A Day in the Life of a Conductor
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- As a Railway Personnel/Conductor you will be riding trains in the yards and on the main line -- all under strict operating and safety rules. This entry level position can lead to advancement as a yard foreperson or locomotive engineer.
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I worked for Santa Fe Railway for 41 years as a Throttle Jerker retired in 1986, that was one career I enjoyed. Not many of us still around that were Steam era Railroaders.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾thank you
Hard work in dangerous, arctic conditions, shitty equipment, irregular schedules and 34 years until I get a weekend off? Sign me up!
sounds like a fun time to meeeeeeeee :P also you forgot about the stupid people who wonder on to the tracks , or the selfish jumpers or people who toss things
It might take 10-15 years before you can hold a regularly scheduled night shift job with Tuesday and Wednesday off.
Lmfao sounds about right hahaha
And if you're good, maybe in 15 to 20 years of cumulative service without a sick day you can work swing shifts with two days off a month and a even receive a special one week holiday in late January during the dead of winter. Sounds about right in Keith Creel's delusional version of the railroad.
When I heard union and seniority and that was a benefit... I thought the oppisite. Anyone seniored into rail road work will never retire lol
If the company has a good reputation you best take the offer. Money is nice but a good stable job where you can be happy is the most important.
@niselat Your comments summed up the railroad lifestyle PERFECTLY.
I did this for 12 yrs with chicago & northwestern and then union pacific after they took over.
Crappy working hours,freeze your balls off in the winter and waiting 30 years to hold your "dream job",only to have the company pull that job off only weeks before you FINALLY have enough seniority to hold it.
PERFECT.
Sounds like a real "screw game" they pulled on you. That's too bad.
@@smokelesschoice165it most certainly was a screw game
Goes from an engineer, to a yard master, to a manager. Downgrading my boy
chad might know my brother he works at CP out of Nelson, BC. He is a qualified locomotive engineer and also started out in Cranbrook, BC. He now works as a conductor on the trail, BC Hotshot and Tadanac switcher on the kootenay Valley Railway
Heloo Rose johnson, myself satishkumar from india , presently i working as Train driver in India ..i really much excited to work as rail conductor , can you please tell me how can i apply for that from india. 🙏
There are lots of those, and getting called out at 3 am is a sort of normal thing for anyone on a extra board, but it is a very interesting job as no day is ever the same, in fact the life of anyone in T&E can be and is a lot of boredom & be prepared to work up to 12 hrs on any train job.
But I though Peter Griffin worked at the Pawtucket Brewery?
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Azza Ezz It was intended to be a joke m8
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Yea right?!?
I got it easy, almost all flat except a little hill (can slow heavier trains by 15-20 mph) near my home terminal, 139 miles, and its not boring, 150+ crossings, swamp, cities, draw bridges (1 is a 3000 foot long 9 span), forest, country/farms, and a bit of everything. I'm enjoying it, pretty comfortable, but not too (IE Complacent or arrogant) much so.
This guy left out a lot of things, like going to rules & air brake classes, physical exam every 2 yrs, having to to learn the territory and be exam-ed by a rfe or other official, and also being away from home for up to 3 days at a times, learning every rule in the rule book and there are lots of those, and getting called out at 3 am is a sort of normal thing for anyone on a extra board, but it is a very interesting job as no day is ever the same, in fact the life of anyone in T&E can be and is a lot of boredom & be prepared to work up to 12 hrs on any train job.
Wow 3 days away from home? 12 hour shifts? courses? How do these men do it. Fuck off. I started working a service rig when I was 17 and worked 16 hour days outside in -30 with barely any heat unless you just wanted to not work. And gone from home up to 3 weeks. And many more courses, obviously re doing them every 3 years. This looks like a piece of cake dream job.
Currently doing 12 hour days, and getting paid for 8 of them. I know some rail roaders. You don't have it that bad.
lol try driving a truck for a week. you'll be screaming to get back to the railroad I promise you.
try working from 9 AM to 2 AM the next day. Oh, and when I did that, my co-worker worked 72 hours straight. this fucking place I'm at now blows, and it might be gone in a month. That's one of the reasons I applied for CP...
