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To answer one of your questions Chris, generally if the FRA levies fines or sanctions, they are almost always against the railroad company, not against individual railroad employees, unless an employee caused an injury or fatality from grossly negligent behavior. <br /> <br />To attempt to answer your other question (if I understand it correctly), the railroad crew callers (which are seperate from dispatchers at least on Class 1's and most regional lines) are responsible for ensuring that train serv ice employees are given an adequate amount of rest time under HOS laws, although GCOR states that it is also the trainman's responsibility to inform the crew caller and / or other supervisors in the event a crew caller makes an error that violates HOS rest time requirements. <br /> <br />The FRA does have the authority to police these violations too, but I am not sure that they do much pro-active policing, especially on shortline railroads, unless they have a specific reason to be concerned about a particular railroad or division.
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