I must say thank you for posting all of these videos. Im sure your father was a wonderful man, and has inspired me to take the path of a railroad engineer. RIP Jim.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
Wow. I could not even begin to tell you how many times I have heard, from outside the train, the horn sequence at 2:39 to 2:56. It sounds a LOT different inside the cab. Thank you for sharing.
I got the chance back in the Mid 2000's to have a Cab ride to Fox Lake and back, courtesy of my Grandmothers cousin who was a Metra Conductor and arranged it for me. Had to duck when there was any chance of a supervisor seeing the train. Pretty sweet for a 15 year old. Course now I run steam engines for a living, guess Metra never wore off on me.
Man these must've been the days, even though I'm only 15 hahaha. I live and railfan most of the trackage covered from 1:20 to 2:46. Its also cool to see the changes from then to now such as the new clock tower station at Tinley, new switches right around 2:10 and the torn down private crossing at 2:17. Thanks for sharing these videos!
@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.
@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.
sorry to hear this....my father worked with yours very few times.....my father worked at the Rock Island from 1974 to March 1980....mine passed away in 2001....he carried on to CNW from shutdown to 1991 then the BN....till 1995....worked on a coal train job, came home and had a steak dinner with mom, then a bowl of chocolate ice cream...he broke into sezuires and was disabled after that day....we found that he died of a Viet Nam war illness do to Agent Orange....after he passed VN war vets are dropping at a faster rate from the slow growing tumor....
It depends on the railroad and on the job. Metra crews tend to work 5 jobs back to back which can range from 5-10 hours. Freight operations, if it's a cross country train on a mainline it'll be a 12 hour shift, yard job 1-12 hours depending on what the job(s) is (are). Otherwise how ever long the job takes is the number of hours they're at work. The FRA only allows 12 hours shifts, nothing more.
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
The new Passenger rules state 12 hours on duty. When you come into downtown and you get a break you claim it as off duty. So even though I am at work 11 hours and 39 minutes I am only on duty 8 hours and 39 minutes ( for the train I have been working) Every job varies. though.
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
I have a question. Was this engineer Jim featured on a National Geographic video about trains? There is a part in the show with a guy that looks alot like Jim but older that is riding in an engine and he sees some kids along the tracks the look like they're about to throw something at the train. Jim says during this part of the video "They're about to throw something" but the kids do not thought. Anyways, he looks and sounds like that guy. If he is I figured you may want to know. You can find that video on trains by National Geographic on TH-cam and watch. It's an hour long and really good!
A little bit of a late reply but more than likely it's Ctc and multiple main track. Gcor definition- Multiple Main Tracks Two or more main tracks that are used according to the timetable. Ctc Centralized traffic Control is a main track authority in which trains operate according to signal indication or verbal authority. In simple terms the dispatcher can line trains on either track in either direction.
This line is Metra Rock Island District and is bi-directional. On the main line, the peak trains always run on track #1, the station track so in the morning it is right hand and the afternoon is left hand.
no way most class 1 rr,s have cts as tracks are signaled in both directions they used it before by running against the current by a train order, got it?
Ear plugs young man! Ear plugs ;) On the cab car you dont hear much. Passengers talking, wheel noise, wind noise and that mechanical voice saying " caution the doors are about to close ". Now hte locomotive side with the HEP running is loud!
@Capt_ CJ jim and my father were a few of many that were proud to be a part of the Rock Island.....Jim was lucky and always dislike freight so at bankruptcy he was able to hold a job on suburban....my father got laid off as he was a freight guy....he moved on to the CNW and later BN...thanks, my dad was a better man than me.
How do you get an opportunity to ride in the cab of a locomotive or something like this? I've always wanted to get an opportunity to do something like this. It would sure be nice, especially in a Metra MP36.
@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.
i can see this lil boy is going to follow his dad on the rr when he gets 18n ys old, only its nor that hard to run a pass train, get 25 thousand tons with frt train a dif storie.
How fun! What a great video! Thanks for sharing! My son would love some more subscribers..MetraSnakieAsaurus..we are trying to get 50 so he can do his Special Special train run! Thanks and have a great day! Peace2all!
Wow! Your dad probably took me to work countless times from 1977 to 1986. I loved taking the Rock Island Metra line. Thanks!
I must say thank you for posting all of these videos. Im sure your father was a wonderful man, and has inspired me to take the path of a railroad engineer. RIP Jim.
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.
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.
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.
Wow! So cool to see the inside of an old Budd cab! Nice!
TheBoeingRailroader Those Budd bilevel horns sound like p5 horns
Ty Hik they are :)
@@tyhik9338 yeah because they are lol
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.
