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the training program is no walk in the park. get ready to have NO life outside of the railroad. other than the commitment it's a fantastic place to work

Thanks bud

Anyone got the number for HR?

good luck guys, moved right along. unfortunately i'm still waiting for some kinda reply

Yeah I was at that open house as well. Still waiting

mine said the same thing, hopefully that is a good thing too!!

Hey guys, I finally got the call after the years of applying to attend the open house, initial testing. Question;it says to list traffic tickets, does anyone know how far back I should go and do they consider equipment violations as having to get listed.

true that, i was at westchester for most of my time on YX and was able to learn the in's and outs of that yard, every move or combination of moves they do in the yard. but only did a couple put ins to pelham never to parchester. rest of my time was at mosholu and corona. corona has the long layups and putin's to main street which give you good practice with timers, and woodlawn i was on the 239 wash which is like a solid 3 hrs of operating mainline, loads of practice. unfortunately many of my classmates were stuck their whole time at utica doing switching for the whole 3 months and didn't learn shit. guess i got lucky. the yx really is what you make of it, you can veg out and sit there watching tv and playing on your phone waiting for a move or you can be the dude that asks the dispatcher to give you anything at all. your choice

just a standard north face or jansport bag will suit you just fine, it will be full but you can fit it all in one. i am not a fan of the roll around bags, they look really really unprofessional and you looks super lazy trying to roll it around by the train tracks

yeah if those that applied are already being called then i pretty much feel screwed already. my background without going into to much detail is a bachelors degree/5+yrs management experience/currently employed with nyc transit as a train operator/perfect criminal and ticket record/perfect credit/trade skills in construction, carpentry, auto repair, and i'm a minority. so for anyone that thinks they don't have preferential treatment for whoever is sadly mistaken (so far as my experience has been). i have been applying for over 3 years and have never even been invited to open house/initial test, easily over 10 applications for all types of positions.

was this from the sept 17th posting? as i applied also and didn't hear anything (what else is new). i've been applying to every posting they give for any position they have and have never been replied to for anything

gotcha, i thought the 3 months that we posted we get random rdo's not the sat/sunday like we been getting. works good for me cause i needed a saturday off for some family stuff

yo, i wanna request an RDO for a day while i am gonna be yard posting. how do i do that, they never told us how

wait, so those of us that are posting... if the job pays 9 hrs then we need to put in an exception claim for the extra hr? because out tss's said that we do not have to submit the exception claim until we go over the time paid for the job assignment

went for the simulator today, the older instructor was pretty cool, the younger dude not so much. had maybe 5 min on the simulator, after doing signal stuff all day. in that 5 min of simulator training all the dude did was show the control and leave, i didn't realize that there was another foot of the screen being blocked, that i had to lean over to see while doing the sim and f**ked up the moves. the controls are all f**ked up and stopping isn't all that accurate so just be more careful than i was and the dude won't bitch about your operating.