Hello to all ! I am new to the forum and was posting to ask some questions about Conductor school with UNF ( for CSX). I am currently considering gong to UNF for Conductor training however, due to family obligations I can only work in the Rocky Mount NC area and was wondering what to expect and how CSX accomidates this for you. I also was wondering what to expect if I decide to take the plunge and go to work for the railroad. Thanks in advance. Please be truthful and honest...but dont blast anyone else for their information.
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When you hire out on the railroad, you start at the BOTTOM. Even if they
tell you when they hire you that you will be in Rocky Mount (or somewhere
else for that matter), there is NO gurantee that you will be able to work
there all of the time.
As the bottom person on the roster, you could be sent to an "outpost"
assignment miles away for a week or more at a time. The terminal could
close as a result of operating conditions and most jobs could go
somewhere else.
You have to be flexible when you work for the railroad especially as a new
employee, be willing to work when and where they need you, day, night,
weekends, holidays or whenever and wherever.
If you can't accept this, I would suggest that you try to get work with a
small railroad that is not all spread out or that you consider some other
line of work.
I got bumped around all over the place in my early years, sometimes I
had to go 100 miles or more away from home to work and we did not
have most of the expressways to drive on that we have now. I never
missed work because I was willing to travel over the years to where I
was needed and could find work.
Railroading is NOT for everyone.
Noel Weaver
tell you when they hire you that you will be in Rocky Mount (or somewhere
else for that matter), there is NO gurantee that you will be able to work
there all of the time.
As the bottom person on the roster, you could be sent to an "outpost"
assignment miles away for a week or more at a time. The terminal could
close as a result of operating conditions and most jobs could go
somewhere else.
You have to be flexible when you work for the railroad especially as a new
employee, be willing to work when and where they need you, day, night,
weekends, holidays or whenever and wherever.
If you can't accept this, I would suggest that you try to get work with a
small railroad that is not all spread out or that you consider some other
line of work.
I got bumped around all over the place in my early years, sometimes I
had to go 100 miles or more away from home to work and we did not
have most of the expressways to drive on that we have now. I never
missed work because I was willing to travel over the years to where I
was needed and could find work.
Railroading is NOT for everyone.
Noel Weaver
You mean working for a rail road isn't playing with trains reminising about what the DL&W could have been all day? %$&#%(#$^!!!!