Weekend BS Post (since Roy is slacking)
From : azwiley1
Q: what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race .
Replies:
From : roy
what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race looks like there will be a big learning curve. safer for the driver. .
From : roy
what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race smart ass! roy has been busy trying to get his head around no more trains after 35 years and trying to get the car and myself ready to leave for fl in a couple of weeks. .
From : azwiley1
what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race smart ass! roy has been busy trying to get his head around no more trains after 35 years and trying to get the car and myself ready to leave for fl in a couple of weeks. what happen you have to sell off all your hos or is this something because of the shoulder .
From : denny
what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race smart ass! roy has been busy trying to get his head around no more trains after 35 years and trying to get the car and myself ready to leave for fl in a couple of weeks. what happen you have to sell off all your hos no im retireing in 8 days. so no more working on the railroad. or is this something because of the shoulder shoulder is doing okay doc gave me the okay to go back to work. so i will for a bit. fl is plannedwe bought a place there last year. im going to go down for a couple of months then back to ma for a month. and on the way north hes gonna find out about the good food in the mid-west... white castles...ruths restaraunt...bullwinkles tavern..... the suckers is gonna gain 15 lbs before im done with him... thatll teach him to win all those bets off me..... vbg denny then back down for a couple more months and so on until the wife can retire. .
From : beekeep
on sun 25 mar 2007 135525 -0400 roy roy@home.net wrote what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race smart ass! roy has been busy trying to get his head around no more trains after 35 years and trying to get the car and myself ready to leave for fl in a couple of weeks. i think you were playing with that new found compressor and your inflate-a-date! beekeep .
From : azwiley1
on sun 25 mar 2007 103646 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race its now the car of today. the rear wing coming off so easily bothers me. i hope replacing them during a race becomes a simple task. i think they need to re-design the air splitter also it looks like it might have been cutting tires or knocking the valve stem off on contact. i really dont like the rear wing though i know they will not get rid of it but they need to re-think its mounting and maybe its design. .
From : roy
what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race smart ass! roy has been busy trying to get his head around no more trains after 35 years and trying to get the car and myself ready to leave for fl in a couple of weeks. what happen you have to sell off all your hos no im retireing in 8 days. so no more working on the railroad. or is this something because of the shoulder shoulder is doing okay doc gave me the okay to go back to work. so i will for a bit. fl is plannedwe bought a place there last year. im going to go down for a couple of months then back to ma for a month. then back down for a couple more months and so on until the wife can retire. .
From : roy
no im retireing in 8 days. so no more working on the railroad. roy which line i was a 3rd generation railroader until i got the chance to get a job that didnt have the lay-offs. really what railroad. im 3rd generation as well. never a lay off though. i started with the boston&maine a freight railroad which was going real well until the mellon banking family bought it and did a wall street on it. totally trashed it. gotta love those republicans.gthatll get miles going. i moved over to the commuter rail side of it when it was split and amtrak ended up bidding and winning the contract. then a few years ago the contract was put out to bid and a group mainly from europe now has it. it is called mass bay commuter rail. the group is pretty much run by conex. they have a horrible record in england to the point that they were pretty much told to leave. it isnt a happy deal anymore so its time for me to go. of course its pretty easy as i have been out of work since last sept. with this shoulder injury. no remorse at all. of course ill miss a lot of the folks ive worked with. it is hard not to after working 35 years with some of them. but life goes on. roy ken .
From : napalmheart
on sun 25 mar 2007 103646 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race its now the car of today. the rear wing coming off so easily bothers me. i hope replacing them during a race becomes a simple task. i think they need to re-design the air splitter also it looks like it might have been cutting tires or knocking the valve stem off on contact. i really dont like the rear wing though i know they will not get rid of it but they need to re-think its mounting and maybe its design. i still like the superbird wing. ken .
From : napalmheart
no im retireing in 8 days. so no more working on the railroad. roy which line i was a 3rd generation railroader until i got the chance to get a job that didnt have the lay-offs. really what railroad. im 3rd generation as well. never a lay off though. i started with the boston&maine a freight railroad which was going real well until the mellon banking family bought it and did a wall street on it. totally trashed it. gotta love those republicans.gthatll get miles going. i moved over to the commuter rail side of it when it was split and amtrak ended up bidding and winning the contract. then a few years ago the contract was put out to bid and a group mainly from europe now has it. it is called mass bay commuter rail. the group is pretty much run by conex. they have a horrible record in england to the point that they were pretty much told to leave. it isnt a happy deal anymore so its time for me to go. of course its pretty easy as i have been out of work since last sept. with this shoulder injury. no remorse at all. of course ill miss a lot of the folks ive worked with. it is hard not to after working 35 years with some of them. but life goes on. roy ken grandpa started with the pere marquette in 1920. it was bought out by c&o which is now know as csx. he retired in 1960. he was a locomotive engineer. dad started with c&o in 1950 and retired in 1994 spending most of that as a carman and a locomotive carpenter the last few years were as a foreman. i worked there in 1981-82 got laid-off then worked there again in 1993 all of it as a carman-welder. my final shit or get off the list call-back was in 2002. officially a 20 year lay-off as the 93 stint was in a special project job that basically meant i was working for 75% of full-rate. railroad jobs in my area west michigan have had a long history of lay-offs and call-backs. i needed more stability. now i work in a mi prison as an officer. 20 years time in now the 93 bit with csx was during a time when some were trying to illegally get me fired. the poss are gone and the dept. is a lot better. lay-offs are a rarity and i can retire in about 5 years at age 52. not as bad as you might think. i spent too much time in bars during my younger and wilder days that were a lot more dangerous than the place where i work. railroading does get in your blood and ill always look at trains differently because of the short time that i worked on them i learned a lot about working with steel and how to make fine adjustments with a sledgehammer. as dad told me one time when i was working with him damn it kenny its a boxcar not a swiss watch hit it again with the sledge after i was trying to measure something down to a 32nd. all the work i did and im pretty sure my dad did was with freight. not sure about grandpa. hes been gone 40 years this december. life does indeed go on and we take what we can make and what were dealt. i hope you have a really long retirement and enjoy every minute of it. past my bedtime. gotta go. ken .
From : beekeep
on sun 25 mar 2007 103646 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote what are your thoughts about the car of tomorrow and todays inaugural race its now the car of today. the rear wing coming off so easily bothers me. i hope replacing them during a race becomes a simple task. beekeep .
From : miles
denny wrote and on the way north hes gonna find out about the good food in the mid-west... white castles... on my last trip to ohio i stopped by white castle to see what all the fuss was about. i have puked. those burgers are about the grossest thing ive ever had. tasted like a dog food patty between pillsbury pop and fresh biscuits. those things are nasty!! .
From : napalmheart
no im retireing in 8 days. so no more working on the railroad. roy which line i was a 3rd generation railroader until i got the chance to get a job that didnt have the lay-offs. ken .