What is Rule 17 in DCC lighting?

[tomikawaTT]

rrinker

Rule 17 is, well, Rule #17 in the Uniform Code of Operating Rules. Here's a link to an online copy of a Pennsylvania Railroad rulebook from 1956: http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Bor1956/rulebook1956.html

Scroll down to rule #17, it tells you how the lights should be dimmed. You can also find other rules you may have head mentioned - like Rule G.

                                  --Randy

Or, if you're really a glutton for punishment, you can find a copy of Peter Josserand's Rights Of Trains, and get the whole nine yards, state of the art as of 1959.

Did you know that there are circumstances where the marker lights on a caboose (or a locomotive pushing or running light) could be required to display red on one side and green on the other?  It's in Rule 19.  Could this lead to lights-only decoders for rolling stock carrying markers?

Rule H might also be of interest to those who either enjoy or detest the aroma of burning tobacco...

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[rrinker]

Rule 17 is, well, Rule #17 in the Uniform Code of Operating Rules. Here's a link to an online copy of a Pennsylvania Railroad rulebook from 1956: http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Bor1956/rulebook1956.html

Scroll down to rule #17, it tells you how the lights should be dimmed. You can also find other rules you may have head mentioned - like Rule G.

 

                                  --Randy

 

[locoi1sa]

  Welcome to the forum.

 Rule 17 is able to dim the headlight for on coming trains and sitting stationary on sidings and yard tracks. Most decoders have the ability to dim the lights by either a function button or in some makes automaticly when stopped.

   Pete

[Epareja]

 Hello,

 

I've read in some decoder specs that they have rule 17 directional light, but I haven't been able to find information about that.

 

Thanks

 

Ernesto Pareja