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Nowadays, you start as a switchman in the yard; next is road conductor; locomotive engineer, which takes the longest training time. At any point prior to this, one can qualify for remote if a class is open. Yardmasters used to come from the clerks or switchmen, and engineers weren't allowed to hold seniority as engineer and yardmaster at the same time; but that no longer applies. An engineer can qualify as yardmaster. The clerks are about gone. Assistant trainmasters generally are promoted from yardmasters, and full traimmasters come from asst. t.m. The super usually had been a full t.m. The next stop into the galaxy of railroad officialdom would be general manager or perhaps right into vice-president. Al Crown, the chief operating officer on CSXT, I remember as a yard clerk. Under the old ways, trainmen worked up to conductor, and firemen worked up to engineer, and there was no cross-pollinating unless you gave up your seniority as a brakeman to become a fireman (which is what I did). The engineer's boss, the road foreman of engines is a qualified engineer somewhere; this prevents some nimrod who doesn't know anything about running an engine from telling an engineer what to do. And if there was NOTHING you could do, they made you a crossing watchman. (HA HA HA HA HA HA!) [this means you provoked a crossing response] HAW!
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