A Realistic Day In The Life: CTA Train Operator

When I started this post I didn't know there were four other parts. This was part. 5 from the YouTube Channel - The Perteets. Anyone interested in seeing these other parts?

 

[VIDEO] When I was a child this was something that was of interest. To be a CTA motorman or a CTA conductor.

Well those used to be two different positions, however, by the 1990s the conductor positions were eliminated making CTA trains one person train operations. The man you see here gives us his job title, rapid transit operator. The title of what I used to call the motorman back in the day.

He talks about his experience, how he started on CTA and the routes he regularly worked before he started working the CTA blue line - which once used to be the Congress (Forest Park)-Douglas (54/Cermak)-O'Hare. Though these days it's just O'Hare-Forest Park.

My understanding of how CTA works and whoever works for the Chicago Transit Authority can correct me if I'm wrong is that before they let you have the control of the train, you have to be a flagger. I think you'd have to work on the tracks for a time before you can get promoted to operator. Don't quote me the comments are open for those who knows what it takes to eventually become a motorman/operator.

Anyone interested in becoming a rapid transit operator? Write a comment.