Jacob

We were in charge of taking the empty ones off and putting them back out.

so it was the final final movement of the night it was like the last 15 or 16 cars in the yard we were putting out um i don't you know a train system works works off uh compressed air when there's no air in the system the brakes are completely applied when you add air to the system it releases the brakes that's how it can move each rail car is held together with like an air hose coupling but a big air hose too is it probably stick as a baseball bat it's it's it's a big air hose

So when you hook in with, you know, a little bit of cars into a lot of bit of cars, it takes a while to air all that up.

So anywhere from, you know, 15 to 20 minutes or whatever, you'd sit there and wait to air it up, depending on who was driving and depending on whether they wanted their overtime that week, it could take longer.

You get what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So I was sitting out in the tail.

I had the pickup truck for the yard.

And this pickup truck has every LED light option possible on the outside.

I'm talking like a light bar on the grill, one on the roof right above the windshield.

It's got the LED bulbs on the side of the bed.

And it lights up.

You can see if you're out in the middle of it on the tracks, you know, what we call the siding.

You're out on the siding with those lights on.

You can see, depending on where you're at, a good quarter mile.

It's just so bright.

Like everything is so bright.

So I was sitting there and I was waiting for...

waiting for the, uh, the engineer to give me the signal that everything's aired up and he's ready to move.

And I can tell him, you know, he's clear for however X amount of cars he can keep, you know, start moving.