From an actually UP employee, I'm surprised at the level of honesty here. If you're looking to hire for the railroad, listen very closely to all the negatives, cuz theres a lot especially when you are new. Furloughes, bumps, being away from home, working odd hours and stress are just SOME of the negatives. Managers are always looking to fire you, the UP really doesnt give a single fuck about you. The unions seam like they are always making deals with UP for the benefit of UP and not their own people. Some of the people you work with are actual scum of the earth and will treat you like you're dirt, while others are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. You can make a lot of money yes, but it ain't free and to some people, the sacrifices they make outweigh the benefits in the end. Be safe out there.
This is exactly what it is I just worked as a YRT (limo driver) And got treated like a doormat just working not even a month and got a slug put in me and thrown in the dumpster just because I didn’t answer one page call that was put on my own personal pager instead of theirs of course this was back as you can guess in 1997
Away from home 36 hours at a time. Missing your kids games, birthdays & holidays. Working in blizzard to scorching hot weather conditions. Never knowing if you're going to get called to work at any random time. Being furloughed is normal. First 5 years or so sucks, etc. Wow, sounds awfully tempting 😂
@@absolutelynonameslef Sounds like another one of those jobs that was really, really great at one point - but as time as passed on - has a become a shit job/company to rely on. Who knows? I can only go by watching videos/reading comments.
It’s what you make of it. 12 years as a conductor so far. It’s definitely not for everyone. I enjoy the job. Make a lot of money with only high school diploma. Benefits are great, good retirement at the end. Takes care of my family very well. But yes definitely are negatives. Miss a lot of family things, holidays birthdays all true. Sucks when you lay down to sleep and the phone rings to get up and go to work. It is what it is though definitely not for everyone that’s for sure. It’s for me though I don’t mind most of it anyway
Thank you for finally updating this. Now please update the online test to reflect the right position a person is applying for and not off the wall with other positions.
Just like my job. Seniority is everything. I used to say. "Seniority sucks when you have no Seniority". 16 yrs later I am a shop stewart and #1 in Seniority in my district. So hang in there you will get Seniority as time goes by. Union jobs are the best.
@@veasg I agree with you to a point, if it was easy as shit every bastard would be doing it. But it's not and not everyone can do it. Usually its the hours that kill most newbies.
LOL!!! interviewed 13 times, brought them years of knowledge from the Illinois Central and Illinois Railway....im now a shareowner and my dividends are worth more than railway pay....
At first i had a dream to run the trains with the UP. But I attended trade school, obtained my associates in diesel technology. And a good thing i did because now i am working at a contractor shop on locomotives. 60 percent of our work comes from the UP if the local Fleet shop gets backlogged, we get that backlog. I knew multiple friends who work for the UP and they had given me 2 options personal life or the UPRR. I decided to go personal life and got a skilled trade learned. Yet getting educated in diesel tech, you can work on the railroad with a steady workflow and have a set shift 100 percent of the time
Retired conductor here, The RR is a very dangerous and stressful place to work. I would not recommend anyone taking this path. 30+ years with no pleasant experiences, only stress, harassment, and lack of sleep. You're better off driving a truck!
Did it for 37 years,they are speaking the truth! Be prepare to work anytime;days,nights,weekends,holidays,snowstorms,95 degree weather,kids birthdays,school functions etc! And don't forget you might be on a two hour call,phone rings and be at work in two hours,no matter what your plans are or what you are doing at the present time!
@@llkjjjss Dark territory can be made light. In fact there won't be signals in the future. The technology to fully automate trains has existed for over 50 years. It's just a matter of cost and time. It is much easier to do this with trains than cars or trucks considering you have fixed rail paths and central communication rather than an "open" road system, and we are already heading there on the road. For trains, first it will be one-man crews, then full automation. There's a good chance some of the design and programming for such systems will be done abroad, so in a sense the railroad will be outsourced. It's sad, but it's the future... of everything.
Unfortunately, every time I heard people say, "it won't work", the railroad made it work. Look at F.R.E.D, distributed power, RCO. I've heard people say RCO technology will never work and look now. They are all over the yard. If they want something, they will achieve it. Somehow.
Currently I'm doing Union Pacific's former Southern Pacific in Oregon between Klamath Falls and Eugene with MSTS Train Simulator. Looks like a very dynamic railroad with a wide range of scenery between farmland and forest and twists and tunnels.
90 minutes? Damn imagine never being able to make plans or have a life outside of work. Fuck that, that sounds soul crushing. You’d pretty much have to have no social life to make it work.
when your parents arent rich, and you have to make a life for your kids and your self, you gotta work a lot man. This generation wants to work 5 hours a week and get rich to go play all day. Don’t work that way bud ,
Wonder if my ole arse cam jump on rail work from field network engineer . Worked just as weird hrs as RR workers, we get calls late night, early am, ontop of scheduled jobs then chill,, then job ,job, job traveling 🤔😁 ...
This is what all the self-made billionaires do. Work themselves into the grave for 45 years and then get a small loan of 3 million dollars and then it's all private jets, islands, and skyscrapers with your name on them.
