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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jrw249 Conductors only start out around $30000 a year. Engineers make a couple bucks more a hour. How can they end up making $80000 to $100000 a year? [/quote] Simple, first of all, what you make depends upon where you work and what you do. The $30,000 figure used by most RRs is based upon initial training pay and then assumes you go to a relatively low paying job on the RR. For example working a yard job 8 hours per day with no overtime. The places you can make more money is OT and on the road where you make money based upon mileage worked, not hours. There are also various "arbitrary payments" you may be entitled to under the agreements. Some of these can add literally a full days pay to your day (on CR a trainee working one minute of OT in a yard was a penalty day). Others add a few dollars here or there (working through lunch, or making a shove move for example). So, working the road or the extra board results in earnings much higher than those figures. Also, you make a LOT more when the railroad is congested and you are outlawing all over the place, like in the NS/CSX/CR deal or the UP/SP situation. LC
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