Can you (or anybody here) provide an example of the chatter, more or less?

TIA!



ex-BN Wrote:
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> Ray Eiser Wrote:
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> > Simple, just like any other train that needs to
> > talks to the Dispatcher.
> > Amtrak crews follow the same rules as all other
> > train crews do on the host railroad.
> > A conductor friend of mine has to carry all the
> > rule books of the host railroads she runs over
> > wich is around 3 or more.
> >
> > Ray Eiser
>
> Not exactly. Air Brake and Train Handling (ABTH)
> of employing RR. One GCOR. Special instructions of
> each RR that modifies GCOR to the specific host
> RR. General Orders and Notices of host RR for
> System and divisions/subdivisions operating on.
>
> By the way I'm not all that impressed by passenger
> conductors. I was riding a commuter RR back east
> and asked the lovely lady conductor what a
> flashing green signal meant on her road. She had
> no idea. She wouldn't have got a rules card where
> I come from. I could see some old time conductors
> rolling in their graves. Like the ones that kept
> asking brakeman what milepost they were going by
> in the dark on a caboose. Of course I've seen
> hoggers that confused a green signal for a lunar
> so who knows.