Train Engineer Jim : Rock Island Metra Chicago other end

[MegaLolfails]

umm what is with the people at @3:19 if that was me driving I would blow the horn at them

[1995marines]

i have a question is the pay for freight train engineers higher or about the same?

[jOnBoY9198]

Is this illegal???

[THEATREofPAIN270]

Way Cool, I am view 14,000. Nice post, Thanx

[normharris]

I bet it must be difficult switching from one cab layout to the next one, until you get the hang of it.

[RedVoxVulpes]

Oh jeez the sound of the gyralight motor brings back memories!

[jimmydcap]

How many hours a day do these engineers work

[tubefilmvideo]

@jimmydcap Let me think. I remember him waking up in the 1970's at 5:30 am and taking his time leaving, so that would probably make it around 6:30 am and getting home around 5:30 or 6 pm.

[tubefilmvideo]

@jimmydcap I want to say 8, 10, or 12. I remember my dad leaving in the 1970's at 6:30 am and getting back home at 5:30 pm. But things changed in the 1980's I want to say it went down to 8 hours.

[traindude109]

@tubefilmvideo As a train service employee you can work a maximum of 12 hours a day. It used to be 16!

[bnsfwarbonnet]

@jimmydcap now its strict 10 hours or less at a time

[generfeld]

pretty good videography!

[tubefilmvideo]

@generfeld Thank you, I did weddings, legal depositions and corporate for about 20 years.

[supermarioworld04]

What kind of horn is it

[tubefilmvideo]

@supermarioworld04 I really don't know.

[boweandrew3]

The Rock Island Budd cars sure had different horns then the Milwaukee road ones sounds like the cab cars had Nathen P5 not K5la's or some other kind The line between Blue Island Vermont street and Joliet is run under Cab Signal rules and the rest from Blue Island to Chicago Is CTC

[phillyslasher]

Tight quarters in that cabcar!

[tubefilmvideo]

@phillyslasher  and how !!

[skullcrusher301]

Ive allways wondered what was in the cab of a metra cabcar

[tubefilmvideo]

@skullcrusher301 exactly ! a lot of people wonder about it.

[metraF40PH163]

nice video thanks for shareing

[tubefilmvideo]

@metraF40PH163 Thank you very much !

[trainman1995]

too bad you can't do that anymore

[tubefilmvideo]

@trainman1995 Man, you aint kiddin ! If I could do it again I'd put a wireless on him and ask a couple of questions as he was driving. and just in general shoot more hours of footage.

[BCAmtrak1]

Here is a question? Does the Rock Island Dist. use track warrants? If so can you obtain a copy?

[tubefilmvideo]

@BCAmtrak1 I'm just the son of this train engineer I don't know trains like most of you guys. But what exactly is a track warrant ?

[CrazyGrandpa2]

I knew of your dad. My dad was a engineer for the Rock Island for 49 yrs. He retired in 1992. He died in 2006. I use to work for the Rock Island myself. Never rode in the coach's. Always the engines.

[tubefilmvideo]

My dad didn't really talk that much about the other engineers. Usually it would be him saying " yeah so and so who works with me said it was a good resteraunt to go to" He always respected the opinions of the other engineers as to if something was good or not - because he knew that they were as tough depression era string saving kind of guy as he was.

[tubefilmvideo]

@funstuffaweek Thank you

[han0115]

Lots of crossing!

[tubefilmvideo]

@han0115 What is crossing ? I don't know

[Amtrak1194]

which was your final station???

was it Ogalvie cuz it definitely wasn't Union

[tubefilmvideo]

@Amtrak1194 Started in New Nenox ended in Lasalle street station Chicago

[unionpacifictrain]

thank you i cant wait for the new video

[unionpacifictrain]

when are you going to post the new video? i cant wait i love these cab ride videos. engineer jim jokes around alot like in the one with him going to work. they are funny and awesome 5 star

[unionpacifictrain]

These are such awesome videos!

[tubefilmvideo]

Thank you ! I have one more railroad video to do - it's about my dad retiring.

[bpbpcoc]

What a great series of videos. Has your son any interest in becoming an Engineer?

[tubefilmvideo]

These video's are my dad Jim Scott - I wanted to become an engineer but it was in 1980 when the railroad was having a hard time and not hiring anyone. My son Kyle is planning on Electrical engineering.

[tubefilmvideo]

@bpbpcoc No he wants to be an electrical engineer.

[Larsky1010]

Wow! Love the video! *****

[supermarioworld04]

When 8200s were lead cabcars

[jfr3sh4lyfe3]

im really sorry to hear that. may he r.i.p

[tubefilmvideo]

thank you !

[metroliner89]

Oh im sorry he died.... Im gona be a METRA engineer when im older!

[tubefilmvideo]

Thank you.

[jfr3sh4lyfe3]

your dad died?

[tubefilmvideo]

He died in september of 2007. Just sitting in one of those 1960's fold up aluminum chairs - he had a heart attack.

He was retired for 10 years.

[tubefilmvideo]

@jfr3sh4lyfe3 Yes, in September of 2007 - he had a heart attack while sitting on a lawn chair in the driveway.  I miss him.

[dwkcamman611]

Great video!!! Gotta love those cab car horns!!!

[tubefilmvideo]

Almost every time I hear those horns I think of my dad.

[classicalman114]

Before quiet zones.....

[tubefilmvideo]

This was shot on super VHS format in September 1996. My dad is the Engineer.

He worked for the Rock Island from 1954 to 1997.

[larry84988]

Awesome footage, what year was this taken in?

[Metracab123]

1996

[JimmySinMD]

@Metracab123 This is a cool video that brings back memories. My late grandfather took me into a yard switcher in 1965. I remember it well, though I was only 2 years old. It was a rear-cab switcher like an EMD SW-1. Later, in 1975, a family friend who was a hostler for the Western Maryland Railway allowed me to run an ALCO RS-3 in the yard in Ridgeley WV. Too bad that I failed the physical to become a conductor on CSX. I wouls have loved to have done the job.