David Burnett

Bachelor's

Criminology

History

BNSF Railway

Conductor

• The conductor is responsible for coordinating all of the train crews’ activities,working with other railroad employees to ensure safe transportation of cargo makes its destination. Duties include reviewing schedules, throwing rail switches, maintaining shipping records and paperwork, properly distributing weight throughout the train and operating freight cars in the rail yard. The conductor inspects each car of their trains, to make sure the operating mechanisms have been properly monitored and are working, arranges repairs if necessary, keeping the Locomotive engineer informed of any important issues. Also a train conductor will spend time in an office dealing with paperwork, such as reporting any incidents or problems encountered. The Railroad Conductor is the one that is in charge of seeing which cars should be added or removed at the proper points for picking up or unloading cargo.