Locomotive engineers must comply with the requirements
of certification. Locomotive engineers;
a)
Must be certified for the class of service for which they are
performing duty;
b)
Will be required to have their Locomotive Engineer Qualification
Certificate in their possession while on duty;
c)
Without their certificate or temporary replacement certificate in their
possession will not be permitted to perform service;
d)
Will be required to present their certificate to proper authority upon
request;
e)
Must be qualified on the territory over which they are to operate and
familiar with its physical characteristics.
Employees certified as locomotive engineers in any
class of service, must report any convictions for:
·
Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of or
impaired by either alcohol or a controlled substance.
·
Refusal to undergo such testing when a law enforcement official
seeks to find out whether a person is operating under the influence of alcohol
or a controlled substance.
State-sponsored diversion programs, guilty pleas and
completed state actions to cancel, revoke, suspend, or deny a driver’s license
are considered convictions as applied to this rule.
An employee must report any conviction to an Employee
Assistance representative and the Manager Administration no later than the end
of the first business day immediately following the day the employee receives
notice of the conviction.
All employees whose duties
require them to operate locomotives must be certified in 1 of 3 listed classes
of services:
a)
Student Engineer:
·
May operate locomotives within the limits of their class of
service under the direct supervision of an engineer instructor.
b)
Locomotive Servicing Engineer:
·
May operate locomotives singly or in multiples.
·
May not move locomotives with cars coupled to them.
c)
Train Service Engineer:
·
May operate locomotives singly or in multiples.
·
May move them with or without cars coupled to them.
The following certification limitations will apply:
a)
No person will be permitted or required to operate a locomotive beyond
the limits of their class of service or beyond the limitations shown on their
certificate.
b)
No person will be permitted or required to operate a locomotive in any
class of locomotive or train service unless they are certified for that class
of service.
Exceptions:
·
Designated locomotive servicing areas within blue signal
protection, or
·
Movement of locomotives less than
100 feet for
purposes of inspection outside blue signal protection.
Note:
In the above two exceptions, only qualified employees may move locomotives.
Engineers will not be permitted to operate or be
required to perform service as a certified locomotive servicing or train
service engineer beyond the 36-month period beginning with the issue date of
their current certificate.
The Manager Administration will issue certificates.
When a certificate is lost or destroyed the Manager
Administration will issue a replacement certificate. A Designated Supervisor
of Locomotive Engineers may issue the engineer a temporary certificate. The
temporary certificate will be valid for no more than 30 calendar days.
Train service and locomotive servicing engineers are
permitted to operate their train or locomotive for the remainder of their tour
of duty if their certificate is lost, stolen, damaged or impounded by a law
enforcement agency while on duty. The information surrounding the
circumstances of the certificate being lost, stolen, damaged or impounded must
be reported to an immediate supervisor.
An employee certified as locomotive engineer in any
class of service, must report to the company medical services if the best
correctable vision or hearing has deteriorated to the extent that the engineer
no longer meets the vision or hearing standards required by the federal
regulations.
Once the engineer learns of this fact he/she must
notify the railroad before operating a locomotive or train.
The vision and hearing requirements established by the
federal regulation are as follows:
Vision Requirements:
a)
Distant viewing acuity of at least 20/40 (Snellen) in each eye without
corrective lenses; or distant viewing acuity separately corrected to at least
20/40 (Snellen) in both eyes with or without corrective lenses.
b)
A field vision of at least 70 degrees in the horizon meridian in each
eye.
c)
Color vision with the ability to recognize and distinguish between the
colors of railroad signals.
Hearing Requirements
Hearing acuity that meets or exceeds the following
threshold:
The engineer does not have an average hearing loss in
the better ear greater than 40 decibels at 500 HZ, 1,000 HZ and 2,000 HZ with
or without use of a hearing aid.
Train service engineers who have not worked their
assigned territory must make the required number of qualification trips with a
qualified train service engineer to learn the territory.
Locomotive engineers not qualified on a specific
territory, will be provided a minimum of three (3) round trips with an
engineer pilot, or as student trips. Additional trips may be required as
determined by the Road Manager who will determine when an employee is
qualified.
Engineers will be required to qualify as directed by
the local Road Manager. The Road Manager will determine when the engineer is
qualified.
Train service engineers who have not worked their
assigned territory in any capacity during time period specified in rule 3.2
and 3.3 of this section must make familiarization trip(s) with a qualified
engineer.
On subdivisions where maximum authorized speed is
40 MPH or greater,
engineers who have not worked over a specific territory in any capacity for a
period of 12 consecutive months, must make a minimum of 1 familiarization
trip, and must then be deemed qualified by the Road Manager.
On subdivisions with a maximum authorized track speed
of
39 MPH or less,
engineers who have not worked over a specific territory in any capacity for a
period of 24 consecutive months, must make a minimum of 1 familiarization
trip, and must then be deemed qualified by the Road Manager.
Engineers previously qualified for yard service and who
have not worked in any capacity in the yard within a 24-month period will make
familiarization trip(s), if necessary, as directed by the local Road Manager.
An engineer pilot must be an engineer certified for the
class of service to be performed and qualified on the territory over which
they are piloting.
CPR engineers operating on a joint territory controlled
by another railroad will be required to complete the qualification
requirements of the foreign carrier for that segment. Engineers not qualified
on the joint territory will make the required number of trip(s) with a
qualified engineer or be provided with an engineer pilot during their
qualification trips.
Foreign railroad engineers operating on joint territory
controlled by CPR will be required to meet CPR’s qualification requirements
before they may work as an engineer on the joint territory as well as pass
required CPR rules exams if different between the railroads. If the foreign
railroad Designated Supervisor of Locomotive Engineers is qualified on the CPR
territory he / she may qualify their engineers on CPR joint territory.
An engineer may use connection and interchange tracks
without prior qualification or without a pilot if all of the following
conditions are met:
a)
The track is other than a main track.
b)
Maximum authorized speed for operations on the track does not exceed
20 MPH.
c)
Maximum distance on the joint track does not exceed one mile, and;
d)
Operations are conducted under operating rules that require every
locomotive and train to proceed at a speed that permits stopping within one
half the range of vision of the locomotive engineer.
A train from a foreign railroad, that is to detour over
CPR territory, will be provided with an engineer pilot if the foreign
railroad’s engineer is not qualified on that territory.
CPR trains detouring on foreign roads will be governed
as provided by the policies and rules of that railroad.
