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To answer a couple of things you asked, this is the M Lead off the Red Deer sub. The spur in question spots the North Hill News and has a derail on the east side of 19th Street. The crews that work there yes may seem lacking in their awareness to the rules that you are learning in school. I too attended Buck U and the cndr program there. Learning the books and applying the rules is completely different than actually working on the ground. You will find this out faster than anything else when you finish at SAIT. I myself spent two weeks training on the assignment that works the M Lead. I can garauntee that the crew had some form of job briefing as to whom would be where and what they would do. Also as for the derail and the distance that should be travelled before a stop is made, as long as the engr stops short of the derail there is no need to worry about this situation. Did the cndr flag for the crossing? I didnt see you mention anything about that, and because the west side of the crossing is a mere half car from the derail and you said he was 25 feet from the movement is a stop really needed in this situation? The derail itself is another car from the joint they would have been making. I am not going to say that you should work unsafely, and SAIT does an excellent job promoting it, but like some of the other people have mentioned there are corners that you can cut, ones you know are safe and you can get away with. This just happens to be a bad example to students, by railroaders with years of experience/ My two cents MWS
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