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UP Return to Work Study Guide revision questions
1.
"Stowed"
requires
(2.21/Glossary):
Having personal electronic devices powered ott
and out of
sight. Devices in pockets are not stowed.
2. Your 5,681 ton train goes into emergency at a speed of 21mph.
No unusual slack action was felt and the brake pipe pressure was
immediately restored after stopping. Will you be required to walk the
train? 6.23:
No, you are relieved of
having
to
check
it
due
to
the
speed
being
over
20mph,
no
unusual
slack
action
was
felt,
and
the
brake
pipe
pressure
was immediately restored after
stopping.
3. What is your crew's responsibility to the trian dispatcher regarding
an emer-
gency application of the air brakes? 6.31: Unclear. Listed rule does not
match description.
4.
Reverse
Movement
(Glossary):
Movement
in
the
opposite
direction
of
authorized
movement
5.
When moving on the main track or siding, are you required
to ring the
bell continuously while passing standing equipment on
the adjacent track?
5.8.1:
Yes.
6. What is required when delayed within a block in CTC limits when
PTC is not
in
effect?
9.9:
Proceed
prepared
to
stop
at
the
next
signal
until
the
next
signal
is
visible
and
that
signal
displays
a proceed indication.
7. What actions are required before fouling or crossing a track?
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UP Return to Work Study Guide revision questions

  1. "Stowed" requires (2.21/Glossary): Having personal electronic devices powered ott and out of sight. Devices in pockets are not stowed.
  2. Your 5,681 ton train goes into emergency at a speed of 21mph. No unusual slack action was felt and the brake pipe pressure was immediately restored after stopping. Will you be required to walk the train? 6.23: No, you are relieved of having to check it due to the speed being over 20mph, no unusual slack action was felt, and the brake pipe pressure was immediately restored after stopping.
  3. What is your crew's responsibility to the trian dispatcher regarding an emer-gency application of the air brakes? 6.31: Unclear. Listed rule does not match description.
  4. Reverse Movement (Glossary): Movement in the opposite direction of authorized movement
  5. When moving on the main track or siding, are you required to ring the bell continuously while passing standing equipment on the adjacent track? 5.8.1: Yes.
  6. What is required when delayed within a block in CTC limits when PTC is not in effect? 9.9: Proceed prepared to stop at the next signal until the next signal is visible and that signal displays a proceed indication.
  7. What actions are required before fouling or crossing a track?

2 / 17 (81.2.1): Look in both directions Ensure no movement is closely approaching Look for conditions that could interfere with footing

  1. How may your train be authorized by a stop indication at a manual interlock-ing? 9.12.2: Contact control operator who will give permission when it is known that the route is properly lined and no conflicting movement is occupying or authorized to enter the track between that signal and the next absolute signal.
  2. Pounds of brake pipe pressure that must be present at the rear of the train before beginning an Initial Terminal Air Brake Test (Class
  1. 30.3/30.10.1: 90
  1. while flagging a signal at a manual interlocking, the dispatcher calls and tells you to pick up a repaired bad order car off the next siding. How will you answer the dispatcher's request? Your train is operating at restricted speed. 1.47.1: Tell dispatcher you are in a cab red zone and cannot respond.
  2. Are you required to obtain Red Zone Protection before releasing the hand brakes on your train while the car department has your train blue flagged? 81.5.4/5.13: You are not allowed to release the hand brakes on your train while the train is blue flagged unless directed by the employee who placed the blue flag or the EIC of the employees working on the blue flagged train.
  3. When operating west of El Paso, where must you place an empty mul-tiplatform spine car in your manifest train to comply with train make-up restrictions? SSI Item 5-B: Behind a car with no more than 4500 tons

4 / 17 Potential slack action Applicable Operating and Safety Rules

  1. After completing a train inspection for a hot journal, how may the train be shoved back to pick up a crew member? 6.6: Movement will not exceed limits of train and trains length. Will not enter or foul public crossing unless proving warning per rule 6.32.1. Cannot be made into or within yard limits, restricted limits, interlocking limits, drawbridges, rr crossings at grade, or track bulletin form b limits.
  2. If you choose to ride a tank car equipped with one vertical handhold when pulling out of a track, how should you do so? 81.7: On the trailing end of the car and outside the gauge of the track with both feet planted
  3. While passing a (#) type detector, it transmits the following message: UP detector, MP 538.1 on Track 2. Stop your train, stop your train, first hotbox, axle 372 on north side. Detector out." When will the engineer be required to stop the train in response to the hotbox detector actuation? SSI Item 13: Stop the train immediately and inspect for dragging equipment.
  4. How can you determine a RCL Zone is active? 6.7: Thorugh the RCO, other authorized employee, or special instructions.
  5. Would you be able to pull a train by to the indicated axle location to inspect for the hot journal? SSI Item 13: Only if not a key train, not on rails with concrete ties , indicated axel will not pass over a switch, not the 2nd got box detector on the same car, and visual observation indicates no smoke, flame, or excessive dust. Train just also not require excessive power to continue movement.
  6. What protection is required before fouling bowl track(s) during humping operations? 7.13: Protection from the employee in charge of the Hump

