01. Employees are prohibited from tampering with or disabling any locomotive mounted safety device. Crew alertness devices are not considered a locomotive mounted safety device. (Rule 1.23.1)

True _____________ False ____________

02. When the radio is used instead of hand signals for backing and shoving movements, information must include: (Rule 2.13)

03. Mandatory directives are authorities to occupy a main track or speed restrictions which affect the movement of equipment. (Rule 2.14)

True _____________ False ____________

04. If the person disappears who is giving the signal to back or shove a train, engine, or car, or the light being used disappears, employees must: (Rule 5.3.3)

05. How should hand signals to stop a train be acknowledge. (Rule 5.3.5)

06. When moving engines into and out of an engine servicing area employees should use the radio to control the movement since there may be blue flags and derails in the area. (Rule 5.3.6)

True _____________ False ____________

Explain your answer:

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07. Radio communications for backing and shoving movement must specify what?: (Rule 5.3.7)

08. When a yellow flag is displayed and the restriction is not specified by a track bulletin, track warrant or general order, once the train is 2 miles beyond the yellow flag, crew members must: (Rule 5.4.2 B)

09. What action is required when a yellow-red flag is passed and the crew has no information that any form B track bulletins are in effect? (Rule 5.4.3 B)

10. After passing a yellow/red flag, a train finds a red flag displayed to the right of the main track two miles beyond. There is no Form B in effect at that location. The train must stop before passing the red flag and not proceed until: (Rule 5.4.7)

11. Your train has passed a clear signal. Two miles beyond the signal your train approaches a burning fusee near the track. What action is required? (Rule 5.6)

12. When a block signal governing the movement of your train comes into view, what and when must crew members communicate clearly to each other? (Rule 5.16)

14. Except within Track and Time limits, if movement stops while the trailing end is between the outer opposing absolute signals of a control point, the movement must not change direction without: (Rule 6.4.2)

15. When cars or engines are shoved and conditions require, a crew member must take an easily seen position on the leading car or engine, or: (Rule 6.5)

16. When a train or engine is required to move at restricted speed, movement must be made at a speed that allows: (Rule 6.27)

17. While moving on a yard track you must proceed: (Rule 6.28)

19. Employee must maintain a three-point contact while riding on the side of a car, engine or other equipment when moving through gates, doorways or similar openings. (Rule 7.10)

True _____________ False ____________

Explain your answer:

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20. When shoving cars into a spur track, control movement to prevent damage at the end of the track, and: (Rule 7.12)

22. Hand-thrown derails on a siding must left be in the derailing position when no cars or engines are left on the siding. (SSI-Rule 8.20)

True _____________ False ____________

Explain your answer:

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24. Your train has entered a block on a green signal aspect within TWC limits. Your train slows down to 5 MPH due to heavy grade conditions. After cresting the grade, how must you proceed while in the same block? (Rule 9.9)

25. A train moving in non-signaled territory passes a distant signal displaying a Clear aspect approaching an automatic interlocking. The train’s speed is 15 MPH. What action is required? (Rule 9.9.1)

26. You have just set out a car from your train in CTC territory on signal indication and are making a shoving movement to re-couple to the rear of your train. You are approaching an absolute signal displaying a Red aspect. What action is required to pass this signal? (Rule 9.12.1)

27. Your train is stopped at an absolute signal displaying a Stop indication at a manual interlocking. If no conflicting movement is evident, what is required? (Rule 9.12.2)

28. You are stopped at an absolute signal displaying a Stop indication at an automatic interlocking. What is required? (Rule 9.12.3)

29. You have just set out a car from your train in TWC territory and are making a shoving movement to re-couple to the rear of your train. You are approaching an absolute signal displaying a Red aspect. What action is required to pass this signal? Rule 9.12.4

30. You stop your train in TWC/ABS territory and detach your engine and one car to set out in a spur track. The track is located off the main track between switches of a siding. When returning to your train, you stop short of the signal at the end of the siding displaying a Stop indication. How may you pass the absolute signal to reenter the main track and return to your train? (Rule 9.12.4/9.17)

