1. Where in a solid intermodal train, 4,000 total tons, would you place a two-axle Front Runner car (TTOX)? (SSI Item 5-A)

2. Where in a mixed-freight train, 6,500 total tons, would you place a two-axle Front Runner car (TTOX)? (SSI Item 5-A)

3. A train's total trailing tonnage is 6,500 tons. Where would you be required to place an empty conventional type intermodal car in this train? (SSI Item 5-A)

4. The system wide Standard Maximum Gross Weight Limitation for a 4-axle car is 158 tons. (SSI Item 6)

a. True or False?
b. If you answer False, what is the correct answer? ______________tons

5. If there were a different allowable maximum gross weight limitation than the standard, in what document would you find the information? (SSI Item 6)

6. During hot weather, conditions exist that could affect track structure and train speed may have to be reduced with regard to the average tons per car or platform. Consider a freight train that consists of ten, five platform double stack cars, a total weight of 5,500 tons. What is the "average tons per car/platform? What is the maximum speed for this train when a "Level 2" heat restriction is in effect? (SSI Item 2-C)

a. ____________ ; ____________

7. What is the Tons Per Operative Brake (TPOB) of a train that consists of ten, five platform spine cars with a total weight of 2000 tons? (SSI Item 2-F)

a. 100 TPOB
b. 150 TPOB
c. 200 TPOB

8. What is the Tons Per Operative Brake (TPOB) of a train that consists of twenty-five (25) loaded tank cars and fifty (50) empty tank cars with a total weight of 7,500 tons? (SSI Item 2-F)

a. 100 TPOB
b. 150 TPOB
c. 200 TPOB

9. When would it be proper to place a block of at least 20 continuous empty cars and/or platforms anywhere in a train ahead of at least 20 continuous loaded cars and/or platforms? (SSI Item 5-A)

10. On each subdivision where train defect detectors are positioned, they are identified by a symbol (such as &) which indicates the type detector at a specific milepost location. In the list below, identify the equivalent timetable symbol with the correct type detector: (SSI Item 13)

1. Hot Box Detector ____________

2. Hot Box and Dragging Equip. Detector _________

3. Dragging Equip. Detector-Talk on Defect only ____________

4. High Wide Shifted Load Detector/Dragging Equip. Detector _____________

11. When a train (a Key train) passes a hot box detector, type (#), that announces "integrity failure" with no defect message, what action number(s) from the "Detector Failure-Action Table are indicated? (SSI Item 13.6.2)

12. What action is required when a train (not a Key train) passes a hot box detector, type (#), which announces "integrity failure" with no defect message: (SSI Item 13)

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What action is required if the next detector of the same type is passed and you have been informed by the dispatcher that it is "out of service"?

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