I was an engineer for 35 years. this was the first time I ever saw a conductor who was awake while the train was moving. we used them for grade detectors, when they were asleep and their heads were bent forward we knew we were going down hill and if their heads were bent backwards we knew we were going up hill.....true story ask any engineer
+Dan Holleran interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for how do i get a job on the railway try Tarbetti Rail Work Tutor (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my partner got excellent success with it.
BrambleFurs JayFeathers search the northwest railroad institute on google i currently go there and they teach you what you need to know and help you get hired
I'm 53 so it's a bit late but I always loved trains and would have been blessed to be an Engineer , never knew till a few days ago (from TH-cam)the 1st step to go about it ,maybe next lifetime!
I worked for the railroad for 40 years, 35 of them as an engineer. It's a great job. There are some other aspects about working in the.operating department of a railroad like the irregular hours in through freight. A lot of the crews in through freight are in a pool which means when you get to either a distant terminal or your home terminal they are on a list. As they call trains you move up the list and out you go. There are no regular days off or hours except for the federal maximum of 12 hours on duty.
i just applied for los angeles i have a friend that works for bnsf in Colorado and he has nothing but good things to say he has been there for 9 years and he also says the hours can be long but the pay is awesome
@butterpoop i applied, two weeks later i got an email inviting me to a recruiting session. That took all day. they talked about how bad the job was. then we took a test. after that 9 people got interviews out of the 30 that showed up. 3 days after that i got a phone call saying i got the job. im still going thru the screenings at this time. once i finish that ill get my start date at the school in GA
Exactly! Score 87 and you are now unemployed Dave! And from my experience, the was no "working your way up" as portrayed in this story either. Just a seniority number, regardless of your abilities. I did it for a few years, but due to being laid off all the time (try "laying-off" your mortgage payment), BNSF's callers calling the wrong number and being threatened with being fired for missing a call, paychecks with money missing from them, etc....It turns out, my fellow crew members and the trains themselves were the only happy memories I have. The carriers (railroad companies) are filled with some of the rottenest P.O.S. people ever. Now I'm back at the utility company I worked for before BNSF, and I couldn't be happier. And in spite of working constant 24/7 rotating shifts at a water treatment plant, I know exactly when I'm going to work and when I'm not.
teerexness I just got a contingent job offer as conductor trainee in Spokane, WA. I would love to hear more as I currently have a city job I would have to leave to take this position.
Dalovesac King What I would say to a young single guy and a an older married guy would be different. A young guy should do it! Have an adventure and get enough seniority so that you can hold a steady, good paying, year-round job. For a guy with responsibilities of the financial and/or family variety, I'd avoid it. It'll be approximately 10 years before you can hold a steady job or turn (turn = position on a call list). You will get laid off based on your low seniority at which time you can either hunker down and collect railroad unemployment (a bit higher than the federal version, but still not much) and wait to be called back, or you can bump someone off a turn or extra board who has lower seniority than you. This will almost certainly require moving to a different part of the country. But the more years you work, the less likely all this is to happen. Hope this helps!
teerexness I currently am married with a good city job that has a sweet pension and medical package. I am already vested, have six years on and can start collecting on my pension at 50. Home every weekend and every other Monday. Just one problem, I have always wanted to do this. My uncle is a retired Vice President for BNSF and I have two other uncles and two cousins that are both Engineers. I really don't want to give up my sweet city job but something just keeps pulling me to BNSF's direction. I can't explain it. It's just something I feel I need to do. I am completely aware of all the furlough horror stories, and all that I read, it seems to all work out at the end.
Dalovesac King I'm kind of the "been there, done that" version of what you are talking about. I had 10 years in at a public utility company, but got into a sour real estate deal and needed more money to stay out of bankruptcy. So I went to BNSF thinking that if they were willing to hire and train me, they must need people. Six months later, I was laid off for three months. And that's pretty much the way it went for the next three years until I finally gave up and begged for my job back at the utility company. But I will say it was a great adventure and a great life experience!
I think they ought to 'drug test' him.....in my 25years as an engineer, I never saw somebody so alert@happy on a locomotive. guess he's never been fired.....
