CSX Conductor Week 6 - Advanced Train
Movement UPDATED QUESTIONS and
CORRECT Answers
Employees required to provide warning signals must have the proper appliances _________, in
good _____, and _____ for immediate use - CORRECT ANSWER - Available, Order,
Ready
Appliances for providing warning signals during the day - CORRECT ANSWER - Red
Flags and Fusees
Appliances used for providing warning signals at night, or when daylight signals cannot be
plainly seen - CORRECT ANSWER - White Lights and Red Fusees
At the beginning of the tour of duty, there must be a minimum of six red fusees and one red flag
on/in each of these locations - CORRECT ANSWER - Lead locomotive, Rear car of
passenger train, Shoving platforms, and Occupied cabooses
Flagging equipment should be secured at the _________ of the day - CORRECT
ANSWER - Beginning
Burning time of a fusee - CORRECT ANSWER - 10 minutes
Fusees are stored in... - CORRECT ANSWER - Fusee designated rack
A train that encounters an unattended fusee burning near its track must not exceed __________
_____ for __ minutes, unless the fusee is beyond the first rail of an adjacent track - CORRECT
ANSWER - Restricted Speed, 15
Avoid placing burning fusees in these areas - CORRECT ANSWER - Platforms, bridges,
buildings, composition-rubber surfaces of road crossings, other fire-prone locations
, Operating Rules require that train crews must have in their _________, ____, and __________
the current Division and System Bulletins before starting a tour of duty - CORRECT
ANSWER - Possession, Read, Understand
A computer-generated form advising of a dispatcher bulletin number and the number of train
messages it must contain. Its address must correspond to the associated dispatcher bulletin -
CORRECT ANSWER - Release Form
A computer-generated form issued by the train dispatcher containing current operating
instructions that apply to the train addressed as well as information relating to the most recently
issued system and division bulletins - CORRECT ANSWER - Dispatcher Bulletin
Part of a dispatcher bulletin containing instructions and mandatory directives issued by the train
dispatcher that govern the operation of trains - CORRECT ANSWER - Dispatcher
Message
A form used to record specific instructions or dispatcher messages from the train dispatcher
regarding movements on controlled tracks - CORRECT ANSWER - Form EC-1
1. Immediately notify the train dispatcher, and
2. Provide protection against trains on that track for the minimum required warning distances in
both directions - CORRECT ANSWER - Steps to take after fouling a controlled track
without authority
If equipment is standing or will be left at a highway-rail crossing at grade, or if it is necessary to
separate a train to open a highway-crossing at grade, protection must be provided for vehicular
and pedestrian traffic unless the equipment is left a minimum of ___ feet from the crossing -
CORRECT ANSWER - 200
If an automatic warning device at a highway-rail crossing at grade experiences an activation
failure and there are no flaggers or police officers and communication cannot be established with
Movement UPDATED QUESTIONS and
CORRECT Answers
Employees required to provide warning signals must have the proper appliances _________, in
good _____, and _____ for immediate use - CORRECT ANSWER - Available, Order,
Ready
Appliances for providing warning signals during the day - CORRECT ANSWER - Red
Flags and Fusees
Appliances used for providing warning signals at night, or when daylight signals cannot be
plainly seen - CORRECT ANSWER - White Lights and Red Fusees
At the beginning of the tour of duty, there must be a minimum of six red fusees and one red flag
on/in each of these locations - CORRECT ANSWER - Lead locomotive, Rear car of
passenger train, Shoving platforms, and Occupied cabooses
Flagging equipment should be secured at the _________ of the day - CORRECT
ANSWER - Beginning
Burning time of a fusee - CORRECT ANSWER - 10 minutes
Fusees are stored in... - CORRECT ANSWER - Fusee designated rack
A train that encounters an unattended fusee burning near its track must not exceed __________
_____ for __ minutes, unless the fusee is beyond the first rail of an adjacent track - CORRECT
ANSWER - Restricted Speed, 15
Avoid placing burning fusees in these areas - CORRECT ANSWER - Platforms, bridges,
buildings, composition-rubber surfaces of road crossings, other fire-prone locations
, Operating Rules require that train crews must have in their _________, ____, and __________
the current Division and System Bulletins before starting a tour of duty - CORRECT
ANSWER - Possession, Read, Understand
A computer-generated form advising of a dispatcher bulletin number and the number of train
messages it must contain. Its address must correspond to the associated dispatcher bulletin -
CORRECT ANSWER - Release Form
A computer-generated form issued by the train dispatcher containing current operating
instructions that apply to the train addressed as well as information relating to the most recently
issued system and division bulletins - CORRECT ANSWER - Dispatcher Bulletin
Part of a dispatcher bulletin containing instructions and mandatory directives issued by the train
dispatcher that govern the operation of trains - CORRECT ANSWER - Dispatcher
Message
A form used to record specific instructions or dispatcher messages from the train dispatcher
regarding movements on controlled tracks - CORRECT ANSWER - Form EC-1
1. Immediately notify the train dispatcher, and
2. Provide protection against trains on that track for the minimum required warning distances in
both directions - CORRECT ANSWER - Steps to take after fouling a controlled track
without authority
If equipment is standing or will be left at a highway-rail crossing at grade, or if it is necessary to
separate a train to open a highway-crossing at grade, protection must be provided for vehicular
and pedestrian traffic unless the equipment is left a minimum of ___ feet from the crossing -
CORRECT ANSWER - 200
If an automatic warning device at a highway-rail crossing at grade experiences an activation
failure and there are no flaggers or police officers and communication cannot be established with
