I don't know exactly what CSX pays, but for a conductor trainee i'ts probably around $32,000 yr. base. To be a conductor, you have to go to a six week training school, then get a bunch of on the job training. (16 weeks if I remember correctly).
AT&T will combine its 5.7 million U-verse TV customers with DirecTV's roughly 20.3 million US subscribers. All of a sudden you're talking about the number-two pay-TV provider in the country, says Dan Rayburn, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan.
According to a new Total Audience Report from Nielsen, there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to just over 100 million in the third quarter and 100.93 million a year ago.