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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by sammythebull</i> <br /><br />The best advice from old heads I have been told on this is when your train is caught by a TWD and nothing wrong is found, still set the car out. You are only protecting yourself from a possible problem becoming a real problem. The rr can't nail you for taking the safe course. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />It depends on the Railway. <br /> <br />Here on CP, if you get hit by a Hotbox detector, you go back to inspect, and if you can't find anything wrong with the said axle, you must inspect 16 axles on either side of it. If you still can't find anything wrong, then your train may proceed. <br /> <br />If you then get hit by another hotbox detector, (with the same axle) you have to go back and inspect again, this time if you STILL don't find anything wrong, you have to set out the car no matter what. <br /> <br />Setting out the car the first time when you find nothing wrong may be the safe course, but it could very well be that there was just something wrong with the HBD, setting out the car unnecessarily is a big deal, and makes a lot of extra work for everyone, because now someone has to come out and inspect, give it the OK, and another train will have to pick the car up online. The car is now delayed (depending on what it is, it's a big deal) and it creates an entire ripple effect, a big deal indeed if there was nothing wrong in the first place. <br />
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