Ken,
The attached listing of train orders and contents from Yates City might
help answer some of your questions. It is a few years earlier than you
want, but the operation was the same.
I have a handful of Permissive Form C's in my collection for various
locations, but they appear to be pretty rare.
Duncan Cameron and myself put the train orders in our collection into
electronic form about 10 years ago and posted them in the Yahoo files
area for the group I believe these were moved to the new files area on
group.io for the current group Yahoo when was shut down.
Bill HIrt
On 4/24/2022 2:25 PM, ken thompson wrote:
Group,
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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