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1.1 Safety Ans✓✓✓ Safety is the most important element in performing
duties. Obeying the rules is essential to job safety and continued
employment.
1.33 Inspection of Freight Cars Ans✓✓✓ When personnel are not on
duty primarily to inspect freight cars, each car placed in the train may be
moved after it receives a safety inspection as follows:
• Cars must be checked for:
- Leaning.
- Sagging.
- Improper position on the truck.
- Objects hanging or dragging from the car or extending from the side.
- Insecurely attached doors.
- Broken or missing safety appliances.
- Contents leaking from placarded hazardous material car.
- Insecure coupling device.
- Overheated wheel or journal.
- Broken or cracked wheel.
- Brake that fails to release.
- Staff type brake not in fully raised position.
- Any apparent hazard that could cause an accident.
,• Open top loads, including trailers and containers on flat cars, must be
loaded safely.
• If width or height approaches clearance restrictions, movement must be
cleared with the proper authority.
A freight car with any defect that makes movement unsafe must be
corrected or set out of the train. When a defect is discovered enroute,
note the type of defect on proper tag and attach a tag on each side of the
car.
A freight car with three bad order tags indicating that the car is safe to
move may be moved to the nearest car repair point. The conductor will
remove one bad order tag from the side with two tags. The conductor
will use this written information from the tag to inform other crew
members of the restrictions.
1.4.1 Good Faith Challenge Ans✓✓✓ A. Right to Challenge
Federal Regulations have provisions that allow an employee the right to
challenge a directive which, based upon the employee's good faith
determination, would violate a railroad operating rule relating to:
• Shoving movements.
• Leaving equipment foul of an adjacent track.
• Handling of hand-operated switches or fixed derails.
B. Good Faith Challenge Procedure
1. An employee may inform a supervisor issuing a directive that a good
faith determination has been made that the directive would violate a
railroad operating rule relating to:
,• Shoving movements.
• Leaving equipment foul of an adjacent track.
• Handling of hand-operated switches or fixed derails.
2. The supervisor will not require the employee to comply with the
directive until the challenge is resolved. The supervisor may:
• Require the challenging employee to perform other tasks not related to
the challenge until the challenge is resolved.
• Direct an employee, other than the challenging employee, to perform
the challenged task before the challenge is resolved. Employee so
directed will be informed of the challenge, and determine that the
challenged task does not violate the rules.
C. Resolving Good Faith Challenge
1. A challenge may be resolved by one of the following:
• The supervisor's acceptance of the employee's request.
• An employee's acceptance of the directive.
• An employee's agreement to a compromise solution acceptable to the
person issuing the directive.
2. If the challenge cannot be resolved because the supervisor issuing the
directive has determined that the employee's challenge has not been
made in good faith or there is no alternative to the direct order, the
railroad will:
• Provide immediate review by at least one manager, which must not be
conducted by the supervisor issuing the challenged directive or that
supervis
, 1.47 Duties of Crew Members Ans✓✓✓ The conductor and the
engineer are responsible for the safety and protection of their train and
observance of the rules. They must ensure that their subordinates are
familiar with their duties, determine
the extent of their experience and knowledge of the rules. They must
instruct them, when necessary, how to perform their work properly and
safely. If any conditions are not covered by the rules, they must take
precautions to provide protection.
10.1 Authority to Enter CTC Limits Ans✓✓✓ CTC limits are
designated in the timetable. Sidings within CTC limits are controlled
sidings and are governed by CTC rules. A train must not enter or occupy
any track where CTC is in effect unless a controlled signal displays a
proceed indication or the control operator authorizes:
• Movement past a Stop indication under Rule 9.12.1 (CTC Territory).
• A train to enter track between block signals as follows: "(Train) at
(location) has authority to enter (track) and proceed (direction)." After
entering the track, the train is authorized to move only in the direction
specified.
• Track and Time under Rule 10.3 (Track and Time).
Signal Governing Movement Over a Hand-Operated Switch
If a signal governs movement over a hand-operated switch that is not
electrically locked, the control operator must authorize the train to enter
or occupy any track where CTC is in effect before the switch is opened.
