Absolutely love your channel Eric! Thanks for capturing this incredible footage and allowing us come along for a ride. Cant wait to see what you have next. These moments of how railroading was done back in the day are masterpieces! 🙂
Thank you so very much for stopping in and welcome to my channel! UA-cam has been an amazing thing, because for the longest time, these tapes were in boxes that were stored in my basement. I’m so glad that they not only came out to see the light of day, but, I’m able to share them with viewers like yourself who truly appreciate the content!! ☺
Nice video, Eric! I haven’t seen the Peoria Sub in a while & it was a nice trip down memory lane here! I hired out in the fall of ‘95 & trained out of South Pekin with conductor Joe Szadkowski ( super nice guy! ) & returned in ‘98 for engineer training with Terry Bridges ( another super nice guy! ) - both men have long since retired & retirement for me at 28 years is now looming on the horizon. Glad you captured this on video!
Small world - my dad worked for the Milwaukee out of Bensenville and franklin Park. A high school friend hired on with the CNW IN 1991 out of west Chicago as a brakeman, but once the railroad began to phase that position out, he had a choice of becoming a conductor or take the buyout with pay. He took the buyout, and he still regrets his decision.
I hired out with CNW in November of 1993, so not too long after your friend! I decided to leave in January of 1996 because I had a strong feeling that UP wasn't going to be a nice place when their management began to get aggressive with the things for which they disciplined and to the extensive degrees they would discipline, especially for silly things! I regretted it for several years, but NOW, I know it was the right choice! Very few people are happy at the UP these days!
@@warbonds Thanks for adding your history with the CNW! My dad worked for the Milwaukee Road and when buyout rumors were flying around in the mid 80's the CNW was supposedly a contender along with the SOO and the CP. With my dad working in the piggyback side of the railroad they were hoping the CP would have made first purchase as they wanted to keep that segment under one roof. The SOO did not, and the piggyback services went to third party workforces. in 1987 my dad got his walking papers and that was it - go figure the CP eventually took over operations anyways but that was another story.
Who’s that guy, isn’t his name Tailpipe or something? Nice to see the Foamiemobile again. This was a good video. Why were you giving the train a pull-by, or was it to pull-up the car with the broken knuckle? lol Safety third on your procedure for making the cut at the end.
Pretty cool video! I work as a Driver assistant/Trainee driver here in Australia, basically the same position as Conductor but with a different title name. How did you get on making videos while on the job, especially before your promotion?
it would have been a lot more interesting to watch the control stand being operated by the engineer than to watch the back of his head, or looking out the window counting the trees going by. got to give you propers for that , a big SORRY!@#$%&* cabride
Nice video, Eric! I haven’t seen the Peoria Sub in a while & it was a nice trip down memory lane here! I hired out in the fall of ‘95 & trained out of South Pekin with conductor Joe Szadkowski ( super nice guy! ) & returned in ‘98 for engineer training with Terry Bridges ( another super nice guy! ) - both men have long since retired & retirement for me at 28 years is now looming on the horizon. Glad you captured this on video!
Wow! I actually worked with Joe several times! I was mostly out of proviso, but I went down to South Pekin for the last few months I worked for the UP.
Absolutely love your channel Eric! Thanks for capturing this incredible footage and allowing us come along for a ride. Cant wait to see what you have next. These moments of how railroading was done back in the day are masterpieces! 🙂
Thank you so very much for stopping in and welcome to my channel! UA-cam has been an amazing thing, because for the longest time, these tapes were in boxes that were stored in my basement. I’m so glad that they not only came out to see the light of day, but, I’m able to share them with viewers like yourself who truly appreciate the content!! ☺
@@warbondsthis is Chris I love your train videos
@@chrishaupt9739 thank you so much for stopping by to watch, and your support of the channel! 😊
Always been a fan of the C40-8's. Too bad they've all mostly been retired.
Great vid! You guys sure seem to love what you did. Thanks for sharing..... .
Nice video, Eric! I haven’t seen the Peoria Sub in a while & it was a nice trip down memory lane here! I hired out in the fall of ‘95 & trained out of South Pekin with conductor Joe Szadkowski ( super nice guy! ) & returned in ‘98 for engineer training with Terry Bridges ( another super nice guy! ) - both men have long since retired & retirement for me at 28 years is now looming on the horizon. Glad you captured this on video!
Very informative and great video Eric as always
Great stuff Eric.
Small world - my dad worked for the Milwaukee out of Bensenville and franklin Park. A high school friend hired on with the CNW IN 1991 out of west Chicago as a brakeman, but once the railroad began to phase that position out, he had a choice of becoming a conductor or take the buyout with pay. He took the buyout, and he still regrets his decision.
I hired out with CNW in November of 1993, so not too long after your friend! I decided to leave in January of 1996 because I had a strong feeling that UP wasn't going to be a nice place when their management began to get aggressive with the things for which they disciplined and to the extensive degrees they would discipline, especially for silly things! I regretted it for several years, but NOW, I know it was the right choice! Very few people are happy at the UP these days!
@@warbonds Thanks for adding your history with the CNW! My dad worked for the Milwaukee Road and when buyout rumors were flying around in the mid 80's the CNW was supposedly a contender along with the SOO and the CP. With my dad working in the piggyback side of the railroad they were hoping the CP would have made first purchase as they wanted to keep that segment under one roof. The SOO did not, and the piggyback services went to third party workforces. in 1987 my dad got his walking papers and that was it - go figure the CP eventually took over operations anyways but that was another story.
Great stuff. Thank you.
Amazing video
Wow my buddy check out the teacher
It was so laid back at that time! 🙂
Cool 👍
Who’s that guy, isn’t his name Tailpipe or something? Nice to see the Foamiemobile again. This was a good video. Why were you giving the train a pull-by, or was it to pull-up the car with the broken knuckle? lol
Safety third on your procedure for making the cut at the end.
Pretty cool video!
I work as a Driver assistant/Trainee driver here in Australia, basically the same position as Conductor but with a different title name.
How did you get on making videos while on the job, especially before your promotion?
because back in the day, America wasn't a nation of cucked policy whores
it would have been a lot more interesting to watch the control stand being operated by the engineer than to watch the back of his head, or looking out the window counting the trees going by. got to give you propers for that , a big SORRY!@#$%&* cabride
Nice video, Eric! I haven’t seen the Peoria Sub in a while & it was a nice trip down memory lane here! I hired out in the fall of ‘95 & trained out of South Pekin with conductor Joe Szadkowski ( super nice guy! ) & returned in ‘98 for engineer training with Terry Bridges ( another super nice guy! ) - both men have long since retired & retirement for me at 28 years is now looming on the horizon. Glad you captured this on video!
Wow! I actually worked with Joe several times! I was mostly out of proviso, but I went down to South Pekin for the last few months I worked for the UP.
I’m surprised we didn’t cross paths since I left in January of 96