When I worked on the PPU we did not have radio contact with all the
railroads which ran transfer runs into the yard. We had a set of number on
steel plates we hung out nest to the tower so they knew which track to
take, and double into.
Roger Kujawa
Morton, IL.
>
> 1. Re: Track Assignments
> Posted by: "Stephen J. Levine" sjl@prodigy.net sjl_prodigynet
> Date: Sun Feb 4, 2007 10:41 am ((PST))
>
> Block signals and semaphores?
>
> qutlx1@aol.com wrote: Ed Chambers is getting close to the answer
> for how did a road crew with a
> block of cars to s/o or p/u at an intermediate larger yard know where to
> put them
> in pre-radio days. The operator would indeed be involved but at least on
> the
> Q at places like Eola,and W Eola, there was a specific methodology used.
> It
> did not involve the operator going outside to hoop up a note,nor the crew
> stopping to talk to someone or a note with orders when starting out as
> that would
> have been too many hours in advance and things changed. What did these
> places
> and more physically have in common ?
> I suspect this method of communicating was in widespread use across the Q
> and
> other RR's. Probably was used at Cicero to advise inbound road crews what
> trk. to pull into in 'D' yard.
>
> Again here's two clues: you could model this on your layout and be able to
> see it. At least at one location in Chicago on the Q/BN it was used well
> into
> the 70's to communicate track(unloading side) information to passenger
> trains.
> Remember as in many things on the RR is was suprizingly simple and
> immediately
> understood.
>
> Leo
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