QUOTE: Originally posted by ValleyX How do you know, Junctionfan? I don't know anything about Canadian operating rules but just because there aren't any resume speed boards, could there be a slow order there and the boards haven't been put up yet? It's far easier to go out and watch a local or a yard crew work and observe them obeying rules than it is for weed weasels to watch a road through freight, unless they observe them through slow orders, speed through town ordinances, speed across the rail, etc., etc. Now, when they're stopped, that's another story.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Rustyrex <<<quote>>>They have been know, at least on the road I work for, to literally hide behind a cut of cars in a sideing, and, as a train approaches on our main, throw a red flag out in between the rails, then charge the engineer with running a red signal and operating over restricted speed. Of course, 75 feet is way too short to stop a 80 car train in, but thats not the point....<<<>>> ......as well as holding down a 14,000 ton train on a 1% grade with a fusee burning on the inside rail in a curve ahead and the TMO wanting you to pull up about 150 feet so he can hop on the engine and fini***he Evaluation, only to drop another as you kick off the air [:(!]. I knew an engineer this happened to. Though, the best one from this particular TMO was the night he was dropping a fusee in the snow continuously as a crew rounded the corner to see a red light going, then disappear into the 10 inches of snow about 15 times over and over, as he was dropping these from a hill in a sort of blind corner in Yard Limits, supposedly hoping to hit the inside rails. Needless to say the crew stopped short of the general fusee landing spot(s) and laughed themselves silly at the frustrated TMO. The crew was telling the yardmaster on the radio about these red UFOs he was seeing as you hear the conductor in the background just dying laughing.[:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Rustyrex Though, the best one from this particular TMO was the night he was dropping a fusee in the snow continuously as a crew rounded the corner to see a red light going, then disappear into the 10 inches of snow about 15 times over and over, as he was dropping these from a hill in a sort of blind corner in Yard Limits, supposedly hoping to hit the inside rails. Needless to say the crew stopped short of the general fusee landing spot(s) and laughed themselves silly at the frustrated TMO. The crew was telling the yardmaster on the radio about these red UFOs he was seeing as you hear the conductor in the background just dying laughing.[:D]
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