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CSX Railroad Basics Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Retarder - A tracking device built into the railway to reduce the speed of rail cars. Coupler - A device located at both end of rail cars in a standard location providing means to connect one car to another. Ladder - A single "lead" trac...

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CSX Railroad Basics Exam Questions
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Retarder - ✔✔A tracking device built into the railway to reduce the speed of rail cars.


Coupler - ✔✔A device located at both end of rail cars in a standard location providing means to connect

one car to another.


Ladder - ✔✔A single "lead" track with many tracks branching off to form a classification yard.


Interchange - ✔✔The transfer of rail cars from one railroad to another at a common junction point.


Yard - ✔✔A system of tracks, other than main tracks and sidings used for making up trains, storing rail

cars, and other purposes.


Team tracks - ✔✔A side track subject to use by the general public with facilities for loading and

unloading cars.


4 - ✔✔Couple speed must never exceed ___ MPH.


Hump yard - ✔✔A switching yard with an elevated track or hump over which cars are pushed by an

engine so that they travel by gravity to classification tracks.


Siding - ✔✔An auxilary track for meeting or passing trains. It is designated in special instructions in the

time table.


Wood, concrete, and steel - ✔✔CSX uses three types of crossties. They are:




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Rail anchors - ✔✔______ _________ are designed to prevent rail creep or run caused by temperature

changes, heavy grades, and train braking which cause crosstie and switch alignment problems. These

devices are clipped or bolted to the rail on each side of the crosstie.


Ballast - ✔✔The main purpose of __________ is to hold the crossties in place, prevent lateral movement,

increase drainage, and spread out the load underneath the crosstie.


Steel tie plates - ✔✔_______ ____ ________ are placed between te rail and the crosstie to increase crosstie

life by spreading the load on the rail over a large enough area to prevent the rail from crushing and

cutting into the crosstie.


Spikes - ✔✔________ are driven into the crossties to keep the rail from lying on it's side or turning over,

and for securing the tie plates to the crossties.


Bolted, continuosly welded - ✔✔The two types of rail are _________ and __________ __________.


Ball, Web, Base - ✔✔The three parts of a rail are the ______, ____, and ______.


4 feet, 8 and 1/2 inches - ✔✔Track guage is the inside distance between the rails and measures:


Turnout - ✔✔An arrangement of a switch and frog with closure rails by which equipment can be diverted

from one track to the other.


Switch - ✔✔is a device consisting of two movable rails , necessary connection, and operating parts

designed to turn rail equipment from the track on which it is moving to another track.


Derail - ✔✔is a track safety device designed to guide the wheels of rolling stock off of the rails as a means

of protection against collisons or other accidents.


Frog - ✔✔A ______ is a device made of rail components and assembled to permit the wheels on one rail

of track to cross over another rail of intersecting track.




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