DRRY Index

OUTLINE OF CURRICULUM TOPICS

March 16, 2008

I.DAY 1, TRACK.

a.Personnel safety equipment.

i.Safety glasses.

ii.Close toed shoes.

iii.Work gloves

iv.Personal sun screen and insecticide.

v.Potable water supply.

b.Tool train inventory and use of equipment and supplies.

i.First aid kit.

ii.1 DRRY standard track level.

iii.2 "C" clamps matched to track level target.

iv.1 string line.

v.4 heavy duty steel track gages.

vi.Aluminum rail vertical rail bender.

vii.12 pound rail lateral bender.

viii.12 pound rail vertical rail bending equipment.

1.Bottle jack.

2.Chain.

3.Steel beam and blocks.

ix.3 crow bar style tamping bars.

x.3 pinch bar style tamping bars.

xi.2 Flat claw style hammers for tie removal.

xii.1 Heavy duty DRRY spike mallet.

xiii.2 square blade hand shovels.

xiv.2 round blade hand shovels.

xv.Cordless drill driver with #2 Phillips bit.

xvi.4 cycle gas engine 120VAC alternator.

1.Gasoline can.

2.SAE 30 motor oil.

xvii.Zawzall and fine and course blades.

xviii.Hand grinder and grinding wheels.

xix.Miscellaneous hand tools, screw drives, wrenches, etc.

xx.Aluminum rail fasteners and fish plates.

1.1.625 # 8 Galvanized screw spikes (deck screws) for use with 1 inch high aluminum rail.

2.#10 galvanized steel fender washers for use with screw spikes.

3.Stainless steel punched fish plates for 1 inch aluminum rail.

4.5-40 x 3/4 Stainless steel fillister head screws.

5.5-40 Stainless steel elastic stop nuts.

xxi.Steel rail fasteners and fish plates.

1.Cut spikes for use with 12 pound steel rail.

a.Twist drill bits having diameter same as width of cut spikes for tie drilling.

2.0.375 diameter x 1.750 hex head steel lag bolts for screw spikes for 12 pound steel rail.

3.Fender washers for use with above.

4.Steel fish plates.

5.0.500 x 13 x 1 track bolts.

6.0.500 x 13 x 1.5 hex head track bolts.

7.0.500 x 13 hex or square head nuts.

8.0.500 split lock washers.

9.0.500 flat round washers.

c.Cutting ties from stock treated lumber.

1.Ties for 12 pound steel rail cut 6 ties from 8 foot 4x4.

2.Ties for 1 inch high aluminum rail cut 14 ties from 8 foot 2x4.

d.Ballast car loading operations.

e.Existing track maintenance unguarded track with or without emergency guard rails.

i.Gage inspection and repair.

ii.Joint bar and fastening inspection and repair.

iii.Raising depressed joints.

iv.Tie replacement.

1.Tie removal operations to:

a.Avoid raising existing track.

b.Provide for minimum ballast disturbance.

c.Maintain gage at intervals not exceeding two feet.

2.Tie spacing

a.12 pound steel rail 2 feet C/L to C/L +/- 4 inches.

b.1 inch high aluminum rail 4 inches C/L to C/L not less than 6 ties per 2 feet, not more than 12 ties per 2 feet.

3.Use of track gages.

4.Tie nipping.

5.Installation of cut spikes or screw spikes and washers to be:

a.Installed plumb.

b.Installed in a pattern to avoid tie slewing.

c.Installed in pre drilled holes for 12 pound steel rail.

f.Surfacing.

i.Raising depressed track between reference points.

1.Use of "C" clamps, string line and track level on tangent track.

a.Select reference points on same rail and set up "C" clamps and string line.

b.Raise track at intervals not exceeding 3 feet to zero cross level and grade of string line.

c.Apply ballast by hand shovel and tamp sufficiently to hold track raise.

2.Use of "C" clamps, string line and track level on curved track.

a.Select reference points on out side rail of curve and set up "C" clamps and string line.