Wasting Slag and Refuse (Acct. 202-g) Cleaning Ballast(Screens or Forks) (Acct. 202-b) Manner of Reporting. State amount and kind. If trucking is done, show amount of material, distance trucked, whether on hand or push car, and number of flagmen used... State number cleaned.. State number of switches cleaned. Make separate report of cleaning platforms... State number of feet cleaned and kind of ballast, and give location.... State amount cleaned by feet of track and give location.... State amount mowed by feet of track, number and width of swathes and give location.... State location, amount in feet and method. If wheelbarrow is used, state number of loads and distance wheeled. If ditching car is used, give same information State distance covered in miles.. State amount and kind of material, distance trucked, whether on hand or push car, and number of flagmen used.. State amount and kind of material and kind of car, whether box, flat, gondola or hopper moving or standing.. Items To Be Included. All operations required to remove old material and install new. Separate time consumed loading, unloading and trucking. Include time cleaning frog, switch and derail. Include time cleaning frog, switch and derail. Removing weeds from ballast and scuffing shoulder. Removing miscellaneous scrap, drift, dirt and other material from tracks and right of way. Cutting and disposing of brush, grass, weeds, etc. Constructing or cleaning tile or open ditches. Include time placing and removing plank for trucking, laying and removing track for ditching cars, loading, trucking and unloading dirt. If steam ditcher is used special report to be made. When track walker is tightening bolts or doing other work while patrolling make separate charge. Loading, unloading, trucking and flagging. (Any material handled on hand, push or motor cars.) Unloading, carrying and piling material or carrying and loading material. State kind of car, number of cars Unloading and spreading slag and unloaded and location... State number of cribs and depth; feet of shoulder width and depth; and feet of center ditch, giving depth and track centers. refuse. If tracks are thrown or raised in connection with unloading make separate distribution of time. Removing ballast from shoulder, cribs and center ditch, cleaning with forks or screens, replacing cleaned stone, dressing ballast and disposing of refuse. Kind of Work. COMBINED OPERATIONS Manner of Reporting. Items To Be Included. Stripping track: Digging out and disposing of old ballast from cribs, center ditch and shoulders. (If old ballast is used to build standard roadbed section, charge second handling to Preparing Roadbed.) Preparing Roadbed: Widening and preparing subgrade to receive ballast. Renewing Ties: Carrying new tie if less than 100 feet, removing old tie, carrying 50 feet and piling for burning, placing new tie, placing plates, spiking to gauge, temporary surface and flagging. Respacing: Cracking up spikes, driving ties to place and driving down spikes. Unloading ballast cars. Ballast: Releasing First Raise: Jacking up track 4' to 6' tamping and flagging. Second Raise: Jacking up track 4' to 6' tamping to final surface and flagging. Lining: Throwing to standard centers and detail lining. Dressing: Dressing center ditch and shoulders to standard section. Surface and Raise Out of Face and Renew Ties-(Applying ties, Acct. 220-b. Surfacing track, Acct. 220-e) State number of ties renewed, Renewing ties: Carrying new track, tamping and flagging. Lining: Breaking down shoulder, lining track, replacing and dressing ballast. Dressing Ballast: Unloading ballast to refill cribs, dressing cribs, shoulder and centre ditch. Separate distribution of time must be made for any items of work not covered by the above list. Time charges for one item must not run over into the charge for another item. For instance, in surfacing, if there is any lining or gauging, a careful separation must be made to each class of work and not lumped as surfacing. The time consumed loading, unloading and trucking material is in all cases included in the cost of applying the material, but a separate distribution of the time consumed on this work must be made. The time flagging must in all cases be charged to the work being protected. REPORTING "OTHER DEPARTMENT" WORK In order that the time spent on work for other departments may be properly separated from the time spent on the various items of maintenance work the following list of charges to "Conducting Transportation" and "Motive Power" is given as a guide: CONDUCTING TRANSPORTATION Cleaning stations. Cleaning towers. Cleaning cinders from tracks at designated points. Cleaning refuse from cars. Handling coal at tipples. Handling coal at water stations. Handling coal at stations and towers. Handling coal for engines. Lighting switches and station lamps. Throwing switches. Renewing batteries-Interlockers. Renewing batteries-Semi-automatic signals. Renewing batteries-Automatic signals. Feeding and watering stock. Burying stock. Pumping water. Hauling water. Handling engine sand. Wrecking. Transferring freight. Handling baggage. Handling U. S. mail. Assisting hostler. Handling stoves, furniture and station supplies. Watching crossings. Repairs to outside property account accidents. Recharging fire extinguishers. Draw bridge operation. Floating equipment operation. Unloading slag-wasting. MOTIVE POWER Repairs to freight cars. Repairs to passenger cars. Repairs to floating equipment. Repairs to work equipment. The items of work listed above must be scheduled by the Supervisor when possible and when so scheduled will be posted on Daily Record Sheet (Exhibit G) under Supervisor's Schedules and the detail shown on a supplementary statement accompanying the monthly report. Likewise items of "Ungraded Work" will be posted as provided for in instructions. Any items of work contained in the above list which are not scheduled by the Supervisor and which are not classed as "Ungraded Work" will be posted on Daily Record Sheet (Exhibit G) under "Unscheduled Other Departments" and graded at 67 per cent. A Miscellaneous work which is not covered by a standard schedule will be scheduled by the supervisor as follows: The supervisor from his experience will estimate conservatively the time which would be required to do the work under ordinary conditions. This estimate will represent an average performance of 67 per cent efficiency from which the standard hours representing 100 per cent efficiency will be computed by taking 67 per cent of the supervisor's estimate and shown on the dispatch. On the Monthly Record of Track Work Efficiency (Exhibit "H"). there is a column headed "Total Payroll Hours," the total of which must check with the totals shown on the payrolls. This is not possible if any time is omitted; therefore, all work of whatever nature performed by track men must be recorded. All work not scheduled will be posted in a column headed "Ungraded Work," entering the actual hours only: no standard hours or percentage will be shown. |