I start conductor school on Jan 26th in Whitefish Mt. They said it was a 17 week process, 6 days per week. Can anyone share with me the schedual for the 17 weeks. If it is random... fine. If it is schedualed.... fine. they are just so cloak and dager about information.
I copied this from a previous post. I think the guy was training in St Louis. Should be about the same everywhere.
Week 1 : Orientation and basic switching skills, hand signals, kicking cars
Week 2 : Classroom Rules training
Week 3 : OTJ
Week 4 : OTJ
Week 5 : OTJ
Week 6 : OTJ
Week 7 : OTJ
Week 8 : Classroom Rules training
Week 9 : OTJ
Week 10 : OTJ
Week 11 : OTJ
Week 12 : OTJ
Week 13 : RCO/Hostler training and RCO/Hostler test
Week 14 : OTJ
Week 15 : Rules review & Conductor Promotion Test