If they go by the same schedule, you will still have Saturday and Sunday off. I don’t know what they’ll do with Memorial Day for you… because that was my first day. But they did give us July 4th off (and had us work Saturday) so who knows…
After the first week, one day a week will be “Road Operations”, where you take a train and practice making station stops. As a side note, during road ops, if your train gets stuck and your 8 hour day ends, your TSS instructors will dump you all off at the next opportunity because you are not entitled to overtime during class instruction.
you must pass the following tests.
1: climb an R68 from ground level twice*
2: elevated structure walk
3: tunnel walk
4: a written midterm exam*
5: a practical test in the yard*
6: a written final exam*
7: a road practical test.
Tests makes with *, you have two chances
1: climb a smaller A division train. If you had been made B division, you will be switched out to A.
4/6 take the test over, but while the first chance was multiple choice, the re-do fully write out each answer.
5: take the test over with a higher ranking supervisor watching you.
and just don’t do anything notable… like the guy who broke his finger pushing a button…
(And no that wasn’t me…)