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Originally Posted by striderblade
when you said in charge of train. Can you be a little more specific? And is this mostly indoor job or outdoor? Thanks
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Basically, the engineer drives the locomotive. The train (locomotive and rail cars) is your responsibility. You handle the paperwork, the inspections, etc of the train to ensure it's safe operation.
It is also unlikely that a new hire would be on the road for most of their shifts. Expect to be in the yard putting together or pulling apart trains.
It is ENTIRELY outdoors. I suppose I should be a bit more descriptive as well. The railway runs 24/7. Employees will work around the clock to ensure things run they way they should. There is a good possibility of working evenings/nights, and almost guaranteed that you will work weekends and holidays.
Baring that though, it's a hell of a job and I don't think that I could be happier anywhere else.
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Originally Posted by Devastator
do you need to take the train course @ bcit before you can apply for this job?
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I did, but there were several in my hiring group who did not.