hello folks...new to the site and new to PSD's...'95 F250 7.3 PSD...needs a little help but should be rollin' strong by spring...



mojo

 

Mojoman,welcome to the site.
Ton's of good info here.

 

Welcome mojo. If you are looking for some good info and some humor your time will be well spent here. Once again welcome. Glad you stopped in.

 

Watch out for the chapter leader here, hes a little... different haha


Sounds like a cool truck and good luck with it!

 

Thanks for the plug Sheldon.

Hey how are the leafs doing?

 

They are doing the same as they have for the past few years, crappy haha, how bout the canucks?

 

Hey Preppy,how's thing's in the prairies?

 

Not too too bad, starting to get colder day by day, how are you doing out west? I see your having issues selling your house, that sucks!

 

Thing's are good other than I can't sell the house.
The way thing's seem to be going in the economy right,it's no surprise though.

 

Yeah no kidding, and I bet you could sell it if you dropped the hell out of the price, but who wants to do that.

How is your job working out for ya? I forget exactly what you do, but I remember you had to go somewhere and stay in your camper trailer for awhile...

 

I work for cp rail,locomotive engineer.
I was in my camper for 5 months 4 day's.Now I'm renting a room off a guy in Cranbrook.As you can see he has a computer.
It's nice to be out of the cold,but I wish I was still in the camper.

 

I bet, although it is nice to see ya back online!

That was a job Ive always wanted to do since I was a kid was be a locomotive engineer.

 

It's kinda strange being back on-line.

You could still become an engr,the rail way has been doing alot of hireing lately.

 

How long does it take a guy from the bottom to make it to an engineer? Do you have to have alot of schooling?

 

It would take a minimum of 2 1/2 yrs.
6-9 months conductor training,then you have to work as a conductor for 2 yrs.After two yrs.,they will ask you if you want to train as a engr.3-4 wks schooling,then depending on how fast you pick up the running a locomotive 6 mnths to a year on the job training.
With that being said,you won't be able to work as an engr full time for quite a while.You would get called for spare work a fair bit though.