I don’t care how stressing or difficult a locomotive engineer job is, I would still want to be a locomotive engineer, no matter what. It’s my dream job too.
Lol the first time I heard this was from a streetcar engineer in Kansas City. I felt so bad that I asked him about ‘driving’ the train instead of ‘operating’ it.
Lulz, foamer. In plenty of parts of the world people say "drive." North America is pretty much unique in its pretentiousness around this. Nobody cares outside a small subset of rail trekkies. You're the kind of person who flips out because someone's model train doesn't have buffer cars between the locomotives and a tank car.
I feel like I have what it takes. I've gone to the Canadian Pacific training place. Drove a digital train for 5 hours and only did two things wrong. I was speeding for about 5 minutes. I also blew the horn in a no train horn Zone.
@@markfrench8892 Funny--on the back of my CDL it says "may OPERATE trucks over 26000 gvwr w/trailer over 10000 gvwr. But there's definitely a steering wheel in those things. Operate it, drive it, oh hell-- it's all the same thing to me. Y'all ain't gotta be so nitpicky about it...
Bill Cosby : the CNN reporter knew that it shouldn't be a problem for the engineer to do that. They (train engineers are) used to split their attention to the panel control & indicators everyday. All at the same time, and sometimes the engineers had to use the train radio to communicate while doing all that stuff.
But they left out other things. They are just explaining the locomotive (MP36PH-3C) and not the benefits and paying. They did not state you will be gone for an average of 2 or 3 days and coming home to get damn near 3 hours of sleep. They also did not mention the furlough bullshit that people have to go through
Mario Martinez That’s true, except for the BN and UP lines. They are staffed by crews belonging to those railroads. It is possible for an engineer to come home from a 2-3 day trip to LaCrosse, then catch a passenger job off of his rest. This often happens to the extra engineers.
What I plan to go to college for. It's definitely not a career for just anybody, including rail enthusiasts because more importantly than knowing how to operate it is safety. Not for just anyone, but I know it's definitely a career for me.
Engineers need COURAGE COMPETENCE AND CHARISMA.. THEY ALSO NEED INTENSITY INTEGRITY AND INTELLIGENCE!! GOB BLESS OUR RR PEOPLE FOR KEEPING AMERICA GREAT!!!
Well it's not that hard to drive a train if you really know something of trains like me but the best and in my opinion easyest train class to drive the SD and GP classes and in sometimes dash 9s too. And let's all get real for a second cargo trains are the better of them all passenger trains need to be on time they have to go faster and really in America not good amtrak expecially very expncive and slow and never on time
@@brianburns7211 I have played train simulators since the 2012 version and so on and so forth, just have neough time to finish 3 long missions, 4 short ones and 1. 5 hours of free roaming around a yard to align stuff and you might just get somewhere in 7 to 8 years. But I wish you good luck if you want some other tips I'd recommend going to Profesional sites I also visited a long time ago but I don't remember at the moment since it's about 2:23 am. So see you
@@brianburns7211 well I commented that at about 2 and somethings AM that day so yeah...i didn't get the joke I guess (yes I know my sleep schedule is crap).
Do you have what it takes not only operate A METRA unit but a P42DC as well?! A Steam like The FEF: aka 844?! OR big boy or the GS-4 Well it will take Years of practice for a steam locomotive
LOL years ago, I dealt with one engineer at the Waukegan station and boy was she a BITCH !! Accidentally got into the wrong passenger car(Doors were wide open and no signs ???)
did freight for over 10 years with the CCP and Illinois Railway.....for those who say this is a dream job.....do your self a favor....become a shareowner....have money make you money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@jamie6126 Yee F59PHIs have 3 windows on the front, MPI locomotives have 4. Metra has F59s now but I think they're still painted in the Surfliner color scheme
Don't worry this is going to be one of the first jobs that will fully be automated. Freight companies are already looking into automated engines, and in ten years it possible that most trains in the country will be automated.
To be fair, there aren't many jobs that couldn't be automated with sophisticated enough computers. It's obvious computers can do everything better than we can, but at what point do we stop automating the work force in support of keeping society employed?
Charles Schutz bruh hell no! I don’t want automated trains because what job will I get in the railroad industry? Specifically, being a train engineer? That will just ruin it, and there will be less jobs. So those who want to be in the railroad industry HAVE to worry because if the job they wanted isn’t available because of automation, there are, like I said, less jobs for those.
Frank V LoL If you can stand to watch it for more than a few minutes (I know I have a hard time watching it very long) turn to Fox and see who is running advertisements. I don't watch cable often because I hate the commercials but last time I watched Fox they had a MSNBC commercial nearly every commercial break. Funded by Microsoft/GE.
