[CBQ] Manual Block System; Rule 318(B)

["ken thompson" <mailboat4@gmail.com>]

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I'm modeling the Peoria and Galesburg Subdivision in 1964 and am trying to get a better understanding of the manual block system as it was used on the Burlington.

On my layout I've used Timetable and Train Order operation for a number of years now and have a pretty good understanding of how that works.  There were no passenger (1st class) trains or even 2nd class trains on the Peoria Sub. in 1964, so all trains ran as extras, with Westward trains superior to Eastward trains.  It was all dark territory without any train order signals.  Peoria, Yates City, and Galesburg were train register stations and trains leaving or passing these stations were required to have Clearance Form A when the operator was on duty.

I'm assuming that with the manual block system that extras were still required to have a train order such as To: C&E Engine 303  "Engine 303 run extra Galesburg to Peoria" plus Clearance FormA when departing  Galesburg and another Clearance Form A when passing Yates City as required by rule.  I'm also assuming other train orders were issued for meets and slow orders etc.  

In my copy of the Hannibal Div. TT No. 5 for April 1964. for the Peoria and Galesburg Subdv., it states: Manual Block System; Rule 318(B) in effect.  Rule 318(B) says "A train may be permitted to follow a train other than a passenger train into a block under Permissive Indication, or with permissive Form C, on the authority of train dispatcher, provided ten minutes have elapsed since the passage of the last preceding train.

So, my question is, was the manual block system mainly used for spacing trains traveling in the same direction and would the sections of track between Galesburg  and Yates City, and between Yates City and Peoria be considered the "blocks" in the Manual Block System?   Would the block station operators relay by phone the passage of trains leaving their block station to  both the dispatcher and the next block station operator?

Ken Thompson

So. Milwaukee

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