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OBSERVING PASSING TRAINS:
Employees must:
-observe passing trains for defects
-observe passing train crews to give or receive signals
-notify other crew members of passing trains
-frequently observe both sides of your own trains (in curves,
etc. ) for defects
-observe tracks and roadways for damage |
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GR 9 (pt. 2)
If defects are found. |
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OBSERVING PASSING TRAINS
IF DEFECTS ARE FOUND, Employee must take prompt action.
For notification of a passing train:
- notify passing train via hand signals
- notify passing train via radio
- notify Train Dispatcher/Control Operator ASAP if hand signals
and radio communication fails.
If defects are found in your train:
- stop your train until movement becomes safe again |
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GR 9
Notification Hand Signals |
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"Brakes Sticking"
- Day light hours:
- Rub hands together
- Night:
- Rotate your lantern in small vertical circles at a right angle
angle to the passing train.
"Hot journal, wheel sliding, derailed or broken wheel, defective truck, lading shift, swinging box car door or other dangerous condition."
- STOP SIGNAL:
- move hand, flag, lamp, or fusee back and forth horizontally
at right angle to track. |
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Track signaled in both directions - signals authorize movement.
Signal indication will be the authority for trains and engines to operate in either direction on the same track and ABS rules apply. |
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| 261 movements are authorized by: |
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| Signal indication, controlled by TD/CO. |
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261
Proceeding after being delayed or stopped in the block: |
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| If on a signal (other than a restricting), proceed PREPARED TO STOP at the next signal. If a crew change, proceed at restricted speed to the next signal. |
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261
Reverse movements WITHIN the limits of the block. |
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| Verbal permission from TD/CO and movement is made at restricting speed. |
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261
Reverse movements OUTSIDE of the limits of the block. |
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| When authorized by the Track Authority form OR verbally authorized by TD/CO and movement is made at restricted speed until governed by a better signal. |
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261
Clearing the main track through hand throw switches: |
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| Switch must be equipped with an electric lock to clear, if it is a switch NOT equipped with an electric lock, permanent speed on main track must be 20 MPH or less. |
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261
Operating against the current of traffic: |
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N/A
See reverse movement outside of the limits of the block. |
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Freight Car Inspection
At each location where freight cars are added to a train which have not been inspected at that point, in addition to making required air brake test, the car(s) must be inspected by the train crew. |
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C-100
What six conditions must the train crew inspect? |
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Definition
a) Carbody
b) insecure coupling
c) overheated wheel or journal
d) broken or cracked wheel
e) brake that fails to release
f) any other apparent safety hazard likely to cause an accident or casualty before the train arrives at its destination. |
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C-100
What are you looking for when you inspect a carbody? |
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1) leaning or listing to side
2) sagging downward
3) positioned improperly on truck
4) object dragging below
5) object extending from side
6) door insecurely attached
7) broken or missing safety appliance
8) lading leaking from a placarded HAZMAT car |
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Equipment left unattended
Air brakes must never be depended upon to hold unattended standing equipment. |
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C-102 (a)
Securing unattended cars with locomotives detached. |
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1) When cars are left unattended, at least 1 end angle cock must remain open to ensure that an undesired brake release does not occur.
2) Make a brake pipe reduction sufficient to hold the equipment if the cars being handled with operative air brakes.
3) Apply sufficient number of hand brakes to secure the cars left standing.
4) Test the effectiveness of hand brakes on the cars left standing:
5) After determination is made that handbrakes are effective, the equipment may be uncoupled from the cars to be left standing.
6) When grade and tonnage conditions permit, engineers will reduce brake pipe pressure to 20 psi above zero (0) with the automatic brake before locomotive is cut off or any angle cock is turned, when:
a) trains or cuts of cars being handled with operative air brakes
arrive at a terminal where facilities are available and
instructions provide for immediate brake inspection.
b) locomotive is to be detached from any train when the
temperature is below 32 degrees fahrenheit. |
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C-102 (a) 4
Test the effectiveness of the hand brakes on the cars left standing:
a. On a grade descending AWAY from the location where the train separation will be made, or on level grade: |
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Definition
(1) Release the automatic brake, if applicable, and locomotive brakes and advance throttle, if necessary, to slowly bunch or push the slack in at the coupler where the uncoupling is to be made.
