Today the Chicago Operating Rules Association (CORA) has a big blue binder that
every employee working on a foreign road in CORA territory (defined as all
trackage within the loop of the EJ&E) must have a copy while on duty. The
binder contains the most pertinent operating rules of every railroad in
Chicagoland, and track diagrams of all mainlines for the assistance of foreign
line crews.
Engineers must be qualified on any route they operate over, or else request a
pilot, but we are not required to take rules tests on other railroads'
rulebooks. Since every employee is required to carry the CORA while on a
foreign road, the rules are always at hand if need be.
However, anyone operating on Amtrak trackage in and around Union Station must
take a test on Amtrak's Book of Rules once a year - that has not changed.
I'm not sure when the CORA Guide was first issued.
Joe LeMay
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
>
> Every operating employee working in/out of Chicago Union Station was
> required to pass its' book of rules and remain qualified to work on their
> property in addition to his home roads rules.
>
> Did all the many crews working in transfer service have to be qualified
> and re-examined on the various roads they could be called to run across ?
> Imagine an extra board engineman or switchman who from day to day might work
> on any number of freight transfers or at 14th st and run over to another
> road/station to get mail or express cars. Did they also then need to be
> qualified on the other stations book of rules ? Seems one would be in rules
> classes a lot of the time.
>
> Anybody have any insight into how this worked ?
>
> This came to mind after looking at a photo of Bill Shoeners dad in the cab
> of # 540 the other night. I know strange minds....................
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
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