Their job is the overall supervision and to instruct, discipline, train and evaluate, the performance and skill of a railroad engineer.
[1] In the United States, engineers are licensed by the Federal Railroad Administration for their craft.
Road foremen also have the responsibility of analyzing data from locomotive event recorders.
This is done in post-accident investigation and for random review of a locomotive engineer's performance.
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