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Here's the lone job opening for Denver. They basically own your life for $19 an hour, minus required union initiation fee and dues. They also expect a spotless background check, perfect health, and welding experience.

Work Conditions:

Outside work is required regardless of weather conditions.
Must wear personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, safety boots, hard hats, and hearing protection where the company requires. Extensive traveling across Union Pacific's 23 state system could be required at any time with short notice.
Are assigned to traveling system work gangs (i.e., work groups) working on track projects anywhere on the Union Pacific System.
Work site locations may require extended travel away from home.
Outside and exposed to all weather conditions.
Work takes place in many rural remote geographic areas.
Applicants must be willing to work all 3 shifts, if needed, subject to overtime, weekend, holiday, and/or night work. Work may be seasonal based on weather, business conditions, or seniority.
Schedules may consist of five 8-hour days/ 2 days off; four 10-hour days/ 3 days off; or ten 8-hour days followed by accumulated rest days.

Thank you. http://www.unionpacific.jobs/careers/apply/descr.cfm?REQN_NBR=060690 Let's go down the list.

Accountabilities:

Perform, with use of blueprints, schematics and location circuit plans, scheduled electrical inspections of various components and inspection and test of circuitry in accordance with company and industry standards.
So they have to know how to read a ladder diagram and test continuity. Lots of people know who to do this.

Ensure that all signals, lights, and other safety appliances used by employees for protection are properly displayed and used.
Simple. They have to have some railroad experience and can be taught the rest.

Understand and follow company and industry safety rules, practices, and procedures.
Duh.

Diagnose electrical malfunctions in locomotive control circuits and components, assess the nature of problems, and identify corrective action needed.
Kind of redundant with the first qualification, don't you think? People quickly figure out how to test the control panels and then isolate bad switches and instruments. A trained monkey can't do this but many people can figure out when the brakes are engaged but the brakes don't set and the pressure gauge is low that the starting circuit on the hydraulic motor should be checked. And so on.

Perform maintenance and repair of electrical components in locomotive cabs or electrical compartments and perform maintenance for miscellaneous equipment using blueprints, schematics, and location circuit plans.
Mostly redundant with #1 but they are also asking for good mobility here.

Work with shop machines and tools. Plan and coordinate work activities, determine equipment needs, and develop sequences of steps to get work completed. Read, interpret and understand written or electronic information, maintain the information, and compile reports. Communicate with others, verbally and in writing, technical information, job procedure recommendations, and other work-related information. Assist other employees as needed.
Boiler plate.

Detect and interpret visual color signals and displays at near and far distances, identify alterations of objects (size, shape, temperature), detect unusual sounds and smells during inspections and tests (leaks in air systems), use depth perception to judge speed and distance of locomotives being moved on service area, and listen to detect warning signals.
Must be able to see lightning and hear thunder. Got it.

So again, lots of people have these skills. UPC just isn't willing to pay for them. You can apologize now.