Highly-motivated employee to prove myself in a career path that I have always wanted to be in. Reliable employee that can be depended on to show up on time and complete the job at hand no mater how difficult.
Throughout my career as a track inspector for CSX Transportation, I have come across a vast majority of defects and interactions with the public. I have seen things from one-in-a-million defects to single-wide houses across multiple tracks. I have had to work in every weather condition possible for my region, in multiple applications. From pulling trees off of cliffs with locomotives in a blizzard to adjusting rail neutral temperature on a curved track in extreme heat.
In my career, I have grown a vast knowledge of track geometry, roadbed conditions, surface conditions, weather effects based on conditions, train movements and communications, railroad terms, corrective actions to a variety of railroad defects, outside party flagging, and highrail protection. I am still, after almost five years on the railroad learning something every second from any situation or employee no matter their years of railroad experience.
I have been blessed with the ability to learn multiple machines, vehicles, and to attend trainings, including track inspector school (FRA), ballast regulator, GRM (roadmaster tamper), spiker, tie handler, railevator (excavator), backhoe, Jr. tamper (pup tamper), grapple truck (on and off track applications), three-way dump trucks ( on and off track applications, and a range of others.