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[Go4Long]

Originally posted by adam c


still doesn't mean you need to send it down to heritage and macleod at 5pm

Originally posted by Mibz
It's HILARIOUS seeing a freight train at 162nd in the morning.

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Freight trains are like religion... they had their time and place... but now they've become too visible and annoying, and are cramping my lifestlye

It costs more to stop and start a train once than it does to move every single car it holds up all day.

[ercchry]

Originally posted by Go4Long

It costs more to stop and start a train once than it does to move every single car it holds up all day.

how about all of the wasted revenue due to "30 minutes or free" delivery places?

also i fail to see that as an excuse since the majority of the time the train goes back and forth over the road ~10 times whenever im stuck during rush hour

[Mibz]

Originally posted by ercchry


how about all of the wasted revenue due to "30 minutes or free" delivery places?

Won't anybody think of the (hungry) children?

Also, sometimes I have to poop.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by Mibz
Also, sometimes I have to poop.

Can you feel the love, Go4Long?

[Go4Long]

Originally posted by ercchry


how about all of the wasted revenue due to "30 minutes or free" delivery places?

also i fail to see that as an excuse since the majority of the time the train goes back and forth over the road ~10 times whenever im stuck during rush hour

You must be near inglewood, or near barlow (which is CN btw, not CP). That's building trains, down the main line we'll run trains at 10'000'+ long, but our yard tracks aren't that long, so the train gets built in two tracks, then doubled together before they depart, or they're coming in to yard and the opposite...putting away in to more than one track.

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


Can you feel the love, Go4Long?

of course...lol.

[hampstor]

Originally posted by Mibz
Won't anybody think of the (hungry) children?

Also, sometimes I have to poop.

We think bigger. The majority of grain we transport is for export. We're helping solve world hunger.

[ercchry]

Originally posted by Go4Long


You must be near inglewood, or near barlow (which is CN btw, not CP). That's building trains, down the main line we'll run trains at 10'000'+ long, but our yard tracks aren't that long, so the train gets built in two tracks, then doubled together before they depart, or they're coming in to yard and the opposite...putting away in to more than one track.

i figured as much, but i cannot understand why this cant be done in the dead of night instead of rush hour

[Go4Long]

Originally posted by ercchry


i figured as much, but i cannot understand why this cant be done in the dead of night instead of rush hour

Because of the stopping a train and starting a train thing... ~40 trains depart calgary in a day...that's one every 40 minutes leaving in one direction or another (the majority go east/west), there's no way for us to run a switching operation that only runs during non business hours, it's just not possible. The hump runs 24/7/365 and is NEVER out of traffic to work.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Go4Long


Because of the stopping a train and starting a train thing... ~40 trains depart calgary in a day...that's one every 40 minutes leaving in one direction or another (the majority go east/west), there's no way for us to run a switching operation that only runs during non business hours, it's just not possible. The hump runs 24/7/365 and is NEVER out of traffic to work.

Ah, the life of the cool engineers.

[Go4Long]

Originally posted by flipstah


Ah, the life of the cool engineers.

It looks like a cooler life than it is...I would NEVER be a road crew.

[corsvette]

Originally posted by Go4Long


Because of the stopping a train and starting a train thing... ~40 trains depart calgary in a day...that's one every 40 minutes leaving in one direction or another (the majority go east/west), there's no way for us to run a switching operation that only runs during non business hours, it's just not possible. The hump runs 24/7/365 and is NEVER out of traffic to work.

CN is building a huge train yard around the Conrich area, im guessing this will help eliminate some of train traffic in calgary.

[J.M.]

19, been a drafter for almost a year.. liking it so far! definitely a long way to go

[diamondedge]

Originally posted by flipstah


Ah, the life of the cool engineers.

pfffft. I lol'd

[Go4Long]

Lol.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by diamondedge


pfffft. I lol'd

You laugh now but there was a point in time where you wanted to go,

"choo choo"

[Go4Long]

Being an engineer is probably one of the most unpredictable careers that you can have. They're very well paid (they make significantly more than I do) but you very rarely hear of a running trades employee that has a really happy marriage.

Basically you're an on call employee, at any time you can get a call telling you that you have to be at work in two hours, you've got 12 hours to make it from your home terminal (in our case Calgary is a home terminal for crews going West to Field, and North to Red Deer, and an away from home terminal for crews based in Lethbridge and Brooks) to your away from home terminal, if you do it in under 10 you can turn back on a train and be on duty for up to a total of 18 hours. Or you can book up to 8 hours rest. At that point, there may be a train to go home on, or there may not, at which point you could end up hanging out in Red Deer for 18 hours.

It's not a great lifestyle.

[-STi-]

Originally posted by corsvette


CN is building a huge train yard around the Conrich area, im guessing this will help eliminate some of train traffic in calgary.

Its being built because we have ran out of room in Calgary. Its just not possible bringing in big 10,000ft + trains every day. Also, running big trains out of here isn't possible either. We are restricted to just 9300' out of Calgary, which just isn't enough.

From what they have told us, we will still have the yard in Calgary (barlow and 50th), so not all traffic will be gone right away. CN has big money customers in Calgary that we need to service. I guess this will eliminate some of the train traffic as we will only be bringing in 3000ft.

Ultimately though, CN runs absolutely nothing for trains out of Calgary. CN in Calgary is nothing compared to CP in Calgary.

CP runs 40, CN runs 4...

[slammedfc]

23, GSE mechanic for one of the airlines
wicked job!

[Sugarphreak]

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[Go4Long]

Engineering? Engineers aren't...well...engineers. Hehe, put it to you this way, a more experienced engineer can get the exact same train across the exact same track faster, and using less fuel as a less experienced engineer all without ever exceeding the same top speed. It's a very different skill set than anything else...train handling is a very complex thing with a lot of variables. A 10'000 ton train that's 7'000 ft long is going to handly completely differently than a train that is 4'000 tons and 7'000 ft long, or a train that's 10'000 tons and 4'000 ft long.