Will a freight railroad hire a 45 year old newbie?

[Trainman101]

Is it worth even trying at this age? I'm looking to start a new career(been working construction my whole life).

Thank you

[Wayside]

They can't legally reject you because of your age. And at 45, my friend, you are not old. I personally trained newhire conductors at CN recently who were much older than you are.

[brim0628]

I'll be 37 in a month and was just hired by BNSF as conductor. There were prolly 35 people at the hiring session and I'd guess just by lookin at the crowd, 85% of them were eliminated before we began. As long as you look to be in reasonable shape, are not a complete idiot, can show up to work and know what safety is you will be fine. Just my opinion.

[umtrr-author]

A friend of mine was older than 45 (let's just leave it there) and was hired on by NS. He decided he didn't like it and left after a few months. Apparently a non-trivial number of new hires also do the same... if they make it through the process at all.

Good luck!