SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF A 1985 "OPERATING RULES STUDY GUIDE". * * * * * * * 1. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING: Traffic Control:___________________ Controlled Interlocking:___________ Automatic Interlocking:____________ Operations Bulletin:_______________ Permissive Block:__________________ Reduced Speed:_____________________ Restricted Speed:__________________ Power Operated Switch:_____________ 2. What is required of employees before taking pictures on Company property? 3. What is required of an employee subject to the Hours of Service Act? 4. What are the hand signals for the following defects? Sticking Brakes:___________________ Hot Journal:_______________________ Wheel Sliding:_____________________ Derailed or broken wheel:__________ Defective Truck:___________________ Dragging brake rigging:____________ Lading shifted over side of car:___ Swinging box car door:_____________ 5. Employees walking around the end of a standing car adjusting drawbar or knuckle must have a minimum of how much open space?____________________ 6. Where must an employee stand when adjusting coupler or knuckle?________ 7. What must employees do when riding on the side of moving equipment?____ 8. What are the restrictions that prohibit and employee from riding on the side of moving equipment through turnouts and crossovers? 9. What must a person have, excluding those used in the discharge of his duty, to ride on a freight train or on an engine?______________________ 10. What is required of a train after either the conductor or engineer has given the train's location and departure time, for the purpose of updating a line-up?____________________________________________________ 11. Is sleeping on duty prohibited?___________________ 12. When an employee is lying down or in a slouched position with eyes closed or with eyes covered or concealed, he will be considered:______________ 13. Who must authorize the placement in a train of cars or other equipment that would restrict the movement of a train?___________________________ 14. What is the watch requirement for employees governed by the timetable?_ 15. When are extra trains exempt from displaying classification signals?___ 16. Who is responsible for the unnecessary delay to trains?________________ 17. What is required of a detoured train at the point where it returns to it's own rails?____________________________________ 18. What is needed by the inferior train to pass a first class train?______ 19. What must be done by a first class train that turns off the main track? 20. How will a train be governed at a meeting point that is required to pull by and back in?__________________________________ 21. In non-signaled territory, how is relief from rear end protection provided when trains operate without cabooses?________ 22. What does a number plate below a speed limit sign indicate?____________ 23. What's required of a moving train with an emergency brake application? 24. How is standing equipment secured?____________________ 25. After an engine couples to standing equipment, hand brakes must not be released until this is known:______________________ 26. When cars or engines are shoved over a public grade crossing, a member of the crew must be properly stationed on the ground to afford protection for persons or vehicles approaching the crossing except:_________________ 27. What is required of the crews involved in switching when more than one engine may be working on the same track?________________________________ 28. What is required before attempting to couple to standing engines or cars? 29. What must be known before attempting to couple cars on curves or in switches?______________________________________________ 30. What is the normal position for a main track switch?_____________________ 31. What must be known by the employee before lining a main line switch for a diverging movement for an approaching train or engine?_________________ 32. Employees operating switches by hand must see this:______________________ 33. When are switches of a crossover in corresponding position?______________ 34. What is the maximum speed through turnouts on crossovers?________________ 35. In ABS territory, before crossing over from one main track to another at hand operated switches, trains & engines must:___________________________ 36. Movements against the current of traffic may be made only by:____________ 37. When a train or engine is moving against the current of traffic, it must approach all facing point switches at what speed?________________________ 38. Semaphore arms and lights of a train order signal must be in what position when no operator is on duty at that station?____________________ 39. When receiving clearance cards, conductors, engineers, and when practical other crew members, must see that the information shown on clearance card corresponds with what?___________________________________________________ 40. What is required if a proceed signal changes to stop while a movement is approaching it or when movement encounters a stop signal not indicated by the preceding signal?_____________________________ 41. What is required if any part of a train or engine movement overruns a "STOP" signal?_______________________________________ 42. Where is the stop made, if possible, to receive a pusher engine?_________ 43. What authority must a train or engine have to make a reverse movement past a signal after the forward movement has entirely passed that signal? 44. In signal territory, what is required to make a reverse movement that will not pass a signal?______________________________ 45. In ABS territory when no communication is possible, how may a train or engine pass a "STOP" signal?_________________________ 46. In ABS territory when may a train or engine pass a stop signal to couple to equipment?_________________________________ 47. Train dispatchers report to and receive instructions from whom?__________ 48. Where must the trainmen ride on the engine of moving freight trains?_____ 49. What is the required brake test on transfer cuts and yard movements not exceeding 20 miles?______________________________ 50. The angle cock must be left in what position when cars with air brakes operative are set off and left standing?_________________________________ * * * END * * *