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As a new employee, I'd stick to carrying your GCOR, SSI, Timetable and all of your General Orders, until you have become thoroughly competant with all of the rules, SSI's and updates. I'd hate to see you try to jumble through your PDA trying to find information about Freddie in Chapter 32, requireme...

I agree 100%, however, have you ever seen a UP unit cleaned at all? It kills me everytime I get on one of the new "Building America" units, and I see our flag covered with grime. Sickens me. If I have time, and have some newspaper or a rag, I'll take my squirt bottle out there and clean th...

Steelwheels, Congrats on the offer for UP. Study like there is no tomorrow. Pass your quizes at 85%, know your air brake rules, and memorize your signal flash cards. Get a couple of guys together from the get go and form a study group at night, especially before a final. You have to pass at 85%. You...

Go for it. Two of my classmates were in their late forties and early fifties. Both were the best in the class, and seem eager to prove that they can be productive. Great words of advice from the other forum members. Once you hire out in the Portland Hub, you'll stay put within the hub unless you tra...

Any truth to the rumors about Uncle Pete opening the Tennesee Pass? A couple of the guys are talking about it, however, as big as the trains are now adays, and our lack of power, can this be done? Were lucky if we get 1.5 on the hill west of Montello. I wonder how we would fare on the Tenn. Pass if ...

Congrats, Noviholt!!! Now just stick your nose in the GCOR, get throught the three weeks of inital, take your road trips, get your RCL cert, mark up and have fun. I remeber when you started this post in April. Think that went by fast? Look back in December and think about how much knowledge you have...

Good Luck in Chicago then! Got some good news about the New Employee Train Service pay. They have upped the pay from minimum wage. Not sure what the training rate is, but anything is better than minimum wage. You'll have to let your instructor know the very first day that you need a hotel room if yo...

90MPH, good luck on being called out for an open session with the UPRR. As for initial training pay and hotel. For the first three weeks, you will receive minimum wage, so prepare for that. After the three weeks are up, you will be paid about $133.00 per trip or job. If your in the Portland area, it...

You will receive the usual health benefits afforded many other big corportations. Your monthly payment for health insurance will be substantially bigger than other companies. My monthly premium I believe is about $119.00 as a single guy. Two caveates..no dental or vision for the first year of employ...

CSX Conductor....Who said I was trying to get this guy to join the UTU? The U Took Us and the BLET are both options for Trainemen, and I try to stay as far away from the the political BS as possible. But for 90% of the guys here in Salt Lake City who are trainmen, the UTU represents them. Join which...

Well, your pay is a complicated issue. Were you hired before 1985? After. Pre-Merger? Lots of factors. But since we know that none of these apply, with the UP, you will draw minimum wage for the first three weeks of training. Don't know why. I guess UP does not want to pay you any more than they hav...

noviholt, Yes, I think you are right about this particular conductor having a bad time of it. You make what you can of it. UP is not perfect. The UTU is not perfect...UTU is the union for the Trainmen. Before the UP, I worked for several companies, large and small, union and non-union. Same gripes a...

I posted this one earlier in this forum, and it still applies. Well, you should consider a few things before jumping into this game. Ask youself if you really want to give up those weekends off/holidays with the famliy, etc. Would you rather sleep in your own bed, or a bed that is set-up as a crew b...

Well, you should consider a few things before jumping into this game. You state you hate your present job. Your "new career" is a whole other ball game. Ask youself if you really want to give up those weekends off. Would you rather sleep in your own bed, or a bed that is set-up as a crew b...