Bob
Appreciative. Your explanation makes sense.
Had thought in later years, because the markers I was seeing were
green, that we were operating as first #1. Now I am not sure. We
could have been running ahead or behind our coach counterpart.
sjl
--- In BRHSlist@y..., amtrak347@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/4/2001 10:12:34 PM Central Daylight Time,
> sjl@p... writes:
>
>
> > In Colorado, I noticed green marker lights on the
> > Silver Veranda while riding in the Silver Cup Chuckwagon Dome.
(Green marker
> > lights indicate a section following.).
> >
> >
>
> Steve & others -
> With no intent to "flame" anyone but just to clarify some
terminology:
> The green marker (marker denotes rear of train) should have been
displayed
> (on the rear car) in the forward direction of movement; a red marker
should
> have been displayed (on the rear car) to the rear of the train. I
read
> Steve's coment as if he were looking back at the Veranda as viewed
from the
> Chuckwagon; this is correct - he should see a green marker displayed
towards
> the front of the train on the rear car. As John stated, the engine
displays
> green class lights and/or flags on front of all sections except the
last,
> which displays none. White class lights and/or flags denote extra
trains
> which have no timetable authority.
>
> Another two terms that frequently get twisted around in useage like
class
> lights/marker lights are trains that are "meeting or passing". When
two
> trains "meet" each other they are traveling in opposite directions
> (hopefully not on the same track - aka "Cornfield Meet"). When one
train
> "passes" another train, they are both going in the same direction.
>
> Around the Christmas holidays in 1969 and 1970, I fired various
sections (2nd
> or 3rd) of passenger trains out of Savanna from the freight pool.
>
> Bob Campbell
>
>
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