After a hard day at work, most people like to relax with a frosty beer in hand. But for some freight rail workers, taking care of your beer is their full-time job. In a rail yard outside of Chicago, ...

A low-cost training program for rail workers of the future will hold an open house Thursday, Nov. 21. The Stockton event will highlight jobs in the growing passenger and freight services in the ...

It seems like a dream job. The opportunity to earn six figures, have a good union job with benefits and get some fresh air. Yet NJ Transit is struggling to hire locomotive engineers, as employees ...

Eleven weeks. That’s how long it takes to go from average Joe to Amtrak engineer. The transformation takes place at Amtrak’s High-Speed Rail Training Facility, housed inside an unassuming beige ...

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