Ever wonder where the signal sequence came from?

The Long Long Short Long is the morse code for the letter “Q” Back when the Queen traveled by ship in England, ships with the queen on board would do the LLSL on the horn to announce this to other ships in the harbor to get them out of the way. When the queen switched

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RAIL SAFE is certified by NARS!

Rail Safe has been certified by NARS to train private industries to use BNSF locomotives on their facilities! Congrats to our Rail Specialists- Wesley Hazlett, Virgil (Butch) Nice, and Gary Moller! http://www.narstraining.com/nars-training-companies/

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SOFA Severe Injury Report March 2017

March 2017, is the most recent month available for SIs as defined1 by SOFA in its report, Severe Injuries to Train and Engine Service Employees: Data Description and Injury Characteristics (July 2001). There have been 25 SIs in 2017, the highest count for these three months going back to 30 SIs in 2008. Click Here

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COMMON SENSE IS… NON-SENSE!

As a child we learn from experience or being taught: we learn the oven is hot because we have touched it or were told it was hot by someone who had touched it. Common sense allows us to apply learned behavior to new situations, but not all new situations lend themselves to “common sense”. We

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Spring is Coming! Time for your TRACK INSPECTION!

Railroad tracks are incredibly strong. They are composed of many tons of ballast (usually crushed stone) supporting heavy crossties (cement, steel or wooden timbers), massive steel rails (132 pounds per foot) on top of heavy steel plates with spikes that weigh one pound each. The structure is designed to last for years with very little

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