Any railroad employees?

I was a Conductor for 8.5yrs and Engineer for 6.5 of those. Senority based. Live by the phone. no holidays or holiday pay. depending on the route, you may never get over time as they base your day on miles with a normal freight day considered 130miles, but most routes now are much longer and require very near or over 12hrs to get OT. no 40hr week, its all mileage. long days, often not reaching your terminal within your hours of service(12hrs). only to spend 16-24hrs in a motel room at the away from home terminal. then another 10-12 getting home so when you finally do get home you are called back out on your rest (8-12hrs) the Feds got involved to try to reduce fatigue, but too little. If you work where you have rest cycles or rest days, they help but you cant plan anything as if you get called to work minutes before your protect time you can work a full round trip of 20-30+hrs into your rest days, preapproved lay off day, or even vacation. Miss a call and you will be hot water. miss a couple and you are given time off. miss more and you are fired. by missing a call, I mean from the time they initiate trying to contact you, you have 15-20min to answer and accept your call. I have missed them mowing the yard. They call 24hrs a day and you have a predetermined amount of time to report to work. for us it was 1hr 15min. If you are sick, good luck getting off. they boards are allowed a certain #off during week, less on weekends. lots of people layoff fatigued because they want to go party while you get stuck working through bronchitis. The worst employee is paid same as best. etc... etc... etc... I got married, started a family and promptly found another line of employment so I could be home with my family, not just listening to them on the other end of the phone.