Re: [CBQ] Unusual Company Form

[William Jackson <macon249@yahoo.com>]

The "Whistle Test", however trivial it may seem, is still a important function. Its the very first question, in almost any crossing accident.

However, the higher up's are always looking at failure rate. If your rate is only 1 or 2 percent, then you are on the carpet. Some test's like the whistle, rarely ever results in anything more than a reminder to the engineer. On the other hand speed, always (when reported) results in another story. Without any failures, you get flooded with, shall we say "undesirable visitors" that will find failures. I would say, it really does not hurt anyone, to "hot wire" a few tests. It keeps the fly's away.

William Jackson

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On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

I believe I have someplace in my collection of whatevers I have some Rock Island engineer compliance test forms from the spine line south of Twin City area.   Among the items listed, if I remember it all, was speed, lights, and whistle etc.                                                                                                                                                                &a mp;n bsp;                                                                                                                                rom: William Jackson <macon249@yahoo.com>
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Actually, yes, the whistle test is common. Trainmasters and Roadmasters, do them all the time. I have turned in lots of them. It was used on all railroads I worked on.

William Jackson
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On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:11 PM, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> wrote:

 

As I go through old Q and C&S records at the Colorado Railroad Museum each week, I try to copy and scan examples of the wide variety of company forms I run across, then forward them to Rupert for his growing compendium of these forms.  Attached is one I came across today that is without doubt the most unusual I've yet encountered.  It has no form number, which in itself is odd, and it's titled "Report of Observation of Engineers' Whistling Performance."  Inspectors apparently were sent out -- in this case a C&S assistant special agent -- to sit at crossings and monitor the whistle signals for the crossing.  This particular inspector sat at a remote crossing south of Walsenburg, Colo., for eight hours on a June afternoon and evening in 1942 and monitored the performance of six passing trains, five of them powered by steam.  The sixth, the Texas Zephyr, was powered on this day by Q E5 9912, meaning that either C&S 9950 or FW&D 9980 was back at West Burlington for repairs or shopping.  Anyone out there ever heard of this practice of checking up on engineers' whistle work?   Hol

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