I love your videos. I am currently qualifying on the Metra Rock Island District. So much has changed since you have done these. Thanks for sharing.
Great video!!! Gotta love those cab car horns!!!
Yes
If only Metra still used those cabcars!!!!!!
@@coleallen3895 I think they do
@@keyshawnscott12 they were all rebuilt to trailers - only Nippon Sharyo and Amerail cabcars are used today
@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.
What a wonderful video! I hope Jim's grandson goes to work for METRA when he's all grown up and carries on the proud tradition.
Well its been 9 years hes gotta be atleast 14 now
@@justanotherasian4395 This wasn't filmed 9 years ago, it was UPLOADED 9 years ago.
@@justanotherasian4395 this was filmed in 1996. Which is 25 years ago.
Wow. I could not even begin to tell you how many times I have heard, from outside the train, the horn sequence at 2:39 to 2:56. It sounds a LOT different inside the cab. Thank you for sharing.
oohh I love hearing that throttle clicking through the notches!!
I got the chance back in the Mid 2000's to have a Cab ride to Fox Lake and back, courtesy of my Grandmothers cousin who was a Metra Conductor and arranged it for me. Had to duck when there was any chance of a supervisor seeing the train. Pretty sweet for a 15 year old. Course now I run steam engines for a living, guess Metra never wore off on me.
Thank you for sharing this video, and also of your wonderful Dad.
Man these must've been the days, even though I'm only 15 hahaha. I live and railfan most of the trackage covered from 1:20 to 2:46. Its also cool to see the changes from then to now such as the new clock tower station at Tinley, new switches right around 2:10 and the torn down private crossing at 2:17. Thanks for sharing these videos!
@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.
I bet it must be difficult switching from one cab layout to the next one, until you get the hang of it.
Great view of the city at night as it pulls in
These are such awesome videos!
@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.
That was in an old Budd Company cabcar.
Sorry for your loss :(
Man if I was an engineer I would lay on that horn on every crossing..
Lol
NGL same
@tubefilmvideo As a train service employee you can work a maximum of 12 hours a day. It used to be 16!
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.
sorry to hear this....my father worked with yours very few times.....my father worked at the Rock Island from 1974 to March 1980....mine passed away in 2001....he carried on to CNW from shutdown to 1991 then the BN....till 1995....worked on a coal train job, came home and had a steak dinner with mom, then a bowl of chocolate ice cream...he broke into sezuires and was disabled after that day....we found that he died of a Viet Nam war illness do to Agent Orange....after he passed VN war vets are dropping at a faster rate from the slow growing tumor....
Sorry for your loss. Thank you for posting these videos for us railfans.
Ive allways wondered what was in the cab of a metra cabcar
nice to be able to do a ride along. i guess train operation is mostly simple, but you got to know what you're doing.
@skullcrusher301 exactly ! a lot of people wonder about it.
thank you i cant wait for the new video
nice video thanks for shareing
@metraF40PH163 Thank you very much !
I got to ride in an sd-70 once from hallsville texas to Omaha Nebraska
Exactly how did you do that?
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Way Cool, I am view 14,000. Nice post, Thanx
It depends on the railroad and on the job. Metra crews tend to work 5 jobs back to back which can range from 5-10 hours. Freight operations, if it's a cross country train on a mainline it'll be a 12 hour shift, yard job 1-12 hours depending on what the job(s) is (are). Otherwise how ever long the job takes is the number of hours they're at work. The FRA only allows 12 hours shifts, nothing more.
Metra does or used to do split shifts, with some crews possibly doing only one round trip per day.
Almost every time I hear those horns I think of my dad.
I believe this is what I want to be when I grow up. Except I would hate to listen to all of that noise!
lucky kid my grandma got me a ride out at a carnival in locomotive
@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 ?
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
@jfr3sh4lyfe3 Yes, in September of 2007 - he had a heart attack while sitting on a lawn chair in the driveway.
I miss him.
The new Passenger rules state 12 hours on duty. When you come into downtown and you get a break you claim it as off duty. So even though I am at work 11 hours and 39 minutes I am only on duty 8 hours and 39 minutes ( for the train I have been working) Every job varies. though.
Man Press the Horn more when you are navigating crossing!!!!!
This is awesome
@Amtrak1194 Started in New Nenox ended in Lasalle street station Chicago
Might work on seniority ~ You will start with irregular shifts but it shall change over time~ (:
Wow! Love the video! *****
When 8200s were lead cabcars
I wish that Metro-link had Same Horns much as Metra does during the late 90s.😕😕😕😕😔😔😔😔😔😔😔💗💗💗💗💓💓💓
Thank you ! I have one more railroad video to do - it's about my dad retiring.
