Pros
There are no pros at CPKC
Cons
Common practices in the track maintenance division: -submitting fraudulent paperwork to Transport Canada. For example, fudging CWR reports to hide rail being added. This was encouraged by management. - covering up various classes and urgencies of defects. For example, hitting high spikes down in shifted track and gooping around the spikes to make it appear to be done properly. Or putting broken bolts back in joint bar holes. -Time theft. For example, getting together after a weekend job to ensure everyones extra hours added matches everyone else's hours. Literally tens of thousands of dollars stolen each year - generally being pro-derailment ($$$) -bad behavior- playing chicken with traffic, dropping gates in high traffic for fun, stealing from homeless encampments, waving traffic through unprotected crossings, removing joint bars from life track, the list is endless - general lack of knowledge eg. Creating defects while *trying* to remove them because they don't actually know what they're doing -patrolling without looking at the track. The idea is, if they can't see a defect, they don't have to fix it or have the guilt of seeing it and not fixing it. They don't want to see defects so they don't look. Even if they see something and don't fix it, it can't be proven they saw it. There's literally no reason to work (because the threat of potential derailment/loss of life/environment destruction have no effect on them) -fradulently signing off that crossing circuits are working properly -Fradulently signing off on log books. It might be different now because it's digital. But they drive trucks not suited for the road and don't follow safety procedure/paperwork for their.Class DZ license -management knows all this happens These people need to be fired or jailed. Keep in mind, a lot of this stuff occurs in densely populated areas (not that you'd want a derailment EVER.. but you get what I mean). One day, lots of people will die. They can only be so reckless for so long before something happens. It's inevitable. A two mile long train carrying hazardous materials and moving at track speed will encounter an improperly installed frog/neglected TEC/Sperry defect/hanging crossing (ie. Not something 'accidental'). It will be dinner time in a Highly populated residential neighborhood when families are sitting down to eat. Track Maintenance will put up their hands and say 'it wasn't me' knowing full well that even if it was, no one will ever know. Then they'll happily restore the track and buy that new snowmobile with the overtime they put in fixing the track. Truly respectable family men.