Metrolinx says it is looking to hire 70 drivers as rail service expands across southern Ontario. What does it take to become a GO Train operator? Audra Brown got a crash course.
Got my first this week, got sick they wouldn’t let me leave alone without a ride. Got the ride home recovered in 6 hours and I’m fine. You might as well just get it now.
Years of riding the GO train with the suspicion that they put the train in gear before releasing the brake looks to be confirm here. I'm sure I can come up with a few reasons as to why they do this, but whatever those reasons are, they aren't substantial enough to justify the need to do that in my opinion. It's just so inefficient.
Ever consider that they were just climbing onto the locomotive? IE, it wasn't in service and just idling in the yard? And even if you did center the reverser every time you stopped, it's not doing anything that kills time.
@@nemonemo6366 I am unsure of where you get your information but I am a Locomotive Engineer Trainee with Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway and I had no pre requirements besides 12th grade diploma!
610, I think I've seen it before in the Kitchener line.
Thank God theres a man there hahahahaha jk 🤭
so you just showed us how to use a go train
All station stops to Union, all station stops to Oshawa.
Lucky!!! I've always wanted to do that!
DING DING DING DING
Nice! 647 was there! My favourite one!
Lucky woman.
They gotta replace all the ones they fired last year who refused an untested and invasive medical procedure
is the training posible for a 11 year old ??
No
Yes, just look at some of the employees they hire now
Tbh I wanna drive it but I’m not even 18, by the time I turn 18 they will have automatic trains
Not for another 20-30 years brother. I work for the railroad right now and we still drive :)
Depends on the tracks. You need to have them completely separated from other traffic in order to have automatic trains (e.g. Montréal REM).
@@Davmm96 but still over 80% of all rail traffic in the world is man operated. And most places it won’t go automatic for a very long time!
Wish it didn't take so long to become a conductor :(
Hiring? Does the applicant need a jab?
Yes
So what this piece is not telling us is go are firing employees for refusing the jab and hence why there are openings.......got it!!!
Got my first this week, got sick they wouldn’t let me leave alone without a ride. Got the ride home recovered in 6 hours and I’m fine. You might as well just get it now.
@@sydbarrett9762 Sweet. Means good paying jobs for the intelligent folks.
I WANNA DO THAT 😔😔😔
For a news coverage that tows the "party line" harder than most... "WHERE IS YOUR MASK?"
No mask maybe she has an exemption
they're on tv, can't do hair and makeup. without having your face seen. also also mask are for working class not the elite an high rank like herself
@@shaq9361 LOL I wouldn't call a news journalist an elite or "high rank".
@@khristopherr they think they are
easy if u play more train simulator game u will think it is a bird
😅, it's the theory and signal exam that stop just any John Doe from driving a train 🚉
All fun a games untill you round a bend with kids playing on tracks.
Years of riding the GO train with the suspicion that they put the train in gear before releasing the brake looks to be confirm here. I'm sure I can come up with a few reasons as to why they do this, but whatever those reasons are, they aren't substantial enough to justify the need to do that in my opinion. It's just so inefficient.
Ever consider that they were just climbing onto the locomotive? IE, it wasn't in service and just idling in the yard? And even if you did center the reverser every time you stopped, it's not doing anything that kills time.
Okay, so you clearly not an Engineer. You must do that to ensure the train does not roll back.
And I can confirm you are not a railroader with he simple fact you called it *gear*
@@wildmm9564 To be an engineer you have to accomplish college or university, in this case - locomotive driver.
@@nemonemo6366 I am unsure of where you get your information but I am a Locomotive Engineer Trainee with Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway and I had no pre requirements besides 12th grade diploma!
6 years to learn how to move two levers and push a button. wow
If you can pass the signal exam. You can run one of these trains. It’s easy. You should apply
Well you have to know how to switch tracks and know the signals
@@blaxjaxgamer Doesn't take 6 years though lol Mostly for verification of work.
6 years to learn it lol,,, i think you mean 6 hrs,, you can learn to fly a plane in 6 weeks