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Re: Jack Wheelihan
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 08-06-2013 - 15:26

smitty195 Wrote:
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> Mark Meoff Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > No special license is required to operate a
> steam
> > locomotive. An engineer is an engineer in the
> eyes
> > of the FRA and there is NO special license that
> > says "steam qualified".
>
>
> Well I learned something new. I always "assumed"
> that you needed a special "type" of license (like
> pilots, who are type-rated).

There are four classifications of "Locomotive Engineer Certificates"...ST: Student; YD: Yard and TS: Train Service. The fourth, or DSLE: Designated Supervisor of Locomotive Engineers, is todays equivalent of the former RFE: Road Foreman of Engines.

The ST allows one to operate a locomotive under DIRECT SUPERVISION of a licensed engineer in any capacity; however the YD classification is limited to yard switching or hosteling within a terminal.

All railroads were required to develop and have FRA approval of their own version of licensing so long as it complied with the regulations of 49CFR 240.223.

The various academies can train future employees to become engineers but the Certificate is issued by the employing railroad.

Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad

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  Jack Wheelihan Big Hoss 08-05-2013 - 20:17
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Mark Meoff 08-05-2013 - 21:43
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Big Hoss 08-05-2013 - 21:58
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Dr Zarkoff 08-05-2013 - 22:41
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Kenneth Cotton 08-05-2013 - 23:50
  Re: Jack Wheelihan John Wyckoff 08-20-2014 - 07:17
  Re: Jack Wheelihan smitty195 08-06-2013 - 05:12
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Shortline Sammie 08-06-2013 - 15:26
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Ferd 08-06-2013 - 04:09
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Butler 08-06-2013 - 07:20
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Thezway 08-06-2013 - 08:40
  Re: Jack Wheelihan z 08-06-2013 - 11:49
  Re: Jack Wheelihan Ferd 08-07-2013 - 15:11
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