You are browsing camaro5 
 |
|
09-23-2014, 07:41 AM
|
#1 |
|
The pride of the CN
Drives: '13 AGM 2SS/RS M6 & '70 Chevelle SS Join Date: May 2013
Location: Genesee County, Michigan
Posts: 601
|
Another load of Camaros heading out to excited new owners...
"CN2127, how does this radio sound?" I inquired as I stepped onto the nose platform of our locomotive, a beautiful blue sky and perfect temperatures greeting me here in Battle Creek. "Loud and clear on the CN2127," the engineer answers back as I step off the last step of the locomotive ladder onto the ground, the train still rolling. I keyed my mic again, "CN2127, copy on the loud and clear, ok to keep them rolling in the forward direction, five-thousand and seventy-eight feet and six inches, or sixty-six cars, whichever you prefer, to a cut." The engineer responded, laughing, "Copy that, 2127 out." (Whether you have a good day or a bad day, in any industry, is determined mostly by attitude; at least that's how I look at it)
I pulled my train list from my pocket and began pacing back and forth, looking for car numbers, and giving the engineer feedback, "40 to go, 25 to go," and so on. ...then I saw them. 24 cars back, 1,344 feet deep, twenty cars loaded with Camaros. They were in two separate blocks of ten cars each, both heading to different locations. I would've taken some pictures if having my cell-phone on at work didn't merit a $17,000 fine. I won't lie... I was pretty pumped and this is why I love my job. Now, after a two mile run, some weight-lifting, and countless (seventeen hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) boring hours spent in a hotel missing my wife, daughter and puppy, I'm finally getting out and heading into Canada, and then back home. I hope you all have an outstanding day, and be sure to give that Camaro wave to the men on the big iron!  
__________________
"I've been working on the railroad, all mother f###ing day." ...and yeah, we hauled your Camaro.
Class 1 Freight Rail Conductor - Master Mason - NRA Life Member - Tennessee Squire - Firefighter I & II Certified My other ride has 4,400+hp and corners like it's on rails... because it is. |
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 07:51 AM
|
#2 |
|
Master of All Things
Drives: '20 Corvette Stingray Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Southeast of Houston, Texas
Posts: 22,331
|
VERY COOL!
__________________
 |
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 08:09 AM
|
#3 |
 
Drives: 2010 IOM 2LT/RS Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Oshawa, Ont
Posts: 499
|
Great story!
|
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 08:30 AM
|
#4 |
     
|
You'll like these pic's of them getting ready to load onto trains in Oshawa:
__________________
'14 1LE, Recaro, Cammed, Headers, Hi Flows, CAI, Tuned, 486 RWHP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H57UfKCO0EY&feature=youtu.be  |
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 10:39 AM
|
#5 |
Drives: 2012 ZL1 Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Tracy, CA
Posts: 533
|
OMG. Train operator movving Camaroa. BEST. JOB. EVER.
__________________
Current car: 2012 ZL1 - "Venom" - *RIP*
Previous car: 2011 2SS - "NCC-1701-A" Previous car: 2010 2SS - "NCC-1701" (Stolen & Stripped)*RIP* |
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:02 PM
|
#6 |
 
Drives: 2013 2SS/RS 2013 2LS 1998 Z28 Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Illinois
Posts: 98
|
Drooling!
 And how dare they park all those babies outside!
|
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:15 PM
|
#7 | |
|
Drives: 2013 VR 2SS RS Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Kansas
Posts: 619
|
Quote:
__________________
 |
|
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:24 PM
|
#8 |
  
Drives: "Kara Zor-El" 2017 2SS HBM Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Lower Hudson Valley
Posts: 2,036
|
I see a Regal GS there also.
__________________
Lead me not into temptation. I already know the way.
Lana? Lana? LANA! LAAANAAAA!!!! What? Dangerzoooooone.  |
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:33 PM
|
#9 |
|
Svt lol
Drives: 2011 ss inferno orange blown Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Topeka
Posts: 2,312
|
What wheels are on that white camaro in the second to last picture????? I've never seen factory wheels like that.
__________________
plasti dip is not a mod.......and a cold air intake doesn't make you fast!
|
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:35 PM
|
#10 |
|
No Tags/Habitual Violator
Drives: 2012 SIM 2SS/RS & z71 Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: North Georgia
Posts: 2,379
|
Great story and Great day!
1344' is 1/4 mile plus three studs... Any idea what all the poles are for around the rail cars in the last picture of SSMYILE's post? |
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:51 PM
|
#11 |
|
Destroyed by flooding
Drives: Wife's car Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 4,673
|
Trob85, I believe that is a Spring Edition.
|
|
|
|
|
09-23-2014, 02:51 PM
|
#12 |
Drives: 2012 1LT RS Camaro Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Boyertown
Posts: 77
|
Now that is what I call a candy store.
__________________
 |
|
|
|
|
09-24-2014, 12:52 PM
|
#13 | |
|
The pride of the CN
Drives: '13 AGM 2SS/RS M6 & '70 Chevelle SS Join Date: May 2013
Location: Genesee County, Michigan
Posts: 601
|
Quote:
...we also use the poles to determine how far away we are from the end of the track when spotting them. In Flint they have the posts about every 50', and an auto-rack is about 100' long (93', actually)
__________________
"I've been working on the railroad, all mother f###ing day." ...and yeah, we hauled your Camaro.
Class 1 Freight Rail Conductor - Master Mason - NRA Life Member - Tennessee Squire - Firefighter I & II Certified My other ride has 4,400+hp and corners like it's on rails... because it is. |
|
|
|
|
|
09-24-2014, 03:35 PM
|
#14 |
 Drives: 1986 Chevy C-10 and 2013 BRM 1SS Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 153
|
I still like to say rediculous fractions of cars during long shove moves. "Okay NH Fiddy Five Seven Tee Seven you're clear back for 36 and 46/47ths, over". Pretty cool that you had that many loads full of new Camaros.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