@@Militiaguerrillas You'd get the joke if you ever worked for a railroad. They drug test for EVERYTHING you could ever imagine. Ran a stop signal? Tox test! Red eyes because of allergies? Tox test! Let someone "piggyback" your car (when you swipe your ID badge to open the gate to the parking lot and someone drives in right after you while the gate is still up without swiping their badge) as you drove into the parking lot? Tox test! Someone negligently ignored the downed crossing gates and drove their car directly into your engine's path, forcing you to pull the dump cord? Tox test! Stepped on a grape and slipped? Tox test! Yes, these are all reasons I've seen used for a drug test.
I work as a freight conductor and still enjoy my job every time o put my boots on. However there had been great sacrifice to this career as well. I’ve been laid off 7 months back to work 3 months laid back off 6 months moved 16 times and had to learn numerous territories. Not to mention nasty hotel stays and training on your own time to learn new territory you gotta go where the work is. Finding new places to stay. You noticed in the video the conductor had 3 decades 30 plus year conductor/engineer. That’s the as good as it gets for the railroad top conductor and engineer!!! You might as well forget all the holidays and birthdays or any other outside activities. On call 24 hours and day 7 days a week not to mention living out of town now the railroad makes more profit then they ever have and still wanting to cut more jobs. PTC Is a great tool but that’s all it is two men are needed on freight trains it’s common sense. One to run the train and one to be Mobil to cut crossings or what ever may become along the trip. It’s a very dangerous job someone dies on the railroad just about every day the equipment is very old dirty extremely heavy very unforgiving. You really need two men to get the job done and it’s about public safety just think of all the dangerous chemicals we haul.
Not to mention BNSF is the best of the best for class one railroads they have the best locomotives go look at a BNSF engine the go look at a Norfolk Sothern engine. BNSF has windshield washer fluid nice seats real fridge best of the best. Norfolk Sothern has a cooler for fridge for no crew pack holder usually trash on them don’t forget to check the head 5 cars and the tools in the nose not forgetting the smelly toilet
@@st7650 IDK man, KCS (not TFM or KCSM) has some pretty clean cabs and nice seats, the A/C actually works and the toilet. Well I never use that thing, the chemicals in it will fry your nose hair.. Best to wait for a stop signal and go off the side or in the bushs..
Dad did it for 33 years, got into it after viet nam…..he died at 54....poor sleep habits, and other illness took him down....dad did this for Rock Island, CNW, and then BN....I did it for CCP and then Illinois Railway....10 years in the book....thank god im a shareowner, I don't have to this anymore!
My father was a rail, I too became a Rail I started out as a carman then did assorted track jobs then became a Brakeman/conductor.I worked every job in the Pacific Division, you make loads of cash and the retirement is great but to me my dream job became my nightmare.I hated the job after while. Then one day a switch crew was in a hurry to go home I was making my train on the adjacent track so it was close quarters. The switch crew ran me over they told no one and went home, my Conductor that day made me get off and go to the hospital .Well I sat in the yard office till the shift was over then I went to the hospital. I lost all my pention the switch crew didnt get repremanded I lost my job and the BN told me to go away!
No B.S. Its the people who really don't want the job that gets all the offers. My childhood friend hated trains growing up now look at him and this punk it really tears your heart out to see it.
Once you get enough seniority you pretty much get to choose when and where you work. After about 5-10 years depending on the railroad, you'll have enough seniority to work a morning shift with weekends off starting and ending near where you live. The first few years are definitely a pain though. You're essentially working all the jobs at the bottom of the barrel that nobody else wants. You'll be all over the place working some crazy schedules. In the end, it's 100% worth it. One of the few industries in the world where you can enter after leaving high school and retire a high-level manager with a nice RRB payout and, depending on what railroad you work for, a great pension. Did I mention great pay? Ticket sellers at the Long Island Rail Road are making over $50/hr base pay. They get full benefits for life, free transportation on all MTA systems for life, a pension paying out 60% of the average of their three best consecutive years' salary every year for their entire retirement, 401(k), 457, etc. Even their custodians make $30/hr. You can't beat it.
