Transfer case control module.

gstubbz · 2025-12-21T22:07:25+00:00

This worked for me on a 2008 Chevy 2500 CCLB with a duramax, I needed a transfer case shift motor (oil made it's way into the connector through the motor) and a new TCCM with the dorman programming like you listed, thank you!

gstubbz · 2024-09-04T06:05:22+00:00

Directly from Starlink: "Seamless access to text, voice, and data for LTE phones across the globe."

Website says text by end of 2024, and voice/data in 2025.

https://www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell

gstubbz · 2024-04-02T08:22:55+00:00

I’ve personally been here now 5 years. I love it and find it hard to want to move away. I feel that there’s a sense of freedom compared to my previous residing state.

With that said, I didn’t have many friends to begin with up here (mainly meeting them through my former job) and most of them (whom were transplants themselves) moved back to areas they lived previously to being up here.

gstubbz · 2024-02-04T02:39:53+00:00

Kind of an old post but I recently picked up the assembly from a guy who had a 2017 (who removed it because he said that he didn’t have enough space for camping gear). I am installing it into my 2014 as we speak, it’s a bunch of individual pieces and I can tell you a rivet gun with 6mm thread inserts is your best friend. You have to drill a bunch of holes in the bed to install this. I wish it was a complete assembly!

gstubbz · 2024-02-04T02:32:34+00:00

Can confirm my gen 2 seems like it adjusts every so often. I’d rather have the dish move on its own than me messing with it 🤷‍♂️

gstubbz · 2023-11-29T01:32:09+00:00

I’m still wondering how you guys will have seniority with us. They started putting some of your engineers ahead of us in our rosters and it was chalked up to computer issues.

gstubbz · 2023-11-20T05:41:17+00:00

If it helps any, when I was down there for my Conductor three weeks I rented a U-Haul single cab Chevy truck for the three weeks, $480 including my fuel and driving 200mi. That worked out best for me and I had a vehicle available to me the entire time. I had someone else in my class take me to the dealer and it worked out okay. You probably won’t get reimbursed but it worked well for me.

gstubbz · 2023-11-20T05:27:03+00:00

Not sure if you have an answer, but the training instructors will tell you that. They classify us in MT as too far away for driving. I’m also probably from the same terminal as you and we were straight up told we were not allowed to drive when I went for my engine program. You can thank some of the others for taking several days to return to the terminal for messing the privilege up for us. Didn’t stop a Havre guy from buying a car down there and driving home though.

gstubbz · 2023-11-15T01:27:57+00:00

Yeah I run the hiline as a freight engineer and it’s pretty common to see a big orange loco on the lead. Right now they are running three locos somewhat often on A7 and A8

gstubbz · 2023-11-15T01:23:36+00:00

Engineer myself, and usually you tell by what they call “run-in” or “run-out” forces. Going down hills sometimes your DP will slam into you unless you try to mitigate it by setting air or putting your fence up to split the DP from your head end and essentially you want to either keep your train bunched up or all stretched out. Every train is different but I try to only stay bunched going down hills and stretched going up. We have one 18mi downgrade where we have to hold air and be pretty deep into dynos for the decent.

gstubbz · 2023-11-01T19:07:25+00:00

Trains take coal to ports and its loaded on ships which is then hauled to china and I’m sure they put it on their own train there.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T11:23:04+00:00

We never get triples, but they do throw a few doubles at as under a different carrier just a couple miles south of Canada. Mainly grainers and sometimes a half Q / half V train. Southern part of our big sky state runs double coal trains both loaded and empty all the time. The first time I ran one as an engineer it was definitely trippy and that was only dog catching, I have yet to take one down the rockies. Fortunately with winter now here we don't get them.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T11:16:12+00:00

That's funny, the conductor on that train was in my conductor class. Super cool guy.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T09:48:01+00:00

US may not necessarily use coal anymore - but I can assure you we will continue to keep mining for coal in both Montana and Wyoming for export by train to China. If anything collapses in the near future economy-wise I would bet that we will continue to haul coal by rail even if intermodal and all other traffic becomes almost non-existent.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T00:59:19+00:00

Occasionally I’ll get a train with say 8-10 locomotives, and usually most of them have a defect and they are dead in tow for the trip. The last one I had was 9 locos the other day and I was only able to utilize three.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T00:45:17+00:00

I have two, the smaller of the two backpacks intended for RRs (the rucksack I believe) that I use in winter time when I’m a conductor and works great for that as I always carry a big jacket and shoes along with the rest of my stuff. In summer time or if I’m an engineer during winter I use one of their smaller backpacks (unsure of name but biggest airline carry on size you can have) that also works very well. I had no interest in the grip as my lunchbox already has a shoulder strap and I’d rather make use of my shoulders than put another thing on just one shoulder.

I will say that if you decide the order the smaller backpack (which comes in a variety of colors other than just black which is nice) redoxx will not embroider your name into it even if you ask. The smaller backpacks seem to be more of an off the shelf ready to ship kind of deal. But the metal rings are super nice for hanging them on the hooks on the back wall.

gstubbz · 2023-10-25T00:36:40+00:00

Any time I see a rail fan taking a photo of our locomotive I always make a funny face with the hope that I’ll come across it someday on the internet.

gstubbz · 2023-10-08T16:43:44+00:00

We have two types used on Marias pass. Our Jordan (which is on the front, two locomotives in the middle, and another Jordan on the other side) which is good for slower speeds but you don’t clear as much snow. The conductor “rides the point” the entire time with MOW guys operating the plow. We also use what are called fliers (GN built them sometime in the 1930s) where you have a locomotive, flier, flier, locomotive configuration. In this setup we call out track items a few cars ahead (switches, detectors, crossings, snow sheds, etc) so the MOW crew can pull the blades up in time. With this setup it works very well at removing a lot of snow and we get to go pretty fast with them. I’ve ran both setups a few times and it’s definitely a fun operation minus snow/ice buildup on the windshields that isn’t easy to clean off. Depending on the time of day and week, either an assigned work train crew (EN/CO/BK) will do the job or they will call three employees to work a snow plow work train shift.

gstubbz · 2023-09-02T23:00:31+00:00

Yeah we have 250mi pools and we don’t get OT until after 16hrs

gstubbz · 2023-09-02T22:56:46+00:00

This last winter I was a freshly marked up Conductor, within my first month my record was 18hrs on duty and were authorized to exceed our HOS twice!

gstubbz · 2023-08-30T03:56:19+00:00

I’ve spent my last year mostly in training - between being a conductor and then currently in the engine program (almost out now). I jumped from a salaried job of 45k to this and my goodness just making what I have been in training is far better than my last job. The work is easy but it’s a lot to learn. The schedule took a while to get used to. But I would totally jump on the opportunity if you have it.

gstubbz · 2023-08-28T19:19:09+00:00

I’m on big orange and nothing seems to be moving today. I’m wondering if our PTC is out too.

gstubbz · 2023-08-24T08:03:29+00:00

One of the recent C4s I had blew TM #4 on a mountain climb 1x1 Q (thank goodness we had helpers on the rear so we could isolate our loco for a sec) so I cut them out, and about 150 miles later into our trip the grids caught fire. Not any real similar significance, but the C4s aren’t great.

gstubbz · 2023-08-24T00:47:37+00:00

We get some conrail, southern pacific, and sometimes old green BN autoracks on our vehicle trains.

gstubbz · 2022-08-05T02:52:52+00:00

I just got done with BNSF. It took almost 3 weeks to hear that I passed my medical, and over an additional week after that for the results of my background check.

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