The GCOR, as Amended, again
Posted by Lou on Dec 29, 2009
Due to the recent changes in Rules and the GCOR I would like to provide some additional Information which can be useful.
(This from the UP’s operational confusion center in Flamefart, Iowa.)
RESTRICTED SPEED RULE REVISED… AGAIN
A speed that will permit stopping within one-half the range of vision, short of train, engine, railroad car, stop signal, derail or switch not properly lined, looking out for broken rails, shunts, and bushes with radar guns attached, not exceeding 10 mph, except when using foreign line engines (because they stop faster than UPRR engines), not to exceed 20 mph unless there is a fog or descending grade within 30 miles, in which case 2 mph cannot be exceeded unless, of course, the conductor wishes to walk ahead of the move then not exceeding 4 mph, except if the conductor is a former switchman, then a speed of 3 mph must not be exceeded, or if you have less than 375 cars, 5 mph may not be exceeded because the train length permits (see Special Instructions for exceptions – should be somewhere in the first 15 pages of rules changes, as amended by General Order and supplemented by specific instructions on certain subdivisions as put into effect by Superintendent Notice), except if in signaled territory and track is seen to be clear to the next signal and crew is short on time, then 40 mph must not be exceeded.
Everyone got that?
Source: Snakebite (old Roseville Switchman/Trainman Magazin)
