They were engineers, firemen, brakemen, and conductors. The crafts brotherhoods of engineers, conductors, firemen and brakemen would not support the UBRE. Train brakemen and firemen's wages came to $30 per month. The original name was the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen. He plays both solo and with Americana-rockers The Brakemen. The work was dangerous, with 33% of brakemen being injured in the year of foundation. In the early years of the railway, brakemen just had an open seat.