Thom, Thanks so much for taking the time to share this video with us. Enjoyable as always. That locomotive runs so well. It's nice of you to take the pets with you on your travels. Looking forward to upcoming shots and videos about home town Ohio. Rich
@@richgreene7043 Good morning Rich. Jazzy is a fantastic traveler and so was Chance. X-Ray is terrible. Even drugged he whines the entire time on our 3 hour drive. We need to find a solution or he may not be going to Ohio in the future. Funny that he wants to get in the car, acts excited, but as soon as it starts moving he starts up and never stops. Thanks for watching and stay safe!
Good morning Thom, Glad to hear you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanks for your kind words yesterday. My day was a good one too. The B30-7 has excellent pulling power and looks to be a real winner for you. Very excited to hear about and to see the series of pictures and descriptions of how things look in Chillicothe now compared to your layout. I think I like the history aspect of the hobby almost as much as modeling. That’s why Model railroading is a great hobby. Stay safe on your journey today my friend! Scott
@@kahunatiki6498 Good morning Scott. I’m glad you had a good day. Sitting by the tracks in Chillicothe because I see a yellow signal on NS. Figure I can narrate tomorrow’s video while waiting. 33 and feels like 25 with flurries so I’m in my car a couple of hundred yards from where I grew up. Signals are continuously lit here, so it doesn’t mean a train is coming but I’ll give it some time. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay safe. Do some modeling!😁
Hi Thom, Hopefully you'll get this message and it won't be deleted? Not sure why my messages are disappearing? Any way, on the railroad we are 24/7/365 and Christmas and New Years are about the only two days were there is a shut down. Not 100%, there are still fire watches and the top priority trains still run. We are now in the middle of "Peak Season" At the engine house Thanksgiving and the Day After Thanksgiving, there were still full crews all three shifts. Good to hear you had a good Thanksgiving and I'm looking forward to tomorrows video. No long weekend for me, back to work tomorrow, it's my Monday. Cheers, Rich S.
@@RWSBaden Hi Rich. I have no idea why your comments might get deleted. This one didn’t. Railroading is a demanding job, long hours in all kinds of weather and no set shift schedules a lot of times. You have my respect. I hope you at least had a good meal at some point this weekend! Stay warm and stay safe!
Hi Thom @@thomplacier677, Yes we had a good Thanksgiving day. My daughter is in town from Reno for the weekend, so that made it a very nice Thanksgiving dinner. As for working on the railroad, that is the one advantage of the engine house, we do have a somewhat regular work schedule. I work the 3 PM to 11 PM schedule Saturday through Wednesday. So luckily for me, Thanksgiving and the day after fall on my rest days. We just had a guy come to work at the engine house who has spent the last 10 years working as a conductor and engineer, he's had enough of that on call schedule. The train crew schedule is not for everyone and you have to respect the guys who were able to do it for 30 years. Having driven truck over the road for 10 years, I completely understand, you're never home and I pretty much missed 10 years of my daughters life, it seems all the special moments happen when you're on the road. Yes I've worked all three shifts at then engine house and the inbound pit and my least favorite is the graveyard shift. But at least when you're on a shift, you are usually there until you bid another job, or you get bumped. So you do get use to the schedule. That is one of the reason I said I'd never work at at steel mill. You start off your week working the swing shift, the next week you're on the graveyard shift and then the following week you're on daylight. Your body never gets a chance to adjust to a sleep pattern. Not sure if the steel mills still run that work schedule, but that is a completely unhealthy schedule. Cheers, Rich S.
@ I’m glad you had a good Thanksgiving and were able to spend time with your family, Rich. In Japan and in most of the Toyota plants around the world, rotating production shifts every 2 to 4 weeks is the standard. At the plant in Georgetown, which was their first plant in North America, they chose not to do that and you stay on the same shift permanently until you can transfer to 1st shift when your seniority is good enough to fill an opening. Our maintenance workers do 3 shifts like you, but production is 2 shifts. 2nd shift is 5:15-2:00AM and then overtime if needed. I have spent my fair share of time in that shift and it’s no fun for the reasons you stated. Thankfully, I have been on 1st shift for the past 15 years and never work weekends unless it’s to travel. The majority of the Toyota plants in NA do rotate and I would hate that. Stay safe at work, Rich!
Thom,
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this video with us. Enjoyable as always. That locomotive runs so well. It's nice of you to take the pets with you on your travels. Looking forward to upcoming shots and videos about home town Ohio.
