CSX Conductor Week 2 - Introduction
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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 Fuses - correct answer ✔✔ Appliances for providing warning signals during the
day
White Lights and Red Fuses - 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
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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 Fuses - correct answer ✔✔ Appliances for providing warning signals during the
day
White Lights and Red Fuses - 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
