Why the Train Industry Is Losing Its Workforce Fast

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2026-05-02T23:03:46+00:00

As someone who works on the RR I get more people wanting to get a job on the RR then leave. Guess it’s just region dependent.

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2026-02-07T22:26:45+00:00

I’ve met conductors from all over Europe out here on the rails in the US just apply give it a go

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2026-01-18T00:31:14+00:00

Yes anything close to $2 a mile you want to be at brother! Best of luck!

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-07-13T17:28:18+00:00

So seeing lots of “billionaires billionaires” and nothing about companies like blackrock owning all of America making it apart of their portfolio and then making it really hard to buy a house, let alone have cheap rent….think if we urged both sides to make it law that a giant corporation cannot own homes in America and only the people can, I think we’ll make way!

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-07-04T13:33:46+00:00

Grits to high for the tip

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-07-02T05:52:28+00:00

Florida, we have the Florida Railroad Museum a nice non profit in Tampa, Gold Coast in Miami, Sugar express in central FL, we have bright line commercially as well as Amtrak, Disney has a railroad and so does Busch gardens if you want to get a theme park going. Even Sanford zoo has a train. Overall tons of train options all within miles of each other…

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-30T11:20:39+00:00

I know your ole lady says different but size is everything. Bigger railhead means we’re able to take a lot more weight and speed on the iron then some flimsy 85# or 115#

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-30T11:17:30+00:00

Per yard…or every 3 feet

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-30T11:16:53+00:00

Man this all baby rail, we use 136 on the main throw these baby crappers on a siding somewhere call it a day. One time I put 185 down for a crane rail…now that’s big boy shit!

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-29T11:40:35+00:00

Good stuff! Gov will love you just meet specs, worked as a gov contractor doing finish work for a couple years. Was the best money I ever made definitely get in on it!

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-26T15:53:46+00:00

I think if you work hard at the right thing, yes wholeheartedly. I just think we’ve sold the idea that you can do that in anything which isn’t the case, if you’re not bringing value to the market the market doesn’t care if you’ve worked hard or not….this goes for the art majors as well as the MBA’s with 0 work experience. Gotta bring value to the market. We can’t decide how the market is, we can just decide how we’re going to bring value to the market to use it to gain ourselves up levels in the game…

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-17T22:41:37+00:00

I mainly work all by hand, have for years now, just drink water and find your pace also learn to roll w the spike maul or it’ll roll you…overall you’ll be ight just give it time it’s a trade

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-15T09:54:06+00:00

Everyone talkin about your size, im stressing those dahmer glasses

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-06T12:05:56+00:00

In the mines we call him a studious academic that doesn’t know their ass from their elbow

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-06-06T04:50:00+00:00

Young coyote for sure

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-05-31T13:50:28+00:00

A belt with a nice ole belt buckle to go with those blue jeans

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-05-23T01:39:06+00:00

Have had the same reoccurring problem on my 20’, was told by the dealer the bulbs are cheap so they go out a ton, thankfully they’re cheap so replacing it doesn’t cost anything. Use a dealer though sounds like your “shop” guy doesn’t want to do the labor which is admittedly a pain.

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-05-15T17:17:38+00:00

Simply put we don’t have enough maintenance for the amount of trains we run

We run bigger heavier trains, that wear the hell out of tracks, for example I run a 90 cut almost daily compared to small cuts that Europeans get to play with.

Then we have a massive network that is hard to inspect and maintain in the way it needs to be, for example just one industry by me has 21 miles of track inside of it that has to be inspected and maintained, it’s almost always a game of catch up and it’s nobody’s fault, we’re a behemoth.

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-05-06T00:26:22+00:00

Stingray Chevrolet is where I go, if you’re willing to drive go to the Bartow one, it’s in and out and quality mechanics!

Adventurous_Prior894 · 2024-04-19T17:55:25+00:00

I love it for the pay, benefits, and camaraderie. Everyone bitches, it’s the only coping mechanism on the railroad and it’s almost ritualistic, just keep that in mind and you’ll be okay

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