CP Rail openings......

chowda · Post by **chowda** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:41 am

To any who might be interested

http://www8.cpr.ca/www2/Corporate/Gener ... h?OpenView

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twinpratts · Post by **twinpratts** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:37 pm

Are there any Flying positions in there? ...i couldn't see any.

chowda · Post by **chowda** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:35 pm

I should've worded it " To any who might be interested in making more than the paper boy without putting up 30g for training bonds "

abc xyz · Post by **abc xyz** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:16 pm

positions for CP train crews available in toronto now. if your on the fence with aviation and want a back up plan send a resume in. you can always say no if they call. Canadian Pacific has been around since 1881, and make hundreds of millions in profits each yeat - cant get anymore stable than that.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=64407

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=81566

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=90613

Inverted2 · Post by **Inverted2** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:54 pm

I knew a guy who drives trains for CN. Makes real good money too, and isn't gone away any more than the average airline pilot. Probably be something I'd look into if I had to give aviation up. On a side note, he's run over 2 people committing suicide and has hit a couple cars

Not something we normally have to deal with.

Buzzard · Post by **Buzzard** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:51 pm

Only a few days late, but that's my backup plan. I just got the "CA" on my licence and am now at the "now what?" stage. Can't say I'm enjoying it (this stage, that is, the flying... that's all good).

I've liked trains since I was little, took a lot of flak for it all through school. Flying happend when I was 12. Joined cadets, trains to a back burner. Thought about it more then once on my commute into Shearwater watching CN work the autoport spur.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:08 pm

Buzzard: As a fellow bluenoser and alumni of the ill-fated CASA and then equally ill-fated NSCC program, I can answer the "now what" question.

If you choose to continue with flying, you must say good bye to everyone. Pack up your car and leave. Point it westbound and don't stop until someone gives you a chance. If you hit Vancouver, you've gone too far. Turn around and when you reach Edmonton, make a left for the NWT.

Good luck. I'm noticing more and more bluenosers out there who have "made" it.

scotothedoublet · Post by **scotothedoublet** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:29 pm

Chowda...question: Why do trains sound their whistles at 3am? I rarely notice it during the day, but at night it seems like they get paid by the whistle. Is it something they have to do or are engineers/conductors jerks as I suspect?

abc xyz · Post by **abc xyz** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:41 am

scotothedoublet wrote:Chowda...question: Why do trains sound their whistles at 3am? I rarely notice it during the day, but at night it seems like they get paid by the whistle. Is it something they have to do or are engineers/conductors jerks as I suspect?

each crossing is different some are bell only and some are bell and whistle. its up to the community i believe to take responsibility for accidents if they ask the railways not to blow the whistles at certain crossings. in toronto its all bell only but go north and you start blowing. legal bs and good neighbour stuff.

scotothedoublet · Post by **scotothedoublet** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:57 am

Thank you sir.

Buzzard · Post by **Buzzard** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:32 am

I don't have a car... I have a motorcycle... but it isn't very good in the road trip department as far as carrying essential gear.

As for the trains, living in a town where the mainline from Halifax to Truro passes through, we notice the same thing. Sometimes the trains come in the day and we don't notice, but at night the ambient noise is so much lower. We can hear them coming from the next crossing down the track in either direction!