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Definitely - Ed's description presents a clear picture. Some of us in our safety class, after we heard the FRA guy's stories on proper radio usage, said amongst ourselves, "Man! It's a good thing we don't have radios!" (we did what little work we had to do using hand signals, which, when you think of it on a tourist line with short train lengths, may have been safer because the engineer had to make eye-to-eye contact with the brakeman or conductor involved). We had a similar procedure to what Ed describes regarding "set and centered": When I as the brakeman gave the hand signal to the engineer I needed to adjust a coupler and attach a brakeline or whatever, I couldn't move until the engineer acknowledged my request and gave me the hand signal to proceed. He additionally, after stopping the locomotive and having taken his hand off the throttle, would give one short toot on the whistle to indicate the train was fully stopped and his hands off the throttle. I'd then signal I needed to go in, he'd acknowledge my request and hand-signal me in. When I was finished I'd make sure he saw I was out and then he'd wait for a signal from to draw-out the slack or proceed with his move - no movement without proper hand-signalling.
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