QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton and if it's a busy railroad there may be delays to other trains as well. no more delay then if the train went into emergancy on its own becouse of a broken airhose...or it gets a hot box.... on a perfict day the trains run fine with no problems..... but thier is always a chance of mechnical brakedown... and it can build up delays just as fast as an engineer putting his train in emergancy.....so the arguement is a dead point... delays happen... regardless of the reason.... csx engineer
QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton and if it's a busy railroad there may be delays to other trains as well.
QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 csx Not questioning you or your running just the operational point of the statement. but that is fine our rules are simular but also in most cases our signals are set up in a way that we have vision . ive only dumped them 2 times at interlockings ( csx interlockings) as i had a clear then it dropped about 4 cars from the signal..... and i didnt stay on board it either. this signal is know to screw up and have headlight meets at the interlocking .
QUOTE: Originally posted by martin.knoepfel How much does it cost the railroad if an trains goes into emergency? (loss of time, strain on rolling stock, fuel costs for pumping up the air and accelerating the train after the emergency-stop etc.9
QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 csx you dont haft to big hole a train when coming to a absolute. if the signal before it was approach then you come to another approach then it requires a drastic move but if the previous signal is green and the absolute is green then drops a normal stop is fine even if you get by the signal it is fine . a dropped signal dont mean a emergency applacation. with that said the only time i would dump my train is if it is at a interlocking and i cant see either direction then i am dumping it and then thinking of bailing out. if i dont hear a crash in 5 min then i will reboard the train
QUOTE: Originally posted by richardy QUOTE: Originally posted by shrek623 QUOTE: Originally posted by vandenbm Last evening I was out catching some action through Morris. There was a unit grain train meeting a coal empty in town. Morris has a pretty long siding for meets, probably 12,000 feet or so. The train keeping the main had an approach signal as the train taking the siding hadn't cleared the swtich yet. Right as the grain train (who was keeping the main) came upon the intermediate signal in town between switches, the approach dropped to red and the train went into emergency, obviously, to stop. Turns out the intermediate signal always drops to red for a second or two then back to approach as the train entering the siding takes the switch. Is this normal? Did this train just come upon the signal at the exact wrong time to have the light change right in front of them? I thought it was kinda weird. Note: The signal is question is not at either of the switches, the siding at Morris is so long that there is a signal between the switches in town about 6,000 feet from either switch. I know I have had it where it will be yellow, you will see a quick flash of red, then we would get a clear. A freaky split second but for me it happened so fast no one had had time to react yet. Even if it did drop, I would have let the engineer stop the train consistent with good train handling before I dumped it. Shrek Shrek: Are the signals where you see the "quick flash of red" three color light or searchlights signals? Richard
QUOTE: Originally posted by shrek623 QUOTE: Originally posted by vandenbm Last evening I was out catching some action through Morris. There was a unit grain train meeting a coal empty in town. Morris has a pretty long siding for meets, probably 12,000 feet or so. The train keeping the main had an approach signal as the train taking the siding hadn't cleared the swtich yet. Right as the grain train (who was keeping the main) came upon the intermediate signal in town between switches, the approach dropped to red and the train went into emergency, obviously, to stop. Turns out the intermediate signal always drops to red for a second or two then back to approach as the train entering the siding takes the switch. Is this normal? Did this train just come upon the signal at the exact wrong time to have the light change right in front of them? I thought it was kinda weird. Note: The signal is question is not at either of the switches, the siding at Morris is so long that there is a signal between the switches in town about 6,000 feet from either switch. I know I have had it where it will be yellow, you will see a quick flash of red, then we would get a clear. A freaky split second but for me it happened so fast no one had had time to react yet. Even if it did drop, I would have let the engineer stop the train consistent with good train handling before I dumped it. Shrek
QUOTE: Originally posted by vandenbm Last evening I was out catching some action through Morris. There was a unit grain train meeting a coal empty in town. Morris has a pretty long siding for meets, probably 12,000 feet or so. The train keeping the main had an approach signal as the train taking the siding hadn't cleared the swtich yet. Right as the grain train (who was keeping the main) came upon the intermediate signal in town between switches, the approach dropped to red and the train went into emergency, obviously, to stop. Turns out the intermediate signal always drops to red for a second or two then back to approach as the train entering the siding takes the switch. Is this normal? Did this train just come upon the signal at the exact wrong time to have the light change right in front of them? I thought it was kinda weird. Note: The signal is question is not at either of the switches, the siding at Morris is so long that there is a signal between the switches in town about 6,000 feet from either switch.
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