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  1. A train inspection requires you to work between main tracks 1 and 2. Will you be required to obtain any protection before doing so? SSI Item 12: Yes.
  2. When requesting protection before working in bowl track(s) during hump-ing operations, how many tracks must be protected? (Locked up) 7.13: It varies, any switch that leads to that track must be locked against movement to the protected bowl track
  3. How should you inspect for an overheated journal? SSI Item 13: Retaining valve in exhaust position, hand brake fully released, brakes are not sticking, truck bolster not broken, brake rigging/lading not down or dragging, wheels are not broken or improperly positioned on the rail, and lading has not dropped down through container floors or cross members of multi unit/well cars.
  4. If the person disappears who is giving the signal to back or shove a train, engine, or car, or the light being used disappears, employees must: 5.3.3 & 6.5: Stop within half the specified distance, unless able to make radio contact.
  5. What must be done before lining a switch? 82.3: LISOP Look, inspect, sweep, operate switch and point at correct switch points
  6. When it is necessary to use the radio to make a shoving movement, what communication between crew members must take place before and during the shove? 6.5: Track is clear of equipment or conflicting movements Track will remain clear to where movement will be stopped

7 / 17 in the timetable as an (11-3) type crossover? SSI Item 11: Operate movable frog first halfway. Then the first switch and then the middle switch point machine. Finish throwing frog.

  1. When may you ride a freight car to a coupling? 81.13: Not allowed.
  2. You observe a yellow/red flag at MP 376.0 displayed on the field side of your train in the direction of travel. You do not have a form B track bulletin in effect at this location. What action is required? 5.4.3: Attempt to contact EIC of the yellow red flag. Prepare to stop short of red flag 2 miles after the yellow red. If red is displayed, stop until given further instruction from EIC or it is removed by the craft that placed it. If not displayed, move at restricted speed. Only increase speed after a crew member has received instructions from the EIC or the leading wheels are 4 miles past the yellow red and the dispatcher has verified no track bulletin or warrant is in ettect there.
  3. Your train received a class 1 air brake test and inspection before departing its initial terminal. After you set out cars from the train, what air brake test will be required? 30.7.1: Class 3 Application and Release
  4. May an EIC issue a stop requirement for your train within Form B limits? 5.4.3 / 15.2: Yes?
  5. After passing a Yellow/Red flag, you observe a red flag located on the field side of the track 2 miles beyond the yellow/red flag. You do not have a form B track bulletin in effect at this location. How may you pass the red flag? 5.4.3 / 5.4.7: Stop at the red flag. Await instructions which include speed and distance.

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  1. When pulling out of a track, what should the engineer do to warn MoW employees working on the adjacent track? 5.8.2 / 5.8.1: Sounding bell and whistle. --o Long long short
  2. How do you obtain authority to occupy the main track within Yard Limits? 6.13: A signal, track permit, verbal permission or the control operator.
  3. Within ABS Yard Limits, how must your train be operated after passing a signal displaying Approach? 6.13.: Restricted speed unless a signal is more favorable than approach.
  4. Before entering the main track within Yard Limits, how would you de-termine if Track Breach Protection is in effect? SSI Item 12: Contact the designated supervisor Make 3 attempts to contact crews working in the area. If no response, initiate movement looking for employees working in the area.
  5. After coupling to locomotives that are being added to their train and stretching the coupling, the engineer will assist the conductor in connecting hoses and cables. Is the engineer required to announce Red Zone before fouling the equipment? 81.5.4: No. Verify set and centered.
  6. At what speed must you operate wihile moving on the main track where non-signaled Yard Limits are in effect? 6.27: Restricted speed.
  7. What air brake test(s) will be required after adding a locomotive to your train? 31.8.1 / 31.8.4 / 30.7.1: Application and release class III

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  1. Walking into the depot, you see the collector and the manager tells you the job you are working has been drawn for a random alcohol and drug test. You worry you might come up positive due to taking a family members prescription cough medicine yesterday. What should you do? 1.5 / SSI Item 10-1: Take the test.
  2. What precautions are required before coupling into cars or engines? 7.4: - Make coupling at speed not exceeding 4mph. After coupling, stretch the slack to ensure coupling was made.
  3. The MYO is driving you alongside your train at about 10mph to check your train list, lace air hoses and look for handbrakes. Are you required to wear a seatbelt? 74.5: Yes, speed over 5mph

