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I've been marked up as a conductor on CSX for two weeks now. Just as everyone told me already, I have learned more marked up on my own than I had in all 12 weeks of training. I was scared to death for the first few trips because I knew I didn't know everything I had to do. I now realize that asking questions and tripping over myself is the only way I will learn. I am very thankful I have worked with some great engineers, they watch me carefully and answer all my questions. I also realize that the engineers are put in an unfair situation by being assigned to new hires. If I mess up, the engineer gets in trouble too, so they have that much more pressure on them. Of the five of us who marked up in my terminal, one ran through a switch, and another quit because he go into it with a yardmaster in Chicago. When he got home he went on rest and then got called for another train just to show up at the yardmasters desk and throw his keys and radio on the desk to quit. I have worked on 13 trains already and I get called out on my rest just about every time. In the last week there have been twice as many trains as normal running through my terminal. When I came home yesterday, there were five trains sitting without crews on them because there's no one to man them!!! [:0] All I know is that I enjoy my job and I sure do love making money! Here's advice for anyone getting close to marking up or contemplating a career on the rails. If you take things personally out here or let things get to you, you'll end up going nuts or quitting like of my fellow new hires already did. Just do what you're told and CYA (cover your @$$). You can never be too careful!!!
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