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What are you wishing to see on 1225 that would make it "Prototypically Correct?"

Check out NS's website. www.nscorp.com and click on Careers and it's pretty self-explanatory. Most of the hiring is done through classifieds now. Be prepared to not have a life if you go into T&E service on a class 1.

Depends on the locomotive if all wheels are flanged (steam). 1225's are all flanged.

signmasters wrote:

Hogger1225 wrote:It will be a lease, not a sale.

I'm glad you add that you are 100% right!!! thank you.

I don't see anywhere that I mention being 100% right.
I've been around railroads too long to claim something like that!

I could be at liberty to say, but not going to because I get my info from a Management source, and I don't want to drag reference to him into this due to the fact that whatever anybody posts usually gets bent way out of proportion and distorted and then...................... So we'll just have to wa...

Hmmm, selling all the 35's? I heard from an employee that they are just getting two 38's, nothing about getting rid of the 35's. Better tighten down the rumor mill.

It will be a lease, not a sale.

man thats not kool. but there realy isnt much between lansing and jackson Not much? In Lansing: Padnos Iron and Metal. Scrap loads out. Occasional interchange with the CN. Interchange with the CSXT. Ambassador Steel. Steel Re-rod loads in. Quality Dairy. Plastic pellet loads in. Reid Machinery. Var...

They are called for 7am to go get it.

Also Dane, I'd put a lid on that smart-aleck attitude of yours. Keep it up and I'll post something about you that you might not want others to know.

It wasn't Greg that posted it. Get your facts right.

Hey, I finally goofed. Bluewater Fan was right, I was totally thinking of something else going on. Sorry Bluewater Fan. We are doing the Clare and Mt Pleasant things in July..

You know, I wouldn't expect anything less from Dane.

You might want to research those July trips with 1225. That's all I'm going to say.

The cars were needed elsewhere. Empties can be just as hot as the loads, after all, how do you think the loads become that way? See how important dinner is when empty stomachs are ignored?

I used to work with Johnny Benson's dad. He was a Conductor working out of Grand Rapids. NYC-PC-CR-NS. Great guy to work with, once you got used to his ways.

Thank God she didn't get hit by a train! Wouldn't mind seeing some of the wanna-be-the-father vultures get hit though.

Been on three of them and haven't been fired yet or quit! PC from 1970-1976 when it became Conrail from 1976-1999 when the hostile takeover occured and it became NS from 1999 to present. Oh, and volunteer at SRI, been with that group in it's various labels since 1980. One of the regular Engineer's t...

You should have seen the "Flying Drop Switch" that was made to get it there! (jk)

Yes. Let's say that you were on an eastbound train coming at MLK. They divert you into the siding that parallels #2 main, I beleive they call it LO7 now. It goes all the way to Turner St. You go maybe 25-30 cars lengths into the siding and encounter a facing point switch that will take you onto the ...