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  1. Is an entry into the conductors report necessary about the switch position after mkaing a rear-end set out in non-signaled TWC? SSI Item 10-K: Yes.
  2. As you approach your power, you notice both units are shutdown and the steps are not illuminated. How will you climb aboard? 80.6: Using your light if it's nighttime.
  3. What air brake test(s), if any, are required before departing after making a pick-up enroute? Your train received a Class I Initial Terminal Brake Test a point of origin. 1.33 / 30.3.1 / 30.7.1: If it is only one solid block added, an application and release test would be suflcient. Otherwise, a class 1 initial terminal Air brake test must be done on the added cars only.
  4. when climbing aboard your engine, you notice the handbrake on your lead loco is located on the nose of the engine. When can you release it? 31.8.5 #11: Ensure air brake system is fully charged and operative before releasing.
  5. The boxcar you just picked up has a body mounted brake cylinder. What are the acceptable piston travel limits while the brake is applied? 30.11.1: 6 to 9 inches
  6. When a train receives track and time joint with an employee, the train must not occupy the joint limits until: 6.3: Working limits are described and permission received to enter overlapping limits from employee listed on the authority or advice is received from dispatcher that the employee is clear of the limits.
  7. After adding a car to your train, is it acceptable to reach over a drawbar to open or close an angle cock on the other side of your train? 81.6: No, you would need the red zone unless you were able to use a brake stick

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  1. Working a conventional job, you need to open a knuckle to make a coupling. What communicaton must take place before opening it? 81.5.4: Red zone and 100 feet. Tie handbrakes if needed.
  2. You observe a yellow flag displayed to the right of your track at MP 309.5. You have no track bulletin indicating a restriction at this location. What is required? 5.4.2: Continue moving no more than 10mph. Resume speed only after the rear has passed a green flag or traveled 4 miles beyond the yellow flag and dispatch has verified no track warrant is in ettect.
  3. While working a conventional local freight job, you pass a signal displaying Approach. what entry should the conductor make on his log, if any? 1.47A: The answer with z on the test
  4. Your train passes a distant signal displaying Approach, and is now stopped for the Stop indication at an Automatic Interlocking. No train is seen or heard on the conflicting route. What is required to pass the red absolute signal?: Control panel
  5. Must you lock the main track switch while your train is making a facing point movement over the switch? 8.8: Yes.
  6. After passing an approach signal, your train immediately reduces speed to 30mph. Rounding a curve, you observe your next governing signal displaying a Clear indication. After job briefing with the crew regarding the signal indi-cation, when can your train resume speed? 9.8: Top speed complying with signal
  7. If none of the locomotives in your consist are equipped with alignment control couplers, what is the max number of

14 / 17 locomotives allowed? 31.7.1: 3

  1. Your engine and 5 cars are in a business track stopped at an absolute signal displaying a Stop indication. Part of your train is on the main track. What action, if any, is required to pass the Stop Indication, re-enter the CTC main track and couple back to your train? Main traack switch is hand thrown and not electronically locked. 10.1: Stop before entering the block. After that, you may proceed because the switch is already lined for your movement.
  2. What air test is required after setting out cars if your train was given a Transfer Train Movement Air Test at point of origin? 30.5.1 / 30.10.1: Determine brake pipe pressure in rear is restored.
  3. Your train moving at 60mph passes an advance approach signal. What action is required? SSI Item 19 - 9.2.4: Slow down to 40mph
  4. How far back must you stop short of a derail in the derailing position, as you are approaching a main track switch? 8.20: 100 feet.
  5. What immediate action is required as your train passes an Approach sig-nal?: Reduce speed to 30mph and call it out.
  6. You contact the dispatcher and he grants your train authority to enter the main track in CTC territory at a hand operated switch for eastward movement. After you line the switch, the non-controlled absolute signal protecting the main track continues to display a Stop indication. How will you pass the signal and enter the main? 10.1: Stop before entering block. No need to contact dispatch.

16 / 17 on the work order. What are you required to do? Form 8620 Section II: Set out the 2nd car. Report it as work not completed.

  1. After making a set out, you realize the car next to the engine will be a loaded tankcar with a corrosive placard. Will you be required to switch the head end of the train for hazmat placement? Form 8620 Section VI: Yes.
  2. The CTU representative refuses to give you his last name when you are trying to document who attended the transfer of TIH cars. What is required? Form 8620 Section I: Notify dispatch/supervisor. Don't pull or spot them. Retain possession of shipment
  3. What is required when shoving cars into a spur track? 7.12: Stop 150 feet short of the track and precede movement. Tie brakes to control slack if necessary. Stop short of end of track to prevent damage.
  4. When operating on a foreign railroad, what is required of the crew on a key train? Form 8620 Section VII: Notify foreign rr dispatch at earliest opportunity that train is a key train under UPRR instructions for handling hazmat.
  5. The MYO instructs you to leave the derail in the non- derailing position at the east end of the yard when finished with your work. How do you respond to this request? 8.20 & 1.4.1: Tell him you can't.
  6. Which rules are covered by the Good Faith Challenge?: Shoving, leaving in the foul, switches and derails
  7. What steps are available to settle a dispute if a supervisor insists you comply with instructions that you believe violate a rule regarding leaving cars out to foul an adjacent track? 1.4.1: Good faith

17 / 17 challenge.