signaling (was signal brackets)

[NW Mailing List]

Larry,
     All I am saying is that you cannot see what I, the 
engineer/conductor/brakeman, am seeing. Numerous times I have had to 
call the dispatcher to let him/her know that I was sitting at a Stop 
signal. Have them reply that it indicates the route is lined and I in 
turn reply that the signal is still red out here. At which point they 
either try to recode the route and it changes the signal or they talk me 
by the Stop signal.

Jimmy Lisle

On 3/29/2024 7:55 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> With all due respect as well, you apparently think that by thinking I know what’s displayed, I’m using that to circumvent the rules somehow. It’s not as if as Dispatcher I’m telling a train that they should just carry on based on me telling them what the signal up around the bend is going to be. But generally, I do know what they're seeing and I’m sure many good dispatchers know as well. There’s nothing magic about signals - if you understand the signal logic and you know what the state of the railroad is, then you know what signal will be displayed.
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