NYYankee Posted October 27, 2022 Share #2151 Posted October 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, danielhg121 said: They talked about it in the loco engineer overview. Said it was gonna be 14 long months of training. You'll be in the classroom and out in the field but once you get past those first 2 years, you're pretty much cruising to retirement. Loco engineers get 3 pensions: MTA pension, union pension and railroad retirement which is crazy. The dude said the hardest part of your job after learning everything would be showing up to work. haha Wow they can retire rich 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted October 27, 2022 Share #2152 Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, NYYankee said: Wow they can retire rich All the old timers can retire rich. All the new guys are capped at a certain point pension wise. also they keep increasing the tiers for RRB making it hard for some to max those tiers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted October 27, 2022 Share #2153 Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, danielhg121 said: They talked about it in the loco engineer overview. Said it was gonna be 14 long months of training. You'll be in the classroom and out in the field but once you get past those first 2 years, you're pretty much cruising to retirement. Loco engineers get 3 pensions: MTA pension, union pension and railroad retirement which is crazy. The dude said the hardest part of your job after learning everything would be showing up to work. haha The program is 14 months. After phase 1. You’re in class for about another 6-8 weeks. Then it’s off the trains. But you do meet up 1 every two months and a few days every quarterly. You will be tested during each class visit on EVERYTHING. And yes the hardest part is showing up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djf22 Posted October 31, 2022 Share #2154 Posted October 31, 2022 Anyone from the September or October overview heard anything yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted October 31, 2022 Share #2155 Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Djf22 said: Anyone from the September or October overview heard anything yet? Dunno why they can’t just send out emails saying we didn’t get picked to move forward if we really didn’t get picked. It seems they want to keep us waiting and thinking whether we made it to next overview or not. On the other hand, only 1 person has told me they do send out emails. Edited October 31, 2022 by 2ride 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains248 Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2156 Posted November 1, 2022 On 10/30/2022 at 9:33 PM, Djf22 said: Anyone from the September or October overview heard anything yet? Hey what’s up man! No, haven’t heard anything back yet. Has anyone else from those overviews heard anything back ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2157 Posted November 1, 2022 Those who took the S&D in September. They all failed. No one passed. Haven’t heard anything lately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2158 Posted November 1, 2022 45 minutes ago, drenyce311 said: Those who took the S&D in September. They all failed. No one passed. Haven’t heard anything lately. Did the conductors failed them or only the engineers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIRRMedford Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2159 Posted November 1, 2022 Got an email today invited to the recruitment event. So stoked. I am currently training as a Student Engineer for NJT so I guess I stuck out! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains248 Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2160 Posted November 1, 2022 2 hours ago, LIRRMedford said: Got an email today invited to the recruitment event. So stoked. I am currently training as a Student Engineer for NJT so I guess I stuck out! For the open house for engineer or the overview for s & d test ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted November 1, 2022 Share #2161 Posted November 1, 2022 3 hours ago, 2ride said: Did the conductors failed them or only the engineers? Sorry. Didn’t specify. Engineers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIRRMedford Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2162 Posted November 2, 2022 54 minutes ago, Trains248 said: For the open house for engineer or the overview for s & d test ? Open house 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2163 Posted November 2, 2022 55 minutes ago, LIRRMedford said: Open house S&D test 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains248 Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2164 Posted November 2, 2022 9 hours ago, Trains248 said: Hey what’s up man! No, haven’t heard anything back yet. Has anyone else from those overviews heard anything back ? My mistake, meant to say I haven’t heard anything back from the last open house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2165 Posted November 2, 2022 44 minutes ago, Trains248 said: My mistake, meant to say I haven’t heard anything back from the last open house. The most messed up thing they could ever do is not inform us if we’re skipped. It makes the situation look so complex and upsetting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misslo Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2166 Posted November 2, 2022 I got the email yesterday I am not sure i'll go. if it is from what i remember 4 yrs ago when they let you take some random test to decide if they'll let you move