I was a train conductor (train assistant in my country) for 10 years here in South Africa, Transnet Freight Rail...I loved every moment of it...but it surely isn't something a person should do for a long period, you will be sick in you elderly days (most retirees don't live long). I'm still recovering from a lack of a healthy sleeping pattern, I am 34. In the time I was working the tracks, I studied towards being a mechanical engineering technologist...now I design locomotives and wagons, best time of my life behind the desk, working Creo Parametrics...The sound of the hooter still traumatizes me!
The best part of working for the railway here in Australia is there is no furlough. We have rostered work and blank line or pencil working but no furlough. You can work as a casual and work when you wamt, this is mainly guys who are "semi retired" working for pocket money.
well BNSF (BNSF/ATSF eastern western lines) at 100% pay, 6500 bucks/month in the yard smart009.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/July-1-2023-Rates-of-Pay.pdf
Bruh they literally offered me a job, not once but TWICE and all I have is 3 years construction experience. So, they probably verified your work history and found out you're fos.
Bill Perri It's not that loud all the time, but it can get loud before you know what happened. It doesn't matter though, it's a rule! Mechanical people wear hard hats, safety glasses, hearing protection, and steel toed lace up boots at all times unless in a designated non PPE area. Train crews wear a safety vest ( as do mechanical people working around live tracks ), safety glasses, hearing protection, and steel toed lace up boots. It's a critical rule violation to get caught without any one of those items while working.
@@veasg I work for the railway here in Australia and I never wear ear protection whilst driving a train. Most of our locomotives have cabs isolated from the frame and engine noise. I started as a level 2 assistant driver or conductor, then progressed to block school and driver under instruction and then driver or engineer. I've made $140k aud .oneyear. Usually I make around 100 to 120k per annum.
"Here I have a career"... 30% no longer do! They were all fired in the past 5 years. Railroads served Unions notice that in next 10 years, they want to do away with 85% of the conductors!
The company will never be lairs they will always take care of you best thing is they have sharp knives to stick you with so the pain can last for years
@@3006USMC it's either going really good because she doesn't have time to answer, or really bad because she isn't working anymore and doesn't want to say.
Railroading is a tough life no doubt about it but the pay is good I should know I’m starting my 37th year and plan to go 3 more I’m shooting for 40 years service
There are really only two positions in life; at work making money, or away from work spending money. Why not work for this company and make a very good wage so when you do have time at home, you have enough money to enjoy yourself? It definitely helps if your single or your children are grown.
@@ladycarter10fulThey ask you what's your education, work history, experience with tools, motorized equipment They ask about your experience working different schedules and outside in the elements, they also ask about how you handle work situations.,
UNION PACIFIC- i always dreamed of working with you guys one day i am 13 right now and im still dreaming forever about being a engineer when im older im willing to join you guys soon! :]
Former employee at union pacific ...the training has been horrible since covid.someone just recently died at the company due to lack of training .instead of u getting a furlough they just fire u for breaking 12 critical rules. If u are married be careful many employees are divorced because of long hours. Only thing good right now is the money and benefits
@@whiteknightcat I'm saying the UP is the oldest RR in the country they should run over 25 states BNSF is bigger and runs more states then the grandfather RR (UP)
@@Dachamp2001 Where they operate now is a direct result of the mergers that created the companies of today. BNSF was the result of a megamerger that united the northern and southern US west of the Mississippi. UP's absorptions were more linear or parallel, from WP and SP in the west to MP and CNW to the east.
I had a genuine interest in becoming a conductor and this video really put me off. The whole segment where they basically said "this is gonna suck and that is gonna suck though" just sealed the deal to not pursue it. Any promotional thing that gives you warnings about it probably means it's going to be a lot worse than what they're saying
@@derpcade Avoid UPRR while you're at it too. Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX are the top 3 worst companies to work for - and consistently so. Not even joking, you can google it yourself That said, BNSF has loads of troubles too; mostly with their union.
Lol, yeah, the video is like, "working here really sucks and you'll have no free time or a life for at least five years." Sweet, where do I sign up?? No thanks
Got offered a job two years ago and turned it down.. THANK GOD I dodged that bullet. I remember during the interview the guy says.. "A lot if the old school guys may cut corners or try to do stuff thats unsafe. Part of your job is to call them out or report safety violations".. How backwards is that shit? PASS and afterwards the more I see about the RR the more shitty it seems. My dad worked for BN in the 80s. I had dreamed of working the RR but again, glad I didnt..
Its not for everyone just Give it a try and see.YEEEUH OK GOOD LUCK . Working foe the railroad is a rare opportunity. If you get chosen. Very hard to get on any rr
That's right it's not for everybody, your life becomes the railroad and you won't have a life outside of the railroad.... The heat and cold is ok, it's the nights out of bed that are the killer...
“Union Pacific is a union company, and employees pay union dues.” No thanks. I prefer not to be forced to part with my hard earned money for something I didn’t want in the first place.
Well if you don't want medical insurance, no seniority, no pay increases, a safe work environment , no representation in the event the railroad unfairly fires you and a good pension you can live on beyond age 60 with 30 years service, then go for the employment that lacks these qualities. Try Walmart if you haven't already!
@@Venomous-n7j True but don't think short lines treat their people like shit either. I don't think they hike a few miles through heavy brush in the wee hours of the night in the middle of nowhere trying to find something to fire you over.
