Pros
Co-workers are good people and nothing else.
Cons
You start on 2nd or 3rd shift with no weekends off and you stay there for years. You miss out on family time because you sleep all day and work all night. The pay for MSO is pitiful. After medical and union dues your being home pay is close to $3,200 a month. That's rent in California. You have to work a lot of overtime to live decent. They hire managers out of college that have no idea what a locomotive looks like inside or how it operates and they don't care to learn. They just lean on the guys that have been there for years and started out as mechanics or electricians who actually know the job. If you value your time and family, the railroad is not the place to work. Also, the employees who make a decent living are the one who travel and again, they have no home life.