| Not too likely for they were used in only one place that I know of, CPR's Lambton Yard in Toronto where Sam Ashdown worked as a yardmaster. |
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| It served as home for the Coal River dispatcher, St. Albans yardmaster, and trainmaster for many years. |
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| Pandering to the great British obsession with train sets, here you not only play stationmaster but engine driver, yardmaster and route builder. |
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| The incoming yardmaster would have had a difficult time integrating all the information into a coherent picture of the situation. |
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| The day yardmaster admits that he received no acknowledgement of that communication. |
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| When they returned, they discovered that the locomotive was gone and notified the yardmaster. |
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| The day yardmaster went to the top of the stairs but did not enter the yardmaster office. |
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| During the first few minutes of his shift, the afternoon yardmaster continued to be busy. |
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| Parkdale and the Coach yard each had one yardmaster per shift. |
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| The directive was also sent to the yardmaster on duty and to the employees involved. |
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| The crew members requested the yardmaster to line the crossover switches back to normal. |
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| He claims that he delivered a short reminder to the afternoon yardmaster but no acknowledgement was received to this communication. |
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| In most cases, the yardmaster would be within proximity to the switch and could easily assume this responsibility. |
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| The day yardmaster had verbally instructed the conductor of train 418 to proceed with two locomotives to their train to couple via yard tracks. |
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| Operator B made several unsuccessful attempts to move the train and again called the yardmaster to request that another inspection be done. |
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| Both trains were on the main track in accordance with instructions or permission received from the yardmaster. |
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| The yardmaster makes and receives telephone calls and uses the computer and fax machine. |
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| When the trainman from train 418 asked if they could use the main track to go to their train, the afternoon yardmaster gave his permission. |
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| She moved on to become a block operator at Amtrak, then a yardmaster, neither a position traditionally associated with young women. |
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| However, the yardmaster discovered that Yarbrough had spent some time in a nearby tavern and was drunk, and dismissed him from the service. |
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| He confirmed the instructions received from the afternoon yardmaster through the trainman that they could use the main track to get to their train. |
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| During the 15-minute period, the yardmaster prepared switch lists, received four radio calls and one telephone call, and went downstairs once on related business. |
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| Charles Illyius, assistant yardmaster of the Pennsylvania Station, and Martin Brennan, baggage master of the Knickerbocker Limited often play heated games of checkers. |
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| The transfer from outgoing to incoming yardmaster was conducted in a busy environment with several distractions which would impair the yardmaster's ability to integrate all the information. |
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| The train crews depended on the yardmaster to protect them. |
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| This can lead to the yardmaster trying to deal with too many tasks at a time, resulting in poor situational awareness, forgetting tasks, or poor communication. |
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| Shortly after their departure, he noticed the locomotives of train 411 in the north end of the yard and assumed that that was the movement to which the yardmaster was referring. |
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| The foreman radioed to the yardmaster advising him that they had a runaway train and informed the helper and the locomotive engineer that they needed to get off the train. |
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| Obstructed sight-lines, work practices, lack of an official yardmaster job description, ineffective transfer between yardmasters and routine speeding by train crews indicate a lack of safety management. |
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| He worked for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1956 until 1998, when he retired as a general yardmaster. |
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| Since then he has served in the positions of yard clerk, yardmaster, trainmaster, terminal trainmaster and assistant general manager. |
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| At times, the yardmaster is very busy responding to numerous demands, including occasionally performing taxi service for train crews, a service that takes him away from his work station in the tower. |
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| Each center employs dispatchers who maintain communications with trains, maintenance crews and yardmaster via two-way radio using more 200 microwave links. |
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| Bourque Logistics' YardMaster software provides industrial shippers with in-plant railcar receiving and shipment management functionality. |
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| YardMaster will populate pertinent railcar characteristics as railcars enter the facility. |
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