----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Holding <hold-on@s...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re:CTC Machines & Lineups
> All the CTC machines in Cicero had graphs except the East End(Aurora to
> Chicago) The idea of the graphs was to get rid of the train sheets.
> However most of the newer DS after about '78 did not keep up the
graph.(Some
> hardly kept up the train sheet)
> Lineups put out by individual DS were put up starting around 6AM-12 noon
and
> 12 noon to 4 or 6PM on low traffic branches they might be put out all
day.
> These were used by section and Signal and due to the safety issue were
> treated like a train order. One problem use to be on the old C&I (Aurora
to
> St. Croix)Desk was the bad figures out of Northtown. No train could be
run
> unless it had a lineup figure. And to run one before was a Crime. Out of
> St.Croix it was standard practice to add extras every half to one hour so
> you had a slot to run a train. If you had a red signal in the Rock Fence
> territory you had to put out a lineup so the Maintainer could go find the
> problem. To get around the nonline figure trains we use to put out a
> "Rabbit Hunting "Order. This told a train to sound whistle freely ring
the
> bell and look out for men and equiptment while running at restricted
speed.
> This order was only for one train while the "Beaver" order or the
"Juvenile
> Cubian" order was a standard look out order
> sjh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Ohrnell <wohrnell@s...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:56 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Re:OS
>
>
> > I would OS the time when the waycar passed me on the depot platform. The
> passenger trains were OS'd giving the arrival and departure times.
> >
> > In addition to these the other was an mechanical OS. The Union Switch
and
> Signal CTC machine at Pacific Jct. had a graph with pens built into the
self
> in front (see BB-22 on pages 28 and 36). The graph paper had times along
> the edge. When a trrain would hit the OS section at the respective
stations
> the pen would move making a glitch which gave the time. This time was then
> given to the dispatcher. We would then follow the train with a pencil line
> noting its number. Jct. One of the first things the signal maintainer
would
> do when he arrived for work was tear of the graph paper for the preceeding
> day roll it up and keep it for so long.
> >
> > Lenny
> >
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