I’ve applied to UP and BNSF a combined total of 24 times and haven’t been invited to interview once. I’ve got no criminal record, don’t do drugs, work hard, am willing to travel, and want a career not just a job. I’ve applied for shop positions, train crew and transportation careers. I’ve called HR to get any tips or insight on what I should do better during the application process with no avail. I see railroads offering huge sign on bonuses to get people to sign up but still get turned down. Any tips on applying from the UPRR RUclips channel?
Tommy hit the nail on the head......inclusion and diversity is now one big brand new bullshit sector of many corporates to brag about how inclusive a company they are...... It should be down to can you do the work well. Not making up the numbers.
From the railroad employees that I've talked to over the years, and from what I've read online, I would say at least 50% (maybe even 2/3?) of the people they hire have friends or family that got them in the door. I've applied at many points throughout my life and the excuse I've gotten is that I have no railroad experience.
If you're looking to be a train engineer, there is no prior degree you need. We look for people who don't mind working outdoors, having a variable schedule and enjoy a fast paced working environment.
@@UPJobs UP I WANNA BE A RAILFAN HOW CAN I RAILFAN IN THE PLATFORM OF AMTRAK IN EL PASO TEXAS UNION DEPOT DO I NEED TO TELL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN TICKET STATION OR IN THE FRONT OF THE STATION
UP jobs...don't lie to these people. It isn't fun anymore. I have an AA degree...I spend a lot of time in the locker room waiting for some suprentendent to decide what we're going to do that day........which is usually sitting in the locker room waiting for somebody to tell us what to do and when you turn 55 they start trying to bully you into early retirement.
Triboss by favorite tray company of the ten of the train jobs is Union Pacific and I want to work for this job yes when I am a dead I work my job once I get old enough
@@ruffian2952 Navy, Air Force and Railroad. I preferred the Military because there was laws in place to prevent them from harming you. The Railroads screw with people's lives and fire you at a whim. You sit for 30-40 years, hoping to retire with a pension with the RR. 80% usually never get there.
Ok you got the job. Years trying to build seniority. Many days layed off . Away from home always. Cheep motel rooms. Payday to payday for most. Ok y make engineer. On call 24/7 up days and nights. Dangerous lonely yards. Always under some manager new old ? Ego? Yeah.. ok it’s got the good points to that stuff you’re going to get in the videos . But you should get the bad stuff to don’t you think. When you retire what else can you do after all not much calling for a retired locomotive engineer. I know because I am one 44 years Uprr.. best wishes
@tomtom1484 Not like that now! They can't find enough workers. PSR has killed the industry. Great for shareholders, very bad for Joe conductor/engineer!
The big Railroad is outsourcing jobs to non union shortline Railroad like the trains that run around Lewiston Idaho to ayer junction. Shadedmuse would like to be a dispatcher. Have done dispatch simulatour.
Shady lady, please put simulator on back burner. You have to do it when the proverbial shit hits the fan. Be gracious..the crews will do anything for a dispatcher that cuts them some slack and pays respect to the people at the scene. Play with them, you will be playing with fire. And don't screw up your first 19 order if they still exist.
halfway through the hiring process union pacific turned me down right after I submitted my video interview, I was really looking forward to working with union pacific, assholes!
@@MusicOnly on the video interview you do online, you are asked 8 questions mostly relating to scenarios at work and how would you go about it. I really think if you are not white you stand no chance of getting hired
Furloughing seems to be a way UP and other RR companies test the commitment of their employees. Seems like there are more suitable ways to separate the cream from the milk than temporarily laying off your employees. If there isn’t enough work to keep them working why hire them in the first place? I was considering applying to be a signals technician but reconsidered when I heard about furloughing and calling you off of your rest time. I put up with 20 years of games serving in the Air Force, no reason to put up with that nonsense for another 20-25 years.
My Grandpa Carr worked for the EJ&E but he didn't call it the EJ&E but Easy Jobs For Everyone. But there's no Easy Jobs For Everyone when it comes to Union Pacific. Uh uh. The going as an UP employee can be tough - just ask my cousin Paul a UP employee.
Hey, I'm from India and want to join your railroad to switch my country and start a new career & living in USA. I didn't hold a work permit visa for USA. Can anyone please help me regarding this?
My father worked for 32 years. God bless you guys. I missed my Dad.
“Just know when you’re furloughed you’re still working.” Pretty sure when I work I get a paycheck. Biggest down play of a furlough I have heard.
get a spot award!
From an actually UP employee, I'm surprised at the level of honesty here.
If you're looking to hire for the railroad, listen very closely to all the negatives, cuz theres a lot especially when you are new.
Furloughes, bumps, being away from home, working odd hours and stress are just SOME of the negatives. Managers are always looking to fire you, the UP really doesnt give a single fuck about you. The unions seam like they are always making deals with UP for the benefit of UP and not their own people. Some of the people you work with are actual scum of the earth and will treat you like you're dirt, while others are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
You can make a lot of money yes, but it ain't free and to some people, the sacrifices they make outweigh the benefits in the end.
Be safe out there.
Slick Daddy que dices pendejo es mejor ferromex y kcsm
This is exactly what it is I just worked as a YRT (limo driver) And got treated like a doormat just working not even a month and got a slug put in me and thrown in the dumpster just because I didn’t answer one page call that was put on my own personal pager instead of theirs of course this was back as you can guess in 1997
@@damonblankenship9450 wrong, you're over your Drail, so it takes a lot to get fired once youre promoted. Some real douche bags are still employed
@@veasg I think I'm right.
