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PSR was developed by Hunter Harrison who at the time worked for Illinois Central. It is a method of cutting a railroads expenses to the bone in short order. Investors got wind of the profits to be made and jumped on board. I got laid off from UP in February. The UP is very successful but...

Due to the implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading, the chances of getting a railroad forum have been cut by 20 percent.

The Big Boy is being christened now. I wish I could be there but wow is it going to be packed.

The Big Boy is running again. Check out the videos on YouTube!

Yep. The UP Steam Club site has video of Ed Dickens in the cab blowing the whistle.

A very slim chance. A journeyman bumped me since I am the lowest set up apprentice. There are more layoffs coming so more journeyman will look for spots to bump to. It was a good seven months. I can’t complain too much. There are people out there much worse off than I am. My former boss and I...

Union Pacific has been reducing their locomotive and freight car fleet recently as part of their implementation of precision schedule railroading. The downside is I got furloughed after only seven months of employment.

July 9 of this year I started at UP as a carman here in Kansas City. Before that I worked for Westinghouse Air Brake for 12 years.

This thread needs to be moved to the railroad forum. :-P

I agree that a railroad forum would be appropriate. There are several people with collections of railbound MV's. There are many members interested in military railroad equipment. Oops, time for lunch.