Re: Link to FRA Notice of Proposed Rule Making
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 07-07-2016 - 12:06
OTN Wrote:
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> It sppears that the Snakes still have the hogheads
> yard engineers jobs.
Not an accurate statement.
On railroads where SMART (formerly UTU) holds the RCL contract, RCO's come from the crafts of T&Y employees, although on some carriers (UP, for example) those employees can choose to be members of either SMART or BLE-T, and may even be promoted engineers who are set back as trainmen based on the needs of the service.
Yard and local/roadswitcher/traveling switcher assignments that are not RCL have an actual engineer.