@@damonblankenship9450 I've worked for the UP since 1994 and an engineer since 1996. I respect your confidence, but you're wrong.
Away from home 36 hours at a time. Missing your kids games, birthdays & holidays. Working in blizzard to scorching hot weather conditions. Never knowing if you're going to get called to work at any random time. Being furloughed is normal. First 5 years or so sucks, etc. Wow, sounds awfully tempting 😂
If you make it 5yrs without being laid off...
@@absolutelynonameslef Sounds like another one of those jobs that was really, really great at one point - but as time as passed on - has a become a shit job/company to rely on. Who knows? I can only go by watching videos/reading comments.
@@jackshittleI think you're pretty spot on
It’s what you make of it. 12 years as a conductor so far. It’s definitely not for everyone. I enjoy the job. Make a lot of money with only high school diploma. Benefits are great, good retirement at the end. Takes care of my family very well. But yes definitely are negatives. Miss a lot of family things, holidays birthdays all true. Sucks when you lay down to sleep and the phone rings to get up and go to work. It is what it is though definitely not for everyone that’s for sure. It’s for me though I don’t mind most of it anyway
@@25mmapdsti just got the offer. Anything I should prepare for or be aware of? I’ll be training out of chicago
Thank you for finally updating this. Now please update the online test to reflect the right position a person is applying for and not off the wall with other positions.
it's painfully honest, but it's an honest job and keeps america on the move, god bless you all who work for such an icon
Just like my job. Seniority is everything. I used to say. "Seniority sucks when you have no Seniority". 16 yrs later I am a shop stewart and #1 in Seniority in my district. So hang in there you will get Seniority as time goes by. Union jobs are the best.
Not all of them. The post office fucking sucks. The union does absolutely nothing to discipline abusive managers.
I'm a union steelworker and we go by seniority.... Local 979
What if you die or retire before you get seniority?
@@studinthemaking than you don't need to worry about it.
This sounds abusive towards employees. Without the union they'd be ground up by UP
I'm glad they say it is not all glamous,alot of people go in thinking it's easy,it's NOT!! Do you're best!!good luck!!!
The job is easy as shit. The hours are long as fuck!
@@veasg I agree with you to a point, if it was easy as shit every bastard would be doing it. But it's not and not everyone can do it. Usually its the hours that kill most newbies.
@@B10Mman true. It's the hours and being oncall 24/7. The work isn't hard, if it is then you're doing something wrong.
This is a tight employment economy....2019.... can you imagine how employees will be treated in a recession???
Not pretty at all...
No could predict a pandemic.
But its always something.
Let's roll the dice on 2021 now....
MASK AND VACCINE MANDATES IS CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION. FEAR THE LORD ONLY 😳😳😳💣
Ughh I knew of the pandemic.Its called spars
How's it looking in 2024 ?
Stores closing and some layoffs. It's getting dicey
LOL!!! interviewed 13 times, brought them years of knowledge from the Illinois Central and Illinois Railway....im now a shareowner and my dividends are worth more than railway pay....
Lucky for me I don't have a family.
2bjjones uuuummmm rip?
You have no mom
@@tylam89 Wish I could say that.
Hire out. You will never have a family.
That’s dark
I did that for 10 years for UP. Very interesting career.
Same here I'm at 10 years now, you should get some rr retirement when you turn 60 I believe.
At first i had a dream to run the trains with the UP. But I attended trade school, obtained my associates in diesel technology. And a good thing i did because now i am working at a contractor shop on locomotives. 60 percent of our work comes from the UP if the local Fleet shop gets backlogged, we get that backlog. I knew multiple friends who work for the UP and they had given me 2 options personal life or the UPRR. I decided to go personal life and got a skilled trade learned. Yet getting educated in diesel tech, you can work on the railroad with a steady workflow and have a set shift 100 percent of the time
Let me guess no union & definitely no RxR retirement
@@joekillingsworth9002 we are a union shop. No railroad retirment but we have a masive company 401k plan with a huge match
What school?
This is something I want to do. I want to give it a shot, I’m a student and graduating this year. I have always loved trains. 😊
Retired conductor here, The RR is a very dangerous and stressful place to work. I would not recommend anyone taking this path. 30+ years with no pleasant experiences, only stress, harassment, and lack of sleep. You're better off driving a truck!
Ya I can verify that
36 years
"Stress, harassment, and lack of sleep."
This sounds exactly like my life at the moment
No you’re not….
Not what?
@@bluefire10169
I quit csx after one run after the redi center...that place is so fucked up...got me a union trucking job. Life is grand!
are they trying to deter people from applying? lol..
mario mario Yes
Pretty honest video ..I've been a locomotive engineer 27 years. I could add more haha
Indiana Train Fan I Subbed!
No. They just want you to know what you’re getting into. Some people are cut out to work for the railroad. Others should stick with Chipotle.
Did it for 37 years,they are speaking the truth! Be prepare to work anytime;days,nights,weekends,holidays,snowstorms,95 degree weather,kids birthdays,school functions etc! And don't forget you might be on a two hour call,phone rings and be at work in two hours,no matter what your plans are or what you are doing at the present time!
My dad was a engineer and my grandfather was a conductor for Union Pacific in Wyoming
After 20 years in the military I had ENOUGH of that type of life style no matter what it pays. DAMN THAT.
