It may have stood for Mineola, Tx, east of Dallas. Mineola was a crew change point way back when....
Mr Navasota, if you go futher north towards Hearne, you'll see LCRA/LCRX and FPPX coal trains headed down the Giddings sub towards Halstead or La...
Air brakes...Since I lack in the Visual dept, mabe you could be the teacher on the 30.00 rules or the green part of the GCOR. People see a train...
Be nice if I could hold a road Xtra board. Our switchmens xtra board in Ft.Worth is loaded up all you make is guaratee. We have over 50 or so...
And we get those units as leaders down here in Texas on a hot 97 degree day and on a widecab unit too. Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
Speaking of the Z train. I think that Z is called the ZNYLD. We Ft.Worth crews are always in a fight with the Corsicana/Giddings sub dispacther in...
as for conductors, the vast majority of them do their best work sound asleep....
The $10 an hour depends on local agreement. Our local agreement here at the Ft.Worth service unit is almost 40 years old, we're under the T&P...
If you leave you Ill job, starting out at UP will put you at zero of everything.
I didnt get paid minium wage either. And you may get to %100 of pay within 6 months.
Yes Dave,we had some chubby guys in there. One did 2 sit ups and passed. Another did like 6. I dunno about the UP logo. Those may get issued...
All of us in New Hire classes 40135 and 40136 are all part of Union Pacific railroad. We all passed the final. My first job is First trick in the...
The class work is all GCOR and Hazmat and Signals type stuff. You dont cover all the GCOR. You have Cardinal rules test,Air brake test,TWC...
I miss Mr Johnny trains. Talked to him serveral times on AOL and over at the chatroom at Railroadforums.com. Since the man upstairs made JT take...
Bob, the reading comp test looks as if the passages were pulled from rules books, ranging from maintance of way to mechincal. You werent asked to...
You wanna here something interesting? The day we had our interviews, the RCO accident happened in Arlington which spread all over the railroad...
Kevin summed it up for ya. This is how it basicly works: You get hired and UP does a background and physical check on you. You pass both your...
I had an interview in march, passed the reading comp test and physical agilty and got an interview. They called me back with an conditional job...
Argh! I got back late sunday and I was cold,wet and muddy and those stupit sticky things all over my pants. And yes,Spongebob,The Many Faces of...
ERR. With me same song,2nd verse. Deer hunting again. What time are you gonna be there sunday Frisco? And I already know what you look like....
