Yahoo! I've just become a train driver!

[bookworm_020]

I have just passed my final practical driver test to become a suburban train driver for Cityrail here in Sydney, Australia!

Over a year of training, 300 hours of driving at all times the day, in any weather.

I get my keys, pass and new roster tomorrow! Then I'm let loose on the network by myself!:yeah:

[krashkart]

Look out Sydney! Aaaahhhh!! :D

Great job! Congratulations bookworm_020! :woot: :yeah:

[CaptainHaplo]

Congrats and well done! Remember - no texting while your driving! Stay safe and keep er on the rails!

[frau kaleun]

Congrats!

Do you get to pull the lever that makes the "whoo whooooooo" noise? Because that would be awesome.

[magic452]

Congrats Bookworm :woot::woot:
You worked hard for it and enjoy the new job. :yeah:

Magic

[TarJak]

Well done mate.:yeah:

I'm never getting on a CityRail train again.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOZFpjI5FHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noaOpycjG4s

Can you see if you can make the bloody things run on time now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0T8XyVJtsQ

[Oberon]

You lucky bastard! Well done mate! :yeah:

Just don't SPAD whatever you do ;)

And try not to copy these :O::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxAK-Vp5PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrz82x3_LkM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VENJeoUK0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7gjYXQQN_k

[August]

Congratulations! If I ever visit Sydney can I get a ride in the locomotive? Ever since I was a kid with a train set i've wanted to do that.

[Sailor Steve]

WOOHOO!:rock:

Fun job, and good money to boot! Enjoy it.

[Ishmael]

WTG Dude! Here's a some of my fave train songs for your work music:

Bruce Cockburn: Train In The Rain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nBzwso93g

Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Renee Fleming: In The Pines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gRSzLSb-ak

You really can't see him, but this is the best version on youtube. Bruce Cockburn: Night Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU0zlp1TSkI

The Band & Paul Butterfield: Mystery Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3KAdmivOVQ

Greatful Dead: Casey Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HM0RtRv-E

Pentangle: Train Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vl-gMo1NY0

Allison Krauss and Union Station: Man Of Constant Sorrow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEl5RGnfEc

Savoy Brown: Hellbound Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqqeobOJvg

Not necessarily ABOUT trains, but there's a train in the video. Roy Rogers used to play my high school dances when we were kids: Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo: Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9api6tQEA

Bruce Cockburn: How I Spent My Fall Vacation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1V-fbtQbus

Maura O'Connell, James Grant & Nancy Griffiths:Blue Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMUqhofLGw

Bob Dylan: It Takes A Lot To Laugh. Ot Takes A Train To Cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPseMUJZSQ8

For Frau Kaleun, Gotta take the bad with the good, Darlin'.: Arlo Guthrie at the Boston Pops: City Of New Orleans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4_25-Ovac

Huddie Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly: Rock Island Line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiJ4QQG9WQ

Peter Green, founding member of Fleetwood Mac doing Robert Johnson's Love In Vain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkQ7_C6Cy0



Make a CD of these songs and play them over your intercom. EVERYONE will want to ride YOUR Train.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3880/me321.jpg

[frau kaleun]

What, no City Of New Orleans? :stare:

:O:

I dunno, maybe that one's too depressing.

[Falkirion]

Thank god you're not on Metro down here in Melbourne. Just kidding Bookworm, congrats.

And if you're delayed let the passengers know why. We appreciate having info!

[bookworm_020]

Congrats and well done! Remember - no texting while your driving! Stay safe and keep er on the rails!

Phones have to be switched off while driving. If you are caught on the phone, you can be fired.

Do you get to pull the lever that makes the "whoo whooooooo" noise? Because that would be awesome.

Yes! But I have to be careful, people complain if I use it too much!:03:

Congratulations! If I ever visit Sydney can I get a ride in the locomotive? Ever since I was a kid with a train set i've wanted to do that.

Have t be careful about that, I can be fired if I let unathorized people up front. If I could let people in, my Dad would be up the front in a heartbeat!

Just don't SPAD whatever you do ;)

I'll be trying to avoid it! (Signal Passed At Danger) This side of the red signal I get paid, the other side, I pay!!!!:damn:

And if you're delayed let the passengers know why. We appreciate having info!

We try, but sometimes we are left in the dark as well!:damn:

[OneToughHerring]

'Gratz.

You don't have to sell tickets to the passengers, just drive the train, right? Makes the job about 50 % easier if there's no actual face to face 'customer service' involved.

[Oberon]

WTG Dude! Here's a some of my fave train songs for your work music:

Excellant taste Ishmael, but you're forgetting one important artist:

http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/artists/boxcar_willie/boxcarwillie02-430x250.jpg
Boxcar Willie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUaGlOJYC5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcPdA0hE

:yeah:

[UnderseaLcpl]

From one train driver to another - Welcome to the club, bookworm. :salute:

[SteamWake]

Yea I knew there was some other drivers around here.

Not me, but hey congrats on getting a job ! :salute:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

You know, I'm perfectly positioned for being a Metro driver in D.C. I live about a mile from the end of the longest line.

I think mass transit jobs, once you have them, aren't going to go away. As long as you aren't GROSSLY incompetent, pulling a Homer Simpson or whatever.

[Task Force]

Congrats... Ive always wanted to drive one of the freight trains here... kind of a nice feelight to have that much power to do stuff with. lol:up:

[Platapus]

Is it true that train-drivers have a one track mind?

[Jimbuna]

Many congratulations mate http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[kiwi_2005]

Train driver sounds like a cool job. :yeah:

[bookworm_020]

You don't have to sell tickets to the passengers, just drive the train, right? Makes the job about 50 % easier if there's no actual face to face 'customer service' involved.

No I don't have to sell tickets. I just sit in my drivers cab and smile, as I at least get a seat on the train!

From one train driver to another - Welcome to the club, bookworm.

Thanks!:up:

I think mass transit jobs, once you have them, aren't going to go away. As long as you aren't GROSSLY incompetent, pulling a Homer Simpson or whatever.

If you are grossly incompetent, they promote you to managment!

Congrats... Ive always wanted to drive one of the freight trains here... kind of a nice feelight to have that much power to do stuff with.
Some of the ore trains they have working in northern Australia are over 2km long! The power would be nice, the braking wouldn't!:o

[bookworm_020]

Is it true that train-drivers have a one track mind?

Some do, it's easily derailed by a a platform distraction! (An good looking person of the desired gender!:timeout:)

Train driver sounds like a cool job.

As long as the air conditioning works! If not, your on an enforced wieght loss progam!;)

[Jimbuna]

He was only a train drivers son but he always went out with a puff :O:

[TarJak]

I know what to get you now for Christmas; Platform shoes.:D

[frau kaleun]

I know what to get you now for Christmas; Platform shoes.:D

Don't do that. You know they make his caboose look big.

[bookworm_020]

I got a congratulations gift off my parents, a tomas the tank engine figure. I'm getting a collection!:D

[Jimbuna]

Coulda been worse....a fat controller doll :DL

[bookworm_020]

Coulda been worse....a fat controller doll :DL

Or a Gomez Adam's Train controller!:03:

[geetrue]

So whatever happened to bookworm?

I hope his train didn't wreck or something

We miss you bookworm:yep:

[Task Force]

He got cought in a Dictionary... and well... he is a bookworm.

[Flaxpants]

Congratulations Bookworm, expect you'll be moving over to Rail Simulator now?

A friend of mine drives freight trains in Scotland- his favourite yarns usually involve collisions with sheep. Apparently they simply explode- I presume at the point of impact and not before.