just wondering everyones thoughts on this? personally, i think its one of the more stupid things i've seen in a while. i understand the theory behind it, but still don't agree with it. think better situational awareness and training would do the trick instead of making up new rules
Seems like a "simple" fix to an issue that has to do with awareness when working on/near the main line as a TE&Y employee. It has been established on the Salt Lake Service Unit and I have encountered it once. With Amtrak we call the dispatcher for before turning a wheel departing the SLC depot to ensure that track breach protection (TBP) has not been set up that would involve our mvt.
A question posed which has yet to be answered is do you need to contact the train dispatcher (TD) for another subdivision if you cross over/onto it? We presume that the other TD would notify the TD for which you are currently on to place a block in your face to keep you from heading over to the other sub if there was indeed a TBP in place. But nobody can tell me if this is the case. Until then we call the TD and ask if TBP is in place when crossing over to a new subdivision.