GCOR.. top secret?

[cabforward]

is there a way to get an out-of-date copy of the gcor? any year, doesn't matter.. just something to give an idea on rules-of-the-railroad..

[edblysard]

Use your search engine, try momma.com. Type in G.C.O.R. , cap letters and periods. You will get the current edition.
Ed

[edblysard]

Sorry, what you get is the third edition, april. 1994.....pretty much the same...careful, it can fry your brain.
Ed

[Anonymous]

Holy crap Train! Are you crazy? I have found better reading on bathroom stalls! I spent 15 weeks reading that stuff day in and day out, only to be rewarded with a 280 question test on all of it. Don't get me wrong, it is the "final word," on RR rules and I know it well. But if you don't work for the RR, don't waste your time. It is extremely wordy (by that I mean it takes them 2 paragraphs to state what the average guy could say in 2 sentences) and very dry reading. Alot of it probably won't make much sense unless you get out on the rails and apply it. I personally find railroad history much more interesting. Given the chance, I would throw rocks at GCOR and any other railroad reading for a current issue of Maxim magazine (got some good lookin' chicks in there)

[wabash1]

15 weeks. heck we got 2 weeks and passed our test. but it may be interesting to him so he can get a idea of what we are talking about when we mention a rule or a situation. one of the best things he could do is while a trainmaster is chewing him out for whatching trains he can make a fool of them by recieting the rules the trainmaster is breaking then walk off.

[Anonymous]

Try this BNSF url
http://www.bnsf-ttc.com/bnsftime/index.html

[Anonymous]

Hey wabash, I said that I had to be in the class for 15 weeks. I didn't say that I needed 15 weeks. I passed with a 98.5%. I have an old Santa Fe rule book from the early 70's. It is about 1/2" thick and easily fits in your back pocket. My, how things have changed.

[Anonymous]

I agree Ed the fourth edition has fried my brain at times to also throw in a monkey wrench the systems special instructions are more often over ride some of the rules then throw in the hazmat instructions if you are on a local that will make you crazy to put your train togatheralso the divisional timetable keeps making a new conductor keep asking where the he** am I and lets not forget the systems general orders and all terminal instructions. Also 15 weeks it is dry material. Rodney

[edblysard]

And add to that, theres a rule that says you gotta drag all that crap around with you. Our copy has a really nice grip it came in, with handles. Its about the size of a phone book. Sad you need to take a briefcase with you to haul all your paperwork just to work at the railroad.
Ed

[Anonymous]

Ed, you can buy a Palm Pilot relatively cheap. I have GCOR, ABTH, Hazmat, SSI, The 2000 big hazmat book, Emp. safety rules, and most of the Timetables for the BNSF on mine. Alot better than carrying around that book and you are still in compliance by carrying a palm.

[edblysard]

That would be cool, but the railroad god at the port say we gotta have the book...Lucky you..

[edblysard]

That would be cool, but the railroad god at the port say we gotta have the book...Lucky you..

[khhogger]

BE WARNED THAT THERE SHOULD BE A LABEL ATTACHED TO G.C.O.R. "WARNING THIS PUBLICATION CAN CAUSE DROWSINESS, AND EVENTUALLY DEEP SLEEP. DO NOT READ WHILE OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY."
KHHOGGER

[wabash1]

you say you passed with a 98.5 i did mine with a 99 missed 1 question. but that dont mean anything. remeber this no matter what you do on that test that is how that examiner interpeted the rules now on the division that train master interpets the rules differant. believe me each time you get a new train master or road forman that is the test you must pass. his interpetations are the only ones that count.

[Anonymous]

Yeah Wabash, the interpretation of the rules are always subject to the officials personal "distortion," of any given rule. It seems to me that for a publication so focused on the complete definition of a rule, there sure is alot of manipulation by officials.

[Anonymous]

I can get A copy of it for you. E-mail me at [e-mail]

[Anonymous]

There needs to be another warning lable attached to it and it should read this book can cause brain damage. As for the officals no two of the read the rules the same as the operating conductor and engineer their for if we do not go by there inturpition we get chewed out but we the operating crew must obey the GCOR. With the above posting they need to put padding on it to cushion the blow to the head when you nod off reading it. Rodney