OK, enough with guessing.
When you're lucky enough to get called in the lottery, you go though some testing.... maybe 6 months (or less) later, you'll get called for your physical. Then, you get called to report. If you picked Train Attendant, you'll go to the Rapid Transit (Red, Orange, Blue.) If you picked Streetcar, you go to the Green line. Buses go to Buses, Rail Repair goes to Track Gang.
If you go to Rapid, they will ASK you ( with one exception in recent history,) what line you would like. You will start out as a CSA, where they can send you anywhere on the system. When your line (Blue, Orange, Red) needs you as a Train Attendant, Motorperson, etc., you will report to the line. You'll work as a part-timer for anywhere between 3 months to 2-3 years, until a fulltime piece opens up. You will likely go to the Red Line (as you go full-time based on your badge number which was assigned to you when you started working.) When a position opens on your line, you will return where you will likely stay for the remainder of you career.
This scenario could change as the company is doing some things that could prevent people from staying on their selected lines. But this will be well into the future, if ever they could get away with it. (Yeah, the Union can be a good thing!)
Hope this answers your Q's.
Last edited by The Collector at Court St on Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:10 am, edited 1 time in total.