Leo
Remember that SWITCHING limits and yard limits are not
always the same thing. The 1925 switching agreement
set three categories of switching limit to divide yard
and road service. They were: General Switching Limits,
Pulling and Pushing Limits and Industrial Switching
Limits. At Savanna they were as follows:
General Switching Limits:
North; North switch at North crossover at passenger
Station.
East; Home signal east of crossover at Savanna Yard
Tower.
Pulling and Pushing Limits:
East ; East yard limit board 592 east of Mile Post
143.
Industrial Switching Limits:
South; 4000 feet south of General Switching Limits on
the Galesburg Line.
Note: Pulling and Pushing Limits generally applied
only at points where switch engines routinely "helped"
road trains.
John
--- qutlx1@a... wrote:
> Bob, at least in my experience the Savanna yard jobs
> were never used as
> pushers.Why? Because eastbound the yard limit board
> was just outside the yard
> and it would have been a 100 mile penalty to use
> them. Westbound? Well lets
> just say you dont need a helper on a totally flat
> surface.
> Referring back to my BRT posts/reading; in steam
> days there were helpers used
> up Burke. The engines would be double headed on the
> head end. The train crews
> would question thier use as compared to running two
> seperate sections,which
> would of course require 2 complete train crews
> instead of one. There was an
> agreement that in essence stated if the the tonnage
> of the train ddint
> exceeed the rating of the engine running thru on the
> train then a second
> engine could be added w/o penalty but if the trains
> tonnage exceeded the one
> engines rating adding a helper would result in a
> penalty if the train wasnt
> split.
> Thus the long debate about the company issuing
> accurate tonnage rating sheets
> for engine on the division and in particular over
> Burke.
> Leo
>
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