It's not for the weak, that's for sure.
Is this the Bill Johnson from Kentucky that ran our SPX-745?
Yeah I was gonna say
@@billmorris2613 go cards!
sanpablos39 Not sure what your comment means?
Somehow I am not convinced by this video like the amazon warehouse job video.
😂😂😂
"...cannot be outsourced."
Which is why they are pushing to have trains run themselves I suppose.
That's not gonna work in dark territory what they are really pushing for is precision railroading with long ass trains
It wont work, especially for switching
@@llkjjjss Dark territory can be made light. In fact there won't be signals in the future. The technology to fully automate trains has existed for over 50 years. It's just a matter of cost and time. It is much easier to do this with trains than cars or trucks considering you have fixed rail paths and central communication rather than an "open" road system, and we are already heading there on the road. For trains, first it will be one-man crews, then full automation. There's a good chance some of the design and programming for such systems will be done abroad, so in a sense the railroad will be outsourced. It's sad, but it's the future... of everything.
@@VikVaughan there is alot in the dark. I'm out here everyday my dude
Unfortunately, every time I heard people say, "it won't work", the railroad made it work. Look at F.R.E.D, distributed power, RCO. I've heard people say RCO technology will never work and look now. They are all over the yard. If they want something, they will achieve it. Somehow.
Were not hiring 35 years ago sadly :-( now pushing 60, kinda hard to go into this line of work. So i'll stick with the postal service
Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of working for the railroad. I'm going to Become a locomotive engineer on Union Pacific one day.
Trainman3985 I Hope to become an engineer as well
That's a really poor life choice
Ted Dibiase your comment is a very poor life choice
@@teddibiase5332 so like does everybody have a price for the million dollar man?
@@teddibiase5332 If it's someone's dream, it's a perfect life choice.
Im only 14 but have wanted to be a worker for union pacific my whole life
Me too bro, let’s get furloughed 😂
@@DelmarLysolfan same, we got a whole crew right here lmao
Make that 4. See y’all next year
you are 18 now. did you get the job yet?
Currently I'm doing Union Pacific's former Southern Pacific in Oregon between Klamath Falls and Eugene with MSTS Train Simulator. Looks like a very dynamic railroad with a wide range of scenery between farmland and forest and twists and tunnels.
How is it? Are the test im training hard? How are the furloughs?
Ahhhh ask Fritz.
Driving trains is "not for everybody" but neither is "working for a living".
Engineers don't "drive" trains. They "run" trains.
@@michaelo1929 Always gotta be that one guy.
@@michaelo1929 in other parts of the world they’re called drivers. So yes, they also drive trains.
90 minutes? Damn imagine never being able to make plans or have a life outside of work. Fuck that, that sounds soul crushing. You’d pretty much have to have no social life to make it work.
It really isn’t that bad
when your parents arent rich, and you have to make a life for your kids and your self, you gotta work a lot man. This generation wants to work 5 hours a week and get rich to go play all day. Don’t work that way bud ,
Wonder if my ole arse cam jump on rail work from field network engineer . Worked just as weird hrs as RR workers, we get calls late night, early am, ontop of scheduled jobs then chill,, then job ,job, job traveling 🤔😁 ...
@@creamythroat It do work that way if you go into the right field. And that can be done whether your parents are rich or not.
This is what all the self-made billionaires do. Work themselves into the grave for 45 years and then get a small loan of 3 million dollars and then it's all private jets, islands, and skyscrapers with your name on them.
My grandpa worked on the railroad he made a lot of money but he had no life and many divorces.
I want to work for them when i get old enough. Cant wait.
Once you get done with your video games, you might want to talk to actual or former employees before making that leap of faith.
@dayzodzn For the first 5y of owning your own business, you literally draw no profit. Making $50-$60k a year is a pretty good job.
That girl engineer-- is she the one that Shawn in Council Bluffs yelled at?????
I’m a first officer for Delta Airlines but trains do interest me.
Indulge in model railroading. You get the best of both worlds: flying an airplane and running trains they way YOU want to. And you remain clean.
I was a train conductor (train assistant in my country) for 10 years here in South Africa, Transnet Freight Rail...I loved every moment of it...but it surely isn't something a person should do for a long period, you will be sick in you elderly days (most retirees don't live long). I'm still recovering from a lack of a healthy sleeping pattern, I am 34. In the time I was working the tracks, I studied towards being a mechanical engineering technologist...now I design locomotives and wagons, best time of my life behind the desk, working Creo Parametrics...The sound of the hooter still traumatizes me!
The best part of working for the railway here in Australia is there is no furlough. We have rostered work and blank line or pencil working but no furlough. You can work as a casual and work when you wamt, this is mainly guys who are "semi retired" working for pocket money.
What’s a paycheck look like though, if the pay justifies the hard work I’m all game
well BNSF (BNSF/ATSF eastern western lines) at 100% pay, 6500 bucks/month in the yard
smart009.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/July-1-2023-Rates-of-Pay.pdf
At least they give a somewhat honest description of the job. The railroads still suck as far as quality of life.
While others risk their lives on the job, the pencil pushers get all the rewards.
They won’t hire an educated mechanic with a medical background that will literally move thousands of miles away from home to get said entry-level job.
Because your background sounds sketchy
It's a sign of the 'good' things to come your way...like a runaway boxcar.
