Congratulations on the railroad job but listen very carefully, it ain't no walk in the park. I put 2 years in with the Union Pacific railroad as a conductor and my Dad retired after 41 years there. I just finished a decade at Mesa, and am now at Frontier. So I can tell you first hand, the Railroad was by FAR AND AWAY a more grueling job. Airline beat down and fatigue is daisies and buttercups compared to RR beat down. The feeling of Fatuigue is on entirely different level. The good part, my Dad punched out at 60 with 4K a month free and clear for life, the bad part, he earned every penny and then some. The railroads will suck your life blood too, and you will never see more than 2 or 3 days off. The rest rules can put you turning on 8 hrs rest indefinately and though that marathon crap doesn't happen often, it happens with some regularity. Locomotives are like riding in a public bathroom for hours on end. They are dirty and smell like a full llavatory all the time, every one, every railroad. You'll be missing your cockpit the first time your soaked to the bone in 32 degree sleet for 12 hours strait from 0200 to 1400. Oh yyeah you're back on at 2200 that night for another 12. Ad nausea. Be careful. pM me if u like.

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