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[quote user="Railfan1"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="Railfan1"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="edblysard"]  Watch it again, you can see the opposing train trip the signal system and our signal aspect changes from red over green, (diverging route) to red over red, as it should once someone ocupy the circut, which the opposing train does just as he passes the signal mast on the other side of the switch.[/quote]I thought I was seeing, at first, a green aspect on that signal the first train passed, but when the camera got closer, it looked like red over red.  I did not start/stop to check it out, but just concluded that it was red all along.  Your explanation that it changed by the violation of the oppsing train makes sence.  But even if that signal did go red right in their face, would they not have been required to see it and stop, even if they could not stop short of it?  Don't they have to watch and react to every signal right up to the point where they pass it and can no longer see it?That brings up another question.  Wouldn't the dispatcher see that the first train passed a red board and communicate the error to the crews of both trains?  When the first train got the red signal in their face, did that mean the other train was passing a red board at that moment?  Wouldn't the dispatcher have seen this whole thing unfolding? [/quote]You can see it change from green to red once the opposing train triggers it by getting to close to the single main.[/quote]Sorry about the confusion.  I was referring to the first signal at the grade crossing right at the start of the video.  As for the signal at the siding, I am sure he would have dumped the air at that one, if not even before it went red.  But what was the aspect of that first signal when the engine passed it?  [/quote]A possible permissive signal? Then again, the video could make a yellow appear to be red. Depends on video quality.[/quote]It must be yellow over red.  Would that be the aspect if they were lined into that siding?  I have looked at it a bunch of times, and it seems to look about 95% like red over red.
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