Paper sez BNSF will add 135 jobs in Lincoln!
Trying to offset the large # of retirees!
Oh…sez they are gong to hire about 135 conductors…
Sigh…Mookie wants to be an engineer. Guess she will have to wait until they hire engineers…
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Mookie retires to a nap. More later…
Mook - you can’t work for BNSF - you’ve said yourself that every time you get near it, the trains stop running!
yeah she be stopping at the ice cream stands along the line for sure.
stay safe
joe
That’ll be the day the earth will knocked out of orbit too.just kidding.[:D].Oh if you do? Where might thay send you?..[4:-)].BNSFfan.
And that’s the truth, too! [:D]
Well, Luv…to the other end of the yard of course! Then I can watch trains from there! [:X]
Mookie I would love to see you In a pair of BNSF H2 SD70MAC’s on a coal train.
THAT WOULD BE SOOO DAMN COOL.BNSFfan.
Well, little sister, if you want to be an engineer these days, you have to be a conductor first. And by the time that happens, you’d have to think about retiring. I can’t retire for another 5 1/2 years yet, but hope I have more time than that left in me.
I’m not up on my Railroad Retirement, forls…could Mookie be vested in five years or so?
Carl (Mookie’s quiet brother…I just hit 700 posts, which is about a quarter of hers!)
I can just imagine watching trains and seeing Mookie in the cab of the engine through the window. That would be so cool. I’ll bet you wouldn’t follow the typical whistle code. You’d probably play a song on the horn.[8D] That’s what I’d do![;)]
Willy
Mookie would like to see that too!
Brother Carl! You are too practical! Mookie has no patience, so must go straight to engineer.
And you won’t find her in any vest, either!
Quiet is good - maybe I will try it someday…
The other half of the family…
Willy, there was once a guy on the WSOR, i’ve been told from a first hand witness, who, when he came to town with the throught train in whitewater, would play a different song every time he came to town with the horn. Weird huh!
Noah
'bout time they hired some class acts…
Mookie on the TUPT, (TUlsaPorT) run would be a blast, I love to be the pilot on that one!!!
Ed
The one thing that I like about woman is,they love to put there foot into the gas peddel.
That’s why I love to see a woman at the throttle of a train.THAY LET THE TRAIN KNOW WHO’S IN CONTROL! [:D].BNSFfan.
Wrong railroad! Mookie belongs on the road with the yellow & blue engines with a kitty on the side.[:)]
Once I heard a train come through town with an engineer who really didn’t know how to sound off grade crossing signals-he(or she-might have been Mookie-the BNSF has trackage rights thru here[:D]) was doing a short-short-long-short instead of a L-L-S-L!
What does KCS do, just stick new employees on a train and hope for the best?![:D][;)]
I live a short way from two major road crossings on the BNSF.
At night, the engineers, especially when its really late, will give two very short toots, then blow long only as long as the locomotive is occupying the crossing.
I stopped by the BNSF Hub, and asked a few of my friends why the “odd” horn works at these crossing.
Turns out it just simple courtesy, there are houses less than 100 feet from the main for about three blocks, (this is a older urban area) and they received several complaints about the standard crossing signal.
Because they have to blow the horn by law, they try, at late night at least, to keep it to a minimun.
Nothing offical, and if they get caught not blowing correctly, they could get pulled from service, but still, nice to know they bother to think about the older folks who live right beside the tracks.
And before anyone gets their panties in a wad, the sight lines for both of the crossings is fantastic, both are protected by stop lights(they are both tee intersections, when the signals go on, all lights both ways go red), with full gates that cover both lanes.
And so far as I have been able to hear, these are the only two crossing they do this at, and only the “older” hoggers do it.
Ed
The Mook will need to be a Conductor first anyhow. Can’t get that right hand seat without it…
LC
Do ot and good luck!
Hey mookie limitedclear is right one can not get to the right hand seat unless you hire out as conductor and that takes about 5 years to get in the engine program. Rodney Beck conductor BNSF