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Seaboard Signals: Tips on studying

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Posted by csxengineer98 on Friday, January 2, 2004 10:54 AM
all the signals in one rule grouping are all the same meaning...the siglan charts are read from left to right....
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 1, 2004 9:25 PM
csx engineer,

Thanks for the tips. It sounds like I just gotta have the patience to sit down and memorize this stuff until I start dreaming about it. By the way, there are sets of signal indications per rule #, (a), (b), (c), etc. are those variations of the same signal?? Anywho, thanks for your help and I'll break out the pen and start writing. [;)]

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Posted by csxengineer98 on Thursday, January 1, 2004 9:11 PM
if your going to the csx choo choo U school ....you better get use to writers cramp... they will want the indication, (clear, limited clear, ext ext..)....the diffinition..WORD FOR WORD, PERIOD FOR PERIOD, COMMA FOR COMMA, as it is in the rule book....and when i went to school they wanted chessie and seaboard system signal tests for us, so it was 2time as much writing, now i dont know if they do the NORAC ones or not,... also, not just signals, you need to know the deffintion of an APP marker Doll Arms.... as well as a crap load of other things that are signal related. also...if you got a rule book or something that your useing as a pre study guide, also know the deffintions of CONTROLLED ...RESTRICTED, LIMITED, MEDIUM AND SLOW SPEEDs
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Seaboard Signals: Tips on studying
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 1, 2004 4:01 PM
Hey all,

I'm studying my seaboard signals early so I can get them out of the way before I start conductor training class. I was wondering what exactly we are tested on? I am familiar with the signal descriptions and names, but I'm not sure how I'm tested. Do I have to write out each rule #, name, and description, or is it matching, or multiple choice? I figure that if I can know how the test is I can gear my studying towards it. I appreciate any tips. [:D]

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