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[quote user="wabash1"] If you have a approach signal and can see the next signal is green and not by the approach signal yet you better stop your train before the next signal as it is displaying a improper aspect. there is no reason to have a yellow if the next one is green. and you can say if the engineer was paying attention he would have seen the bad switch. and for a conductor with nothing else to do yes he is right that he would have seen the switch points but a engineer i might be looking at the rear of my train making sure no wheels are smoking i might glance out the window at track side for pictures with rail buffs or i might be text messaging. or even talking on the phone. either way i might not see the switch points and i dont think you would feel the switch points as you go thru them. the key is anyone who says they would have seen the switch being bad still at that speed would not stop in time and by the time you got the dispatcher the other train would already have hit you anyways. [/quote] Yes even if he did feel the switch split or see it misaligned, it’s still too late to get stopped if the other train is right around the corner.    But I have a question for you.  You say that a yellow means the next signal is red.  So if you see a yellow, and at the same time, see the next signal is green, something is wrong.  I understand.    But if you pass a yellow, and the next signal is red, isn’t it possible for that red light to change to green before you get to it?  You wouldn’t stop for that green light would you?
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