CSX Conductor Week 2 - Introduction to
Train Movement UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS and CORRECT Answers
Available, Order, Ready - CORRECT ANSWER - Employees required to provide warning
signals must have the proper appliances _________, in good _____, and _____ for immediate
use
Red Flags and Fusees - CORRECT ANSWER - Appliances for providing warning signals
during the day
White Lights and Red Fusees - CORRECT ANSWER - Appliances used for providing
warning signals at night, or when daylight signals cannot be plainly seen
Lead locomotive, Rear car of passenger train, Shoving platforms, and Occupied cabooses -
CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Beginning - CORRECT ANSWER - Flagging equipment should be secured at the
_________ of the day
10 minutes - CORRECT ANSWER - Burning time of a fusee
Fusee designated rack - CORRECT ANSWER - Fusees are stored in...
Restricted Speed, 15 - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Platforms, bridges, buildings, composition-rubber surfaces of road crossings, other fire-prone
locations - CORRECT ANSWER - Avoid placing burning fusees in these areas
, Possession, Read, Understand - CORRECT ANSWER - Operating Rules require that train
crews must have in their _________, ____, and __________ the current Division and System
Bulletins *before* starting a tour of duty
Release Form - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Dispatcher Bulletin - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Dispatcher Message - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of a dispatcher bulletin containing
instructions and mandatory directives issued by the train dispatcher that govern the operation of
trains
Form EC-1 - CORRECT ANSWER - A form used to record specific instructions or
dispatcher messages from the train dispatcher regarding movements on controlled tracks
Steps to take after fouling a controlled track without authority - CORRECT ANSWER - 1.
Immediately notify the train dispatcher, and
2. Provide protection against trains on that track for the minimum required warning distances in
*both directions*
200 - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
STOP and PROTECT crossing from the ground - CORRECT ANSWER - If an automatic
warning device at a highway-rail crossing at grade experiences an *activation failure* and there
Train Movement UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS and CORRECT Answers
Available, Order, Ready - CORRECT ANSWER - Employees required to provide warning
signals must have the proper appliances _________, in good _____, and _____ for immediate
use
Red Flags and Fusees - CORRECT ANSWER - Appliances for providing warning signals
during the day
White Lights and Red Fusees - CORRECT ANSWER - Appliances used for providing
warning signals at night, or when daylight signals cannot be plainly seen
Lead locomotive, Rear car of passenger train, Shoving platforms, and Occupied cabooses -
CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Beginning - CORRECT ANSWER - Flagging equipment should be secured at the
_________ of the day
10 minutes - CORRECT ANSWER - Burning time of a fusee
Fusee designated rack - CORRECT ANSWER - Fusees are stored in...
Restricted Speed, 15 - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Platforms, bridges, buildings, composition-rubber surfaces of road crossings, other fire-prone
locations - CORRECT ANSWER - Avoid placing burning fusees in these areas
, Possession, Read, Understand - CORRECT ANSWER - Operating Rules require that train
crews must have in their _________, ____, and __________ the current Division and System
Bulletins *before* starting a tour of duty
Release Form - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Dispatcher Bulletin - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
Dispatcher Message - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of a dispatcher bulletin containing
instructions and mandatory directives issued by the train dispatcher that govern the operation of
trains
Form EC-1 - CORRECT ANSWER - A form used to record specific instructions or
dispatcher messages from the train dispatcher regarding movements on controlled tracks
Steps to take after fouling a controlled track without authority - CORRECT ANSWER - 1.
Immediately notify the train dispatcher, and
2. Provide protection against trains on that track for the minimum required warning distances in
*both directions*
200 - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
STOP and PROTECT crossing from the ground - CORRECT ANSWER - If an automatic
warning device at a highway-rail crossing at grade experiences an *activation failure* and there
