Solid place for mediocrity. - Locomotive Engineer Amtrak Employee Review

2.0
10 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay is good. Benefits are good/ok.

Cons

Won’t be a good place at all to be employed once they kill the insurance from back years ago. Pay is best when you spend so much time away from home your family barely knows you. Management wont/can’t make decisions when needed on the local level. Too much time away from home for road crews. Yard crews have long hours and they wonder why people violate rules. Communication is ridiculous and basic which is a disaster for all the rules we are subjected to.

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
14 May 2026
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Pros

Great friends and Travel with plenty to see

Cons

The culture is horrible it’s a very demeaning please. They will fire you for anything. Harassment amongst employees and by management to their employees Is extremely high. I have a MBA degree and I still can not move above the customer service level. I’m a union member and you have to pay union dues to work a non management position. The union Reps work for Amtrak to so there is a conflict of interest. The union is TCU in which they defend the company 100x harder than they do their members. TCU is not organized very well. The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr. As far as Work culture at Amtrak it is fueled by many rumors and those rumors are more affluent then your resume .

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