TheCraiger1969 HOW IS THAT EVEN LEGAL?Only getting Payed for 8 Hours and working 12?Unless it's a private business or something..NO GOVT JOB Is allowed to do that
@edbelfor2 I started out as grade crossing Gateman for 1 month than promoted to a Brakeman then Fireman on the old Baldwin Steamers that used Coal Oil and was OJT as a Throttle Jerker.
I'm sure CP won't be such a good place to work anymore with E. Hunter Harrison at the helm of CEO since 2012. He hacked CN to bits with an axe when he was their CEO, so he will do the same thing here. Expect more hours and only 12 days off a year.
Harrison is dead!!
Yea, close to a hundred bucks an hour just sounds terrible. Imagine making less than an fourth of that and hating your job in the same way
@@astraldrifter777 year old but I love the mindset
I am a bigger passenger fan than freight, and my dream is to be an engineer for Amtrak, but you got to start somewhere! And this is a good look!
Set some higher goals, Amtrak lol. Foamers😂
Treat everyone with respect and dignity...sure wish CN would do the same.
The version of CP in this video (2010) was made when Fred Green was CEO, 2 years before Hunter Harrison took over and then put the company through the wood chipper, turning it into nothing but a horror show of crap and abuse. His protege Keith Creel took over after him and continued Hunter's legacy of total dread.
This video makes everything sound a lot easier than it really is, keep in mind.
I am and always have been fascinated with trains, rails and the entire industry. Unfortunately, the everyday work-life of a conductor is too mechanical and chaotic for my liking.
I suggest a very thorough in-depth search of the entire career choice before jumping into it.
I went from wanting to join a 1 year train conductor program to Criminology and now, law school.
Would have been a different life for me!
did you get into law Brian?
I don't care much for working outdoors or anything of that matter, but I do like driving trains
Thank you for your diligence in this company and enable them to gain a place attributed to the prosperity and development of a balanced application of justice and responsibility in the esteemed place I'm from Algeria and loved the train but the goal is not achieved, and I look to the Dama in America train
Cześć!
To jest F.R.E.D. (flashing rear-end device) czyli end-of-train device (ETD). Bardzo przydatne urządzenie. Nie wiem, dlaczego nie jest stosowane ani w Rosji, ani w Polsce. ETD jest podłączony do przewodu głównego i transmituje dane o ciśnieniu przez radio do głowicy w lokomotywie. Uproszczona próba hamulców nie jest potrzebna. Ponadto nowoczesne ETD są wykorzystywane w przypadku nagłego hamowania, aby uczynić go bardziej jednolita na całej długości pociągu
Technology is always being updated and the rotation of working seven days a days a week remains the same.
A bunch of times in some of these departments, it's like 6 day work weeks at 12hrs a pop totaling 72hrs a week. How the hell is a person supposed to get done all of their other duties outside of the job? This kind of schedule might work for a single person without a social life. But for married people or those who are dating or those who like to party during a 72hr a week work schedule?? Forget it... Not in this line of work. Move on elsewhere to another career.
I think it should be mandatory that a person doesn't have to work 7 days a week or even 6, it's unethical and we are not robots, are body isn't going to last forever so why degrade it with a job like this? i'll continue my career search
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I shared this video?
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+Brandon Luco if you paid attention. you're on call 7 days a week then are entitled to rest days after a trip. yard work usually is fixed hours 5 or 6 days a week.
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The real requirements of the job is spending 70% of your life in hotels away from loved ones, putting up with jerk-off train masters and yard masters, teaching dumb ass trainees and being absolutely physically and mentally exhausted when u get home...trust me, my dad has been a conductor for 37 years.....but the pay is $36 by hour (American)...so its a toss up
Thanks for the heads up. I'm looking into this
Mark Pattison yep. it was a career I was thinking of going into in Canada. we have cp and cn rail. both get incredibly shitty reviews saying you work almost nonstop as a new hire, you have no life. The money is good but what's the point if you can't enjoy it.
Had no clue Peter Griffin was a train conductor.
