Bellevue yard will be closed, used for storage
Birmingham yard will close hump and flat switch
Macon yard will close hump and flat switch
Linwood already closed
Atlanta will start humping freight
only humps that will remain open are Elkhardt, Conway, and Atlanta
Supposed to all be complete by end of third quarter.
Good luck boys, see you on the other side
Its only going to get worse...3rd quarter...they will lose more business then have to cut more workers...there is no growth or preventative measures in this system these people arent creative enough to build business
No it’s not a rumor. I’ve just been busy up Mike Ferrell’s arse.
If you want a cut in management. Send them to Bellevue we always have supervisors getting fired lol.
Atlanta's Inman Yard was a hump yard, but NS converted it into a massive intermodal yard. I don't see them doing away with that operation in order to hump freight again.
Management is more than half the problem. When they started hiring id–t kids just because they have a degree and stopped hiring from within the craft the railroad went to shyt. All the upper bosses that actually know how to Railroad are being forced out by Ferrell’s group of linchmen.
This will go down in history with the fall of the manufacturing and textile industry, only difference here is you can’t send the railroad to China or Mexico. When everything has to be trucked on congested roads and people have to pay the price for it, then we’ll see the true effects of what is transpiring. It won’t matter to the elite that are responsible for it, they don’t even do their own grocery shopping or worry about bills we the middle class and below will be the ones to feel the sting.
You think management is gonna get cut. LOL
NS will never cut management. Maybe relocate a couple, but never cut. It is the only thing they have been consistently hiring for through this whole PSR so far
All these years of missing kids grow up. Living like a zombie, the strain on marriage. All for nothing. Wish I never stepped foot on the railroad.
With how they’ve treated their customers I can’t possibly see them ( picking back up).. I’d be completely surprised if there was a railroad left when these walking pieces of $hit are done blowing it up for personal gain... even the stupid low level managers don’t even realize that it’s only a matter of time before they get sent down the road so they’re latching on to this loser idea cause they think they’re safe...
Source please, or you're full of it
They are going to try all this while the volume is low and then when it picks back up they will try to open some humps back up but only the dumbest and most desperate employees will come back. And those that do come back will without a doubt be screwed again all on account of irresponsible cooperate greed. This company could make $100 to do nothing or $101 dollars to slap their grandma and they will slap their grandma twice. I don’t believe they take into account what screwing their employees will eventually do to their bottom line.
Where did you get the info? Reveal your source of info
I don’t give a rats t–d about anything but the 60% operating ratio. I don’t care about any of you or the thousands of railroad workers that built this nation. All I care about is the money I’m getting paid under the table by the hedge funds to inflate the stock and then dump it.
Heck I even s-xually harassed a female employee and got nothing more than a paid vacation and use of the corporate jet.
Problem is there are too many craft employees going above and beyond working outside their agreements and outside of the rulebook just to get things done. They think all this PSR and block swapping works because they are looking at skewed numbers. They’ll find out soon enough how much a id–t Mike Ferrell is.
Depends on your craft and agreement. Some crafts have to be served notice to the general chairman so many days prior to abolishing. However they can just do it anyway and not pay the time claims that are filed against it. Basically the carriers don’t give a c-ap about us.
Yes , you will arrive at work ready to go, and you will be told your services are no longer needed. You may have 10 15 or 20 years service but it will mean nothing. This is how corporate America treats it most valuable asset .
The railroad doesn’t have to tell anybody. They can close it tomorrow without telling anybody. Here’s an example, when they closed Shaffer’s hump, nobody knew about it until that day, not even management at Shaffer’s. They did however pay everyone furloughed 60% of their pay for the remainder of the year or until they offered you another position. If you turned the position down, your 60% stops.
Doesn’t the railroad have to give the unions notice ahead of time if they are closing a yard down? Or do they get around that by saying that it’s not officially closing because for example one job still reports there to service industries?
Get your resumes in order boys, Winter is coming.
With the lack of common sense most of upper management has, combined with the way this company waists money it fits they would close Bellevue with the hundreds of millions they’ve dumped in the yard and locomotive shop.
With all the misinformation on this site, how can we believe you as credible? How can you justify your statements?
Atlanta doesn't even have a hump do they?
There I’ll be four hump yards remaining open. Atlanta, Elkhardt, Conway, and Chattanooga. All others closing or going to flat switching.