...and we'd be honored to make you one of us

     Railroad Training Services was founded by Rick Carter in 1999 out of the need for quality trained candidates to fulfill the thousands of vacancies all across North America, in addition to training the fresh new railroaders already working on the rails. 

     Rick has enjoyed a lifelong career in railroading spanning over 37 years, starting as a laborer with the Western Pacific Railroad and prior to opening Railroad Training Services new Stockton Career center, completed his railroad service as a Passenger Conductor with Amtrak.  During that career, Rick has worked as a Carman with the Western Pacific/Union Pacific Railroads, Mechanical Shop Craft Instructor for the Human Resources Department of the UP, as a Motive Power & Equipment Inspector for the Federal Railroad Administration, and most recently as a Passenger Conductor with Amtrak. 

     During his career, Rick found working as a Carman the most rewarding and has fond memories of many years spent repairing, inspecting, servicing, and even completely rebuilding freight cars and cabooses.  Rick also spent many years cleaning up train derailments all over Northern California as a Carman, being one of a select few in his service unit qualified as a crane operator.  It came as no surprise when Rick announced that the first phase of Railroad Training Services new Career Center would be classes in, you guessed it, Freight Car Mechanical Training.

     Assisting Rick as an Instructor is son Tom Carter, himself a Locomotive Engineer, Switchman, Brakeman and Conductor.  Tom has 5 years of experience in Passenger and Freight railroading and in addition to teaching, he also assembles the curriculum, manages systems and anything else necessary to assist Rick in managing Railroad Training Services Career Center and conducting off-site training.