This is a picture of me and the bus I drove on route.

I am from McCall, Idaho which is 100 miles north of Boise. McCall is a small tourist town with a population of about 2,000 in the winter and 5,000+ in the summer. McCall gets about 4-6 feet of snow every winter and very rarely get to 100 degrees in the summer. It is a ruff place in the winter if you don't like snow. I love lots and lots of snow so it was great!! Sadly the rich and stuck up are moving in and changeing McCall into thier own privete resort and forceing all the locals out of town by raseing the cost of living.

McCall was a perfect place to grow up. I spent my time ridding my bike in the summer (and in the winter too.) and skiing in the winter. I took up snow shoeing and I have really grown to enjoy it.

I went to school at McCall-Donnelly High School and was on the Cross-Country Running team and the Track team. I worked for Swire Coca-Cola and Paul's Market while I was in High School and my senior year I started working at Harlow's washing buses. Then I worked for the US Forest Service on a trail crew. I went to fire school so I could go on a fire if I was needed. I was never called to a fire but I was called to be on stand by. The first part of the summer I worked with a friend, Taylor Zachary, rebuilding an ATV trail near Riggins, Idaho. It was rough ridding a four-wheeler to work every day. ;-) After that I was on two nine day camp outs rebuilding a trail in the wilderness that follows Warren Creek to the Salmon River. After that the summer was over and I had to head to college.

This is me while working for the Forest Service on a trail crew.

After spending time in college I realized that it's just not for me and went back to work at Harlow's and started driving school buses. I got my class "A" CDL with air brakes, Passinger, and Tank truck endorsements. I can drive just about anything on the road. I had planed to go to the Modoc Railroad Academe in Northern California to learn to be a railroad conductor but on April 14th 2003 I found out that I got a job with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF). After having worked and trained for a while I have figured out that I like driving buses a lot more but it is to hard to make a living driving buses. I also realy miss the moutains and trees of McCall. I am not sure how long I will stay with the BNSF.

BNSF trained me to be able to do several diferent jobs. I am able to work as a Locomotive Hostler, Utility, Switchman, Brakeman, and Conductor. I did my student training in the railyard in Havre, on the Milk River Subdivision between Havre and Glasgow, MT, and on the Hi Line Subdivision between Havre and Whitefish, MT. The Hi Line Subdivision is the longest and I think the best run out of Havre. It runs from Havre across the flat farm land through Shelby to Browning. From Browning the line climbs into the mountains and over Marias Pass. The tracks form the southern boarder of Glacier National Park so the views are really spectacular. It is a scenic area that for a lot of the trip can be seen best from the tracks. Now I work out of Whitefish and usaly work the "west end" or Whitefish to Spokane on the Kootenai River Subdivision. I also work as a Locomotive Hostler, Switchman, and Utility when they are running short on people. It is a good paying job and the "jobs" are fun but it is a VERY hard line of work and I am owned by the railroad. I am exspected to be a slave to the railroad and do what they want, when they want 24 hours a day 365 days a year with as little as 8 hours between work assignments. And if I "miss" them calling me I am in trouble.