Working rail roads and their tracks.

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Retirement is at 62
I had neighbor with 40 years seniority laid off from Conrail.
When I worked on Mississippi coast the local railroad crew was based out of West Virginia.
Some pitfalls of railroad work
Sometimes I think if I could have done it all over again, I would have worked on the railroad. I’m fascinated with them and the benefits pension is excellent.
 
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Here's a link to the TV show. https://www.rfdtv.com/trains-and-locomotives If you are into trains it's kind of interesting. I have it set to record and have seen at least 15 now without any repeating shows. One of them was on snow plows in Canada. They had video footage of a plow and the engines pushing it trying to ram a drift in an epic fail. It was back in the early 70s so not the greatest video but the engineers were repeatedly trying to clear a drift. On their last attempt the plow hit some ice and flipped up and landed on top of one of the engines pushing it. Didn't see it on YouTube.
 
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Interesting
Thanks for sharing
I truly appreciate what these people do moving freight & passengers and the sacrifices our ancestors made to clear the paths, push in the roadbeds and lay the tracks.
 
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Slightly used engines.
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NS&T Fonthill Sub 1982.jpg
We also used a Jordan Spreader on occasion
 
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Here is photos of the 2 engines I got to ride on. These are not photos I took, just some I found of the same swtich engines. Sometimes when you worked as a carmen, you helped move cars around. On the blue one, I actually worked to rebuild its cab.
 

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Here is photos of the 2 engines I got to ride on. These are not photos I took, just some I found of the same swtich engines. Sometimes when you worked as a carmen, you helped move cars around. On the blue one, I actually worked to rebuild its cab.

Love the little diesel switchers!!!!
 

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