Track Supervisor/Roadmaster

[route_rock]

Thorazine works. I am learning how to speak new TM. Now that my road is part of a Canadian Family I am learning to say "eh alot. But do I say the eh before or after over when talking on the radio?So confused.

[mudchicken]

First - The engineers and conductors know who their boss is, so you do NOT throw him off the train when he comes on to conduct a road test. Second - Conductors have to call signals and supervise the engineer on the road. He also has to complete his paper work correctly. These things are graded by the Road Master. . Both are also graded on following the rules and special instructions for the section of track which they are qualified for.

Easy, easy. No, in today’s megarailroad world, the conductors and engineers don’t always recognize a supervisor as such, believe me, some times it changes with alarming frequency. They might have to ask for ID before they recognize him (or her) as such.

Secondly, it would be a trainmaster or a road foreman, roadmasters supervise track and M of W workers. And, on the western roads, UP, I believe, they’re MOP’s (Manager of Operating Practices).

On Union Pacific, MTM=Manager of Track Maintenance = Roadmaster…MTP=Manager of Track Planning = Division Engineer (sort of, more like a General Roadmaster)

Some of the reasons for changes in nomenclature involve changes in pay grades and job descriptions. The remainder has to do with the influx of Yuppies and non-traditional employees into the railroad workplace management who never could get the traditional/military nomenclature because they had never been exposed to it, so they changed it to something they understood.

[wabash1]

Thorazine works. I am learning how to speak new TM. Now that my road is part of a Canadian Family I am learning to say "eh alot. But do I say the eh before or after over when talking on the radio?So confused.

first you haft to get that stupid attitude of thiers then after every statment you say that, then if they get one up on you then you haft to be bolder and more profound til it gets to a shouting match. slam your fist a few times and act like a ape.