Favorite scanner chatter

[Ypsi]

after meeting with a 7 hour late 350

38E: were waiting on 352 here.

Dearborn DS: no no no thats 350. 352 is in battle creek.

38E: [engineer chuckles]

[hoborich]

"You're lookin good there"

"Ummm, I'm not that way, but your train is looking good"!

[ConrailMan5]

after meeting with a 7 hour late 350

38E: were waiting on 352 here.

Dearborn DS: no no no thats 350. 352 is in battle creek.

38E: [engineer chuckles]

and after that they lost their air at MP 30, that is called karma

[ConrailMan5]

Dearborn dispatcher giving A TRACK WARRENT to RW snyder, after constantly having to repeat "Dearborn to RW snyder, over".

Dearborn: I am really starting to haye this system

[Ypsi]

"The Milk Man!"

out of no where

[legostudios34]

NS G39 to G34 - Theres the two guys in the Hummer who are always following us around.
They were talking about me and my grandfather.

[ns8401]

- Three stooges bit in Toledo several years ago on CSX.

- NS crew at Wayne switching and talking about the CSX crew switching along side them: "The Chessie is back here with us" "Oh lord now we gotta watch out for the amateurs"

[Ypsi]

NS 38e is... going too slow?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQwrkyIGb6A

"Norfolk Southeren mile post three five point zero.. No Defects; Train too slow"

[Saturnalia]

NS 38e is... going too slow?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQwrkyIGb6A

"Norfolk Southeren mile post three five point zero.. No Defects; Train too slow"

[Ypsi]

"2373 calling hallot tower ooooovvvvveeer!"

"2373 Calling... Milkshake. Over" and now he is making police car noises

Ann Arbor Railroad engineer getting premision from the tower to work the branch.

[legostudios34]

NS 348 Conductor - I wonder how big the company turkey will be tomorrow...

[GenXRailMedia]

A few I can think of off the top of my head:

When Conrail was running Triple Crowns on the Ft. Wayne Line in the late 90's, Pittsburgh West was giving a form D for crossing protection at Lima to RR241 and was having radio reception issues. After repeating pretty much the whole order for about the third time, DS says:

"You'll be over the darn crossing before you get the darn Form D! This is ridiculous!"

One of the most intense things I ever heard was a Conrail DS talking to an employee trying to obtain track time to do a hi-rail inspection of some sort. I couldn't hear both sides, but apparently the employee was occupying the track without authorization. When the dispatcher realized what was happening, he was furious. The only thing I can remember is him saying: "you would have been killed, and I would have to live with it!" This was followed by some kind of order about calling on the landline. (Reminds me of the BNSF "hot water" DS.)

On the CSX Toledo Sub, there was a running inside joke for a number of years where a certain engineer would come on the radio and say "TRAIN DIRECTOR...OVER." Then, either he or someone else would say "WHOOOOS DIS?" This would be followed by "STAND BYYYYYYY!" This sketch was mocking the Queensgate Train Director (which was reportedly abolished recently.)

A certain crew member that I used to hear a lot on Q377 on the Indy Line Sub was almost completely unintelligible when calling signals, sounded either drunk or half asleep:

"ceeeeeeeeeesssstQueuethr-sev....clear sig...uhCPeeeeeeeeonesixty..westuhhhhh"

A friend told me once that he heard a Conrail crew at Airline Yd. in Toledo come on the radio one night on Channel 1 and proclaim: "...somebody really f----- this thing up." There were reportedly no more communications heard from this guy for quite some time afterwards.

[Ypsi]

today is a good day to drive a train i guess, NS 38/39Es engineer sounded nice and happy when clearing the siginals, and thanked the Dearborn DS mulitlple times.

The AA sounds happy but thats par for the course for them

[legostudios34]

23N - This is da Norfolk Sout-ern 23N for Nacho, Cah-leeeer signal, CP Ollie, 23N OOOOOUUUUUTTTTT!

[LSRC]

"2005 Clear S&M Tower, over."

[CAT345C]

"2005 Clear S&M Tower, over."

JIM WINS HANDS DOWN! NO MORE CONTEST.
S&M Tower Operator Boner out.

[Ypsi]

NS Dearborn DS to 38e:

"Can't make the pickup? Good enough, highball 39e."

39e trying to pick up a privite car in Ann Arbor

[ConrailMan5]

NS Dearborn to 38E

" you're gonna run lite engines or something like that and the car is hccx or something.

"Roger that 38e, let me know how it goes".
Talking bout picking up a private car in AA

[Ohiorailfan]

In Fostoria one day F tower told 218 they are clear through town

F Tower: " bring it on down 218"
218: "we're coming as fast as our little fat ass legs can take us"

[Ypsi]

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeee"
-Engineer, Amtrak 353