Delaware & Hudson is hiring trainmen "off the street" to work out of Saratoga Springs and Binghamton, NY. Company provides training at Co. expense in Minneapolis (3 wks). If you really wanna be a railroader contact: Mary Beth Garrison, Administrative Manager Delaware & Hudson Railway 200 Clifton Corporate Park P.O. Box 8002 Clifton Park, NY 12065 (518)-383-7205 Experience helpful but not required as all new hires must go to the CP Rail ground school. Training pay around $600 per week then increasing percentage of national scale. Medical and RR Retirement included. It will be nice to get enough people so as everyone can go back to 5 day work weeks. So much business that days off are hard to come by.
Allied Van Lines is still in business. Career moves can include relocation as I did. You might like the Empire State.
Speaking of hiring out... NS is holding hiring sessions for trainmen and engineers in the Binghamton/upstate NY area also. When it comes to the railroad though, I would keep in mind the old saying, 'be careful what you wish for, you just might get it'.
watch out when it comes to the ns they just furlowed a total of 100 people in the illinois div. dont get your hopes up with them, they had a hiring session 2 weeks before the cuts started. talk about crappy. at least ive got enough seniority to hold on for a long time.
Yeah, you've got to watch all of them. Conrail did the same thing when I hired out, cut all the brakemen off and gave the conductors a trainee to keep track of. Pretty cold if you ask me. Also made the new guys feel real welcome.
Actually CN has been hiring Conductors around the Chicago area . They train you of course and you do get paid while you go to classes . They have also been hiring Qualified Locomotive Engineers in Chicago from other railroads . If any of you want more info , email me and I will get you some better info .
Well if they don't have an age limit, and will furnish some young feller to fire the boiler for me, I could be persuaded to tickle the old steam throttle a few hours a week I guess. I might need an assist to get up into the cab now and then, but once I'm in, WE IS GONE!!!
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It might take both you guys to feed the hungery maw of "Old Maude" (0-6-6-0) when we lean on the old Johnson bar and hang tight from the throttle going up at 4% with full load. She could dig her heels in and was the out-pullinist mule ever et coal! Her whistle even scared the grim reaper once or twiced as I recollect. The times she would top out and careen down onto a spindly curving tressle with cars bunching on her was when your butt starts taking bites outn' the seat! Why back in those glory days the grades were so steep going down, your feet would begin to slide towards the firebox! That's the was it was, for sure, and I'm unanimous in that! (Or maybe I'm jest pullin' on yore lag!) It would be a fun ride again in any steam engine, there is nothing else like it!!
The mighty Brand New Sante Fe is hiring on the Nebraska Div. just call the job hot line. They have to hire because of the numbers of new hires that quit. While they are interviewing for these jobs they still have 70+ to recal cefor the ones they hire can be put to work. null
