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If you'd like to be a Class I RR Engineer I believe you have to start out in Train Service both at the UP and BNSF, which means you'll start out as a brake(person), switch(person), and Conductor. UP is hiring in most states it serves (primarily west of the Mississippi) for Train Service (Conductor) ...

I think you only need the RR degree (Associates) if you lack the 1 year minimum job experience (in any career) to apply for a RR like UP. I don't think UPRR typically hires 18 year olds without work experience. So the Assoc. Degree would be one alternative to meeting the 1 year work experience requi...

Here's where you can get your degree. http://www.uprr.com/employment/rrdegree.shtml A Partial Listing of Educational Institutions Offering or Intending to Offer the Degree California Sacramento City College, Sacramento Georgia Clayton State College, Morrow Kansas Johnson County Community College, Ov...

Bathroom fire disrupts Amtrak's Southwest Chief ALBUQUERQUE -- The Southwest Chief train was delayed on its trip through Albuquerque after a fire broke out in the train's bathroom, according to the Associated Press. Albuquerque police and Amtrak says yesterday's blaze probably was caused by someone ...

I agree, google earth is MUCH better, plus you can turn on a railroad layer and will show the approximate location of most railroad lines (including abandoned c. 1970-1980 U.S.)

I think the UP calls Trainmasters by the title "M.T.O." now (Manager, Terminal Operations) and the Yardmasters, "M.Y.O." (Manager, Yard Operations). I don't know much about their jobs except that the M.T.O. I met with came up from the ranks of conductor and then transferred into ...

I went to a hiring session for Train Service last week. Job briefing - rules/reading comprehension test - interview. If you pass test and interview you receive a call a day or two later asking you to come back to fill out more forms. You fill out the forms and they schedule you for a PAT (Physical A...

I went to a hiring session for Train Service last week. Job brieifing - rules/reading comprehension test - interview. If you pass test and interview you receive a call a day or two later asking you to come back to fill out more forms. You fill out the forms and they schedule you for a PAT (Physical ...

Razor, thanks for the info. UPRR for their Train Service at least give you a ballpark (up to $40,000 the first year and up to $75,000 after) but Amtrak gave only "prevailing union rate".

It's probably because more openings are anticipated to come open. For example, in CA they had every location open up to 9/30. On 10/1 they opened only two locations, Roseville and LA for Train Service. I guess those were the two locations where they are hurting the most for manpower. I want to a hir...

The cars are in storage because Amtrak cancelled food service on several short routes.

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OK, so if you hire at one location, you can't work another. That's a little different than I've heard from a friend who works at UP. He told me that you can work anywhere within the Service Unit that your Seniority will hold. I take that to mean, if they need manpower in Roseville CA and I'm hired o...

According to my SPV RR Atlas, it is known as the 22nd Street Yard, so 22nd Street...

It's east of Floyd Blvd b/t 18th Street and 27th St
N42-30-41 W96-23-14

What does an Asst Conductor at Amtrak make?

The only thing the Human Resource announcement at jobs.amtrak.com says is the prevailing Union rate.

The pay rate shouldn't be a secret as it is a Union agreement.