Pacific & American Railroad
New Engineer Orientation
Welcome
to Pacific & American Railroad's new engineer orientation.
To
start your new career at
Pacific & American Railroad you should familiarize yourself with the
following.
What
do I need to join?
1. A love of Trains provides a great place to start.
2. You should have purchased and installed Microsoft Train Simulator on your computer, including all the updates and patches. Pacific & American also uses several commercial products. The products that we currently utilize are listed below. Specific equipment requirements will be noted within each work order.
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From
3DTrainStuff 1. Tehachapi II route 2. ESPEE over Tehachapi Addon 3. Santa Fe over Tehachapi Addon 4. Vintage Trains over Tehachapi 5. Cajon Pass route 6. Cajon Expansion pack 7. Santa Fe 3751 over Cajon |
From
Maple Leaf 1. Cascade Crossing route 2. Soldier Summit route 3. Bala Sub route 4. GTA route 5. Shuswap route 6. Niagara route 7. Rogers Pass route 8. Kicking Horse Pass V2 route 9. BNSF Heritage pack trains (No longer Available) 10. SP Heritage pack #1 11. SP Heritage pack #2 12. NS Heritage pack |
From
3D Trains 1. California Zephyr Passenger Set 2. Santa Fe SuperChief Passenger Set 3. ATSF F7 Units 4. ATSF FT Units 5. ATSF E8 Units 6. CNR F7 Units 7. SP F7 Units 8. SP FP7 Units 9. D&RG F7 Units 10. Midwestern GEEP Superpack 11. Southwestern GEEP Superpack 12. UP E & F Bonus Pack available from any purchase 13. WP Feather River Route |
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From
Streamlines 1. Santa Fe Seligman route 2. BNSF Scenic Sub route |
3.
You should be able to download and install the routes, consists, equipment and
work orders necessary to do your work on the Pacific
& American Railroad without
supervision. We will direct you to the available downloads as you progress through
your Probation period.
4.
You should be able to complete two
P&A
work orders a month. Please do not join and just sit inactive. If
you do so you will be quickly deleted from the roster. We don't waste
your time, please do not waste ours. It
takes away from our fun time. For
each new application there is a lot of work being done behind the scenes (yeah,
that ol’ paperwork…).
5.
You should be able to complete a work order for any of
P&A's
adopted routes.
6. You should be able to drive a train, i.e.; release brakes, choose direction, work throttle, blow whistle, throw switches, stop train at a station, uncouple/couple cars.
7. Knowing how to use monitor windows helps:
8. You
should familiarize yourself with
P&A's
Operations Manual,
Staff Guidelines and
Engineer Orientation.
10. You should be able to do all of the above without assistance from anyone. That is what makes you an elite engineer. You must be able to accomplish all of the above on your own. If you are unable to do so you should not apply. Assistance with these common MSTS tasks will not be provided here!
11. After you complete your application, (link
below), the next step in the completion of the application process is the
sending of an email to the HRD with an indication of the Sub-Division to
which you would like to be assigned.
There are 30 choices. They are:
IMPORTANT! * READ THE FOLLOWING LINES * IMPORTANT!
Please choose one of the above Sub-Divisions. Then send an email to hrd @
vparr.com (remove the spaces of course) with your Sub-Division choice as
the subject.
Upon receipt of your selection the Human Resources Department will
evaluate your application and respond within a few days.
You need to do the above
after PATS sends you an email.
12. If
you are ready, click on the link below to complete your
Pacific
& American
New Engineer Application!
This document was last updated on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 08:18:53 PM