@biloby lol just saw your comment. the school was only 3 weeks long. it was tough. been on the job almoat a yeae now. days can be very long sometimes. i have had several 16 plus hour days. and some long hotel stays. but damn the money is crazy!
Yep now imagine how many kids can actually pass it just because they spent too much time playing train simulator. Which is fine until you put them in a real cab with a real train. No simulator is going to mimic the slack action and such that a real train creates.. You have to be able to "feel" your train and react promptly.. This is where most people fail
nah it's a test and that's all it is... the REAL test is in the actual cab of the loco... your FIRST solo trip on a heavy unit potash or coal train and it's ALL YOURS... that first time experience will make you wish were back in the simulator lol
to ride Train from Ft Madison Iowa to Kansas City just one time. I have model Layout in my Basement of BNSF and working on it when I can. I watch the BNSF trains by the tracks at Ft Madison and Argyle Iowa all the time.
@@AbelG8781 Wow, just found this. 10 years later and not an Amtrak engineer, but I sure did achieve the goal of becoming an engineer. Celebrating 2 years of railroading come October.
Justin Plew you know what, as much time as railroaders spend saying "ef the railroad im laying off they can.. (insert explitive sailor-like rant here)" they could take a second and appreciate someone appreciating the rr even if it's a fantasy PR piece. We have plenty of gripes about fatigue, RSIA circumvention, unpredictable boards, impossible word standards and Draconian work culture but for career railroaders who plan to put in the 30 plus years to retire it helps to appreciate the nice points. As much frustration the rr causes us my husband still after 12 years of doing the job will get to the end of vacation sometimes and groan a bit when he looks at the boards and say.." sometimes i just want to go drive a train"
People who don't initially qualify to be a conductor will join as something lower, like a shop laborer or coach cleaner. After a couple years they'll apply for promotion into where they really want to be, such as conductor, engineer, clerk, manager, etc.
All I can tell you is that if you get any job offer for anything at the MTA, take it. Insiders have a better shot at getting the job they want than people from outside. So even if it's a coach cleaner position, take it and in a year apply for a conductor position.
justin mckenzie dude you are soo lucky to have a yard! Oh wait, I have the same thing as you! I too, hear trains in my back yard! And they are a mile away! ;)
"So cool". Uh huh. Wait till you get called at some ungodly hour in the morning. Getting to babysit some hygienically challenged driver that can't stay awake-after you've been on duty for 14+hours. Sitting in a hotel for 24 hours after getting out on your 5th start. Missing anniversaries, holidays, birthdays. Pissy-smelling, dirty locomotives. See how "cool" it is then.
Sadly it's free advertising for bnsf.. if they let you on they would have to let on all the rail enthusiasts, and to them you have nothing to offer besides a liability issue. Try class II and III railroads.. far better chance ;]
I Hate The God Damn Fact That When Someone Like Me (Railroad Enthusiast) Would Ask To Have A Ride On The Locomotive On A Class One Railroad The Answer Would Be No No Matter What. And When Someone Such As Him (Television Personnel) Would Ask For A Cab Ride The Answer Would Be I Believe More Than Half The Time Yes. Pisses Me The Fuck Off!
There in hell already. They wake up with a car on ther plow no biggie. Or headlights in there fave from anouther train on the same track. One or the other. Its all part of the show.
I was an engineer for 35 years. this was the first time I ever saw a conductor who was awake while the train was moving. we used them for grade detectors, when they were asleep and their heads were bent forward we knew we were going down hill and if their heads were bent backwards we knew we were going up hill.....true story ask any engineer
+Dan Holleran interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for how do i get a job on the railway try Tarbetti Rail Work Tutor (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my partner got excellent success with it.
BrambleFurs JayFeathers search the northwest railroad institute on google i currently go there and they teach you what you need to know and help you get hired
Dan Holleran this isnt the first time im hearing this. My husband is an engineer. They also sometimes help keep him awake by talking the whole trip
Not anymore with cameras in the cab.
