? on end end of train coupling signal

[Anonymous]

today modern times without caboses. Now we have end of train signals. When a long train goes in a sideing to let another pass.How would a enginer
know when his last car cleared the siding. Is it
the end car coupling light that applies a signal.
Or does the wheels on the last car apply a signal
to the switcher tower that it's cleared???

[Anonymous]

locomotives have a distance counter on them...you push a button and it counts out feet as you go... you just look at your train documents for the over all length of your train... and use the counter to see if you are clear...the eot just gives you a brake pipe reading on the end of the train, and can be used to apply an emergancy application of the brakes by fliping a switch... and a motion dector for letting you know if your last car in your train is moving... and last but not least...the red marker light... eots themselfs can not tell if your last car has cleared a point..unless someone is thier to spot it....
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

Wow thankyou, that interesting.. If there any
more railroad workers want to add to that glad to
to here more.If not I guess all was answered and this tread will quikly sink to the bottom..

[Anonymous]

no problem...

[BR60103]

Gary:
How do you handle the switches going into a siding? If they're not automatic, does the trainman stay at the switch until the train is in the siding and then hike back to the loco?
David

[wabash1]

if your not in romote controll territory then the conductor gets down and lines it back then walks up. or you can let the train that your meeting get the switch.

[Anonymous]

the 2 major sidings i use on my runs have spring switches on both ends of them... so you dont have to line them back when your in the clear... and if thier is a situation that requiers the conductor to line a switch and we cant throw it back after we pass throw it...the dispatchor will tell the next train that comes along that the switch is aginst them..and that crew will have line it for thier move... this also happens on the dispatchor controlled crossovers and sidings if thier is a signal failer or some other problem that couses the dispator to lose controll of the interlocking or the switches to and from the siding... and yes...once in a great while..the conductor will have to walk...

[Anonymous]

Wow this really getting interesting. Thanks
again. Hmm Subjects like these I wonder if Trains
scoops them up and makes articals in there train
magazine...