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
Awesome footage, what year was this taken in?
I have a question. Was this engineer Jim featured on a National Geographic video about trains? There is a part in the show with a guy that looks alot like Jim but older that is riding in an engine and he sees some kids along the tracks the look like they're about to throw something at the train. Jim says during this part of the video "They're about to throw something" but the kids do not thought. Anyways, he looks and sounds like that guy. If he is I figured you may want to know. You can find that video on trains by National Geographic on TH-cam and watch. It's an hour long and really good!
@han0115 What is crossing ? I don't know
i have a question is the pay for freight train engineers higher or about the same?
I always wanted to become metra engineer
Sorry for my ignorance, but is this a left-hand-running or 'wrong main' railroad?
A little bit of a late reply but more than likely it's Ctc and multiple main track. Gcor definition- Multiple Main Tracks
Two or more main tracks that are used according to the timetable. Ctc Centralized traffic Control is a main track authority in which trains operate according to signal indication or verbal authority. In simple terms the dispatcher can line trains on either track in either direction.
This line is Metra Rock Island District and is bi-directional. On the main line, the peak trains always run on track #1, the station track so in the morning it is right hand and the afternoon is left hand.
no way most class 1 rr,s have cts as tracks are signaled in both directions they used it before by running against the current by a train order, got it?
Here is a question? Does the Rock Island Dist. use track warrants? If so can you obtain a copy?
Metra owns the right-of-way between Joliet and La Salle Street Station
Ear plugs young man! Ear plugs ;) On the cab car you dont hear much. Passengers talking, wheel noise, wind noise and that mechanical voice saying " caution the doors are about to close ". Now hte locomotive side with the HEP running is loud!
@bpbpcoc No he wants to be an electrical engineer.
How many hours a day do these engineers work
it can very from 1 hr on duty to 14 hrs on duty.
Is he still working? for some reason I want to say my father worked with him back in the late 1970s on the Rock Island.
@Capt_ CJI just found out he passed around the same time as my dad....some one from metra told me.....
@Capt_ CJ jim and my father were a few of many that were proud to be a part of the Rock Island.....Jim was lucky and always dislike freight so at bankruptcy he was able to hold a job on suburban....my father got laid off as he was a freight guy....he moved on to the CNW and later BN...thanks, my dad was a better man than me.
SO COOL!!!
Thank you.
@jimmydcap now its strict 10 hours or less at a time
Isn't that cab signal territory? The CDU looks dark...
thank you !
When was this video taken ?
1996 1997 I'd say
Probably like early 2000s
@@bsfv2010September 1996
@generfeld Thank you, I did weddings, legal depositions and corporate for about 20 years.
Every train is different ;) It can be a pain. I prefer the old school AAR stands and I do NOT like the layout of the 400 series engines.
This video contains him going inbound, theres a budd cab car inbound train
My dream job
Ugh forgot how bad the Oak Forest station used to be
What kind of horn is it
P5
Why are you running on the left side like the old CNW?
@funstuffaweek Thank you
How do you get an opportunity to ride in the cab of a locomotive or something like this? I've always wanted to get an opportunity to do something like this. It would sure be nice, especially in a Metra MP36.
nick they were aso family i believe
The people filming?
MetraMP36414 yes that was his father
Oh. OK
MetraMP36414 and they won't allow anyone after 9/11 because they are scared of hijacking and threats which is smart
how do you get up there? ladder? stairs?
there are doors inside the train that lest you enter the cab
Doors from the 2nd floor
Before quiet zones.....
If I was a engineer I would abuse the horn so hard
@supermarioworld04 I really don't know.
1996
@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.
What is the model of the cab car please ?
Budd bi level gallery cab car
@@RefrigeratedWaffles2used from 1961 - 2005
i can see this lil boy is going to follow his dad on the rr when he gets 18n ys old, only its nor that hard to run a pass train, get 25 thousand tons with frt train a dif storie.
@phillyslasher and how !!
What cab car Number was he in
METX 8254 was the cab car
@@RefrigeratedWaffles2built in 1979
How fun! What a great video! Thanks for sharing! My son would love some more subscribers..MetraSnakieAsaurus..we are trying to get 50 so he can do his Special Special train run! Thanks and have a great day! Peace2all!
1:26 Tinley Park
Union station
Is this illegal???
No that was his father
he was fired for the video
No, he retired.
He retired 10-15 years ago.
i know there was two engineers for metra bouth of them did a ride along and i know one of them was fired and comited suscide
where the hell did you hear that?
***** my uncle is an engineer for Metra on that route n he told me one of them get fired n the other died
If he wasn't fired, he should have been. ONLY the train's operator should be in the cab. Very dangerous and distracting.
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