Rich
@@richgreene7043 Good morning Rich. Jazzy is a fantastic traveler and so was Chance. X-Ray is terrible. Even drugged he whines the entire time on our 3 hour drive. We need to find a solution or he may not be going to Ohio in the future. Funny that he wants to get in the car, acts excited, but as soon as it starts moving he starts up and never stops.
Thanks for watching and stay safe!
Good morning Thom,
Glad to hear you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanks for your kind words yesterday. My day was a good one too.
The B30-7 has excellent pulling power and looks to be a real winner for you.
Very excited to hear about and to see the series of pictures and descriptions of how things look in Chillicothe now compared to your layout. I think I like the history aspect of the hobby almost as much as modeling. That’s why Model railroading is a great hobby.
Stay safe on your journey today my friend!
Scott
@@kahunatiki6498 Good morning Scott. I’m glad you had a good day.
Sitting by the tracks in Chillicothe because I see a yellow signal on NS. Figure I can narrate tomorrow’s video while waiting. 33 and feels like 25 with flurries so I’m in my car a couple of hundred yards from where I grew up. Signals are continuously lit here, so it doesn’t mean a train is coming but I’ll give it some time.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay safe. Do some modeling!😁
Hey Thom, another great ops session! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! Thanks for sharing. Have a good day and stay safe. Happy modeling!! - Jason
@@jaybird111207 Lots of good food, Jason. Saw a couple of trains in Chillicothe, as well. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Stay safe!
Hi Thom, Hopefully you'll get this message and it won't be deleted? Not sure why my messages are disappearing? Any way, on the railroad we are 24/7/365 and Christmas and New Years are about the only two days were there is a shut down. Not 100%, there are still fire watches and the top priority trains still run. We are now in the middle of "Peak Season" At the engine house Thanksgiving and the Day After Thanksgiving, there were still full crews all three shifts. Good to hear you had a good Thanksgiving and I'm looking forward to tomorrows video. No long weekend for me, back to work tomorrow, it's my Monday. Cheers, Rich S.
@@RWSBaden Hi Rich. I have no idea why your comments might get deleted. This one didn’t.
Railroading is a demanding job, long hours in all kinds of weather and no set shift schedules a lot of times. You have my respect.
I hope you at least had a good meal at some point this weekend! Stay warm and stay safe!
Hi Thom @@thomplacier677, Yes we had a good Thanksgiving day. My daughter is in town from Reno for the weekend, so that made it a very nice Thanksgiving dinner. As for working on the railroad, that is the one advantage of the engine house, we do have a somewhat regular work schedule. I work the 3 PM to 11 PM schedule Saturday through Wednesday. So luckily for me, Thanksgiving and the day after fall on my rest days. We just had a guy come to work at the engine house who has spent the last 10 years working as a conductor and engineer, he's had enough of that on call schedule. The train crew schedule is not for everyone and you have to respect the guys who were able to do it for 30 years. Having driven truck over the road for 10 years, I completely understand, you're never home and I pretty much missed 10 years of my daughters life, it seems all the special moments happen when you're on the road. Yes I've worked all three shifts at then engine house and the inbound pit and my least favorite is the graveyard shift. But at least when you're on a shift, you are usually there until you bid another job, or you get bumped. So you do get use to the schedule. That is one of the reason I said I'd never work at at steel mill. You start off your week working the swing shift, the next week you're on the graveyard shift and then the following week you're on daylight. Your body never gets a chance to adjust to a sleep pattern. Not sure if the steel mills still run that work schedule, but that is a completely unhealthy schedule. Cheers, Rich S.
@ I’m glad you had a good Thanksgiving and were able to spend time with your family, Rich.
In Japan and in most of the Toyota plants around the world, rotating production shifts every 2 to 4 weeks is the standard. At the plant in Georgetown, which was their first plant in North America, they chose not to do that and you stay on the same shift permanently until you can transfer to 1st shift when your seniority is good enough to fill an opening. Our maintenance workers do 3 shifts like you, but production is 2 shifts. 2nd shift is 5:15-2:00AM and then overtime if needed. I have spent my fair share of time in that shift and it’s no fun for the reasons you stated. Thankfully, I have been on 1st shift for the past 15 years and never work weekends unless it’s to travel. The majority of the Toyota plants in NA do rotate and I would hate that.
Stay safe at work, Rich!