Dan Holleran lol 😂
I'm 53 so it's a bit late but I always loved trains and would have been blessed to be an Engineer , never knew till a few days ago (from TH-cam)the 1st step to go about it ,maybe next lifetime!
They hire people as old as 60 i've seen. it's not to late to give it a go.
now this is the perfect explination of my dream.
I Just stubbled onto this video this Amazing and the Scenery was amazing!!
I worked for the railroad for 40 years, 35 of them as an engineer. It's a great job. There are some other aspects about working in the.operating department of a railroad like the irregular hours in through freight. A lot of the crews in through freight are in a pool which means when you get to either a distant terminal or your home terminal they are on a list. As they call trains you move up the list and out you go. There are no regular days off or hours except for the federal maximum of 12 hours on duty.
Retired now after 38 years of driving a Class A truck and the United States that was my dream career or my dream job
i just applied for los angeles i have a friend that works for bnsf in Colorado and he has nothing but good things to say he has been there for 9 years and he also says the hours can be long but the pay is awesome
Did you get hired by the BNSF or the UP and are you still with them since it’s been 7 years. If so how has it been?
I just got hired as a train conductor for norfolk southern. cant wait for my adventure to begin!!!
3:45 Guys I think I found Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters!
This made me smile :D
@butterpoop I start the conductor school Monday. Had to clear up some medical stuff. But i finally made it. Good luck to you!
@butterpoop i applied, two weeks later i got an email inviting me to a recruiting session. That took all day. they talked about how bad the job was. then we took a test. after that 9 people got interviews out of the 30 that showed up. 3 days after that i got a phone call saying i got the job. im still going thru the screenings at this time. once i finish that ill get my start date at the school in GA
I miss Dave Price in the mornings
Someone should've told him those 3 points would've meant the difference between getting fired and not. :-)
Exactly! Score 87 and you are now unemployed Dave! And from my experience, the was no "working your way up" as portrayed in this story either. Just a seniority number, regardless of your abilities. I did it for a few years, but due to being laid off all the time (try "laying-off" your mortgage payment), BNSF's callers calling the wrong number and being threatened with being fired for missing a call, paychecks with money missing from them, etc....It turns out, my fellow crew members and the trains themselves were the only happy memories I have. The carriers (railroad companies) are filled with some of the rottenest P.O.S. people ever. Now I'm back at the utility company I worked for before BNSF, and I couldn't be happier. And in spite of working constant 24/7 rotating shifts at a water treatment plant, I know exactly when I'm going to work and when I'm not.
teerexness I just got a contingent job offer as conductor trainee in Spokane, WA. I would love to hear more as I currently have a city job I would have to leave to take this position.
Dalovesac King What I would say to a young single guy and a an older married guy would be different. A young guy should do it! Have an adventure and get enough seniority so that you can hold a steady, good paying, year-round job. For a guy with responsibilities of the financial and/or family variety, I'd avoid it. It'll be approximately 10 years before you can hold a steady job or turn (turn = position on a call list). You will get laid off based on your low seniority at which time you can either hunker down and collect railroad unemployment (a bit higher than the federal version, but still not much) and wait to be called back, or you can bump someone off a turn or extra board who has lower seniority than you. This will almost certainly require moving to a different part of the country. But the more years you work, the less likely all this is to happen. Hope this helps!
teerexness I currently am married with a good city job that has a sweet pension and medical package. I am already vested, have six years on and can start collecting on my pension at 50. Home every weekend and every other Monday. Just one problem, I have always wanted to do this. My uncle is a retired Vice President for BNSF and I have two other uncles and two cousins that are both Engineers. I really don't want to give up my sweet city job but something just keeps pulling me to BNSF's direction. I can't explain it. It's just something I feel I need to do. I am completely aware of all the furlough horror stories, and all that I read, it seems to all work out at the end.
Dalovesac King I'm kind of the "been there, done that" version of what you are talking about. I had 10 years in at a public utility company, but got into a sour real estate deal and needed more money to stay out of bankruptcy. So I went to BNSF thinking that if they were willing to hire and train me, they must need people. Six months later, I was laid off for three months. And that's pretty much the way it went for the next three years until I finally gave up and begged for my job back at the utility company. But I will say it was a great adventure and a great life experience!
