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Well I don't work for the railroad, so listen to what the rr workers say over me, but I have researched the careers, or at least some of them. This is coming from personal research and knoledge gained since I began working at the Brunswick RR Museum: <br />If you stick to it, it can be worth your while. The average of American locomotive engineer wages comes out to about 70-79,000 a year. Many engineers get much less though. When you start as an engineer or freight conductor, you are on call. when your name comes up for a job, you ar called and expected to be there for work within the hour, weither it be 12 pm or 12 am. When you have worked for years (Many years) and gain senority, you can choose when and where you'r going, and you earn more moola. If you want to stick with it. Id say it would be worth your time to look into. And plus, at least with CSX around here, 21 is the minimum age for training and training courses, so you are just in time. You could also take the course (It would cost of course) given by and for a railroad, and decide from what you learn if you really want the job. Plus if you do, some students in the classes are offered jobs right on the spot! <br /> <br />But don't take my word as the only truth. I know many of the guys on here are railroaders, and you should take their word over mine!
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