Depending on when he started, he'd have gone all the way from steam to diesel powered trains. That's quite a lot of change to experience.
My brother's wife's sister (I don't think that makes her my sister in law, as I'm not the one married to his wife) is a train engineer. She lives out your way. She makes mad loot doing her job.
I wouldn't think that job would be all that difficult
When he died guess who his daughter called to come comfort her?
Gues who she called for more comfort after the funeral.
I didn't even go to the funeral
LOL No, it's not too physically tough these days. It's a ton of responsibility and stress. While it's not all that hard, any deviation from the rules/regulations is damning. There's no such thing as an engineer that made repeated mistakes.
You also gotta know a whole lot, for the myriad of hings that can go wrong. But, the day to day operation is so mundane that you have to press a button every five minutes to prove you're not asleep. At the same time, when things go wrong they can go wrong REALLY badly.
I wouldn't want the job.
It might be fun for a day or a week!
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