From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 2/2/2015 1:18 PM, conklin wrote:   
   > "Wayne Hines"  wrote in message   
   > news:QaJzw.1239634$UR.634831@fx04.iad...   
   >> This link is to a CBC news article suggesting CP Rail is training   
   >> managers to operate trains in the event the unionized workers go on   
   >> strike. If the link doesn't show properly or doesn't work, I've created   
   >> the Tiny URL link below it.   
   >>   
   >> http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cp-rail-encourages-office-workers-to-   
   >> learn-how-to-drive-trains-1.2935065   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> http://tinyurl.com/lvkg9ps   
   >>   
   >> gwh   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> I used to care but things have changed.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I understand the Florida East Coast, in the 1960s, used college students to   
   > run the trains.  Union officials predicted disaster, but that never   
   > happened.  In an era when anyone with a drivers license can, with 30 hours   
   > instruction, fly a sports plane, it seems to me that offering training to   
   > all employees who work for a RR how to run a train makes sense.  I bet all   
   > the workers have a drivers license!!!   
   >   
   >   
      
   But how long does it take to obtain a federal locomotive engineer   
   license for an employee?   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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