What does a blue flag mean stuck between a railroad track?

Question

What does a blue flag mean stuck between a railroad track?

Answer 1

Men At Work.  It can only be removed by an employee of the class that placed it, e.g., car department people cannot remove a blue flag placed by mechanical department people.  When there are multiple crafts working under the same blue flag protection, each will put a red tag on the flag and each removed by those placing them there.  At night, a blue light is displayed.

In addition, no equipment is to be left where it can obscure the view of the flag from direction of approach.  At some car repair facilities, the "one spot", the blue lights are a permanent fixture as a fixed signal, while the blue flags are used in the daylight.

They are also hung on engines and cars to keep them from being moved while people are working on them.  There have been occasions where someone has forgotten to remove his blue flag or tag, and that equipment sits until he takes it off.

Answer 2

It sounds like a surveyor's flag to me; it's probably just there to mark a measurement taken.

Answer 3

it means workers are servicing cars on between or under cars  federal law require this signal be displayed with derail or locked out switch aligned from movement

Answer 4

Hoghead testifies!  :)

Yes it's LockOut-TagOut (LOTO) for railroad tracks.   It means do not pass that flag for any purpose whatsoever, because people are working on/around the track and doing so will get people killed.

The only one who can remove the blue flag is the one who put it there.

I've seen stuff like this

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when more than one person or trade has to lock out equipment.  That thing can't come off until all the locks are removed.

Answer 5

They only display a blue flag wnen the next stop is within 1000 yards of a K-mart.

Most passengers , and those who  work for the railroads are big K-mart fans.

When you see a blue flag, expect poor service............the empoyees are racing to "THE BLUE FLAG SPECIAL"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

If you look close! There's writing on it, it says your standing to close to the track

Answer 7

that the guy carrying it it got hit by a train

Answer 8

A blue flag on a track means that nothing on that track can be moved, and can only be moved by the one or the group that put the flag there.