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The Missabe Road: Safety First
QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35 You know about that Will........JK Try to get your engineers card at a small shortline, then if you desire to work for a larger RR, they will almost for sure hire you if you have a engineers card prior to be being hired.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Red04StangGT Only place you can hire off the street as an engineer is Amtrash
QUOTE: Originally posted by jg greenwood QUOTE: Originally posted by Red04StangGT Only place you can hire off the street as an engineer is Amtrash WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again, more incorrect info. The IC hired me as an engineer, off the street, in 2000. Most railroads will not hire you off the street as an engineer. However, Amtrak IS NOT the only exception to this practice.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes One thing these posts have not considered is family. IF you already have family working at the railroad then your chances of being hired become much, much greater. The railroads are still a family orientated workplace. During hiring sessions the interviewer will almost always ask if you have family working there. Railroads do like people who have college classes. They have recruited at places that teach engine maintenance. When I was hired over half my class had a degree of some sort. Most everyone in my class had either a degree or someone who already worked at the railroad in their family. Now is a very good time to try to get on with a railroad. They are hiring in many of the crafts now. One thing that is very true is senority. Senority means everything. If you change crafts then you start over in your senority.
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes One thing these posts have not considered is family. IF you already have family working at the railroad then your chances of being hired become much, much greater. The railroads are still a family orientated workplace. During hiring sessions the interviewer will almost always ask if you have family working there. Railroads do like people who have college classes. They have recruited at places that teach engine maintenance. When I was hired over half my class had a degree of some sort. Most everyone in my class had either a degree or someone who already worked at the railroad in their family. Now is a very good time to try to get on with a railroad. They are hiring in many of the crafts now. One thing that is very true is senority. Senority means everything. If you change crafts then you start over in your senority. knowing someone that works for the railroad or haveing family working for the railroad holds NO PULL now a days...back in the old days it did..and that was almost the ONLY way to get on back then... but anymore... knowing someone dose very little to help your chances out... since most of the large carrieres are going to farmed out training programs at colleges around the country... what it comes down to know is if you have the money to get into a training program at a college..and if you meet the basic requirements to get hired aka... no DUIs..criminal record... pass the school...pass the drug test... pass the color blindness test... as well as other hoops that you will have to jump through... like i said befor..knowning someone or haveing family is no more help to getting on anymore... the only thing it dose is give you a little inside track as far as what the railroads are like... so you know what your about to get into..nothing more... csx engineer
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes One thing these posts have not considered is family. IF you already have family working at the railroad then your chances of being hired become much, much greater. The railroads are still a family orientated workplace. During hiring sessions the interviewer will almost always ask if you have family working there. Railroads do like people who have college classes. They have recruited at places that teach engine maintenance. When I was hired over half my class had a degree of some sort. Most everyone in my class had either a degree or someone who already worked at the railroad in their family. Now is a very good time to try to get on with a railroad. They are hiring in many of the crafts now. One thing that is very true is senority. Senority means everything. If you change crafts then you start over in your senority. knowing someone that works for the railroad or haveing family working for the railroad holds NO PULL now a days...back in the old days it did..and that was almost the ONLY way to get on back then... but anymore... knowing someone dose very little to help your chances out... since most of the large carrieres are going to farmed out training programs at colleges around the country... what it comes down to know is if you have the money to get into a training program at a college..and if you meet the basic requirements to get hired aka... no DUIs..criminal record... pass the school...pass the drug test... pass the color blindness test... as well as other hoops that you will have to jump through... like i said befor..knowning someone or haveing family is no more help to getting on anymore... the only thing it dose is give you a little inside track as far as what the railroads are like... so you know what your about to get into..nothing more... csx engineer Sorry but I respectfully disagree. Over a third of those hired in my class had railroad relatives. It makes a HUGH difference here. Our training was done locally by railroaders who we now work with. NONE of my class had taken any railroad classes. Two of my class already have been promoted into other crafts and several (including myself) are being considered to move into other crafts also. It may be different out east but here family makes a big difference in getting on with the railroad. Many of the people I talk with have brothers, fathers, and uncles working here. Family is a big deal here. We even have a husband wife team. I have talked with several classes that came in after my class. Many of them too have relatives already working here. Don't be fooled, here family does matter. Almost every interviewer will ask if you have family working for the railroad. If you answer yes, then the next question is, "Who?" It also makes a big difference in being promoted here, either into a different craft or up the lader. As far as management goes, they are looking into those with railroad related degrees BUT they are still very much promoting those who already work for the railroad.
QUOTE: Originally posted by sphillyconductor to CSXengineer a question for you...where do you work out of im a CSX conductor working out of philly