Blake Boughey

Duties include helping with everyday planning and running preshift. Working in the yard helping in any areas needed such as barge preventative maintenance on the equipment such as spot, winches, gangway, cables. As well as loading barges and deckhanding when needed. When on rail, I perform inspection on the locomotive daily and complete all upkeep needed such as oil, water, hydraulic oil, ect. Control chief remote control is normally used to run locomotives. I am also certified to run in manual if required. When in the control room, I make sure that the inbound trucks go to the correct bins out of the 16 grain bins at CGB facility. Also the control room operator does environmental inspections daily with 3 dust systems, making sure they are working properly. As well as loading rye and distillery corn trucks and runs dryer to dry any grain needing to be dried. I also work as a probe operator in which I am in charge of grading grain trucks that come in. Once the correct information is in the computer for the customer, the probe operator probes trucks and grades the product that was received. Preventative maintenance and upkeep is also performed on the probe and other equipment such as scales and aflatoxin tests to insure all test are in order. Hard car unloader duties performed are to get the cars flowing from top by poking the product with NPK. Inspections of NPK are performed daily and any upkeep or maintenance needed is completed.

• Company Overview: Norfolk southern is the safest class 5 railroad and we take pride on that
• Duties are to switch cars out for road trains that go from Louisville to Burnside Ky and or Princeton In
• Includes gravity dropping cars as a foreman and spotting tracks for air for Carmen to brake test
• As a switchman i line switches for the foreman who is gravity dropping cars, tie brakes and make sure the foreman of the crew is dropping cars in the right track
• As a road conductor i make sure the train paperwork is all together for safety purposes such as dangerous cars and such
• While traveling i call signals every 2 or so miles and make sure the engineers is doing the speed limit
• If anything were to go wrong with the train such as knuckles brake or air hoses come apart my job is to get off and fix any of these problems
• All of the duties are done as safely as possible and make sure all of the people around me are working as safely as possible also
• Norfolk southern is the safest class 5 railroad and we take pride on that

• Duties were to get everything that would be needed throughout the day for the route that needed to be read that particular day
• Once all of the things that were needed i would drive to the route which could have been anywhere from 5 miles to 50 miles away
• Once arrived i would park the truck at the end of the route and walk to the beginning of the route
• Then i would walk to each individual route and read the electric and gas meters which could be anywhere from 200-1000 meters a day

• 3rd shift, we could come in when the store closed and re stock all of the groceries
• A truck would come as soon as we got to work, we would unload the truck and start stocking the groceries with all of the items that were delivered by the truck