Problem is, there is no silver bullet here. A few career lives ago, I was a railroad freight conductor. Toughed it out for two years and quit for the same reasons the unions are complaining about ...

Two weeks ago, a BNSF freight train conductor, who asked not to be named so he could speak freely about his experience, fell asleep on duty while the train was moving.

The rail safety bill has yet to pass. Currently, trains operated by the major freight railroads have at least one locomotive engineer and one conductor on board. When a problem occurs enroute ...