forward or not. My heart cant take another disappointment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djf22 Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2167 Posted November 2, 2022 1 hour ago, misslo said: I got the email yesterday I am not sure i'll go. if it is from what i remember 4 yrs ago when they let you take some random test to decide if they'll let you move forward or not. My heart cant take another disappointment. Yup that’s the one hurry up and wait for a reply smh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2168 Posted November 2, 2022 1 hour ago, misslo said: I got the email yesterday I am not sure i'll go. if it is from what i remember 4 yrs ago when they let you take some random test to decide if they'll let you move forward or not. My heart cant take another disappointment. I got a call today from HR informing I have not been selected to move forward with the process after open house. But they told me I could reapply again within a year. I wish I could’ve scored higher sometimes. On the bright side, I have an interview with Metro North coming up next week for custodian driver. Hopefully that’ll open doors for me to become a conductor or engineer inside that agency instead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djf22 Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2169 Posted November 2, 2022 39 minutes ago, 2ride said: I got a call today from HR informing I have not been selected to move forward with the process after open house. But they told me I could reapply again within a year. I wish I could’ve scored higher sometimes. On the bright side, I have an interview with Metro North coming up next week for custodian driver. Hopefully that’ll open doors for me to become a conductor or engineer inside that agency instead. So they actually called, Damn that sucks but at least you can stop wondering good luck with mnrr. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drenyce311 Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2170 Posted November 2, 2022 50 minutes ago, 2ride said: I got a call today from HR informing I have not been selected to move forward with the process after open house. But they told me I could reapply again within a year. I wish I could’ve scored higher sometimes. On the bright side, I have an interview with Metro North coming up next week for custodian driver. Hopefully that’ll open doors for me to become a conductor or engineer inside that agency instead. Sorry to hear the bad news. Metro north Engineer posting is up again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted November 2, 2022 Share #2171 Posted November 2, 2022 19 minutes ago, Djf22 said: So they actually called, Damn that sucks but at least you can stop wondering good luck with mnrr. 9 minutes ago, drenyce311 said: Sorry to hear the bad news. Metro north Engineer posting is up again. Conductor thread for some reason isn’t that active on here, so I posted it in the engineer thread instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NH90 Posted November 4, 2022 Share #2172 Posted November 4, 2022 Hi everyone, I received the email for the open house event coming up this week. I’m optimistic and started reading some of the definitions provided on Quizlet. But from what I read, I shouldn’t trust these definitions as they can change overtime? I’m eager and excited to see what happens on Wednesday! Good luck to everyone! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted November 5, 2022 Share #2173 Posted November 5, 2022 12 hours ago, NH90 said: Hi everyone, I received the email for the open house event coming up this week. I’m optimistic and started reading some of the definitions provided on Quizlet. But from what I read, I shouldn’t trust these definitions as they can change overtime? I’m eager and excited to see what happens on Wednesday! Good luck to everyone! I took an open house test for conductor. They present to you a vocabulary exam, cognitive exam, and a math exam on that day. Pass the first 2 and you’ll be able to take the math. Don’t pass the first 2, you will be removed from the program and not get to take the math. When you pass all 3, you’ll be doing a checklist interview with one of the employees. Pass the interview and the exams, you’ll get notified either you are moved forward to next steps or not. Again, this is just for conductor, engineers might or might not have the same format to follow for open house. Good luck!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misslo Posted November 5, 2022 Share #2174 Posted November 5, 2022 Ill pass on this then. Thats wasting people's time, energy and money. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NH90 Posted November 5, 2022 Share #2175 Posted November 5, 2022 11 hours ago, 2ride said: I took an open house test for conductor. They present to you a vocabulary exam, cognitive exam, and a math exam on that day. Pass the first 2 and you’ll be able to take the math. Don’t pass the first 2, you will be removed from the program and not get to take the math. When you pass all 3, you’ll be doing a checklist interview with one of the employees. Pass the interview and the exams, you’ll get notified either you are moved forward to next steps or not. Again, this is just for conductor, engineers might or might not have the same format to follow for open house. Good luck!! Ok thank you for the info! I got invited for the Locomotive Engineer open house. I’ll give it a go. Got nothing to lose! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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