Answers to the 2015 Hazardous Material Study Guide

  1. Conductors
  2. 2012
  3. UPRR employees who inspect or transport hazardous materials by rail
  4. Car no longer meets DOT hazardous material regulation compliance requirements
  5. A shipment on one or more: rail car, trailer, or container with more than 5000 lbs of division 1.1,1.2,1.3 explosive material—loaded tank containing PIH/TIH including anhydrous ammonia—rail car, trailer, or container of Radioactive Class 7 material moving under the following hazardous materials response codes—4929142,4929143,492914, and 4929147.
  6. When receiving a RSSM from shipper at any location—Receiving/Delivering RSSM to interchange—Delivering a RSSM in a High Threat Urban Area (HTUA)
  7. Attended by employee or representative of the Railroad and an employee or representative of the shipper/receiver or interchange railroad. Note: if entrance to the shoppers or receivers facility is controlled from a security room inside the plant, then consider person inside the security room as being “present” and the rail car being attended.
  8. Car initial, first and last name of the individual who attended the transfer, location of the transfer, date and time
  9. Shipping papers, emergency response information, position-in-train document
  10. Railroad produced documents, Connecting carriers documents, hand-printed documents—hand printed documents are not acceptable when pulling a hazardous material shipment at a customer’s facility, interchange point, or other location
  11. Leave that car and any of the cars behind it
  12. Update position-in-train document before preceding
  13. Have not been off air for more than 4 hours, have been tested under rule 30.10.2, have been inspected as outlined in rule 1.33,has been inspected as outlined in section III of instructions for handling hazardous material.
  14. 4 Placards one on each side and one on each end
  15. Release in cuts of 2 or less, release only when cars preceding have cleared and switch is lined, release any following cars only after these have cleared in track and the switch is lined.
  16. Section B
  17. Flammable solid 4—section B, Combustible liquid 3—section A, Flammable gas 2—section B
  18. Starting from engine—1st car shove to rest, 2nd car no restrictions, 3rd car shove to rest, 4th car no restrictions, 5th car shove to rest.
  19. Starting from engine—1st car shove to rest, 2nd car shove to rest, 3rd car hump, 4th car hump, 5th car hump, 6th car shove to rest, 7th car hump.
  20. Yes, cars in section A have no restrictions
  21. Start from engine—1st car shove to rest, 2nd car shove to rest, 3rd car cut off in motion
  22. Start from engine—1st car cut off in motion, 2nd car cut off in motion, 3rd car shove to rest, 4th car cut off in motion, 5th car shove to rest, 6th car shove to rest.
  23. Yes, cars are 42 cars from engines and all cars are in the same section of the placement chart
  24. No, starting from the engine, 3rd car can’t be placed next to a car in restriction 4 and 5 of the placement chart.
  25. No, starting from the engine, 5th and 6thcars are available for buffer cars so as is placement does not meet requirements. Must use all available buffer cars.
  26. Yes
  27. No, starting from engine the 3rd car is in the purple section and the 4th car is in the blue section. The restriction for loaded tank cars is can’t be placed next to a load in the purple section.
  28. No, loaded tank car from purple section may not be placed next to a refrigerator car in protective service.
  29. No, residue empty car of anhydrous ammonia TIH/PIH may not be placed next to a car listed in restriction 4 and 5 of the placement chart.
  30. Yes
  31. No, starting from engine the 2nd car residue empty TIH/PIH may not be placed next to a car listed in restriction 4 and 5 of the placement chart.
  32. Yes, one or more loads of anhydrous ammonia ( identification number 1005) listed as “inhalation hazard”
  33. Take shipping papers move uphill and upwind and stay out of ditches and low areas, do not smoke or use fusees, provide as much information as possible to the yardmaster or dispatcher including: location, type of emergency, status of crew, cars involved, surroundings, resources, and location where crew member with shipping papers will meet emergency response personnel.