Bojaxs
Active Member
Don't the class 1 freight companies pay more for engineer/ conductors than GO does?
Why would someone leave CN for GO? No night shift?
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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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Why would someone leave CN for GO? No night shift?
smallspy
Senior Member
The signal system has nothing to do with it.
Metrolinx (or Alstom, or Onxpress) could apply for a waiver tomorrow that would allow them to operate with one-man crews. The precedent exists in Canada, and has for quite some time.
Dan
Willybru21
Senior Member
Whats funny (or tragic depending on how you look at it), is that there’s actually 3 crew members on the UP Express trains. You may be wondering what the CSA is doing since announcements and dispatching is done up front, and the answer is nothing! They’re just along for the ride while the 2 up front operate the train.
E•MO•TION
New Member
UP Express hasn’t operated with CSA’s since January, but yes this was a thing lol
jcam
Active Member
A loooong time ago, they used to check everyone's tickets/PRESTO card.
Krypto98
Active Member
The only thing i can think off for Lifestyle... freight lifestyle is 24/7 on call and your days off are whenever you get your miles in for Earned Off time (EO)... GO and VIA gets 2 assigned days off per week... personally I think the better move is to go for VIA, pay is similar to a Class 1, but the benefits and pension are way better and you aren't putting your career in a hard reset.
Willybru21
Senior Member
I had no idea thanks for the clarification! I haven’t looked closely at the crew jobs recently, did they stop putting UP and GO jobs in the same shifts?
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E•MO•TION
New Member
Yeah, they stopped this practice in January.
Apparently some of the higher ups were becoming increasingly frustrated with incidents affecting GO ultimately affecting UPX as well due to crews flip flopping between both. That and CSA’s doing literally nothing for their UPX portion of the shift.