Operating using NORAC Form D's

[Anonymous]

Since the AS&N is in the Northeastern US I'm going to have to operate under NORAC (forgot what it stands for) rules which includes using Form D's (http://crcyc.railfan.net/refs/ephem/formd.gif), has anyone else operated using them?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I've operated under them in real life while in Bennings Yard, which is in Southeast Washington, DC (A real nice place). CSX DTC blocks are much better and easier in my opinion.

[ClinchValleySD40]

There are many model railroaders that use TWC (Track Warrant Control) for operations. A great site with plenty of info is

http://www.lundsten.dk/us_signaling/twc/

Zuna, I also prefer DTC but isn't CSX switching to TWC? I heard that down south the change has already started.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Zuna

Yeah, I've operated under them in real life while in Bennings Yard, which is in Southeast Washington, DC (A real nice place). CSX DTC blocks are much better and easier in my opinion.

Hmmm....I used to work out of Benning yard on occasion 3 years ago. I remember those Form D's for the "creek". I agree with you. CSX DTC blocks are easier to use. So, have you all moved into the new yard office yet, and have they torn down the old one?

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by clinchvalley

There are many model railroaders that use TWC (Track Warrant Control) for operations. A great site with plenty of info is

http://www.lundsten.dk/us_signaling/twc/

Zuna, I also prefer DTC but isn't CSX switching to TWC? I heard that down south the change has already started.

I thought that looked like a track warrant. Thanks for the link.

Mark, it takes a pretty long mainline on a model railroad to justify the use of a form like that. By the way, how is that yard plan coming along.

[NHRRJET]

NORAC is the acronym for Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee. I use Norac on a daily basis in my position with the railroad and think its great!

[Anonymous]

I don't work out of Bennings. I used to go there on coal trains when I worked out of Brunswick, but now I work as a conductor out of Cumberland, Maryland. Supposedly, we are supposed to be going to TWC and getting rid of the DTC blocks.


Dave, I thought your name looked familiar! I remember seeing your name on the computer at work. I never did get a chance to meet you, though. Where did you hire out of? I've been with this company for a little over 4 years now and it feels like an eternity!




-John Zuna

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Zuna

I don't work out of Bennings. I used to go there on coal trains when I worked out of Brunswick, but now I work as a conductor out of Cumberland, Maryland. Supposedly, we are supposed to be going to TWC and getting rid of the DTC blocks.


Dave, I thought your name looked familiar! I remember seeing your name on the computer at work. I never did get a chance to meet you, though. Where did you hire out of? I've been with this company for a little over 4 years now and it feels like an eternity!




-John Zuna

Hey there John,
I hired out on July 31,2000 in Baltimore, but was promptly furlowed upon finishing my conductor training that December. I was then sort of saved by the Brunswick Trainmaster who put me in qualifying status on the D756 starting 12/26/00-jan 31, 2001. Then I qualified on the Pope's Creek branch coal trains and Benning yard operations throughout the rest of the winter. After that the only place I could mark up was Richmond, VA-quite a haul for someone who lives in Millersville, MD. Crew Manangement (or mismanagement as I like to say) re-opened up Baltimore to me that fall and I managed to work the rest of that fall sporadically out of Baltimore while trying to avoid bankruptcy due to the lack of extra board slots to mark up on (thank you crew management-pin heads!). CSX furlowed me again about a month after my father died and I decided that I'd had enough. I never went back and forgot all about the fact that they might call me up to work again. They did call me in May and I never responded..............

........................................sometime in August 2002, I was looking up my status on my friend's computer (he's still working for them) and saw that CSX had terminated me as an employee. So that was that. Sorry about rambling so. I keep toying with the idea of trying to get my job back, but I don't want sporadic work like I had that last Fall that I worked.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Dave,

Sorry to hear how it worked out for you. Good post on what it can be like, a must reading for anyone considering work in train service.

Larry