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As stated, just because you are trained as an engineer, doesn't mean you'll be working as one. In my terminal there are lots of hoggers that can't even hold the hogger spareboard, so they have to work as conductors, and they were trained in the early 1990s! The main reason for this was because they brought in belt pack about 5 years ago, and they got rid of about 40 hogger jobs in the yard, so they haven't had to train any hoggers for about a decade now. Now with a lot of the old hog heads retiring, they are finally getting to the point where there will be hogger training again. Some conductors have been waiting for the better part of a decade to get behind the stand. As far as the "manditory hogger training" this is so in my terminal too. Now, because of when I hired on, I have no choice but to take the hogger training, and hopefully I'll pass it. The main reason for railways wanting everyone to now qualify as hoggers is because soon enough through freights will be running engineer only, without conductors, therefore it's in the RRs best interest that everyone be trained to run the loco's. Lots of people seem to think that it will never happen, but believe me, we will all live to see engineer only operation.
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