@fordlukebo Train crew- Conductors, Engineers, Brakemen, Switchmen, RCL Operators, Hostelers...
Have to be 18 to apply.
@trainsforever8 just apply. i do not know 100% but CN and CP most likely supply train crews to Agence métropolitaine de transport. so it will take some time be for your on the commuters. if you would like to still do the college thing there are schools in canada that have a Railway conductor class. but that cost money. lf you apply and get on start to the railway you get payed to do the say as you paying some school.
I start new hire train crew training next week with UP!!!
Awesome video. I just signed on as a student locomotive engineer for the florida east coast. 2 more years of school (training) left. Cant wait
Invisible Ink how’d it go
We’re ya at now??
can someone tell me for a new hire, as a conductor, what is the average salary per year?
The music sounds very similar to clocks by Coldplay
.....that's what I was told whenever I would talk to the RR employees. Good advice.
I heard they lay off juniors constantly according to demand and then rehire work isn't stable
@mantler112 George brown is Toronto, BCIT SAIT all have classes.but you pay the school. if you apply and get on the rail way then you get payed.
I just applied for this job!
John Singarti how did that turn out?
railroad operations are a tough job and it takes 15-20 years on the job to actually start making money. Its very tough work and you will never have a lifestyle on top of that from the moment you get hired to the time you retire your wonderful management team will make every effort to fire you because they can care less about the health and well being of your family. Think twice before you put that application in because you are signing your life away
@RussianPalikhov Well lots of passenger rail conductors and engineers start off in freight.
been RR for 4 yr an im holding days off too! class one to much dam paper work!
So amazing
freedom of not having to work everyday???
In a word search game, what does a conductor stand on? thanks
ballast
apparently, CP and CN have thousands of applicants for a Conductor's position... without taking the 4 month course at George Brown for $10,000... how can I squeak past the other several applicants??
@niselat I talked to one of the guys in the video, you are married to the job, lol
i love become a train conductor.my favorite job is it
What kind of switch was that? It looked like it belonged on the B&O railroad.
@mantler112 cn stands for Canadian National Railway
You apparently have bad conductors or bad engineers. Engineers always have a mentally challenging job, while conductors can depending on what they're working. If I work a road or yard switcher I have a tougher job. If I'm on a typical road train, the engineer has a tougher job. Every new guy I train, I explain to them how important staying awake is. I've been a conductor for 9 years now at csx and so far have had a problem free career. Being alert is key.
Son Unos Maquinistas Entregados Y Entusiastas En En Trabajo
did they put instrumental coldplay at the credits?
@masterchiefgtx thanks for the help.
Now that Hunter Harrison is in charge I may stay away from CP until he is gone.
.... а что он установил на хвостовом вагоне и соединил его с рукавом?
This made me smile :)
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Working running trades for a railroad ISN'T a job. It's a LIFESTYLE. More specifically I'd say a young single man's lifestyle. It controls every single facet of your existence. When you sleep, or don't. Eat or don't. Go bathroom, or don't. Attend a family gathering, event, appointment, or more often than usual, don't. Are able to make a relationship work, or not. I always say the pay isn't for the work. It's for all the things one has to sacrifice because of the work.
so are you guys saying its not worth it considering CN?
Glad for you but... whats the point of showing it off in a youtube comment?
@masterchiefgtx what is a train crew training? i want to be working with trians when i get older? and do i have to be 21 to apply with train company?
As long as the hog head doesn’t get a knuckle,drawbar,air hose or the crews get a dragging equipment or hotbox…..most road conductors will do nothing but sleep!!!! A road conductor is one job you can come to work tired especially since there’s PTC!
Is CP going to be hiring conductors again soon? The search on the page comes up with no results.
Oh and as a CP new recruit you can be expected to be forced to another city or town, or laid off...
Anybody know what that little pedal is for that the conductor steps on trackside at 1:48 ??
been thinkin alot lately about becoming an conductor/engineer ..now im not so sure id be able to handle this job :S
what about that 50 foot rule?
Living in Montreal,what should I study in college before applying? ~ Altho I want to work in Commuter rail.
