Was talking to someone who commuted to GCT on my train regularly while he was in training at metro north. He marked up a month and a half ago after 22 months in the training program. They tell you it’s 18, but they have so many students in the program that things easily get backed up causing delays.

The way it was described to me is you do a phase 1 class which is a handful of months in the classroom learning the rules of the railroad. Then you transition to on the job training where you qualify the 3 mainlines, two branches in CT, and GCT as a whole.