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Re: Study of old Rockaway rail line’s revival back on track |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 11 17:44:41 2019, in response to Re: Study of old Rockaway rail line’s revival back on track, posted by Steamdriven on Fri Oct 11 02:32:55 2019. Although I agree with you since when I was a M/M we were allowed to key by without permission, the union would probably not allow it. Despite the fact that the union touts the gravity of responsibility of the T/Os it seems perfectly content to let the job be dumbed down eliminating employee accountability in the event anything should go wrong. Although many people don’t know it, the positioning the insulated rail joint adjacent to the signal so that if a train was moving slowly enough it doesn’t actually have to stop for the stop arm to go down. Also the M/M keying by were required to proceed with restricted speed and extreme caution (which functionally is no more than 10 MPH) prepared to stop within range of vision (which has been modified to half the range of vision). Unfortunately many old time M/M would get overconfident and either not come to a complete stop at all or even if they did, proceed too fast causing collisions which is why the rule was modified to require command center (now RCC) permission to key by. A couple of inexpensive measures could have been taken to avoid imposing the new rule. One would be to install manual release levers at the signals like the BMT (K) signals requiring the T/O activate the lever to drive the stop arm down which would definitely mean the train would have to make a full stop. The other would hav been to install a time relay in the stop arm mechanism that would put a 15 to 20 second delay before the stop arm would go down, also insuring the train would have to come top a complete stop. Typical of the TA’s knee jerk style of reacting the agency decided to ban keying by without permission entirely. |
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