Sheet Layout

The Exhibit A plan set is a:
  • 30% PS&E
    (Plans, Specifications and Estimates)
     plan set on construction projects.
  • Plan sets showing applicable work within railroad rights of way on all other projects (FSP, replanking, railroad capital improvement).
Exhibit A should include
the following
:
  • Title sheet with Index of Sheets (not required on replanking projects).
  • Project layout sheet.
  • Active warning device
    forms
     (if installing or modifying).
  • Signing and striping
    forms
     (if not shown with active warning devices).
  • Traffic signal layouts and phasing
    forms
     (if preemption is involved).
  • Plan view of conduits, pipes, and culverts under track
    forms
    .
  • Planking layout (if installing or modifying).
  • Bridge or roadway plan and profile.
  • Rail survey (bridge projects; out to 1000 feet on both sides of bridge on overpass projects and out to 1500 feet on both sides of bridge on underpass projects).
  • Roadway typical sections (planking and construction projects).
  • Rail typical sections (planking and underpass projects).
  • Ditch cross sections on 100-foot centers (joint drainage projects).
  • Railroad requirements sheets (construction projects).
Any traffic control plan, detour route, and boring logs sheets are usually considered support material and are not part of the Exhibit A.
The following checklists are provided in development of these plan sets.