@GG1 4877 posted:My only experience with Marias Pass was on Microsoft Train Simulator and trying to get a BNSF freight train into a passing siding before an oncoming train arrived. It did not go well for me. If @Number 90 had been my supervisor, I would have received many demerits, a likely suspension, and other disciplinary action for my lack of applied skill on this incident.
Don't lose sleep over it, Jonathan. The 30 day deadline to assess discipline is long past.
If your personal record was clear (or good) I would certainly have taken into account how much the other train was delayed, as well as your experience. If there were no impediments on your record, and the delay was not great, we might have been able to clear it up with a letter of understanding. Also, I believe that I have previously mentioned on this Forum, on some occasions, I got an employee to sign a demerit waiver in case the incident boiled over, but kept the waiver in the lower drawer of my desk and never sent it in to the Division Office if the Superintendent did not develop a burr under his saddle. After enough time to be sure I was not going to get a "punch" form the Superintendent's Office, the waiver went through the shredder.
Things like this are self-teaching lessons for good employees, and usually never happen again. So formal discipline isn't especially helpful, except for employees with poor work habits, who did their best work when they were carrying enough demerits that adding any would mandate
dismissal.
But -- getting back to that layout: WOW!!! It's really great to see such a fine layout, and with all of that GN and NP equipment.
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