It’s called over-qualification. They’re afraid you’ll demand they pay you more money for actually knowing your shit.
Bruh they literally offered me a job, not once but TWICE and all I have is 3 years construction experience. So, they probably verified your work history and found out you're fos.
No one wear safety glasses and ear plugs on a daily bases.
Jared Klock
You do when you work for the railroad. All day long, every day unless you're in an office or a vehicle with the windows closed.
Bill Perri
It's not that loud all the time, but it can get loud before you know what happened. It doesn't matter though, it's a rule! Mechanical people wear hard hats, safety glasses, hearing protection, and steel toed lace up boots at all times unless in a designated non PPE area. Train crews wear a safety vest ( as do mechanical people working around live tracks ), safety glasses, hearing protection, and steel toed lace up boots. It's a critical rule violation to get caught without any one of those items while working.
'Real' employees aren't wearing all that shit. It's just for show in the video
@@veasg I work for the railway here in Australia and I never wear ear protection whilst driving a train. Most of our locomotives have cabs isolated from the frame and engine noise. I started as a level 2 assistant driver or conductor, then progressed to block school and driver under instruction and then driver or engineer. I've made $140k aud .oneyear. Usually I make around 100 to 120k per annum.
@@B10Mman I've worked for the Union Pacific since 1994 and have never worn any of that PPE other than a vest. Not even safety glasses
Both of my Geandfathers Worked for the UP Micheal Still in the 1970s
Victor Kovanda 19??
You guys are a great company
"Here I have a career"... 30% no longer do! They were all fired in the past 5 years. Railroads served Unions notice that in next 10 years, they want to do away with 85% of the conductors!
The company will never be lairs they will always take care of you best thing is they have sharp knives to stick you with so the pain can last for years
I start Sep 10th out of St. Louis Hub! Look forward to making a RailRoad career!
Do you go to villa grove or salem sometimes. I'm from the Chicago service unit
Cool
Checkin in jennifer! Hows it going?
@@3006USMC it's either going really good because she doesn't have time to answer, or really bad because she isn't working anymore and doesn't want to say.
KaibaCorp HQ -good point!
Railroading is a tough life no doubt about it but the pay is good I should know I’m starting my 37th year and plan to go 3 more I’m shooting for 40 years service
And they just announced a 75% employee layoff
"[Our retirement] they say is better than social security."
Wow lol gee I hope so
Jordan Sprague 😂😂lmao
@MAC27 I would hope so. Saving pennies in a jar is better than ss.
If you ask any railroader, they will tell you... the pension is the ONLY reason to work for a railroad!
I would love to work on the railroad and I could be a conductor one day and I love trains
You people are lucky to work for a company like that it doesn't work like that in the panana Rupebliek of South Africa.
There are really only two positions in life; at work making money, or away from work spending money. Why not work for this company and make a very good wage so when you do have time at home, you have enough money to enjoy yourself? It definitely helps if your single or your children are grown.
There’s a lot more to life than making and spending money
@@rowdyrobbyrider4226 really? What can you do in todays world without money?
@@rowdyrobbyrider4226 Then go do it and stop talking.
😳MASK AND VACCINE MANDATES IS CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
Just got a job offer today after trying for months to get on, PRAYING I get the job !
I have to do the video interview. What kind of questions do they ask?
@@ladycarter10fulThey ask you what's your education, work history, experience with tools, motorized equipment
They ask about your experience working different schedules and outside in the elements, they also ask about how you handle work situations.,
I really want to work here but in NE Oklahoma only though.
UNION PACIFIC- i always dreamed of working with you guys one day i am 13 right now and im still dreaming forever about being a engineer when im older im willing to join you guys soon! :]
Former employee at union pacific ...the training has been horrible since covid.someone just recently died at the company due to lack of training .instead of u getting a furlough they just fire u for breaking 12 critical rules. If u are married be careful many employees are divorced because of long hours. Only thing good right now is the money and benefits
23 states ain't whole lot js🤷♂️ and brakeman rarely ever used anymore.
Twenty-three states is almost half the country. How many states do you think there are? And brakemen/switchmen work in yards.
@@whiteknightcat I'm saying the UP is the oldest RR in the country they should run over 25 states BNSF is bigger and runs more states then the grandfather RR (UP)
@@Dachamp2001 Where they operate now is a direct result of the mergers that created the companies of today. BNSF was the result of a megamerger that united the northern and southern US west of the Mississippi. UP's absorptions were more linear or parallel, from WP and SP in the west to MP and CNW to the east.
0:03 On track, is that supposed to be a pun
I had a genuine interest in becoming a conductor and this video really put me off. The whole segment where they basically said "this is gonna suck and that is gonna suck though" just sealed the deal to not pursue it. Any promotional thing that gives you warnings about it probably means it's going to be a lot worse than what they're saying
Atleast they’re honest. Watch the one about the CSX conductor, nothing but a bunch of under the sheet lies.
Well they’re just being honest.
@@linkfan95 If I ever go into the railway industry, I'm gonna avoid CSX like the goddamn plague.
@@derpcade Avoid UPRR while you're at it too. Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX are the top 3 worst companies to work for - and consistently so. Not even joking, you can google it yourself
That said, BNSF has loads of troubles too; mostly with their union.
