Questions about N&W's ORDER 19 in Operating Rules during 1920s, etc.

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For the model railroad club I was in we used trainorders with phones 
about the layout, and we set up a magnetized board with "Dispatcher" 
like train magnet icons placed on the track diagram. Essentially any 
train was cleared to a point and had to call back for clearance to move on.
No active signals, that was in the works till the club had to move.

For a model railroad thats lots of intense activity.

I recall a story and I forget the railroad but it was in the midwest, in 
signaled territory, 2 trains happen to meet at a signal red stopped, the 
engineers got out and had a heated argument as to who had rights telling 
one the other to back up to the previous siding etc etc. I don't recall 
the outcome but it was eventually settled.

-Lynn Willer-

On 5/7/2011 12:00 PM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:

> Questions about N&W's ORDER 19 in Operating Rules during 1920s, etc.