(2) Apply the locomotive brakes when slack has been observed bunched.
(3) Observe the car(s) to be left standing for one minute to determine that the slack does not pull out or stretch indicating that hand brake(s) is effective and car(s) will remain secured. |
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C-102
Test the effectiveness of the hand brakes on the cars left standing:
On a grade, descending TOWARDS the location where the train separation will be made: |
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(1) Release the automatic break, if applicable, and advance throttle, if necessary, to slowly stretch or pull the slack out at the coupler where the uncoupling is to be made.
(2) Apply the locomotive brakes when slack has been observed stretched.
(3) Observe the car(s) to be left standing for one minute to determine that the slack does not push in or bunch indicating that the hand brake(s) are effective and the car(s) will remain secured. |
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C-102
Test the effectiveness of the hand brakes on the cars left standing:
When grade or tonnage will not permit releasing the automatic brake, after stopping with the slack positioned as required: |
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Definition
(1) Close the angle cock in front of the cars to be left standing.
(2) Bleed the brake system on the cars behind the closed angle cock.
(3) Observe the cars to be left standing for one minute to determine that the slack does not adjust indicating that the hand brakes are effective and the car(s) will remain secured. |
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C-102
Test the effectiveness of the hand brakes on the cars left standing:
When grade or tonnage will not permit releasing the automatic brake, after stopping and unable to position the slack as required: |
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(1) Sufficient handbrakes must be applied on the cars that will NOT be left standing to permit the release of the automatic brake to adjust the slack as required.
(2) Apply the locomotive brakes when slack has been observed adjusted as required.
(3) Observe the cars to be left standing for one minute to determine that the slack does not adjust with the grade, indicating that the handbrake(s) is effective and the car(s) will remain secured. |
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C-102 (b)
Securing unattended cars with locomotives attached.
When cars are left unattended with locomotives attached: |
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(1) Make a brake pipe reduction sufficient to hold the equipment if the cars are being handled with operative air brakes.
(2) Apply sufficient number of hand brakes to secure the cars left standing. All locomotive parking brakes must remain in the off or unapplied position until the completion of the testing.
(3) Release the automatic brake, if applicable, and allow the train slack to adjust.
(4) Gradually release the independent brake, allowing slack between locomotives and cars to adjust according to grade conditions.
(5) After the slack has fully adjusted, observe the equipment for one minute to determine that there is no movement indicating that the hand brakes are effective and equipment will remain secured.
(6)After determination is made that the hand brakes are effective, the independent and automatic brakes must be fully applied and all locomotives properly secured. |
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C-102 (b)
Exception to securing unattended cars with locomotives attached. |
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| If there are an equal number or more locomotives than cars in the equipment to be tested, or if locomotive tonnage is greater than train tonnage where hand brakes on the cars will not hold the entire consist, after applying a sufficient number of hand brakes to hold the cars the instructions in part (c) "securing unattended locomotives without cars attached" will govern the test. |
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C-102 (c)
Securing unattended locomotives without cars attached.
Before locomotives are left unattended on any track the effectiveness of the parking brakes must be tested as follows: |
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(1) Apply the parking brake on each locomotive.
(2) Place the independent and the automatic brakes in the RELEASE position. The locomotive consist must remain stationary for ten seconds.
(3) Place throttle in the number one power position or higher, if necessary, until movement occurs. NOTE: If the locomotive(s) is standing on a grade, the movement must be in a descending direction.
(4) Place the throttle in IDLE when the locomotive consist begins to move, locomotive consist must stop within 25 feet. |
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A-1 Air Pressure Settings
What is the main reservoir air pressure setting? |
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A-1 Air Pressure Settings
What is the brake pipe pressure for road freight |
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A-1 Air Pressure Settings
What is the brake pipe pressure for yard service? |
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A-2 Verifying the Accuracy of Hand-held Gauges
How often must the accuracy of the hand-held gauge verified? |
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A-2 Verifying the Accuracy of Hand-held Gauges
A hand-held gauge that verifies from the locomotive brake pipe gauge reading by more than __________ must be exchanged for a gauge that is within the ________ tolerance. |
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A brake must not be cut out unless defective, then the proper authorities must be notified.
The brake must not be cut out on more than two consecutive cars, and the brake on the car next to the locomotive and on the rear car must be cut in and operative.