Lol, yeah, the video is like, "working here really sucks and you'll have no free time or a life for at least five years." Sweet, where do I sign up?? No thanks
Oddest job I ever had....they hire you then try over and over to fire you.
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I'm about to fly from the UK to the US just to get a job with UP
I start the 6th of Aug. I can't wait!!
Andre Fennell I Applied almost 2 weeks ago in Nevada, just waiting for something to happen 🙏🏾
Good to hear that man I think I remember you and the interviews is your training class in Boone
Yep it is! Did you make it too? What is or was your start date?
Good stuff.. I start Aug 6th also. I'm out of Oakland yard though..
Congratulations! Can I ask what experience you have?
Got offered a job two years ago and turned it down.. THANK GOD I dodged that bullet. I remember during the interview the guy says.. "A lot if the old school guys may cut corners or try to do stuff thats unsafe. Part of your job is to call them out or report safety violations".. How backwards is that shit? PASS and afterwards the more I see about the RR the more shitty it seems. My dad worked for BN in the 80s. I had dreamed of working the RR but again, glad I didnt..
"America's biggest railroad" Cough BNSF Cough is Cough Bigger COUGH COUGH.
Actually, no.
Actually Yes. BNSF has more track , more cars and does more business. Take your stupid elsewhere
@@blueringedoctopus4778 What Ted Said.
Where did they say biggest? They said most iconic.... I’m not from the USA an I’ve heard of UP.
@@teddibiase5332 Not true
I have my application just about done for Cheyenne Wyoming. Hope I can get in.
Hey cheyenne? Thats where Im gonna apply. Did you get in?
Thanks for making history with America
The only railway from steam era that still remains.
A Spanish Inquisitor not true KCS is still in operation.
NS and KCS are still around
@@bnsfrailfanningproductions9858 i dont recall ever seeing a NS steam locomotive only NW
@@bnsfrailfanningproductions9858 He means with the same name.
Tommy Truth
There was no NS during the the steam era, it was the N&W, the other one in the name was the Southern.
Its not for everyone just Give it a try and see.YEEEUH OK GOOD LUCK . Working foe the railroad is a rare opportunity. If you get chosen. Very hard to get on any rr
Took me over 30x applying to get a railroad job
That's right it's not for everybody, your life becomes the railroad and you won't have a life outside of the railroad.... The heat and cold is ok, it's the nights out of bed that are the killer...
That's a good look for Kansas City Service Unit! You guys and girls are famous now
Black Lavender
Not so much, the yard and the locomotive shop have been closed.
Accept applications from Knoxville, or do I have to join Norfolk Southern?
We currently do not have locations in Knoxville, but you can apply at locations as close as Memphis and all over the Western US.
Did you try Norfolk-nWay? ;-)
I don’t pull as much cargo as U Union Pacific. But my friend kendo. Did that one time!!. Don’t tell other railroads this.
Question, for this job is it stationary where I can come home every night or does it require travel and staying a few nights at a different location?
“Union Pacific is a union company, and employees pay union dues.” No thanks. I prefer not to be forced to part with my hard earned money for something I didn’t want in the first place.
Management would treat you even more as a pos without the union.
@@tommytruth7595 Absolutely! Anybody that joins the railroad you need the Union trust me!
Well if you don't want medical insurance, no seniority, no pay increases, a safe work environment , no representation in the event the railroad unfairly fires you and a good pension you can live on beyond age 60 with 30 years service, then go for the employment that lacks these qualities. Try Walmart if you haven't already!
@@daniellelynn4957 not for a short line.
@@Venomous-n7j True but don't think short lines treat their people like shit either. I don't think they hike a few miles through heavy brush in the wee hours of the night in the middle of nowhere trying to find something to fire you over.
What’s the starting hourly pay?
Am a train crew back here in Kenya.. So interesting to work on railroad.... Wish I could get to work for UP
I really like trains and also I want to work for the Union Pacific when I grow up
I’ve applied to UP and BNSF a combined total of 24 times and haven’t been invited to interview once. I’ve got no criminal record, don’t do drugs, work hard, am willing to travel, and want a career not just a job. I’ve applied for shop positions, train crew and transportation careers. I’ve called HR to get any tips or insight on what I should do better during the application process with no avail. I see railroads offering huge sign on bonuses to get people to sign up but still get turned down. Any tips on applying from the UPRR RUclips channel?
You have to be a minority or a female so they can hire you and brag how "diverse" they are.
Tommy hit the nail on the head......inclusion and diversity is now one big brand new bullshit sector of many corporates to brag about how inclusive a company they are......
It should be down to can you do the work well. Not making up the numbers.
From the railroad employees that I've talked to over the years, and from what I've read online, I would say at least 50% (maybe even 2/3?) of the people they hire have friends or family that got them in the door. I've applied at many points throughout my life and the excuse I've gotten is that I have no railroad experience.
You got to realize the Railroad wont call you right away and it may take a while for them to get in contact with you
Now I know why there labor shortage
Chicago Service Unit,Road Conductor,East/West
I tested...what now?
@@turtledude553 you'll be receiving an email to be invited to a hiring session.
Aubry...?
@@loothak you are?
I'll operate Union Pacific when me 30 years old... on 2040
I have a video interview on Saturday!
That is interesting working ar the Union Pacific trains.
That's what I want to do when I can, but I want to be an engineer, I know that I start from the bottom, but what type engineering class do I take?