Dave Price is multi talented
My top architect Cedric Price
That was super cool
I think they ought to 'drug test' him.....in my 25years as an engineer, I never saw somebody so alert@happy on a locomotive. guess he's never been fired.....
Could be hsi seniority.
Why does it have to be drugs? Why can't it be that he loves what he does and takes his responsibility VERY SERIOUSLY???? #PPL I tell you Smdh
Perhaps you need your head exam Smdh
@@Militiaguerrillas You'd get the joke if you ever worked for a railroad. They drug test for EVERYTHING you could ever imagine. Ran a stop signal? Tox test! Red eyes because of allergies? Tox test! Let someone "piggyback" your car (when you swipe your ID badge to open the gate to the parking lot and someone drives in right after you while the gate is still up without swiping their badge) as you drove into the parking lot? Tox test! Someone negligently ignored the downed crossing gates and drove their car directly into your engine's path, forcing you to pull the dump cord? Tox test! Stepped on a grape and slipped? Tox test! Yes, these are all reasons I've seen used for a drug test.
awesome. try doing it at 3 am with no sleep..
I work as a freight conductor and still enjoy my job every time o put my boots on. However there had been great sacrifice to this career as well. I’ve been laid off 7 months back to work 3 months laid back off 6 months moved 16 times and had to learn numerous territories. Not to mention nasty hotel stays and training on your own time to learn new territory you gotta go where the work is. Finding new places to stay. You noticed in the video the conductor had 3 decades 30 plus year conductor/engineer. That’s the as good as it gets for the railroad top conductor and engineer!!! You might as well forget all the holidays and birthdays or any other outside activities. On call 24 hours and day 7 days a week not to mention living out of town now the railroad makes more profit then they ever have and still wanting to cut more jobs. PTC Is a great tool but that’s all it is two men are needed on freight trains it’s common sense. One to run the train and one to be Mobil to cut crossings or what ever may become along the trip. It’s a very dangerous job someone dies on the railroad just about every day the equipment is very old dirty extremely heavy very unforgiving. You really need two men to get the job done and it’s about public safety just think of all the dangerous chemicals we haul.
Not to mention BNSF is the best of the best for class one railroads they have the best locomotives go look at a BNSF engine the go look at a Norfolk Sothern engine. BNSF has windshield washer fluid nice seats real fridge best of the best. Norfolk Sothern has a cooler for fridge for no crew pack holder usually trash on them don’t forget to check the head 5 cars and the tools in the nose not forgetting the smelly toilet
st7650 only thing I like about the bn units is the seats. They have to many dc locomotives
@@st7650 IDK man, KCS (not TFM or KCSM) has some pretty clean cabs and nice seats, the A/C actually works and the toilet. Well I never use that thing, the chemicals in it will fry your nose hair.. Best to wait for a stop signal and go off the side or in the bushs..
Price just hated playing for Boston so much, he applied for BNSF. Actually a smart guy.
Those engines are fn amazing
i ride in the cab for work and its fun!
i'd like to be a freight conductor someday when i grow up
As a CN conductor I will say, I wish I worked for BN lol
Dad did it for 33 years, got into it after viet nam…..he died at 54....poor sleep habits, and other illness took him down....dad did this for Rock Island, CNW, and then BN....I did it for CCP and then Illinois Railway....10 years in the book....thank god im a shareowner, I don't have to this anymore!
My father was a rail, I too became a Rail I started out as a carman then did assorted track jobs then became a Brakeman/conductor.I worked every job in the Pacific Division, you make loads of cash and the retirement is great but to me my dream job became my nightmare.I hated the job after while. Then one day a switch crew was in a hurry to go home I was making my train on the adjacent track so it was close quarters. The switch crew ran me over they told no one and went home, my Conductor that day made me get off and go to the hospital .Well I sat in the yard office till the shift was over then I went to the hospital. I lost all my pention the switch crew didnt get repremanded I lost my job and the BN told me to go away!
