hedgewizard wrote:

He's cussing because if you miss you don't get the three days off.  Not to mention the poor cornducter has to walk both sides because they put it in emergency.

Heh, One of my best friends growing up was a train engineer. They had better ways of getting time off. Also it was common practice near the end of a shift to derail freight trains on purpose on a particularly inaccessable section of track so as to collect half a day or more worth of overtime.