rights of trains

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blah forgot copy/paste subject...here yah goes.
-Lynn-

Signals gave a new level of operation, but it doesn't kill the TT and 
TO, it can supersede the orders of TT and TO, lose the signal (which 
must be treated as stop (dark or red)
and call in for orders. Being early times before telephone (we did have 
telegraph) if you didnt have a way to call in, 2 trains meeting would 
have to use timetable/direction/train order to determine who has the 
right of way.

I was told a story of 2 trains in Indiana, this was more recent, call it 
about the mid-60's, somehow dead stopped on the main somewhere (they saw 
each others headlights and stopped in time, the engineers got out and 
had an arguement as to who was to back up to a siding and let them 
pass....far as I know a real story.

having priorities rules stops situations like that.

South Shore had or still uses train orders, they may have the order go 
out to start train on its run, without that the train will not run,  but 
they have signals so they watch them, but obvious they have radio 
contact with the dispatcher, should some incident occurs the train order 
supersedes any signal with permission to pass a red.   Lose the signal, 
lose the radio/lose the dispatcher you may have a rule to work with, 
operate by sight at slow speed (never heard of that, just an example) 
but theres always way to deal with circumstances.

-Lynn-

On 7/14/2015 1:38 AM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
> Subject:
> rights of trains
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> Date:
> 7/11/2015 4:34 PM
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> My understanding of TimeTable and Train Order operation is it is for 
> dark (unsignalled) territory.  Once signals came a new set of rules 
> came and when a train could go and stop and all else.  We didn't need 
> TT&TO any more..sort of what mechanization did to the labor force.  So 
> for the N&W Shenandoah Division mentioned, once signals were there...
> The NMRA Operations Special Interest Group has reprinted a book called 
> /19 East Copy Three / which goes in depth about TT&TO
> www.opsig.org <http://www.opsig.org/>
>
> Mike Shockley
> N&W Guyandotte Division

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