[CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals

["mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@gwtc.net>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, herrick@... wrote:
>
> Thank you, Steve. So would you please explain for a non-railroader the 
> signals at either end of the passing track at Oregon? The 1967 track chart 
> shows two-head signals on the main and a single-head signal plus a dwarf on 
> either end of the siding. Now the photos I've seen never show the dwarf 
> signal.
> 
> Bob Herrick
>

Hi Bob........

I can't speak to why the diagrahm would show a dwarf signal, and photos show a 
high level, but I can tell you why the signals are placed the way they are.  

The two headed signals at the entering ends of the siding tell you which track 
you are going to use.  The top head is for the main, and the bottom for the 
siding.  If you are holding the main, and stopping at the other end, you would 
see a Yellow over Red.  If you were taking siding and stopping, it would be Red 
over Yellow.  

The single heads at the other ends of the siding are the leaving signals, and 
would normally show Green when you were departing....assuming you didn't just 
follow another train through there, in which case the signal would show you how 
far ahead he was, by showing either Yellow or Flashing Yellow.

Hope that helps....

Mike Decker



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