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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 04:52 PM
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15. Most engineers make $30+ an hour
And the benefit packages at the railroads are nothing to sneeze at.

Not a career I'd want though. Most modern rail yards are completely computer controlled (as in, the trains drive themselves with NO humans onboard AT ALL), and as faith in that technology grows it's expected that eventually even passenger and cargo trains will do the same. The job of the railroad engineer, during the next 20 years, will be reduced to staring out the front window to identify obstacles that the computer can't detect (like idiots running crossing arms) and hitting a big red EMERGENCY button when something goes wrong. At that point, with little actual skill involved, most people expect railroad engineers wages to plumment. It will become a job that any idiot with an index finger and two eyeballs can do, and it will have a pay level reflecting that.
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