Many of us have had that moment in our lives when we dream of becoming a locomotive engineer. It’s a fascinating career, but what does it take to get there in today’s high-demand world of ...

Railroad engineer general training supervisor and instructor Artur Lorents said that with 16 new passenger trains coming into service between 2025-2027, the railroad engineer profession is ...

Eleven weeks. That’s how long it takes to go from average Joe to Amtrak engineer. The transformation takes place at Amtrak’s High-Speed Rail Training Facility, housed inside an unassuming beige ...

Locomotive engineers generally receive 2-3 months of on-the-job training before they can operate a train on their own.

NJBIZ STAFF// May 7, 2019 // Listen to this article Gov. Phil Murphy and New Jersey Transit Executive Director Kevin Corbett recognized New Jersey Transit’s latest locomotive engineer training ...

After the fatal January 1987 Chase, Md., wreck on the Northeast Corridor, where an Amtrak train rammed into a set of Conrail locomotives that had run a stop signal, the FRA prescribed a framework for ...

That's when, according to media reports, the engineer operating Amtrak train 188 started on the job. But when it comes to training, Amtrak does face a fundamental tension. Training costs time and ...