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BNSF Train Dispatcher Railroad Final
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True - Answers: ✔✔Rules governing the use of Railroad-supplied electronic devices do not apply to the use of railroad radios. (True or False) No - Answers: ✔✔A track inspector wants to use Individual Train Detection to inspect a switch. Using the track speed in the timetable determination is made that there is not enough sight distance. Luckily today there is a 10 mph slow order on the track which allows for plenty of sight distance. Is the use of individual Train detection authorized in this scenario? False - Answers: ✔✔Employees occupying moving On-Track equipment must be securely positioned and braced at all times to avoid injury in the event of a sudden stop. Occupants may choose but it is not necessary to occupy a seat when available. (True or False) 35, 30 - Answers: ✔✔Passenger type Hi-Rail Vehicles 10,000 lbs. or less gross vehicle weight (GVWR), must not exceed __________MPH. Other On-Track equipment must not exceed _______MPH
Train Dispatcher - Answers: ✔✔Within working limits, when necessary to perform work that may shunt track circuits, permission must first be obtained from the_________________ 25, 25 - Answers: ✔✔Roadway Workers must maintain ___________ feet of separation in front of and behind Roadway Maintenance Machines. When Necessary, employees may work closer than ______ feet provided that the employee(s) and machine operator conduct a job safety briefing and all involved have a clear understanding of the movements to be made. when operating On-track equipment on the rail when in the foul of the track, or within 4 feet of the nearest - Answers: ✔✔Employees must have each railroad-supplied cell phone turned off, and earpieces removed (select all that apply) False - Answers: ✔✔While On-Track equipment is in motion, only the operator and not the occupants of the equipment must remain vigilant and not engage in unnecessary conversation or in boisterous conduct (True or False) False - Answers: ✔✔Dual control switches must not be hand-operated until permission is obtained from the local Track Supervisor. (True or False)
Has to have the switch hand lined for the siding before making the move onto the main - Answers: ✔✔A ballast regulator needs to travel out of a siding onto the mainline through a spring switch. After receiving track time to get on the mainline, the operator.... False - Answers: ✔✔A lone worker can only use Individual Train Protection as their form of on track safety ( True or false) 4 - Answers: ✔✔Personal electronic devices, including ear pieces, must be turned off and stored out of sight and not on the employee's person, when in the foul of the track, or within _________ feet of the nearest rail. Either of the above - Answers: ✔✔Unless specifically expected by Rule , On-Track safety is required for each adjacent controlled track when a roadway work group with at least one of the roadway workers on the ground is engaged in a common task with on-track, self-propelled equipment or coupled equipment on an occupied track. On-Track safety must be established through what? Have the passenger answer the phone - Answers: ✔✔An employee is driving a company truck with a passenger and hears his or her phone ring. what can the employee do to comply with NS rules?
Any of the above - Answers: ✔✔Track Authorities must be double- copied when issued to a roadway Worker in charge of a work group or to On-Track equipment when two or more employees are present. The Track Authority must be double-copied by writing the contents on which of the following.... Has no through or adjacent rail traffic during the period when roadway workers will be present is physically inaccessible to trains - Answers: ✔✔Working on radios are not required for a roadway worker in charge, a lone worker, Maintenance of Way Equipment, or Maintenance of Way Work Gangs when the work location (select all that apply) When riding as a passenger in a Hi-Rail vehicle - Answers: ✔✔Employees must have all personal electronic devices, including earpieces, turned off and stored out of sight and not on the employee's person except: True - Answers: ✔✔When working limits are established by train coordination, the roadway worker in charge must complete the Joint Occupancy of Work Limits section of the Engineering Department Track Authority Form TA 1.1 (E) (true or false)
P85. He was communicating by radio with the engineer. P85 was holding exclusive authority to move on track one. To establish Train Coordination which of the following conditions must be met? Trailing-end of the movement on the adjacent controlled track has passed and remains ahead of the roadway worker - Answers: ✔✔Roadway workers may resume normal equipment operation on the occupied track, and on-ground work between the rails and on both sides of the occupied track, only after the Track Authority - Answers: ✔✔How would you protect yourself if you need to change a rail between Macon Jct. and Prichard? (Station page model) True - Answers: ✔✔The use of any electronic device is prohibited if that use will interfere with any employees performance of duties (True or False) On or fouling a Controlled Track without working limits established on the track - Answers: ✔✔The place of safety to be occupied by a lone worker upon the approach of a train, engine, or other railroad equipment may not be: True - Answers: ✔✔When roadway maintenance machines are engaged in weed spraying and snow removal on non-controlled track
where permission has been granted by a Yardmaster or Train Dispatcher on a YP form working limits of inaccessible track are not required to be established. (True or False) 225 feet (4 1/2 car lengths) - Answers: ✔✔On yard tracks and mechanical shop tracks, if the clearance point is not clearly identifiable by the presence of these protective devices, the equipment must be left; Behind the green reflective marker, painted (fluorescent green) crosstie, or other physical identifier in accordance with Special Instructions, or ______________________ away from the switch point of the track to be occupied, if the painted crosstie, or physical identifier, is not present or visible. Maintain a position that will enable him/her to receive a train approach warning communicated by a watchman/lookout at anytime while On- Track safety is provided by train approach warning - Answers: ✔✔Every roadway worker who depends upon train approach warning by watchmen/lookouts for On-Track safety must: On Track Equipment may continue to operate at a maximum speed 5 MPH - Answers: ✔✔which of the following is true when traffic on the adjacent is permitted past the work area at 25 MPH? Ground workers fouling track outside of working limits - Answers: ✔✔Train Approach warning can be used for:
Form Y - Answers: ✔✔the working limits of Conditional Stop Signs become effective at the time specified in the_________________ A track outside the limits of a manual interlocking, a control point, or a remotely controlled Hump Yard - Answers: ✔✔Which of the following locations permits the use of individual train detection? Notify the Train Dispatcher that no employees have been granted authority to jointly occupy the working limits. State the name of each employee that he/she has authorized to jointly occupy the working limits and the time each cleared - Answers: ✔✔When releasing working limits to the Train Dispatcher the employee holding authority shall.... (select all that apply) No - Answers: ✔✔Forman Brown is by himself and needs to inspect a power switch in Control Point Beta. Can he use individual train detection as his form of protection? Forman - Answers: ✔✔Who has overall responsibility for inspecting and maintaining on-track equipment assigned to them?
working limits - Answers: ✔✔Roadway Workers jointly occupying working limits under the authority of a Roadway Worker in Charge (RWIC) must report the position of any switches operated to the RWIC when reporting clear of the... To refer to a rule, timetable, or special instruction - Answers: ✔✔Employees may use any electronic device for this excepted task, if such use does not interfere with any employees performance of safety related duties No Part may be filled out in advance - Answers: ✔✔What part of a Track Authority Form may be filled out in advance of receiving information from the Train Dispatcher? Working limits Track authority Number Any Restrictions - Answers: ✔✔For the purpose of double-copying a Track Authority what information is required to be double copied? (select all that apply)