After the switch is opened, if the signal does not display a proceed
indication, a crew member must wait 10 minutes at the switch. After the
accurate answers
1.1 Safety Ans✓✓✓ Safety is the most important element in performing
duties. Obeying the rules is essential to job safety and continued
employment.
1.33 Inspection of Freight Cars Ans✓✓✓ When personnel are not on
duty primarily to inspect freight cars, each car placed in the train may be
moved after it receives a safety inspection as follows:
• Cars must be checked for:
- Leaning.
- Sagging.
- Improper position on the truck.
- Objects hanging or dragging from the car or extending from the side.
- Insecurely attached doors.
- Broken or missing safety appliances.
- Contents leaking from placarded hazardous material car.
- Insecure coupling device.
- Overheated wheel or journal.
- Broken or cracked wheel.
- Brake that fails to release.
- Staff type brake not in fully raised position.
- Any apparent hazard that could cause an accident.
,• Open top loads, including trailers and containers on flat cars, must be
loaded safely.
• If width or height approaches clearance restrictions, movement must be
cleared with the proper authority.
A freight car with any defect that makes movement unsafe must be
corrected or set out of the train. When a defect is discovered enroute,
note the type of defect on proper tag and attach a tag on each side of the
car.
A freight car with three bad order tags indicating that the car is safe to
move may be moved to the nearest car repair point. The conductor will
remove one bad order tag from the side with two tags. The conductor
will use this written information from the tag to inform other crew
members of the restrictions.
1.4.1 Good Faith Challenge Ans✓✓✓ A. Right to Challenge
Federal Regulations have provisions that allow an employee the right to
challenge a directive which, based upon the employee's good faith
determination, would violate a railroad operating rule relating to:
• Shoving movements.
• Leaving equipment foul of an adjacent track.
• Handling of hand-operated switches or fixed derails.
B. Good Faith Challenge Procedure
1. An employee may inform a supervisor issuing a directive that a good
faith determination has been made that the directive would violate a
railroad operating rule relating to:
,• Shoving movements.
• Leaving equipment foul of an adjacent track.
• Handling of hand-operated switches or fixed derails.
2. The supervisor will not require the employee to comply with the
directive until the challenge is resolved. The supervisor may:
• Require the challenging employee to perform other tasks not related to
the challenge until the challenge is resolved.
• Direct an employee, other than the challenging employee, to perform
the challenged task before the challenge is resolved. Employee so
directed will be informed of the challenge, and determine that the
challenged task does not violate the rules.
C. Resolving Good Faith Challenge
1. A challenge may be resolved by one of the following:
• The supervisor's acceptance of the employee's request.
• An employee's acceptance of the directive.
• An employee's agreement to a compromise solution acceptable to the
person issuing the directive.
2. If the challenge cannot be resolved because the supervisor issuing the
directive has determined that the employee's challenge has not been
made in good faith or there is no alternative to the direct order, the
railroad will:
• Provide immediate review by at least one manager, which must not be
conducted by the supervisor issuing the challenged directive or that
supervis
, 1.47 Duties of Crew Members Ans✓✓✓ The conductor and the
engineer are responsible for the safety and protection of their train and
observance of the rules. They must ensure that their subordinates are
familiar with their duties, determine
the extent of their experience and knowledge of the rules. They must
instruct them, when necessary, how to perform their work properly and
safely. If any conditions are not covered by the rules, they must take
precautions to provide protection.
10.1 Authority to Enter CTC Limits Ans✓✓✓ CTC limits are
designated in the timetable. Sidings within CTC limits are controlled
sidings and are governed by CTC rules. A train must not enter or occupy
any track where CTC is in effect unless a controlled signal displays a
proceed indication or the control operator authorizes:
• Movement past a Stop indication under Rule 9.12.1 (CTC Territory).
• A train to enter track between block signals as follows: "(Train) at
(location) has authority to enter (track) and proceed (direction)." After
entering the track, the train is authorized to move only in the direction
specified.
• Track and Time under Rule 10.3 (Track and Time).
Signal Governing Movement Over a Hand-Operated Switch
If a signal governs movement over a hand-operated switch that is not
electrically locked, the control operator must authorize the train to enter
or occupy any track where CTC is in effect before the switch is opened.
After the switch is opened, if the signal does not display a proceed
indication, a crew member must wait 10 minutes at the switch. After the
