Norfolk Southern Track Authority Made EASY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- When it comes to track authorities they can come off very intimidating when you first step into the world of working as a railroad conductor. Some of you may never use these but I hope this video helps with you while you're at school or maybe before you head to Norfolk Southerns training center in Georgia!
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If you’re still having trouble understanding please reply back to this post. I am here to help and there is no judgment here. We’re all out here trying to make it and I fully believe this community wants to see everyone succeed.
I could do a another video on the train sim, simulating a track authority as if you would do one in the real world. All kinds of ways to help. Let me know!
Thank you! This will really help me when I start for UP in a month
This really helped being that I’m a ct and co don’t really help us with this part
It’s nerve racking the first few times you copy them but as you start to learn your territory you can almost fill them out before the dispatcher ever says a word lol. Try to remember we were all in your shoes and we all messed up at some point in time. It’s part of learning my friend. Good luck stay safe out there and thanks for the support on the channel.
Thanks to PTC you only have to copy it down from the screen and no longer have to be called out over the radio
Work betweens the same way?
@@Railroad_Talk work between is still called out over the radio in conjunction with PTC. We still have to copy the track authority even though it’s displayed on PTC and the engineer can easily access it. I’m sure it’s for safety if the system goes down. Not sure about the 171 territory from Birmingham to Selma since that’s a dark territory. The dispatcher will send a notification that the track authority is void and send a new one. The only time we talk to them is when leaving the 271 and going back to 261 and we have to clear the limits and give it back to dispatch. Other than that it’s copy and paste it in the book lol. And for new hires that is newer than me, make sure when your trip is finished and you tie up, rip those pages out and toss them
I’ve never seen you I’m always In Collierville shooting video and photo?!?! By the way awesome video
Thanks brother very helpful 👌 👍
Man you really could be a trainer down at the school
I would love every minute of it!
I’m out of the Peru location
i printed out a couple blank NS track authority sheets for me to practice with by listening to either the local yard with my hand held radio, or examples on YT, so practicing this during a stream would be awesome!
What is "Letter A"?
Is there a box for: Rule 99 protection not required for following trains on Main Track?
I am a ham radio op who loved to listen to rail comms!
Great thanks for braking it down track authority is the one thing I have been intimated by but this definitely helped me understand better!!
Has there been a way to communicate track warrants using digital modes? There are HAM RADIO programs that could do that right now
Last month as part of my OJT, my territory has a TWA. I work for UP and I enjoy copying down and repeating track warrants to the dispatcher. Releasing track warrants is also something I didn't understand at first, but got a hold of later.
Great point, i need to go over that also.
Thanks! Appreciate this much!
Anyway you could do a video about lantern signals and radio commands?
This is one thing I was somewhat concerned about. Although here in Canada it’s called OCS clearance. Once you actually read through them, it’s not as complicated as you might think.
People with scanners can hear you…
That was my biggest issue besides communication was Track authority it was nerve rack
This could not have come at a better time! What are the odds for me! I was real worried about these. They aren’t hard to fill out, it’s just hard for me to understand what the hell dispatch is saying when they talk so fast over a crackling radio. But I love your videos man! And I can’t wait for the live stream tomorrow if you still plan on doing that
In this case speed can kill. A botched order can cause a wreck!. In the ham radio world, it ok for the one receiving a Radiogram to ask the sender to slow down.
Thanks for this video. Waiting my start date to go to McDonough and this really helped.
Thanks for this Joey. These seem intimidating to me and I already talk on the radio for a living 😅😂 but knowing that only the dispatcher can hear me and not an entire county that helps.
In the nuclear power plant world, we called that 3-way communication. Any time we needed to work on equipment and especially if we had to manipulate a valve or do anything out in the plant, we had to perform that type of communication with the control room. I'm retired 2 years now and still talk to people that way. Kooky!!🤪
Believe it or not, the communications procedures for issuing track warrants parallels:
1. Ham Radio Radiograms
2. Airplane comms between control towers, air traffic control centers and aircraft.
Known as ec1 at csx
Awesome video! I struggled with these, especially the repeat back to the dispatcher. will you be doing a video soon about getting fired on the railroad? for 30 days? minor and serious starts? and other railroad violations and consequences?
I don’t know much about serious starts, and how all of that works. I was somehow lucky enough to never go through any of that but I can talk about what a letter of caution, and serious starts mean for someone’s career and how to avoid getting them. Somethings you can help but a lot of it you can.
So I just got an email to set up a medical appointment for ns does that mean they went back to doing the hair test
This definitely helps, the one thing I am concerned about is getting through training, being marked up and being laughed at trying to get this down. I want to ask you when you are holding until the next signal or siding are you also being told at that point to be prepared to diverge to a siding at next communication with dispatch?
No if you’re holding the mainline at last name point you will stay on the mainline and in dark territory you could be running on clear blocks but you’ll have to stop at the last named point. “White siding” for instance in this video.
If the train was going into the siding before you got there you would catch and approach and then a stop signal.
@@Railroad_Talk okay, this is starting to make a little more sense, thank you.
On the NS if you get a work between MP 750 and 753 are you y’all allowed to move in either direction between those limits? Something else that’s helpful when dispatch comes over the radio and ask what will protect the rear of your train,I always gave at least four miles behind me.
Yeah work between is movement in both directions and that’s we use to do also. Some guys got enforced because that messed up on their current location. We would always give us a little cushion lol.
Why do railroads use other railroad's locomotives? In your example, the NS track authority denotes a UP engine.
It’s called run-through power. Most railroads interchange trains with each so the cars can be delivered to their customers. It’s easier to keep the same power on that train than switching it out. The power bureaus monitor the amount of time each engine spends on foreign railroads and they either charge them or the other roads can send an engine to compensate.
Curious as to why they say “letter A” instead of saying “Alpha” or “Bravo” and etc.
Letter A was specific to that devision. Not all mainlines have letters.
I've been on Suboxone for 7 years, I wonder if the railroad would allow me to continue taking that and work as a conductor or something.
I'll be heading to Atlanta for training for CSX as a conductor what can I look up to study
CSX signals.
signals.jovet.net/rules/CSX%20Signal%20Rules.pdf
That's the one thing I have been studying what should I expect for the schooling
I just got an offer from NS, how do I find out what the extra board guarantee is?
look at the posting where you applied. It should have a yearly amount just divide that by 52.
is ns busy line in the day time
Hey I sent you a message on messenger, really would like your thoughts honestly