Rodger just as with most things you can not please all of the people all of the
time
No. 1 is Metra No. 2 is Amtk and No. 3 is BNSF.
I have multiple bosses both down here in Ft. Worth as well as many in both
Chicago and Cicero. Problem is most have less time on the RR then I do on the
Job. I sit on the fence with mud balls coming at me from Freight on one side
and Passenger on the other side and you have to duck both and get the trains
over the road. That is if some DS ( and I do not mean dispatcher) had not
deadheaded all the crews home. Give me half a chance and I can move every
train thrown at me and the chair right out from under the trainmaster and he
will not realize it till he is sitting on the floor. I told a TM that on nite
and proved to him I could do it on more then one occasion. After working as a
train dispatcher for 20 years I found out the job is a entry level management
job I now have 34 years and in just 22 months I am GONE
SJH
----- Original Message -----
From: Aeolus3@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Typical speed on the East End
Steve,
A couple of years ago I was heading west on #5, we waited at CUS for 2 women
to come off of the Capitol Limited which was running late. Amtrak held #5
for 90 minutes, I was riding out to Osceola IA, about 300 miles west of
Chicago,
we got there 3 hours late. We'd lost our dispatch window. I couldn't help
but think how many bad feelings toward Amtrak for holding up a train for 2
people. A lot of the passengers that I talked to were upset at BNSF, I'm
going
you can't be upset at the railroad, as BNSF tries very hard to run the Amtrak
trains on time.
Loren
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