[CBQ] Triple Track

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

There was a recent discussion about the operation of the track between Aurora 
and Chicago.  I found the following in a article about reducing and simplifying 
telegraphic orders, in the Railroad Digest for January 1901 



On the Burlington third or middle track is, from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m., normally an 
eastbound track: and from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. westbound.  An eastbound conductor 
desiring to use the this track at, say 3.30 p.m., may do so without orders, 
provided he can clear the track by 4 o?clock: but a few minutes later he cannot 
do so without an order from the dispatcher.  At this late hour the only plan 
under which the middle track can be made available for eastbound trains is the 
plan of treating it exactly like a single-track railroad.



Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ


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