Thank you Mike. Could you take a guess as to why the diagram shows both a dwarf
and a single head leaving signal? Steve, I think you have the same track chart
that I do.
Bob
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@...> wrote:
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> --- 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.
> >
> > Bob Herrick
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> Hi Bob........
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> 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.
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> 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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