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.
But they have a long way to go before most major TV DMAs are controlled by a single MSO. 1 New York * AT&T Cable Services: 1M customers * Time Warner Cable: 1.2M customers * Comcast Cablevision: 672K customers * Cablevision Systems: 2.7M customers * Adelphia Communications: 106K customers * Total: 4.96M customers 2 Los Angeles * AT&T Cable Services ...