Before performing any railroad work, a job briefing is required to make sure everyone is protected and it is known what jobs will be done by everyone. Here a track gang and conductor in Gadsden Yard get the morning started right by having a job briefing.
I wonder if some fans know what they are seeing, in instances such as this? BTW- Is that an unpatched SP unit? Boxcab E50
Nope, most of us think, "there they are, drinkin' coffee and bull*&^#ing the day away and doin' nothin'"! But sometimes we need to think about what we do before we start our own jobs.
Looks like a typical city work crew standing around doing nothing to me too. The only thing missing is the "roach coach".
Wow great shot! Looks a lil chilly there, so much for me moving south to get away from the cold lol. Also have a briefing when the work changes or the situation changes as well. One of my favorite changes is " Going to stop up here at Casey's you want anything?" I then know how much air I need to set , good conductors warn you instead of saying it as we are 10 cars away and running about 40. If we cant stop for Casey's we go a lil farther to the Shell station down the way.But in all seriousness I am a HUGE believer in job breifings. I want to know what the other guy is doing at all times.
LOL sounds like the BNSF!!! Many knowledgeable crewmen on the pool turns carry menus from the eating places/fast food outlets along the route. If we know we are going into the hole for a train or two, They'll get on their cell and call ahead. On the commuter trains we can have some of the pizza/sandwich places meet the train with the food. I was foreman on 2nd Shift East Yard at Eola a few years back, had a student with us. We're in the cab going over the switch list, YM calls and wonders why we are still sitting in the clear on a yard track instead of being deep in the yard doing our switching. I tell him that I am doing a job briefing with my student, I was, I was describing to him what we would be doing and what his responsibilities would be. The YM started to give me a ration of &^%*, but I cut him off and told him that we would start working when I had completed my job briefing!! This was the YM that I gave the big payback to which I related on my "Storytime" thread. CT
That unit might be unpatched, but she is not in her proper paint. She should be black & gold!!! Nice to see an ex-DRGW unit still earning her keep.
LOL Thats where I learned it at the Big New Super Fast Railway . I had a pizza delivered to our train once.Told the kid we were on such and such road and look for our house number of 1027 big orange house on the right side. Kid was like thats railroad tracks.Yeah exactly.The guy that brought the pizza got to come up and blow the horn lol.He loved it. We also would call ahead to CiCi's in Thornton Co when leaving Denver and grab a pizza there,then a mexican place before Ft Collins and a Chinese one somewhere else along the line. Thats what a good briefing includes as well! "What do you want for lunch and do you havea menu?"
well its nice to see them doing a job briefing but I think that they should at least be stading off to the side of the tracks or at the very least not standing in the gauge.
