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[quote user="aegrotatio"] Tip always, even on the Northeast Corridor.  No reason not to.  While engineers get fantastic salaries*, the conductors and 'stewards' on the NEC should be tipped if possible. *I overheard one AMTK employee talk about $165,000 for Acela and Northeast Regional engineers. [/quote] According to the U.S. Department of Labor, annual earnings for locomotive engineers ranged from $33,430 to $88,690 per year in 2008, which is the latest validated reporting period.  The mean (average) wage was $53,590, whilst the median was $47,870.  The median is the point where half the distribution falls below it and half falls above it.  These numbers are before any overtime and do not include the other elements of a worker's compensation package, i.e. vacation pay, health insurance, retirement benefits, etc.  Moreover, given the recession, it is doubtful if there have been significant bumps in the compensation of engineers since 2008. A senior manager at Amtrak told me that its compensation package is competitive with the Class 1 railroads.  Accordingly, it is difficult to believe that engineers on the NEC are earning $165,000 per year.
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