What were these guys thinking of? Think Nebraska not North Dakota and the locations make much more sense.
http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=15079
Yes, you can have too much fun and then it is illegal.
And you wonder why the railroads are so froggy about people near their property…
There’s got to be more to this story, but I doubt that it will make these yahoos (or Wahoos, seeing as they are Nebraskans) seem any brighter.
How was the pickup truck involved, other than carrying trespassers onto railroad property (one assumes)?
They cut the unit(s) away from the train, and moved them 40 feet? That doesn’t sound like a joyride, it just sounds malicious to me. Not the way I, a railroad employee, would show a bunch of friends that (a) I could move a locomotive and (b) what happens to the brakes when it’s cut away. I’ll bet the BNSF people were really impressed when the one guy flashed his UP ID card. (I’m now assuming that his firing was related to this incident–probably not an accurate assumption, since he probably came up with some equally clever things to do on his own railroad.)
[V] I’m hoping alcohol are some drug was involved because that’s the only logical explanation for that kind of behavior from a RR employee. The most I’d ever do for a family member was give them a tour of a yard or the dispatch center with permission.
And one of the guys aws a UP employee. I can just imagine the conversation in the pickup. After a few too many beers,The UP guy says"I can drive a train,wanna watch?" and everything went down hill from there.
MERRYCHRISTMAS!
STUPID is the word. I never plan on or ever will trespass on railway property.
I hope your right about the beer, theUP guy had to know what would happen, and that he would end up fired…big Duh…
It does not read like the UP employee was the one who actually was on the locomotive or he would have been charged with the felony charge. He was not, just the trespass. Since there is note that the incident did not happen at a grade crossing it might be reasonalbe to figure the participants used an access road or a fire break to drive the vehicle to the locomotive. It would appear the UP employee was involved up to that point.
It still cannot be a good precedent for any UP or perhaps other railroad employee who crosses the tracks of another RR to fi***he local stream and gets tagged by a trainmaster or roadmaster.
Wouldnt you NOT want to show them your UP id card, then you might have a chance of not getting fired?
coborn35,
No take your chances as a civilian. Don’t risk the career if at all possible. There is just no excuse for the way this ended up. Had they just been hunting pheasants along the row things might have been just fine. As soon as they boarded the train and then manipulated the handles and levers to move it, they were toast. I cannot see any neutral restoring this former employee to his job upon appeal. The two that moved the loco may well face federal charges later.
The employee should have known better and if he was unable to talk his buds out of what they were doing should have left the property immediately. The only likely way to save his job would have been to rat out his former friends but even then it is likely the UP would have dropped him like a hot rock.
The UP man was most likely the only one with a reverser key.This makes him more responsible.
MERRYCHRISTMAS!
Ah the sad fate of another redneck. The demise [xx(]always seems to start with those 4 and half tragic, tragic words…
“Hey ya’ll… Watch this!”
[8D]
Do they give reverser keys to all engineers individually? What about different styles of reverser keys? Do you walk around with a reverser key ring?
i could tell you…but then i would have to kill you…lol
csx engineer
Only 40’ really not worth it to wind up behind bars for that. [:o)]
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Originally posted by arbfbe
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[}:)] If it was me I would have at least called the DS and asked for some track authority. 40 ft. seems hardly worth it.[:D]
Here’s the question:
Was it on a mainline or a yard track?
Sincerely,
Daniel Parks
How would they have known the man worked for the UP unless he had shown them his card?
Hey csxengineer98, that’s a good one[(-D].Yeah I had mine gold plated.The fact the now former employee,is a former employee.is his own fault.I would never think of tresspassing while off duty.As for the $10,000.00 fine.That is the normal personal fine from the FRA for operating a loco without a FRA license,nothing to do with federal court.It would not suprise me that they could be given fines or jail time from the Patriot Act if the UP wanted to try for it.The former employee will be off until the next arbutrary meeting of the FRA,in which they meet twice a year.He more than likely will get his job back eventually.