E.L.D.E.R. - Experienced Lowbed Drivers Essential Rules

All kinds of electrifying things start to happen!

 

I believe what truckdad said is correct.

 

Always been told to lay a chain across the tracks to throw a signal, red light to trains & warning to the ops center for that section of track.

 

Some of the work we did was on RR ROW.
Laborer: "Hey guys, look what happens when I do this!"
DING! DING! DING!
Foreman: "DON'T DO THAT!!!!!"

Jumper cables work, too

Sorry to derail this thread

 

Yea and it sends a signal about another unit is on the rail and they start an emergency shut down on any train they know is on the track.
Then start looking for the unknown on the rail unit

 

GREAT! now every kid that reads this is going to be messin with the rr at some of the crossings!

 

Yea, but they can tell where it was tripped at...

 

Once upon a time my mentally challenged father was leaving a grain elevator with my old Pete. There was a bunch of RR guys working on the tracks. Actually 1 guy working and 6 more watching. He thought it would be funny to blow the train horn. They all turned their heads so fast their hard hats all stayed facing the other way.

 

I learned to never allow coworkers to do any final securement. I let them through chains and straps but I will be doing the tightening. Hurts a lot of feelings but I have been burned to many times with hooks hooked in the center of links and binders screwed all the way tight and the chain still loose.

 

Ok, you got me. That is kind of funny to me. My work is only about 200 yards away from a rail line. We get all lengths of trains from 1 locomotive traveling down the line to a car hauling train that lasts for over a mile. The R.J. Coreman ( I think that is the name of the company) is always working on the line and they have a short siding at the Co-op next to work where they park all of their apparatuses.