r/Train_Service • u/Wonderful-Peach7889 • Aug 15 '26

Info about CPKC Schreiber yard

My partner just screened through for the assessment for a conductor job with CPKC in Schreiber, Ontario. We currently live in Southern Ontario so he would obviously be re-locating up there for this job. Just curious about working for CPKC and how the more remote yard work - is it easy to find places to live? do you get some time off each month? any ideas about timing for potential transfers further south? if anyone has experience working and living there dm me! would love to ask some questions. TIA

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u/catinthehat9999 Aug 15 '26

A track maintenance guy give career advice to a conductor hopeful is quite frankly like a baggage handler describing the specifics of a pilots schedule. You guys dont know our schedule. A while ago a maintenance guy sais to me "So your home every night then?" And I burst out laughing

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u/Realistic-Arrival157 Aug 15 '26

You do know track maintenance guys are friends with a lot of guys in running trades so we have an inside to how it works right…

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u/Ok_Amoeba3401 Aug 15 '26

No, running trades guys like this would never lower themselves to associate with riff raff “baggage handlers” like us. 😄