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RWP Definitions Exam with correctAnswers
Adjacent Tracks - Answers -Two or more tracks with track centers spaced less than 25
feet apart.
Control Operator - Answers -The railroad employee in charge of a remotely controlled
switch or derail, an interlocking, a controlled point, or segment of a controlled track
Controlled track - Answers -Track upon which the railroad's operating rules require that
all movements of trains must be authorized by a train dispatcher or a control operator.
Exclusive Track Occupancy - Answers -a method of establishing working limits on a
controlled track in which movement authority of trains and other equipment is withheld
by the control operator or restricted by flagman.
Foul Time - Answers -A method of establishing working limits on a controlled track, in
which a roadway worker is notified by the Control Operator that no trains will operate
within the working limits ofa controlled track until the roadway worker reports clear of the
track.
Fouling a Track - Answers -the placement of an individual or equipment item in such
proximity of a track that the employee or equipment could be struck by a moving train or
on track equipment. within 4 FEET FIELD SIDE of the NEAREST RUNNING RAIL
Gang Watchman - Answers -an employee who is qualified to provide warning to
roadway workers of approaching trains or on track equipment.
Inaccessible Track - Answers -A method of establishing working limits on tracks not
controlled by the Control Operator by physically preventing the entry and movement of
trains.
Individual Train Detection - Answers -a procedure by which a lone worker acquires on
track safety by seeing approaching trains and leaving the track before they arrive and
which may be used only under circumstances
local control - Answers -when used in relation to RWP, C&S employees may request
permission to take local control of an interlocking to assist the dispatcher when remote
control is lost, to expedite switch, signal, or track circuit testing
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