Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Signaling the engineers to begin the trains runs, stopping trains, or changing speed, using telecommunications equipment or hand signals.
• Receiving information from dispatchers or from electronic monitoring devices, regarding problems with the trains or rails.
• Directing and instructing workers engaged in yard activities, such as switching tracks, coupling and uncoupling cars, and routing inbound and outbound traffic.
• Keeping records of the contents and destination of every car in the trains, and making sure those cars are added or removed at the proper points on the routes.
• Operating controls for activating the tracks’ switches and traffic signals.
• Instructing workers to setting warning signals in front and at rear of trains during emergency stops.
• Directing engineers for moving the cars into the trains’ planned configurations, combining or separating cars for making up or breaking up trains.
• Receiving instructions from dispatchers regarding trains’ routes, timetables, and cargoes.
• Reviewing schedules, switching orders, way bills, and shipping records for obtaining cargo loading and unloading information and for planning working.