they put millions into track also their has been a ton of early retirements so guess DAVISON AND CLOWNS HAVE STRUK AGAIN[:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]
Crew shortages have gone from something the railroads knew was going to happen, to something that was an inconvenience, to a problem and now it’s starting to become a crisis.
I heard that up here in Canada CP has leased 41 new loco’s form GM for the second quarter to try and ease backlogs, but they don’t actually have enough crew to run them all.
Grain shippers are starting to get really PO’ed.
More or less the same problem everywhere else…
Trains just sitting on the tracks with nobody to run them.
Line’em up…UP! Their new motto , When will we deliver ?
So in five years I can retire with 20 years from the Navy, hire out with UP, still get to drive an expensive piece of equipment, work nights and weekends, get called in the middle of the night, and spend lots of time away from my family, have an opportunity for people to shoot at me or crash into something…oooh sign me up!!!
When the UP first came out with “We Can Handle It”, we, at the SP, said, yes, they certainly could. They would handle it and handle it and Handle it and handle it, and finely, when they tired of handling it, they would give it to the SP and we would do the job right the first time.
Boy do you sound ungrateful for everything that UP has done for SP since the “merger”…I mean they…no you had that already, ummm. and they…no not that either…but they met you half way on the the new company name…their Union, SP’s Pacific…[:)]
Trucking is short of drivers now Railroads are short of engineers now what.
Must be a left coast problem. I haven’t seen any parked trains on NS.
I guess nobody wants to work for a living anymore.
Grain Shippers will be crabby as can be
DOGGY
Power shortage huh? Maybe they wi***hey had retained some of those Chicago & North Western locomotives that were discarded because the colors weren’t the right shade of yellow …
Dave Nelson
Maybe they can send all the loco driving jobs to India.
Be careful…UPs got quite a few remotes on the west coast. I can just see a GP15-1 remote running on the point with 3 SD70Ms behind it, being run from a cubicle in India…If there is a way I am sure UP would try.
Where I live if you don’t have “family” already working for the railroad you might as well not even waste your time trying to get a rr job. [:(]
Most of the railways up here are getting away from that now (Western Canada anyway).
One of my friends dad’s works for the shortline, southern railway of BC, and when there was an opening they wouldn’t even give him an interview. His friend ended up applying for the job and getting it. It’s reverse Nepitism up here!!
ADVICE NEEDED
I am 23 have a college degree and been trying to get hired on by the UP. I lift weights with an engineer on the UP and he told me I for sure would get hired. Only problem is I can’t even get an interview. As short of crews as they are especially in Iowa what and who are they looking for. Do I have to have military experience before they will consider me?
Down here the “good ol buddy” system is tried and true. Relatives are thicker than degrees.
your not around here on the weekends . plenty of parked trains. around here 2 trains and 1 crew what do they do…combo them
Have no idea where you live. but go to www.uprr.com and go to the employment section. There are plenty of openings in Washington, Oregon and California, and now starting to open up in Texas, also. You will have to be able to move to the job location.
Dave,
Keep C&NW units be expensive and repaint them
DOGGY
GO KENTUCKY