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raybob - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:13:03
Congrats Trainman. Sounds like you're on your way. All Aboard!
Sultans of Claw - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:15:21
All aboard!
Congratulations.
figmo59 - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:25:54
all i wanted to do when i was your age was to work with explosives...my dreams have treated me well...
good luck in all your endevers...never take no for the end all answer.
and above all remember... you will only get out of something what you put inta it.
do your very best.....good luck.
do what you love.
KE - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:27:39
Congratulations! It's great to see you have the opportunity to pursue something you clearly love. Keep chugging on!
CurtissWhite - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:31:38
Wooooooo... Woo Woo. :o) Congratulations.
kipperr - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:49:05
LUCKY!
banjotom2 - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:52:57
Congratulations, TrainMan!
Tom
minstrelmike - Posted - 02/07/2011: 18:59:20
If you've never listened to Utah Phillips, you might look up some of his stuff.
He's a guitar picker singer who wrote a lot of good train songs such as Daddy What's A Train?
I do his Queen of the Rails about a hobo's dog and Tolono where he took the last ride of the Wabash Cannonball
dmiller - Posted - 02/07/2011: 19:25:27
quote:
Originally posted by TrainmanCSZ4UP
At National Accadamy of Railroad Sciences.
I just got accepted to the Railroad Conductor Training program.
railroadtraining.com/careers_f...ctor.html
I'm excited is an understatement.
Congrats, Chase!! I was excited when I got admitted to college too but;
I didn't have a clue what I wanted to "do" though, like you do.
You're already one step ahead in the game of life.
Micki - Posted - 02/07/2011: 19:28:14
Congratulations, trainman. Good news. Micki
pandjlocke - Posted - 02/07/2011: 19:32:35
quote:
Originally posted by KE
Congratulations! It's great to see you have the opportunity to pursue something you clearly love. Keep chugging on!
Something you and AND can provide a future. You don't always get those two things together. Congrats!
dawgdoc - Posted - 02/07/2011: 20:20:34
Congrats! I wish you all the best!
Just promise me one thing. If you run a train by my house here in Idaho, the crossing at my house is a PRIVATE locked crossing and you don't have to blow the horn at 5:26am every blessed day.
Bell - Posted - 02/07/2011: 20:48:20
Congratulations and best wishes to you TrainMan. I'm sure your family is very proud of you.
inniepie - Posted - 02/07/2011: 21:29:06
What a cool job! Good for you!
GarlicBreath - Posted - 02/07/2011: 21:57:50
Wow a degree that will result in a job! Horray!
I hope you don't have to go into debt and there really is a job at the end.
Otherwise, a college degree is one of the stupidest things a person can waste time on.
R Buck - Posted - 02/08/2011: 04:01:51
I hear that train a comin' Trainman is on board, congrats!
John Allison - Posted - 02/08/2011: 04:52:24
Congrats and best wishes. Sounds like you are following your dream.
Frisco Fred - Posted - 02/08/2011: 05:14:29
Chase,
Here's the path... Start here,
Then proceed to here,
BryanWB - Posted - 02/08/2011: 05:59:57
On the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Nymphadora - Posted - 02/08/2011: 06:19:13
That is so wonderful! I'm very happy for you. If you have a job doing what you truly love, life is good. Going to work at a stupid job simply to survive is a life of drudgery. I had a job in a cocoa factory in my teens...all I did every day was dump 50lb bags of cocoa into a huge mixer. But when I became a rock musician every night was great...I worked with guitars, amps, lights, music...everything I loved, all in one job. When I was 17, I jumped a freight and rode in a boxcar for miles and miles across New Jersey. When I got caught on the return trip, the engineer yelled at me, I burst into tears, so he let me ride home with him inside the engine, an Erie-Lacawanna GP9. And gangers today think THEY have fun. Trains have always been a love of mine. If you pursue this career you will be a very happy man. I'm jealous. Hugs....
Jim Cannon - Posted - 02/08/2011: 06:24:33
It sounds as if you are making your dreams come true. Congratulations, have a wonderful life!
dflowers - Posted - 02/08/2011: 06:31:47
Freight train comin' round the bend. Good luck, pal.
rinemb - Posted - 02/08/2011: 08:41:14
Congratulations! Brad
michael6 - Posted - 02/08/2011: 10:44:13
Good luck!
TrainmanCSZ4UP - Posted - 02/08/2011: 19:57:18
Thanks everyone. Its my dream job and this is this the first step in making it a realality. Can't wait for August.
donc - Posted - 02/08/2011: 20:33:06
When I was a kid the trains would pass through our neighborhood a few times a day. The thing to do was to wave at the engineer. One of the older kids explained to us that if you didn't wave,the engineer would stop the train and chase after you.. I promise to wave when you go by.
Brian T - Posted - 02/08/2011: 21:31:04
Congratulations, Trainman! You're rolling!
Work hard. Play hard.
The Engineer - Posted - 02/13/2011: 22:01:31
Good luck young fella, get ready for the extra list. and make sure your phone is in good working order.
Mopick - Posted - 02/14/2011: 03:27:22
My grandfather worked for the Missouri Pacific which is now the Union Pacific. He was on a section gang that maintained the tracks. His two brothers also worked for MOPac. Uncle Dugie was a welder and uncle Eugene a conductor.
Back then the trains still cabooses. Grandpa lived in a typical railroad town in Southeast Missouri. The town was built around a tie yard. They would cut the lumber in the area and make railroad ties. The railroad tracks went right through the middle of town and the trains didn't even slow down unless it was a local stopping to pick up a load of ties.
Uncle Eugene would always be standing on the little back porch of the caboose when his train would come through. He would always wave at me when he went by. Us kids used to stand right next to the tracks (close enough to touch the trains) and when the caboose would go by we would run up onto the tracks in the back draft of the train.
One time grandpa had to go to Hoxie Arkansas to pick up his check. We rode down to Hoxie in the Caboose with uncle Eugene and caught a MOPac passenger train back to Poplar Bluff. The old cabooses were neat. There was a wood burning stove in this one. A little desk where uncle Eugene kept his paperwork. As the conductor, he ran the train. I liked going up in the cupola. There was chair on a swivel base and you could see up the train to watch for problems like a hot box or dragging air hose.
I miss cabooses!
Paul R - Posted - 02/14/2011: 05:18:56
Congratulations. I hope you have a good time and learn all there is to know - and get work at the end of it.
Ditto to the recommendation to check up on the late Utah Phillips' work. Not only did he sing about trains, he rode them, too, and even had a fairly detailed article/interview where he described just what's involved in hopping a freight. It could be a very dangerous way to travel.
His description of how a railroad work crew chooses its cook is the basis of his hilarious monologue, "Moose Turd Pie", from his first album, "Good, Though".
pstroud1 - Posted - 02/14/2011: 08:06:49
Congratulations,,,,wonder if they will teach you to run these new fast trains that we just spent billions of $ on. '
Sounds like a right smart career.Wish you all the happiness life can bring you.
Paul
djingodjango - Posted - 02/14/2011: 08:22:19
Chase: How wonderful to follow your dream and succeed. And boy, am I jealous!
There is nothing more thrilling then to stand next to the track when a GE Dash 9 roars by with a one mile consist of freight cars clacking at high speed. Gives me a thrill I can't explain!
Good luck, my friend.
George
Edited by - djingodjango on 02/14/2011 08:29:59
