NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 125, Issue 48

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Ed,
Do you happen to know what these whistle signals were?

Nathan

On 9/30/2015 05:41, NW Mailing List wrote:
> All sections except the last display the green signals.  When meeting 
> opposing movements, all sections except the last had to do a whistle 
> signal to let the opposing movement know there was a section 
> following.  The opposing train had a whistle signal to acknowledge 
> that of the section.
>
> EdKing
>
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>
> Bruce
>
> What Ed is trying to say is that a helper engine running light or 
> another fairly
> fast train would be traveling behind our pictured train.  It's 
> designated as a
> second section of #5 and gets to use its spot in the time table rather 
> than
> have to run as an extra.  It would not be displaying any 
> classification lights
> or flags.
>
> It's a dispatcher trick to get another train across the railroad. The 
> additional
> section doesn't have to have a single passenger car in it.
>
> I've got that right about the final section, don't I Ed.  Eastern 
> railroads didn't
> use train number boards like western railroads.
>
> Stoney
> Rick C Stone
> NWHS #0001
>
>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:24 PM, John wrote:
>>
>> Harry, Thanks. This is Bluefield VA so probably not assigning a second
>> > section to protect an crew from the Hours of Service Law. Any other 
>> > second
>> > section ideas? Ed mentioned helpers in a hurry to Finney. Seems like a
>> > reasonable scenario.
>> >
>>
>> I'm still a bit confused about this, but it could just be me. The 
>> answers
>> sound reasonable, but I'm still unclear about this. Looking at the 
>> photo,
>> there appears to be a passenger car behind the engine. I'm assuming that
>> based on the location of the engine and the car, that this is a short
>> passenger train. So to the original question -- why green flags?
>>
>> Bruce in soggy Blacksburg
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