Notable Job Positions

[Anonymous]

I am writing a manual for local city officials on railroad operations. The manual will include a list of railroad positions and their responsibilities.

What do you feel are the most important positions these officials should know about? Thanks.

[wabash1]

if you are talking about accedent or derailment the first person you will see and talk to is the conductor. he is the escape goat for the railroad. he will have all your needed info as to load info type of haz-mat is involved and soforth after that the mext person in line will either be trainmaster or roadforman these are the officials that will show up. along with railroad cops. otherwise if your looking for someone to ask queations to the order goes something like this. superattendant,his assitant.then down to terminal super and his assitant then to train masters. for engineers we have roadformans and there bosses i really dont know if they are called distric or not. i probley missed one or two but thats close for the transportaion part. signal men have there own chain of command. and so do mantanance in the way. hope this is some what helpful

[thirdrail1]

You had better check with the Chief Safety Officers of the railroads serving your town and vet any manual with them. You really should not be attempting such a manual if you have to ask the question you posed, as you are leaving yourself open to liability in a lawsuit if the procedures you suggest or the contact people you furnish are felt by an attorney to have contributed in any way to hindering the post-accident efforts.

[wabash1]

i agree with you that he should check but just having the info isnt harmful. the first thing they teach you is that as the conductor you dont talk about the incident to anyone except police fire on location. any other people you refer them to the official on location. if he aint there then they dont get info. so if its media personel they wont get nothing anyways if they ask the conductor. the local police have the phone numbers on who to contact in case of a emergency anyways. talk to the trainmaster at your local yard he will help if the reason is good. otherwise you still be trying to put a book together.