That's really messed up man
No B.S. Its the people who really don't want the job that gets all the offers. My childhood friend hated trains growing up now look at him and this punk it really tears your heart out to see it.
My dream job is being a conductor at BNSF and I got to achieve that dream!
it is a dream but you don't get much sleep
Jazz-makin-you-smile yeah..... and you have to work around the clock
Jazz-makin-you-smile they never sleep long enough to hit REM.
Once you get enough seniority you pretty much get to choose when and where you work. After about 5-10 years depending on the railroad, you'll have enough seniority to work a morning shift with weekends off starting and ending near where you live. The first few years are definitely a pain though. You're essentially working all the jobs at the bottom of the barrel that nobody else wants. You'll be all over the place working some crazy schedules. In the end, it's 100% worth it. One of the few industries in the world where you can enter after leaving high school and retire a high-level manager with a nice RRB payout and, depending on what railroad you work for, a great pension. Did I mention great pay? Ticket sellers at the Long Island Rail Road are making over $50/hr base pay. They get full benefits for life, free transportation on all MTA systems for life, a pension paying out 60% of the average of their three best consecutive years' salary every year for their entire retirement, 401(k), 457, etc. Even their custodians make $30/hr. You can't beat it.
@@ashleymarie6682 I have first hand experience 😁
@@GIJew yes but they are not entitled to a free ride on metro north.
"best view in the world" - Guess he has never flown
The good old day's when trains were only a mile long rather than 2 or 3
Aside of being a train driver at bnsf or other I too, want to be a voice actor. :)
@biloby lol just saw your comment. the school was only 3 weeks long. it was tough. been on the job almoat a yeae now. days can be very long sometimes. i have had several 16 plus hour days. and some long hotel stays. but damn the money is crazy!
So a weatherman comes in off the street, takes the engineer test and comes within 3 points of passing? That doesn't speak too highly of the testing
I know. Even girls can pass it today.
He had a trainer on his hip pocket practically. Trust me, you probably couldn't knock off the brakes if you sat in the seat and tried.
@@arthurwest9329 LOL I like how all these kids think it's an eary ride, until they try it on for size they dont last a week..
Yep now imagine how many kids can actually pass it just because they spent too much time playing train simulator. Which is fine until you put them in a real cab with a real train. No simulator is going to mimic the slack action and such that a real train creates.. You have to be able to "feel" your train and react promptly.. This is where most people fail
nah it's a test and that's all it is... the REAL test is in the actual cab of the loco... your FIRST solo trip on a heavy unit potash or coal train and it's ALL YOURS... that first time experience will make you wish were back in the simulator lol
to ride Train from Ft Madison Iowa to Kansas City just one time. I have model Layout in my Basement of BNSF and working on it when I can. I watch the BNSF trains by the tracks at Ft Madison and Argyle Iowa all the time.
@butterpoop awesome! good luck.
@Biscuit05 What was the process like and how long did you wait until you got an answer from them?
My dream job is to be an Amtrak engineer. Got 6 more years to go!
Well...been 6years
Amtrak is the worst.. pack motion sickness meds you will be running GE's all day
@@AbelG8781 Wow, just found this. 10 years later and not an Amtrak engineer, but I sure did achieve the goal of becoming an engineer. Celebrating 2 years of railroading come October.
@@CentralIllinoisRailfan what railroad? I was switching around for SGS petro but overall didn't like working for the railroad
This guy scores an 87 and you need a 90. I’d keep practicing then you could drive the train!
Hahahaha. Another example of a P.R. tourist run. If they only knew how it really was.
Justin Plew you know what, as much time as railroaders spend saying "ef the railroad im laying off they can.. (insert explitive sailor-like rant here)" they could take a second and appreciate someone appreciating the rr even if it's a fantasy PR piece. We have plenty of gripes about fatigue, RSIA circumvention, unpredictable boards, impossible word standards and Draconian work culture but for career railroaders who plan to put in the 30 plus years to retire it helps to appreciate the nice points. As much frustration the rr causes us my husband still after 12 years of doing the job will get to the end of vacation sometimes and groan a bit when he looks at the boards and say.." sometimes i just want to go drive a train"
Yes he got off b4 the real work happen pretty boy don't want to get dirty.
