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System Special Instructions: Speed Restrictions
Speed Restrictions
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Professional
04/23/2012

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Term

 

 

Freight trains up to 100 TOB

Definition

 

 

60 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains 100 TOB and over

Definition

 

 

45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains handling empty cars (excluding intermodel equipment)

Definition

 

 

55 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

On Sidings

(Unless a different speed is indicated in the division timetable)

Definition

 

 

20 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Key Trains

Definition

 

 

50 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Key Trains on Sidings

Definition

 

 

10 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains moving in non signaled territoty

Definition

 

 

49 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains moving against current of traffic

Definition

 

 

49 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Solid consist of military equipment

Definition

 

 

55 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains handling loaded tank car(s) containing materials that require the notation "Posion Toxic-Inhalation Hazard" and "Inhalation Hazrard"

Definition

 

 

50 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Inhalation Hazard (IH) trains operating on those subdivisions indentified in System Special Instructions item 38

Definition

 

 

35 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains and engines through turnouts

Definition

 

 

10 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

On tracks other than main tracks and sidings

Definition

 

 

10 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Within mechanical department limits

Definition

 

 

5 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Movements on or off turntables

Definition

 

 

1 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Trains with welded rail loaded in open end gondolas

Definition

 

 

45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Locomotive Amtrak

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 90 MPH Maximum Speed

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Locomotive Metrolink

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 90 MPH Maximum Speed

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Locomotive Metra

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 79 MPH Maximum Speed

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Sounder (Sound Transit)

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 79 MPH

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Northstar

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 79 MPH Maximum Speed

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

All other classes of Locomotive

Definition

 

 

Leading unit 70 MPH Maximum Speed

 

When not controlled from leading unit 45 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

Locomotives (Engines) without cars must exceed

Definition

 

 

70 MPH Maximum Speed

Term

 

 

When would a controlling locomotive (engine) operate at a speed of 45 MPH 

Definition

 

 

Controlling locomotive is a car body type or has a desktop control stand and being operated long hood forward.

Term

 

 

Under certain conditions, operating trains under what speeds could cause derailment and why

Definition

 

 

Operating trains between 13 MPH to 21 MPH can cause derailments due to harmonic rocking

Term

 

 

Due to harmonic rocking when would a train reduce it's speed under 13 MPH

Definition

 

 

Freight trains, other than coal trains, ore trains, or trains consisting entirely of empty equipment, which cannot maintain a minimum speed of 21 MPH, must reduce speed to 13 MPH or less until movement can exceed 21 MPH

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