It is not "ball switching" it is 'the 8-ball' switching. The loco is number 8. The herald is a ball. Thus 'the 8-ball' yard engine is switching. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive a
Huh? The 2 are completely different. The 501E Approach only requires that you be prepared to stop at the NEXT signal. The block is clear from the 501E Approach signal to the next signal. You may pro
I am not familiar with exactly how the CB&Q interlocking or CTC signals electrically worked... but I suspect the lunar 'call on' Permissive light might have been automatic. That is if the dispatcher
I think you mis-typed the above? If the Interlocking was NOT lined then only the red light would be lit, no lunar. You can't pass thru the interlocking, even at Restricted Speed, if the interlocking
In my 1967 rulebook in the Burlington Lines section Rule 501i Permissive says "Proceed at restricted speed through entire block". You then have to look at the rulebook definition of Restricted Speed
[Edited Message Follows] In my 1967 rulebook in the Burlington Lines section Rule 501i Permissive says "Proceed at restricted speed through entire block". You then have to look at the rulebook defini
The still standing elevator at Arno WY (Wyarno to the public, 10 miles east of Sheridan) is corrugated. I'm not sure if the one at Wyola MT (37 miles west of Sheridan) is corrugated of just flat shee
The red & white Mars light between the numberboards has NOTHING to do with the train 'Class' or schedule. The 1967 CCOR rulebook says... Rule 17 (in part) The headlight must be displayed burning brig
[Edited Message Follows] The red & white Mars light between the numberboards has NOTHING to do with the train 'Class' or schedule. The 1967 CCOR rulebook says... Rule 17 (in part) The headlight must
Before the Powder River Basin coal boom (and afterwards) the Bighorn Mine 5 miles west of Sheridan WY shipped lots of coal even into the early 2000s. It was not uncommon for the thru freight 'local'
Good question, Rod, but I'm afraid I can't say definitively. My pay timebook records only go back to Sep 1978 and on Sept 12, 1978 I was called for a Kiewit "P" unit train. Whether that was my first
Nope, not early 70s because the new loadout track & tipple was not there when I came in 1975. I worked the old Mine Runs when the old Kiewit siding was there right alongside the mainline and the mine
The Q truss turntables themselves had no drive nor drive wheels. The center pivot was the main bearing and the main weight carrier. The small wheels on both sides at both ends of the turntable served
Where I worked on the former CB&Q dark territory in Wyoming in mid 1970s some of the sidings had spring switches on one end and yard leads had a spring switch. In all of these cases there was a Dista
Headlight rules pertaning to "MARS" lights... 17(C). On engines so equipped, oscillating white headlight must be displayed approaching and passing over public crossings and through cities and towns b
No, just the one facing the direction of the train movement. The 'front' one. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#59712): https:/
The idea that one cannot start a heavy train without taking slack is a railfan myth in today's context. In fact I'd go so far to say that you canNOT use slack to start a heavy train today. In the old
Rod is correct that the FT photo is Crawford Hill. It is the lower S curve of the horseshoe. I have pics I took in 1975 from the same location as the B&W photographer but I was much higher up on the
Has anyone ever seen a track profile chart (grades) for the CB&Q's Edgemont to Deadwood line and its branches? I ran trains on it in the mid 1970s but I've never found a grade chart of those lines. T
The mere _presence_ of marker lanterns on cabooses or the last passenger car were themselves the marker in daylight. In sunny daylight you would not have been able to see any light even if they were