Railroad Freight Conductor Sean Martin. The railroads are extremely hard to get hired on with, they are looking for very explicit experience in different areas and you need to know what these are to get hired. It took me a couple times to figure it out but I did and got hired on. My book has been featured in Trains magazine and has sold thousands of copies and helped untold number of people to get hired on with a railroad. I finally decided to get it published on Amazon and here we are.