Bill,
Don't know how Oregon got involved. The photograph was
taken in Sterling.
Russ
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To: <cbq682@grics.net>; <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 15:24
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Way Freight
>
> In a message dated 8/20/03 7:01:06 am, cbq682@grics.net writes:
>
> >"CB&Q in Color #4" ... on page 71 there is an awesome
> >photograph of a GP-7 crossing the Rock River. Along the left of the tracks
> >are three pipes that lead out on to the bridge and follow the tracks.
> >What are these pipes for?
>
> Greetings all:
>
> Responses to this question mention interlocking systems and a lunar signal
> protecting the CNW crossing. Can somebody cite chapter and verse on this?
> The
> CNW (now UP) diamond at Rochelle is 13 miles away, and I've never heard of
> interlocking at Oregon, the station a half mile or so west of the bridge.
> Did
> someone in Rochelle or Aurora have control over mainline switches in Oregon
> in
> lever days? Admittedly my knowledge of signalling through here is skimpy
> other
> than it being mostly automatic-block territory with CTC through Rochelle by
> 1941. Pipes left over from ABS?
>
> At one time there was at least one lever at Oregon to operate the train-order
> semaphores across the main from the station. For a westbound, these signals
> on the fireman's side would appear quickly as the engine came off the west
> Rock River bridge and curved into town. Could the station have controlled an
> approach signal on the island between the bridges or east of the east bridge
> that
> would account for these pipes?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Diven
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