How Can I Get My Dream Job? How Can I Get A Job In The Rail Road, To A Conductor Or A Operator?
Was that Betty Nguyen
This is more descriptive then BNSF’s video.
nice
you still in school biscuit? is it hard? how long are the days? just curious, thanks.
@CaptainAmerica322 you talking about to get hired or passing the school or what.
Not a railroad worker but this looks like a PR run.
Railroads don't ever need a PR run
conductors don't clean the train like that. Not in the job description.
Nope. Good ol laborers take care of that.
But he said he didn't make the required 90% score so he worked himself up ....Cletus, your weren't listening!
He said he started at the bottom and worked his way up. We're you sleep at the wheel or just not paying attention?
People who don't initially qualify to be a conductor will join as something lower, like a shop laborer or coach cleaner. After a couple years they'll apply for promotion into where they really want to be, such as conductor, engineer, clerk, manager, etc.
Yeah and he found out just how un glamorous it is.
What kind of requirements did you need to meet?
Today, it helps to be a minority or a woman. They also prefer military veterans.
That was a year ago, and you could deal with it.
Dave never made it to Spokane?
Shaded Muse well the Seattle guys only go to Wenatchee.
Dave Price might want to check out Train sim world.
Oh God, help us
my dream job is becoming a train conductor to for the mta
Colbert Awesome lol good luck bud...
All I can tell you is that if you get any job offer for anything at the MTA, take it. Insiders have a better shot at getting the job they want than people from outside. So even if it's a coach cleaner position, take it and in a year apply for a conductor position.
i want that to be my future job! ;)
me too what company? I'm going for bnsf or union pacific
Dude cool! Me too! I go for the exact same team! UP is the common freight trains that comeby my home. ;)
+Marisela Rodriguez lol there's a yard that's called doleres yard there's alot of up trains there and I can hear there horn on my home
justin mckenzie dude you are soo lucky to have a yard! Oh wait, I have the same thing as you! I too, hear trains in my back yard! And they are a mile away! ;)
Marisela Rodriguez how old r u? I'm 15
@Biscuit05 sweet! I just applied for that position!
i all way want to be a bnsf Condutr or a up YardMaster
Damn. That reporter in the black and white is hot
right
Lucky
You don't hafto work up to a conductor not now adays
"So cool". Uh huh. Wait till you get called at some ungodly hour in the morning. Getting to babysit some hygienically challenged driver that can't stay awake-after you've been on duty for 14+hours. Sitting in a hotel for 24 hours after getting out on your 5th start. Missing anniversaries, holidays, birthdays. Pissy-smelling, dirty locomotives. See how "cool" it is then.
Bnsf ac 44 cw
Sadly it's free advertising for bnsf.. if they let you on they would have to let on all the rail enthusiasts, and to them you have nothing to offer besides a liability issue. Try class II and III railroads.. far better chance ;]
I Hate The God Damn Fact That When Someone Like Me (Railroad Enthusiast) Would Ask To Have A Ride On The Locomotive On A Class One Railroad The Answer Would Be No No Matter What.
And When Someone Such As Him (Television Personnel) Would Ask For A Cab Ride The Answer Would Be I Believe More Than Half The Time Yes.
Pisses Me The Fuck Off!
lol i'm with CSX...
Cute. BNSF SHOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF THEIR PEOPLE!
Always Extra
There in hell already. They wake up with a car on ther plow no biggie. Or headlights in there fave from anouther train on the same track. One or the other. Its all part of the show.
Does anyone know the general pay for a freight conductor?
You know what pisses me off? People who capitalize every fucking word.
You know what pisses me off? People who complain
Yeah, Me Too. I Can't Stand It.
Yeah that's a really big deal
B.S., closed shop.
Lol
WISH, Trump, had to pass a test!
Nope we don't need collusion on the tracks!
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