Our little name is Dustin Prasso. I'm a freight train engineer so I as a conductor for the most part right now I'm just a conductor and I've got a lot of work inside jobs here and I'm placed in a bubble with CRE. I got a CRE to be an engineer but as a student I had a work CRE to be so I can't be a full-time engineer. As you see I'm dressed pretty warm my side elements is going to be a noise today so nice to meet you. So Dustin welcome to the channel now a question how many years you have on a rubber? One or nine years? Nine years. Wow now what made you come to the railroad? I'm an outside person. As far as the money is pretty good benefits. I've changed my lifestyle. I always work at the airport before this. I can around $10 an hour. I came here and it was an amazing increase. When I made out in the airport I came in at one week at the airport I could make in a day so the money was basically the way you've been in the airport. Okay cool now tell me about some you good experience you have here on a railroad. Good experiences this fun you got to be in shape I'm like an athletic person so this is like being on the side with the elements what are good now my action what is when you're bad at experiencing having a railroad you got a railroad store for me? That experience what time I got caught up in the cool working at a draw point I dealt the stone all I had was a hoodie on and I shouldn't put the jacket that's why I dressed the world down. Also you know that one experience changed your life you never gonna be cold again is you? Yeah that's thanks. Yeah I tell you it takes a month's time to get wet to get cold black iron I ain't much of that no more. Okay cool. So I'll talk about the dumping stone like whatever jobs do you do? dump stone we take um freight to different industries like boil your fronteries or coal plants and be sure everything's in proper order. Now I'm going to conduct the school how was that for you? I want to conduct the school was one of the hardest things I've been in my life and why is that? Just like the intense study and I went through college and the money I'll make it through college is what I'm making now so it was like everything's accelerated. Stay or from life the courses are accelerated and you come back and train for five months. It was pretty intense. They you away from home you're gonna buy by yourself. Now how long was your training in McDonald's Georgia? I was about three or four weeks and I come back home and training on a job for about five months. Now do at that time when you get the letter to go to engineer school how did that make you feel? I would say I was nervous because everybody puts freeing you. You're buying your school you get scared like you got a fast test you don't pass you gotta go back maybe you don't make it you throw and then you just get a lot of the job so everybody puts freeing but when you get there's not so bad teach yourself you got a lot you just have to study to get your goals. I'm actually the member of the first time you ran a local motor got the first call. At the school. Buy yourself. I'm having a bad experience. I'm a little bored by myself. Oh what happened? It's not always it's not always the days and sunshine it's like like what's up with that? What happened? I see it was one of the little motor stone train. The everything by the boat. I don't know what haven't. I know the rail was wet but the train I guess started slipping the train broken into. Wait a minute you say you broke the train. How did you break the train? The nothing was fine. It was the nothing was rusty and when I went to go pull up the hill it was too much stress on the nothing. It came apart in two different spots so when you face one spot the train put that together. At the fine efforts we had to change the number that's a wow once you got that figured out though you noticed that it still wasn't working so we had to go back and find a second. I'll cut the train. That's it about a couple hours. Now how heavy is a knuckle? How heavy is a knuckle about I want to save all 70 pounds. The 70 pounds so you got to as you say that you like working outside and also being fit. You know you're strong too right? Yes. Something that you should be in shape before you come or you know that's the working progress thing. As long as you're working progress you try to get in shape while you want to roll. Working outside and welcome back before you get you in shape. Be an hour here but me actually be a person I just try to stay in shape all the powers. If you say the young guy that you know wants to get into the industry what would you tell him to do first with foot even almost embarking his quest or in his career? My way first I know for this. Yeah it's say you know they was like hey I want to work for the railroad. In your opinion would you think that they should do before even applying to the railroad? I would say that's a lifestyle. The thing that I learned working for the airport it was a job and coming to the railroad this is a career like it's a lifestyle and can't be playing around you can't be really going to what you really got in focus. You will get fired if you come here in the planer row. When you get in the best thing to do is get out of service insurance. Here's the case some of that's it is you take a decent union I can represent you. I'm in the U.T.U right now. And why is that? I feel as though that people are in the supervisors area so you can represent you better they have a better relationship with the supervisors and they just in the area. If you're in somebody else in a different terminal and they can't really you can't really see them or any kind of thing but they say a lot even talk to their person. Let's go back to your airport date because I'm not saying a lot of the couple of this part of the airport like I was at NAS and built in C6 and where were you at in the airport? I was in a F terminal. I worked at our USA where he's expressed. Even then I was outside of elements but I just just this one on concrete. Yeah and I'm working in all that elements and stuff that you say if you prepare you to be out here having more physical been more physical and your work duties. Yes. You just being outside of elements is not for everybody. Everybody can really build elements. It's the rain, the sleep. Well said, yeah. Rain, sleep. Wait, ain't for who? It's not for everybody. No, man for everybody. So, but go ahead not for everybody but I mean you want people that you get the job done. Yeah, it's not working making them cut to stuff. Now getting to the work. Explain that. You get the work from your master. So you get the work from your master? They might give you a lot of what's that? A cut sheet or just anything? The cut sheet, you know, you're you're briefing. When you get your work they'll give you a list of instructions on what to do whether you're taking a train somewhere, I'll put the train away or whether you're in a yard you have to make certain cuts and put certain cars on different tracks. Outside of rowroading, that hurts you have a business and we'll talk about that. Yes, I have a T-shirt business. I mean Christian T-shirts. It's a name of my Instagram is that T-shirt ministry, you know, I just bring our work to life to Thie aperture. you