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Remote control question
Posted by sanvtoman on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:10 PM
 After reading Awsome,s  question i was wondering about night time operation of RC units.  With one man operation is night operation goverened by different rules?
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Posted by route_rock on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:54 AM

 I am lost one man operations?Who does that and how do you protect your movements?But anyway no same rules 24/7. We have  a foreman and helper with our jobs.One (helper) sits on the motor foreman does the ground work.

  We had a good pile up of remotes here in the yard the other day. Funny no mention of it in offical circles lol. Kinda like the Wizard of Oz "Pay no attention to the wreck on the lead "

Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train

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Posted by UPRR engineer on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:24 PM

The power of "The Zone" protects the point.

Think ive heard of some of those trim jobs being one man RCL jobs. 

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Posted by route_rock on Friday, May 16, 2008 10:14 PM
  Everything at BN is two man even in Zones. ANd obviously the Zones are not working here as we have been banging them togther.

Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train

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Posted by enr2099 on Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:09 PM

 route_rock wrote:
  Everything at BN is two man even in Zones. ANd obviously the Zones are not working here as we have been banging them togther.

 

It's the same here on CN. Flat yard beltpacks operate with a foreman and helper. However hump yard beltpacks only have a foreman.  

Tyler W. CN hog

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