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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Mark_W._Hemphill</i> <br /><br /> <br /> <br />[quote]QUOTE: 10.) Why is it so important that employees not divulge signal indications over the radio? Is it just to keep the chatter down?[/quote] <br /> <br />No. It's because it's highly unsafe. It adds uncertainty. Which signal is someone looking at? Who are they talking to? Did they see it correctly? The operating rules require the crew who TAKES the signal to SEE the signal. Besides, if you are the person observing the signal aspect and telling someone else the indication, and they do something wrong, you're now sharing the liability. <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Mark, perhaps I am confused, but that explanation falls in conflict with (my understanding, anyway) of Norfolk Southern's operating rule 34 which states in part: <br /> <br /> <br /><i>A crew member on the controlling locomotive will communicate by radio <br />the name and location of each signal affecting his movement as soon as the <br />signal becomes visible. <br />If there are crew members on trailing units and/or caboose they will <br />acknowledge the transmission, repeating the information to crew <br />member(s) on the controlling locomotive.</i> <br /> <br />Specific to the finding of fault of Norfolk Southern crew in the wreck summarized at <br /> <br />http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/1999/RAR9902.pdf the above text was extracted from page 16 of the NTSB accident report with follow up discussion on pages 17 and 25 <br /> <br />Granted, the entire accident ordeal, complete with sleeping engineer and conductor while a student engineer operated the train under instruction to violate the official rules makes for a surreal scenario, but the story seems to say that NS does expect signal aspects, numbers, and location to be radioed to the dispatcher <br /> <br /> <br />Am I missing something?
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