First week is finally done. Getting up at 5 AM and leaving by 6 AM and not getting to work till 8 AM, then leaving work at 4 PM and not getting back till after 6 PM makes for a long day. Anywho for those who don’t know about my summer internship, I’m working at TTX again, for the second summer. TTX owns about 127,000 freight train cars. As I tell everyone, next time you see a freight train look at the bottom of the car, if it is yellow look for TTX written right on it. As for what I do there, I work in the research department. I do a lot of data analysis, we run multiple tests on these train cars, trying to reduce vibrations, damage to the cars, and well try to reduce derailing. As we all know a train derailing isn’t a little accident, so we try to stop that before it happens. Also due to multiple factors that I can tell you later if you’re more interested, trains tend to have vibrations that ruin their loads. Such as automobiles, shaking automobiles during shipment isn’t a good thing. That’s a little gist of what I do, if you have any more questions you can email me at work Philip_White@ttx.com. Please email me!