@rbfishcss Defiantly not the best job in the world but I think I'll wait till I find a job that allows more free time with at least close pay before running...
I made $4200 last half before taxes...
Anyone know what the starting salary is?
How do you get paid if you don't work
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i'm surprised they use miles and mph.... when canada uses KMH and metric.
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@69zekes Its good to have college though, theres thousands of applicants for one job, wouldn't they pick the most educated out of those people? Without college or not doing very well in highschool odds are against you.
No ear plugs?
@69zekes I don't think it would be even easy to get the job without finishing highschool and or getting soem college.
Grammar exists you know, I think your comment just killed all the faith I had left in humanity.
I think you are confusing the union, with the management!!
@SilverstoneZED every old head says that about their company...........
i want this job
So can you be American and work for a company thats Canadian????
If they run down to your state, then you probably can.
R.I.P. CPR APRIL 13 2023
His vest is not zipped up, that lands you in some trouble!
I applied on 26 August,got a phone call on 31 August and was informed to check email.Its been 15 days and I am still waiting for the email.Is there anyone in the same boat ?I am from Edmonton,Canada.Thanks
nevil check your spam folder?
Can upper education by pass seniority?
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Yeah that's pretty much it...
Woo! I'm gonna be one! Just as soon as I take the course at BCIT! X3
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@ATSF1927 I am just starting out as a brakeman with CP Rail, (Just turned 18)
Would really love to have experienced the rail culture and operating procedures you had gone through.
I am assuming you were a Fireman at first?
Still working?
OMG! One of the Top Employers?.. I think Chad has Quit or got fired!
+In2u Poor Chad lol
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My friend Angele is a conductor and she’s dope…
2:55 dude never fucking blinked.
Cool
Conductor I HAVE A PROBLEM!!
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What if you were with your family for holidays
I realize your comment is old and you are most likely real young. You ALWAYS have to be ready to go into work within 90-120 minutes (depending what your job requires). If you are with your family for the holidays you are already aware that you are expected to be within a 90-120 minute drive to work.
hmm job maybe are you in Michigan ?
RIP Jeff
Fuck class 1 and 2 railroads. Any of you wanting to get on the railroad should try to get on a class 3 shortline railroad, a good number of them actually have set days off even for the extra board. I worked for the IAIS (a class 2) and we never had days off, I would have had to been there for about 16 years before id be able to actually bid and hold a job. We'd work 12's every day, and they'd pull that loop hole of informing you that they were gonna call you in on your rest before you tied up, so youd go home and 8 or 9 hours later the phone goes off again. Theyd never let you get that 6th start, theyd work you for 5 then give you just enough time off for your starts to reset back to 0, then theyd be calling again. After the IAIS I got on the IANR (a class 3) and was blown away when I was told their extra board has 2 set days off a week, they were wednesday and thursday. I didnt know what to do with all that time off, Id sit there like, what do normal people do when theyre not at work?... I could actually shut my phone off, plan things, finish movies, and best of all not live with the dread of the phone going off as soon as your head hits the pillow after staying up all fucking day and night waiting for the call. I loved the IAIS, they actually treated you really well compared to other railroads, but theres only so many birthdays, holidays, get togethers you can miss before you say fuck this. It should be work to live, not live to work. So if youre looking to get on the railroad, look into shortlines or even switching companies like Railserve, Savage, Rj Corman or Rail Link. Switching companies have amazing set schedules, and its still railroading... as much as it can be. lol
Yeah but the gear is pretty ancient on short lines, yes?
I know what I'm doing when I grow up.
Cleaning switches sucks. lol
@69zekes Oh, it is getting harder to now a days to get jobs without a great education.
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Railroad conductor job
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+hunter wiens I love your video, particularly your advice about railroad jobs in atlanta
. A product I also found useful for union pacific job
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@Natedog5201 What are you trying to say, that me wanting to work for cp is dumb, maybe you you should keep those kind if comments to your self.
Same here bud
its not a good idea to be a big fat conductor... hard to walk between narrow yard tracks
@yodonvito4 CP Sd40