Re: [CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Mike is right and if you look today I think most of the dwarfs have been replaced by the high single head signals.
I know years ago the East end of Sugar Grove Dwarf disappeared one nite while I was working the C&I.  The East end of the siding started to flash so I called the Signal Maintainer and he drove out there and found someone had stolen the whole dwarf.  They often would get covered with blowing snow may be the reason the dwarfs were replaced.
Steve in SC

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From: mdeckergwtcnet <mdecker@gwtc.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, January 2, 2013 8:36:31 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Oregon Signals

 

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, herrick@... wrote:
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> 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.
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> Bob Herrick
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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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