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In North America, the conductor manages a freight, passenger, or other type of train, and directly supervises the train crew, which can include a brakeman, flagman, ticket collector, assistant conductor, and on board service personnel, and is responsible for the movement of the train. The engineer (driver) takes direction from the conductor.
The rate of pay consist of a monthly flat payment, extra pay for night/weekend work, and possible overtime paid by the hours. The average earnings for freight conductor is 20,000-35,000 euros a year. Time on duty is limited to no more than 10 hours per shift. Typically freight conductors work about 40 hours a week, 3-5 starts.
Transport Canada limits the on duty time on a single shift for engineers, conductors and yard workers and all workers involved in switching or operating trains to 12 hours, including those working split shifts. The exception is work train crews, who may work 16 hours. The total maximum over multiple shifts is 18 hours. [20]
Terms for a train driver in other English dialects include locomotive handler, locomotive engineer, locomotive operator, train operator, and motorman. In American English, a hostler (also known as a switcher ) moves engines around rail yards , but does not take them out on the main line tracks; the British English equivalent is a shunter .
In 2019, writer Cecil Foster published the book They Called Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada, a study of the history of Black Canadian train porters. [9] Early Black Canadian civil rights activist, Charles Daniels, worked as a porter supervisor for the CPR in the early 20th century.
Local dispatchers at work at the central station in Bohumín, Czech Republic, in August 2008. A train dispatcher (US), rail traffic controller (Canada), train controller (Australia), train service controller (Singapore) or signaller (UK), is employed by a railroad to direct and facilitate the movement of trains over an assigned territory, which is usually part, or all, of a railroad operating ...
Canada uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge track for the majority of its railway system. The exceptions to this are small lines isolated from the main North American rail network used in resource industries such as mining or forestry, some of which are narrow gauge , and the streetcar and heavy-rail subway lines of the Toronto ...
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, [6] spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately 20,000 route miles (32,000 km) of track. [7]