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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="wabash1"] <P>[quote user="Bucyrus"] <P>[quote user="wabash1"] <P>[quote user="Bucyrus"] <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=georgia,palatino>I have a question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino>Suppose you are an engineer running a passenger train at night down the mainline at 79 mph, and approaching a meet with an opposing passenger train, which is waiting in a siding with its headlight turned off.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now suppose that train in the siding turns on its headlight when you are say 1000 feet away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What, if anything, do you do?</FONT></SPAN></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P><FONT size=4>Other than talk about the rule violation that was just commited there is nothing you can do . </FONT></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino>I know an engineer could not stop before reaching the switch or the opposing train, but would you try to slow down?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am just wondering how an engineer would react to having the headlight of the train in the siding come on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could just be a harmless mistake for some reason, or it could mean something serious.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P><FONT size=4>why would you atempt to slow down at 1000 ft you would not acomplish much anyways and also there is no reason to slow down. the only thing it means is that the idiot in the other engine made a mistake.... if you want to call it that and made a rule violation by turning on the headlight. at night at train meets the headlights will be turned off, unless your about to go across a crossing at grade.then the engine moving will keep his on bright.</FONT></P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=georgia,palatino>Thanks Wabash.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was just wondering how concerned an engineer would be about seeing the headlight on the train in the siding come on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It might mean that the guy on the other engine made a mistake, but might it also mean that the standing engineer was trying to tell the approaching engineer that something was wrong such as not being in the clear, switch not lined, etc?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suppose he would have lit a fusee if that were the case though.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if these ATSF trains had radios in 1956 that would have allowed the engineers to talk to each other.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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