On articulated cars equipped with more than one control valve, 2 consecutive control valves must not be cut out. |
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OR 881 Communicating Block and Interlocking Signal
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| Employees located in the operating compartment of an engine must communicate to each other in an audible and clear manner the name of each signal affecting movement of their train or engine as soon as the signal is clearly visible. Each signal must be called (1) as soon as it is clearly visible and (2) again, if other than a stop signal, just before the signal is passed. It is the responsibility of the engineer to have each employee comply with these requirements. |
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OR 81 Communicating Block and Interlocking Signal
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| The conductor (or a conductor trainee or trainman in the absence of the conductor), when occupying the controlling locomotive, will communicate by radio as soon as the signal becomes visible: (1) train identification (2) signal name (3) location (4) track designation when operating in multiple track territory for each signal affecting the movement. |
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OR 93 Main Track Within Yard Limits
(a)
(b)
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(a) Yard limits are designated in the timetable, and indicated by yard limit signs
(b) All trains and engines within yard limits must move at restricted speed unless the main track is known to be clear by automatic block signal indication. NOTE: In single track ABS territory, movements must operate at restricted speed unless moving on a clear signal.
(c) A train or engine must not move against the current of traffic within yard limits until provisions have been made for the protection of the movement, and movement must be made at restricted speed. |
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Authorized Speeds
OR 137 other than main tracks |
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| Except where movement is governed by signal indications, trains and engines using any track other than a main track must move at restricted speed. |
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GR-13
Prohibited Acts
Employees must not: |
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a) ride on close-clearance side, between or on leading end of equipment moving adjacent to platform, building, or close-clearance structure. They must not stand between moving equipment and adjacent platform, building, or close-clearance structure.
b) mount or ride the end footboard of a moving engine.
c) sit, stand, or step on handrails, break wheels, cut levers, couplers, sliding center sills or trucks. NOTE: employees loading, unloading, or repairing cars may, if necessary, stand on couplers or trucks when equipment is protected by blue signal. Stepping on a coupler or cut lever while crossing standing cars protected by blue signal is prohibited.
d) ride in or place arms or legs in cars with lading that may shift, except when necessary to load or unload material in cars moving no faster than 5 MPH.
e) Ride the end of a car with a shifting lading on adjacent car can cause injury.
f) ride or walk on tank car running board near dome when movement may cause contents to splash.
g) ride in the sill step of a moving car unless equipped with a horizontal grab iron at least waist high, or two vertical grab irons, so located that the employee can stand upright on the step.
h) adjust coupler or knuckle with foot.
i) operate hand brake with foot.
j)step on rails, guard rails, switches or frogs.
k)attempt to move cars with pushpole or similar device between cars or between engine and cars.
l) cross over between coupled cars unless duties require, then must maintain secure handhold and use a sill (end) platform if possible.
m) mount or dismount locomotives or cars unless facing equipment and maintaining secure handhold.
n) attempt to mount or dismount triple crown service roadrailer trailers account. Employees must take special precautions when handling.
o) lean out of windows or from walkways of locomotives when approaching bridge structures that extend above track.
p) when riding loaded TOFC or COFC equipment, place any portion of their body in pinch points between 1)raised bridge plates and equipment loaded on TOFC cars 2)containers and chassis of highway vehicles loaded on TOFC cars 3)containers and the container mounting device on COFC cars. |
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OR 108
Equipment left standing |
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Equipment left standing must be:
a) clear of insulated joints placed in the track near the clearance point
b) left clear of adjacent tracks
c) authorized by the TD/CO when left on siding |
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| Except on tracks designated by Timetable Special Instruction, the use of wheel chocks by train and engine employees is prohibited. |
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OR 106
Testing Hand Brakes |
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| When necessary to control cars by hand brakes, it must be determined that the brakes are working properly. |
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a) When an engine is to be detached, equipment left standing must be properly secured with an efficient number of effective hand brakes. Air brakes must not be depended upon to hold cars or an unattended engine. After the engine is re-coupled, hand brakes must not be released until the air brake system is properly charged.
b) engines or cars must not be coupled to until it is known that they are secured
c) cars set off with defective hand brakes must be properly secured and, when possible, coupled to cars having effective hand brakes. |
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