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12-2 MAINTENANCE OF WAY OPERATING RULES—December 2, 2009 <br />12.2 Special Operating Guidelines <br />You may perform maintenance with production rail grinders or rail detectors while a train is passing on an <br />adjacent main track or controlled siding. You may perform maintenance with other on-track equipment, <br />referenced in MWOR 12.3, while a train is passing on an adjacent main track or controlled siding if: <br />A Track Bulletin Form B is in effect on the adjacent main track(s) or controlled siding. <br />The employee in charge has instructed the passing train to pass people and equipment at: <br />- 40 MPH or less on tangent track <br />or <br />- 25 MPH or less where curves or gradients obscure vision <br />EXCEPTION: When three or more main tracks are in service, and if the on-track equipment <br />occupies the middle track, stop the on-track equipment if trains are passing on both adjacent <br />main tracks at the same time. <br />Workers on the Ground. Workers required to foul an adjacent track while performing a task associated <br />with the track on which they are working must be protected by a lookout if working limits are not <br />established on the adjacent track. The provisions for lookout protection must be strictly complied with, <br />and under no circumstances may equipment or material foul the adjacent track under lookout protection. <br />Workers on the ground must not work between the tracks while a train is passing. <br />12.3 Work May Continue While Train is Passing <br />If equipment will not foul the adjacent track, the equipment may continue to work if the employee in <br />charge has instructed the passing train to pass people and equipment at: <br />40 MPH or less on tangent track <br />Or <br />25 MPH or less when curves or gradients obscure vision <br />Use the following tables to determine which pieces of equipment will continue to work.