31. Your train is stopped at a controlled signal displaying a Stop indication. The train dispatcher has authorized your train to pass the signal displaying Stop and to proceed on the main track. The train dispatcher has also instructed you to take the power off the dual control switch and line it for your movement. What action is required? (Rule 9.13, 9.13.1)

32. A train may pass a signal displaying Stop and Proceed without stopping when the signal is within track and time, work and time, work between, or track permit limits (Rule 9.16)

True _____________ False ____________

33. You have lined the switch to enter the main track within ABS yard limits. What are some conditions that would relieve you of waiting 5 minutes before entering the main track? How must the train proceed if there is no governing signal? (Rule 9.17 and 9.10)

A. _________________________________________________________.

B. _________________________________________________________.

C. _________________________________________________________.

D. _________________________________________________________.

44. Your train is approaching CP 210, the beginning of CTC territory. The absolute signal at that location is displaying a "Lunar" aspect. (Rule 10.1)

A. Do you need verbal authority from the train dispatcher to enter CTC? _________

B. If your answer is "yes", explain:_______________________________________

C. If your answer is "no", explain:________________________________________

45. Your train needs to enter the main track in CTC from any industry track and the main track switch is a hand-operated switch that is not electrically locked. You are stopped at a "non" controlled absolute signal, displaying a Red aspect, which governs movement to the main track. (Rule 10.1)

A. What authority is required to enter the CTC main track?

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B. Under the above condition, after lining the switch, is it necessary to wait 5 minutes before entering the CTC main track?

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C. What authority to enter the main track in CTC would be required if part of your own train was left out on the main track?

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D. Refer to part (c.): Given this condition, would it be necessary to wait 5 minutes before entering the CTC main track?

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46. Your train is stopped at an absolute signal displaying a Stop indication at a control point in CTC territory. (Rule 10.3-A)

A. The train dispatcher has issued your train track and time from the control point where you are stopped (CP 210) to control point CP 215. Do you need any other authority to enter your track and time limits other than the track and time authority?

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B. After entering the track and time limits, your train approaches an absolute signal at a control point within the track and time limits:

• Are you required to stop before passing that signal?

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• Is addition authority required to pass that signal?

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47. Your train has received track and time limits issued by the train dispatcher that is "joint" with an employee (name given): (Rule 10.3.3 & SYS GO-Rule 6.3)

A. What action is required before entering the "joint" limits?

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B. What speed can the train operate at within "joint" limits?

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C. What speed can the train operate at when limits are not "joint"?

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48. When a train and an employee using an on-track vehicle need to occupy the same track and time limits in CTC, which movement is required to have "joint" track and time? (Rule 10.3.3)

49. A train is moving within track and time limits and passes a signal displaying a Stop and Proceed indication without stopping: (Rule 10.3 )

A. Is this a violation of any rule?

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B. Explain you answer in (A.)

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51. Between what limits can UP444 operate at maximum authorized speed? (Rule 14.2)

____________________ and ___________________

What if it is not at the initial station?

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60. Unless instructed otherwise by the employee in charge, a train moving at restricted speed within the limits of a track bulletin Form B must move at restricted speed until the rear of the train clears the limits. (Rule 15.2)

True _____________ False ____________

Explain ____________________________________________

61. When "STOP" is written in the Stop column on a track bulletin Form B, a train moving within the limits at the time the track bulletin Form B takes effect must be stopped and not move until granted permission from the employee in charge. (Rule 15.2-C)

True _____________ False ____________

62. A train is about to enter a main track from a yard track at a point that is within the limits of a track bulletin Form B on the main track. The crew members have a copy of the track bulletin Form B. What action, if any, is required with regard to the track bulletin Form B? (Rule 15.2-D)

63. An entire track bulletin, a part of a track bulletin or a numbered line on a track bulletin may be verbally "voided" only by the train dispatcher. (Rule 15.13)

True _____________ False ____________