Thread 2053197

What would your dream transportation job be? Any time period, any place.

For me, it would be running steam locomotives on the ATSF from the late 1930s to the end of steam. A close second would be an airline captain in the 1950s and 60s to experience the beginning of the jet age.

>>2053197 (OP)
Am I my train autiste self or just a regular working Joe? If the former, running narrow gauge locomotives through Maine or Colorado in any time period. As a streetcar sperg, shop foreman at Third Avenue Railway System’s 65th St. shops in Manhattan during the Depression, putting men to work building aluminum Huffliners.

taxi man , 3 day week , Tuesdays to Thursdays 10am-3pm.

Brakeman on a Funicular.
Ground service agent Horizon Air.
KLM Chief Pilot.

>>2053197 (OP)
i want to get a job as a bicycle delivery man

>>2054145
Do you do Uber or Doordash or whatever? It's pretty easy to just get the app and start making deliveries on your bike right away. It's a pretty shit way of making money and 70% of the time you'll be sitting around waiting for orders but it's a good way to get your toes wet if that's really what you want to do. They have no requirements other than you making sure you know what local road laws are. I've done it with nothing but a single speed shit bike and a thermal bag over my shoulder to carry things in

TSA breast inspector big natty division

>>2053197 (OP)
Driving C-Liners on the CPR Coquihalla Subdivision in the 1950's.

>>2053197 (OP)
secret nuke transporter (working nights)

>>2054148
knew a guy who did this after semi-retiring from an IT jerb as a way to get some training miles in, mega based. mayb I try.

CEO of a successful corporation so I could spend my days however I please.

>>2053232
>>2054145
SAAAAAAAR

Why I'm a motorman on the interurban of course. Pic related it's me and my conductor

>>2056038
That would be comfy. What region of the country?

>>2056047
Sacramento Northern would be a kino interurban, or something along the backwoods of new England...

>>2056047
There were so many interurbans in the Midwest which is kind of flat and boring but I guess I’d do something in the Detroit region where I live now.

>>2053197 (OP)

Conductor on a sleepy rural shortline always hauling a mix of passengers and freight

>>2053197 (OP)
IT admin on a research bote. It's basically what I did in the navy, but getting to do it in the private sector would be all the fun with none of the bullshit. Or at least most of the bullshit but not having to do nonsense exercises every fucking day or have to mop anywhere but my own cabin.

>>2053233

based

working for BERy/MTA/MBTA sometime between 1935/1965, when most of the streetcar lines were still in place. I'm mad Boston gg no re'ed all of its old streetcar lines, unlike philly or toronto.

I don't dream of having a job

Bus driver in the 1950s would have been fun. No sycromesh so floating the gears once you got started with the clutch in first.

I am sorely tempted to get bus learner licence just to be able to have a go on one.

>>2057030
Who could not want to drive something with gearbox like this? The in-town models of what preceeded the Routemaster had a 4-speed gearbox taking them up to 30mph, the speed limit. But the out-of-town models had an overdrive fitted with a second neutral between 4th and 5th.

This meant that if you misjudged it and came to a complete stop in 5th you could not then get back to 1st. You could only go to 4th then turn the engine off and try rocking it into a lower gear. Or letting it roll downhill slightly to move the straight-cut cogs then start up again and drive off in 1st.

There are a number of bus preservation societies and if I volunteered I think I could wangle a go on one with a learner licence.

Tram driver for one of the lines on the edge of town, but unfortunately the pay and hours are currently pretty bad.