Pay, the average engineer makes less than $25 an hour, and permanently on a short on-call list.
Phil
Which Class 1 is keeping engineers on at $25?
A shortline engineer possibly? Not any Class 1 railroads. The least I've been paid is $2500 a half as an engineer Jun 23-July 18 of this year. I was working the Local and had the job annulled because of lack of manpower. Normally I make $4500 a half and put in 55 hours a week.
That's $40 an hour and the lowest paying job as an engineer at my terminal. However, it had a set schedule and two days off a week. I enjoyed that for a little over a year, unti Hi-Viz screwd things up and people with more seniority wanted time off.
