Viewliner
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Way to go Battalion! I used to take a lot of heat for my obsession with transportation when I was in school. At least you were able to get away with calling the bi*** a bi***! In my day I would have been expelled.battalion51 said:Well I've been taking some heat lately at school because I'm (as the 31 year vet says) a Trekkie. My Spanish I (please excuse me while I hurl) notebook is plastered with equipment names, service names, shop names etc. Then yesterday I told this stupid freshmen that I wanted to work for Amtrak. She gave me this look and I'm like "Hey they make 45 Grand starting bi***!" Nobody disses me, Amtrak, or trains and gets away with it.
B51,battalion51 said:My schedule is laughablly easy, even though I have three academics. I'm taking English II Honors, Spanish I, Cypress Singers, and World History Honors. I have at most half hour of homework a night, as we don't do paperwork in Chorus, and my History teacher doesn't believe in homework or tests. In Spanish I pretty much nap and read Trains Magazine since everyone else in my class is too stupid to understand (too much pot I guess). English all we do is group work, so smooth sailing for me this semster. Although I'd rather be on a train than in school.
Thanks for the welcome!Viewliner said:Allen, welcome to the forums. In school the most I get is a little chuckle out of the photos on my binder.
Thanks for the welcome, Bill.Bill Haithcoat said:Welcome to the forum, Allen Dee. You will find it a lot of fun. I am an old-timer but I try to keep up. You will do well. On the subject of TRAINS, referred to several times already. I used to be given old copies of TRAINS as an award for performing chores when I was young.They were at an old book store--eventually I was to start a sbuscription. Today, I can proudly say that I have every edition of TRAINS ever printed, since its inception about November of 1940. It used to have a much smaller page than it has today. I think about 1949 it expanded its page size to about what it is at present.
When I was a senior in high school my civics textbook had a chapter that predicted the future of transportation in America. You have to bear in mind that this civics textbook was written in the early 60's.Amfleet said:Thank you for all your encouragement. It does mean a lot to me as well. B)
I didn't start college until I was 28, Greyhound and the Vietnam war got in the way. My major was Transportation Management, and it was an awesome course of study.tp49 said:If I could offer some advice (actually was given to me but I did not listen) work hard, get top grades, go to Harvard, Yale, U of Penn or Stanford Business School, and you'll have all of the ingredients for a road to the top with Amtrak (or any other railroad)
Good luck to you guys, I hope you get what you want!
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