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Modern Accountability The biggest part of model railroading is the train. That seems pretty obvious to most of us, I believe. The train is the reason we build benchwork, run wires, and layer on scenery materials. The train is also the reason many of us like to follow prototype operations and schedules. As if there weren’t enough things to study when modeling miniature worlds, we also have to add our own stack of paperwork for car routing. There is a joy in it all when you follow the rules and complete a switchlist for a session of model operation. Following a prototype operation schedule is a busy task in itself, and adding more work for the crews and dispatcher seems as though it would start to detract from the fun of the hobby – the train. The major railroads across this land have added new safety and security procedures to train crew operations. These new procedures must be followed when a train crew requests blocks or gives up blocks of track on the mainline. New operational authority numbers are given by the dispatcher to train crews that operate within a specific territory. It’s like a password for accessing a given territory. When requesting blocks or giving up blocks of mainline track, this authority number must be read first for the action to be valid. Authority numbers can be added to your dispatcher orders with ease, and it doesn’t require a change to the overall operating session. The authority number is simply a four, five, or six-character number, assigned to each train crew, that they hold until they clear a subdivision. By adding a blank line to your switch list or track warrant, you can duplicate this authority action. It would follow this example, “CSX 232-22, authority number 5135, date 7/10/2006, has a clear track, South, in the Birmingham Mineral Sub.” It will bring an aspect of modern prototype railroading to your model operation that is currently a big issue – security. Tragically, humans do make errors. The absolute worst place to make them is on a railroad. To combat crew errors, railroads are adopting a new permission based system of accountability for operating switch machines. It is simple and very easy to understand. The train crew just asks the dispatcher for permission to use a given switch machine. The switch machine location is given in the form of a milepost reading, or may have a given designation like “XX”-100 where “XX” may be the subdivision name like CSXMS-100. Simply, this stands for the CSX Mineral Subdivision switch number 100. The train crew records the time of this “granting of permission” on the train paperwork, as does the dispatcher in his log. When the crew finishes the operation, they notify the dispatcher of the final switch machine position. If the train crew fails to call the dispatcher after some allotted time, the dispatcher is going to call the train crew for an update. The permission to operate a switch machine must be read, along with any given instructions a track warrant or block order may carry. If no switch machines were to be operated, that must also be noted in the final track warrant or block order. Mimicking this practice in your operating sessions will bring another aspect of modern railroading practice – accountability. In our world of fancy computer gadgets and gizmos, human interaction is still needed for making critical decisions. Computers can remotely operate switch machines, code information from prying hackers, and locate any train at any moment. The purpose of these new procedures is safety, security, and accountability. A computer device may be the back-up alarm, if a switch is not returned to the normal position, by alerting both the crew and dispatcher. It is prone to failure, and expensive to implement in remote territory. A human can be on the spot at any time and visually confirm a switch position, but it’s the interaction of this person with the switch machine that requires the accountability. Attaining verbal permission for operating any switch, when not under control by the dispatcher, is just plain safe and makes a fine addition to a model operating session. In the next issue we’ll take a look at modern train consists. Are the cars in a train in some random order because of destination, safety, or just how they got sorted at the yard? Happy Railroading. u 50 • O Scale Trains - July/Aug ’06
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