Originally Posted by Teal
Originally Posted by hillestadj
Originally Posted by Firecontrolman
Dad was a railroader for 43 years, a carman, repaired coal cars and worked the wreck car most of his life. Absolutely hated the place. It took open warfare to get the union into the coal mines a hundred years ago. It will probably take something similar to get any improvements from the rail companies. Derailing trains in places that are detrimental to everyone around would get everyone’s attention quickly.


There you go, start derailing trains so the union gets a few PTO days. Maybe make sure you get some anhydrous tank cars or other chem tanks cracked open...JFC, what a dipsh.it

Will be interesting once the guys on strike realize the stuff they need to live while on strike - sitting in those non-moving rail cars. Hurt themselves.

"Fuggggggg. You mean my overnight Fed-ex delivery is going to be marooned on a tied down Z-train in BFE for a couple weeks?! Dammit!"