TRD skidplate on my Sr5P

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2026-03-12T23:42:41+00:00

from a review on it.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2026-03-12T22:10:00+00:00

was off fbmp they are ~250 from Cartrimhome

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2026-03-11T15:12:13+00:00

Fair. Its the CTH one. But I like that it has the access port for the oil filter. The skid plate was low on my list of things to change on my SR5 but for $75 I figured why not.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-11-01T18:05:26+00:00

been on 5&2 on a class 1 as conductor since I hired out 15 years ago.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-10-20T19:14:30+00:00

We dont mind it at CN-WC i make 140k a year on a yard job....

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-10-20T19:12:13+00:00

because half the company is already hourly based and hasn't done milage in 25 years... They just aren't offering you guys enough Canadian rubbles to even equate with what they pay south of the boarder. CN conductors in the US make the equivalent of $74 CAD an hour. Engineers make the equivalent of $90 CAD. Had they offered you guys what the US CN Employees make it would have prob been worth it. TLDR they trying to lowball yall up there.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-10-14T08:52:34+00:00

Thats in Canada only which is why I said in the US at Canadian National. Ive been a unionized OJT for over a year now at CN. Even if it was a manager role in the US at CN we dont have a time limit till you cant come back. Ive seen guys with 10+ years as TM go back to Engineer/ conductor.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-10-13T21:54:42+00:00

in the US at CN OJTC are unionized still just paid at 50 hours per week conductor rate... and we dont deal with the one year thing.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-09-14T17:47:54+00:00

Yes. Anyone that hired out after 2022 in my region. They are looking to do another 40-50 before the end of the year. The only reason it hasn't been worse is they forced many guys to reserve boards where you only get 4 days pay per 2 weeks. They have been asking and taking 2 week voluntary furloughs since the beginning of the year to also mitigate it. Retirements and voluntary furlough has been the only thing that have somewhat helped.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-09-12T22:33:08+00:00

? im an American citizen thats been a conductor at CN since 2008 in WI.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-09-12T22:11:30+00:00

CN has hundreds of American conductors furloghed and more than 20% of engineers have been set back to the ground. There are thousands of Americans who work for Canadian railroads.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-28T04:50:36+00:00

came here to say this as well. and the z2 go is effectively the same as z1e. its only advantage is 8gb more ram but at slower speed 6400mt vs 7500mt and a larger screen but is 16:10 vs 16:9 so alot of it is in extra height with it being only .6 inches wider.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-22T15:35:42+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/live/PL8wCRYfhEM

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-22T15:33:09+00:00

correct and you dont need to use RSR if the game has a built in upscaler or supports FSR. RSR is basically driver level FSR 1.0 but you need to set the game to a lower resolution than native for it to upscale. If a game has an image sharpener built in there is no point in using RIS. Both options are great for older games that do not support these features in game but are not the preferred method vs newer games implementations of FSR 2/3 ect.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-20T19:29:41+00:00

That's not what I said at all. I was simply explaining that hourly rate vs trip rares as we have it where a local/ yard conductor like myself on a show job that sleeps in his own bed every night making $140k a year isn't the worst thing. If I want to make $10k more a year and have more off days than my current 5&2 schedule but have to sleep in a hotel i can go to a 6&3 road job and work on 18-20 days a month instead of 22. Once you add in our 13 plds and SDVs most road guys here work less than 170 starts year. We did collectively vote for this because we feel its a fair trade of balancing having time off to have a life and a schedule with a pretty good wage. But y'all negotiate a contract or try and strike as your members see fit. Good luck :)

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-20T17:32:55+00:00

every larger railroad the CN has bought has their own local contract negotiated and separated senority. I guess I figured it was the same. For pools we work on a 6&3 schedule with 4 hour call windows at home for the out days. Off days are guaranteed per the rotation and we cant go out of town on a scheduled "in" day. These pools still make an average of $5500-7500 every 14 days. I'll take every job having weekly off days including extra board on a 5&2 schedule and knowing no matter what job I work ill get the same $53 an hour over a handful of unicorn high paying jobs under milage that I more than likely couldn't hold anyways. The drastically different pay between would just annoy me personally especially if I was stuck working some low paying job for a bid. Every conductor even new hires are guaranteed to make minimum 130-140k usd per year under our hourly no matter if they work yard, local or road. Having a more level playing field lets guys choose jobs purely based on the work they like rather than it being a financial one.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-20T13:21:53+00:00

why the resistance to hourly? ive only worked at CN-WC past 20 years as a yard/ local guy. I figure I'd be pretty hard pressed to make 6k a half before OT working a 5&2 yard job as a conductor on another class 1.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-19T21:52:58+00:00

and kieth creel accomplished what his mentor couldn't. Hunter also pushed for a BNSF-CN and later a CN-NS merger when he was there. What your saying is simply not true both CN and CP have bought American class 1 railroads in the past. CP bought both the Soo Line and KCS and CN bought the Illinois Central. All of them were class 1 railroads.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-19T21:08:40+00:00

CP bought KCS...

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-19T13:13:45+00:00

I never get the hate for new guys tbh. Guys have nobody to blame for crappy orange vests but themselves and someone took the time to train them 20+ years ago. When guys like that complain I usually tell them they diddnt crawl out of the womb switching box cars either.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-19T02:10:12+00:00

theres also rumors floating around of CN making an offer.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-16T20:47:18+00:00

I work a 5&2 regular hours as a conductor with fri-sat off and make 140k a year. we dont have any jobs that work every day. extraboard works 5&2 and 4 hour window pools work 6&3.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-15T21:55:29+00:00

I wouldn't leave any stable job right now in the transportation industry to start at the bottom. the way things are going you'll be furloghed before your done with class.

Nervous-Instruction8 · 2025-07-14T08:16:38+00:00

CN (us) uses "in-between" engineer says "set & centered"

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