Welcome BACK To Mark Howerter.Com aka Crazy Horse II

BNSF asked me nicely NOT to provide any general orders or general notices a while back and since I am not a very accomplished webmaster it was easier to shut down the site for a while until I could figure out how to get rid of those files without destroying the rest of the site. I think this has been accomplished now thanks to my oldest son who is now back from South Korea getting his Masters Degree at WIU in Macomb, Illinois. I apologize for any inconvenience having the site shut down might have caused. I will try to maintain it faithfully from now on. Thanks for your patience.

Poor OLD Walt Bruening!

Check out a letter I wrote to the editor of the Creston News Advisor Newspaper and let me know what you think.

Read about my experience I call a Cratchit Christmas in Creston and let me know what you think.

Engineer Mark Howerter

Chicago & Nebraska Division BNSF Railway PC & Palm Files (PC files soon to come)

Updated @ 21:00 hours on January 8, 2009

This is a mirror site of Sam Bailey's site that I hope will be helpful to fellow railroaders. Sam is a BNSF engineer from Marcelline, MO, and works the Ft. Madison-KC Pool. Due to the death of his wife in February and his upcoming retirement he is not sure how much longer he will maintain his website known fondly to many BNSF railroaders as "Crazy Horse."

Engineer Sam Bailey

Sam gave me permission to post his content as long as I never charge for any of it, which I am glad to agree to. Many of us Galesburg people paid a "lifetime subscription fee" to BNSF Sucks.com only to be cheated out of our money and lied to by a fellow railroader. You can get your files you need for work here for free forever...guaranteed. No subscription fees ever, just download and enjoy compliments of Sam Bailey & Mark E. Howerter. I have also included some extra files from the Bakehead.com website. His work is also much appreciated. The link to his website can be found near the bottom of the page.

This website is NOT an official BNSF site. Any files included here are not to be considered official sources. They are for your own help and reference. The user should be cautious, as there is a possibility that there may be errors, or that there may be a newer file available from BNSF.

 Track Charts for Marceline, Brookfield Subdivisions plus NS Railway CA Jct to Kansas City.

 GCOR, SSI, ABTH, Safety Manuals for Palm

These and other BNSF Documents can be found at http://employee.bnsf.com

Go to "My Self" tab and then click on "Training Information". Follow the index provided for what you are looking for. BNSF seems to cloak these webpages quite often.

 General Code of Operating Rules 10/20/08

System Special Instructions 11/4/08

Air Brake & Train Handling 12/15/08

TY&E Safety 6/5/08

TY&E Hazmat 8/30/08

TY&E EmployeeSafety 12/16/08

CHICAGO & NEBRASKA DIVISION TIMETABLES

 Aurora Sub TT [Updated 110304]

Marceline Sub TTable#6 062007

 Barstow Sub TT [Updated 110304]

MendotaSub TT 100604 

 Brookfield Sub TT [Updated 110304]

 Ottumwa Sub TT 121703

  ChicagoSub TT [Updated 110404]

Peoria Sub TT [Updated 110304]

 Chillicothe Sub TT [Updated 060405]

 St. Croix Sub TT 100604

 La Salle Sub TT 100604

 Thomas Hill Sub TT 100604

Helpful PDB's for you palm

 Car Kind Codes
   

 Conductor Only Agreement
   

 IDP & DP Help
   

 Track Charts for Marceline, Brookfield Subdivisions plus NS Railway CA Jct to Kansas City.

The following sections are copied from bakehead.com

--- OTHER FILES FOR THE PALM ---
(I do not vouch for the accuracy of these files)

AportisDoc - CLICK HERE

WANT TO CREATE PALM FILES FOR YOUR DIVISION?? CLICK HERE to learn to convert a PDF and to learn to creat PDB's plus the links for the files are on this page - or - CLICK HERE for a short course on PDB creation as well as a tutorial on backing up your PALM files from your desktop safely!

 

Rich Reader Freeware AND Shareware (The FREEWARE version may be installed to view the files above!)

Jot A "better" graffitti for your PALM. Read the tutorial carefully and heed the warning before you delete it (If you do!)

CAR KIND CODES - Listing of "STACK and PACK" cars - shows type, kind, # of wells, # of brk vlvs, length, type of loads(i.e. - container/trailer)

CA CODES 1-99 - Codes for claims a file created by Frank Stambaugh

CA CODES A-W - Codes for claims a file created by Frank Stambaugh

Code 30 -Held time

Code 17 - A table for Initial terminal mileage. Corrected to indicate .208 miles (same as Carrier).

Layoff Codes - The codes used by BNSF to designate crew disposition. (Provided by Benjamin Poersch)

Penalty_Codes - Need a little more help figuring out those miles? This little file has the figures by which you can multiply minutes to convert to miles for various uses. Enjoy them.

TIME to MILES conversion charts in .PDB format submitted by Marty Behrent of BLE Division 940 in Denver Co.-

12.5 Miles Per Hour chart 1

12.5 Miles Per Hour chart 2

16.25 Miles Per Hour chart 1

16.25 Miles Per Hour chart 2

18.75 Miles Per Hour chart 1

18.75 Miles Per Hour chart 2

SPEED CHECK - a little timer program that converts time to speed! It comes as two .prc files and BOTH must be loaded. It works great! The files are zipped - for a quicker download. Enjoy!

MPH - For those of you that have a newer PALM device with a faster processor and have found that Speed Check will NOT work - this little program will fill the bill!

 

LAPTOP / HANDHELD PDA-PC FILES

SUBDIVISION PDA Files are provided on this page - you may convert, read or edit ANY .PDA file using DOC READER  for your Handheld(convert .txt to .pdb) or Laptop(by simply downloading this file and unzipping it ON YOUR LAPTOP). Doc Reader is a very small and simple to use file reader - editor - conversion program. Place this small program on your laptop and use it to read .PDB files! - The bookmarks stay intact that way!!

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES WITH BNSF DIVISION UPDATES

 KANSAS DIVISION

  MONTANA DIVISION

SPRINGFIELD DIVISION

 N. CALIFORNIA DIVISION

TEXAS DIVISION

S. CALIFORNIA DIVISION 

 SOUTHWEST DIVISION 

 TWIN CITIES DIVISION

See if you just might be a Mile Hog!

You Might Be a Mile Hog If...

If you would rather make an extra trip than have more time at home...You just might be a mile hog!

OR

If when Monday rolls around and you see no turns added to the pool or turns cut from the pool you have happy thoughts...You just might be a mile hog!

OR

You secretly wish the pool would turn just as fast as an extra board, but you don't want to work an extra board because they have all those jobs you don't want to do...You just might be a mile hog!


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