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When I started 13 years ago as a brakeman there was a conductor, and head brakeman on the job allways telling you what was right and wrong. Now, a new hire can become a qualifide conductor in a couple of months and put on a job switching the mill yard alone. Basic railroad saftey practices are never instiled and hamered in because there is nobody around to do it. They are only focused on getting the work done and safty comes second, if at all. Supervisers turn a blind eye to it unless something hapens. <br />One example : I get a real uneasy feeling when standing between the rails. So much so that I avoid it at all cost. Yet I see these young conductors (not all but a few) drop a car in a hill and stand 10' away with their back to it, right between the rails studying the lists with only the air holding the car. I tell them every time I see this sort of thing but some just don't want to hear it. Some other engineers have given up telling them. Now they have a few years under their belts they think since nothing happened yet they MUST be doing it right. I still hound them. If and when something happens, I'd rather be the pain in the *ss that tried to help than the one who chose to ignore it. If you understand the risk and do things differantly it is your choice, your fault. If you were never properly trained to understand these risks then it is the railroads fault. Slofr8.
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