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1939 Consolidated Code rule 17. The headlight will be displayed to the front of every train BY NIGHT. 1959 Consolidated Code Rule 17. The headlight must be displayed burning bright to the front of every train BY DAY and by night. (Capitalization is mine). The 1959 rule book goes on with Rule S-17 (S means Single track) to state that when a train is taking a siding to meet an opposing train and the headlight fails before the train is in the clear a flagman must immediately be sent ahead to flag. It goes on to state that Until the headlight of a train is extinguished it is an indication that the main track is obstructed and the opposing train must approach prepared to stop. In other words sometime between 1939 and 1959 the headlight became a SIGNAL that indicated the train was occupying the mainline. This is the way the rules were went I hired out in 1968 and up until the end of Timetable Train Order operations in the 1980s. Current GCOR headlight rules are similar. Note that the 1959 Consolidated Code rule 17 and S-17 require the headlight be on whenever occupying the main, there was nothing prior to that which PREVENTED an individual railroad's rules from requiring the headlight be on day & night if a railroad wanted itt hat way. __._,_.___ Posted by: runextra@gmail.com __,_._,___ |