If you're looking to be a train engineer, there is no prior degree you need. We look for people who don't mind working outdoors, having a variable schedule and enjoy a fast paced working environment.
@@UPJobs UP I WANNA BE A RAILFAN HOW CAN I RAILFAN IN THE PLATFORM OF AMTRAK IN EL PASO TEXAS UNION DEPOT DO I NEED TO TELL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN TICKET STATION OR IN THE FRONT OF THE STATION
You start by cleaning toilets on the locomotives. Still want to be an Engineer?
UP jobs...don't lie to these people. It isn't fun anymore. I have an AA degree...I spend a lot of time in the locker room waiting for some suprentendent to decide what we're going to do that day........which is usually sitting in the locker room waiting for somebody to tell us what to do and when you turn 55 they start trying to bully you into early retirement.
@@UPJobs
MASK AND VACCINE MANDATES IS CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION. YOU HEATHEN MORMONS😡😡😡FEAR THE LORD FOR PERSECUTING HIS CHILDREN
Triboss by favorite tray company of the ten of the train jobs is Union Pacific and I want to work for this job yes when I am a dead I work my job once I get old enough
How far out should separating military service members apply?
It is a job, not an adventure.
@@ruffian2952 More like a nightmare!
@@jacobw446 Still get dreams about railroad and military happenings, always on the nightmare side.
@@ruffian2952 Navy, Air Force and Railroad. I preferred the Military because there was laws in place to prevent them from harming you. The Railroads screw with people's lives and fire you at a whim. You sit for 30-40 years, hoping to retire with a pension with the RR. 80% usually never get there.
@@ruffian2952 He means he is leaving the military and will need a job afterwards and wants to time it right to spend less time out of a job....
this is amazing, but whats the point of getting a job if UP Sacks (lay off's) most of their staff?
Ok you got the job. Years trying to build seniority. Many days layed off . Away from home always. Cheep motel rooms. Payday to payday for most. Ok y make engineer. On call 24/7 up days and nights. Dangerous lonely yards. Always under some manager new old ? Ego?
Yeah.. ok it’s got the good points to that stuff you’re going to get in the videos . But you should get the bad stuff to don’t you think. When you retire what else can you do after all not much calling for a retired locomotive engineer. I know because I am one 44 years Uprr.. best wishes
I don't have anyone so it'll be perfect for me after school
I thought BNSF was the biggest company
it is
UP is... but they have cut so many employees, that they are closer to BNSF in amount of manpower. UP has more track...
When did Union Pacific start coming to Gilbert
I’ve applied and Qualified to work didn’t get in my friend that’s never worked a day in his life got in makes no sense to me
This is literally every railroad company guys.
And unless your daddy, his daddy, your great grand daddy, and great, great grand daddy worked for the railroad, you can forget about ever being hired.
Not the way it is anymore. If you can pass the drug test and can read 3 sentences, you're qualified. Highball!!!
@@truss6282 you have to pass the test about your self first
@tomtom1484 Not like that now! They can't find enough workers. PSR has killed the industry. Great for shareholders, very bad for Joe conductor/engineer!
I'm surprised the P.C. goofy UP management doesn't say "brakeperson" or "switchperson" today.
i just got offered a job at UP As track maint do they get furloughed or on call in in california
The big Railroad is outsourcing jobs to non union shortline Railroad like the trains that run around Lewiston Idaho to ayer junction. Shadedmuse would like to be a dispatcher. Have done dispatch simulatour.
Shaded Muse would have to relocate to Omaha or Conroe.
Shady lady, please put simulator on back burner. You have to do it when the proverbial shit hits the fan. Be gracious..the crews will do anything for a dispatcher that cuts them some slack and pays respect to the people at the scene. Play with them, you will be playing with fire. And don't screw up your first 19 order if they still exist.
halfway through the hiring process union pacific turned me down right after I submitted my video interview, I was really looking forward to working with union pacific, assholes!
Any reason why ? Im about to do my interview?
@@MusicOnly on the video interview you do online, you are asked 8 questions mostly relating to scenarios at work and how would you go about it. I really think if you are not white you stand no chance of getting hired
I don't know where to begin its overwhelming
Furloughing seems to be a way UP and other RR companies test the commitment of their employees. Seems like there are more suitable ways to separate the cream from the milk than temporarily laying off your employees. If there isn’t enough work to keep them working why hire them in the first place?
I was considering applying to be a signals technician but reconsidered when I heard about furloughing and calling you off of your rest time. I put up with 20 years of games serving in the Air Force, no reason to put up with that nonsense for another 20-25 years.
My Grandpa Carr worked for the EJ&E but he didn't call it the EJ&E but Easy Jobs For Everyone. But there's no Easy Jobs For Everyone when it comes to Union Pacific. Uh uh. The going as an UP employee can be tough - just ask my cousin Paul a UP employee.
We usually say when the trucks stop, America stops. There’s nothing wrong with that! I say, when the railroads stop, that’s when America stops!!
Stobe was likely in your dpu. #Kfc
I have an Interview Aug. 23 2018
MICHAEL WATTS uh don’t you mean august 2019?
Hey, I'm from India and want to join your railroad to switch my country and start a new career & living in USA.
I didn't hold a work permit visa for USA. Can anyone please help me regarding this?