A nice picture of the throat to a real sized passenger terminal... The caption reads about some sort of modern electronics to keep the signals correct.
Problem is the signals are NOT Correct. They are all green. At an interlocking plant such as this is they sould all be RED. A green light is displayed ONLY after the rest of the interlocking plant is aligned for the movement and the operator moves that last lever to clear the signal.
Block signaals may rest at green, but NEVER interlocking signals.
The train is coming out on the Numbedr 3 track (headed to the car yards, which should have a smaller locomotive anyway) and even that aspect is green when it clearly should be RED.
The road locomotives should have been pulled off the consist earler, and a switcher take the cars to they yard. Ithere is no room in that car yard to accommodate those road engines.
Now of course it *could* be a consist moving out on the maine lion, but according to the track plan, it is on the wrong track for that.
LIONS do not count rivets, but they do watch the levers on the interlocking machine.
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Yes, LION, I noticed that too.
Looking at the track plan, it is possible for all five tracks to be cleared at the same time. Except that the third track from the left should clearly be red to avoid a nasty cornfield (err throat) meet. There could be more trains approaching from the right on the other tracks. The real LAUPT could have multiple parallel arrivals and departures just like the model.
Ray
Penn Station and Grand Central coult have multiple arrivals, but the tracks would only be cleared as needed, and not because the plant at rest could be green.
Only the dispatcher clears the signal.
NONE of those signals should EVER be green since all of those tracks dead-end within a train length.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Good catch Lion. When I first saw the picture I realized the signal was green with an F unit almost underneath it. For a second I thought about it and realized the signal should be red with a train commin right attcha!
The Tower boys must have been texting like some engineers do today, eh. How do you do 75mph in a 35mph zone. Then you derail in the curve and you are not sure why.
Robert Sylvester
Newberry-Columbia Line, SC