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Greetings, all: Have read this ENTIRE thread with some interest and now would like to make a few points and clarifications to what has already been posted: -- Ed of Houston writes of a "lumar" aspect, which, according to how I'm reading his post, is "usually green". I think it should be pointed out green and LUNAR (a blui***inted white color), are each individual aspects with very different meanings: Green implies clear, proceed with no further restriction, while Lunar is universally understood as RESTRICTING, which in layman's terms means "proceed at your own risk, ready to stop short of anything you could run into or run over." -- Read Todd C.'s original post twice to be sure I knew what he was saying and I see nothing factually wrong with what he said...stop signs are NOT interlocked to display only one route (technically they display NO route, they rely on a fallible, non-interlocked human being to grant verbal permission), therefore no interlocking. Bobbishna, lighten up... -- Even though the basic concepts of interlocking rules are the same throughout the industry, when it comes to flagging your way through interlockings (automatic OR manual), every rulebook (and in the case of the GCOR, some of the member railroads) have some differences in procedures: Do I place fusees on the conflicting route? If the interlocking is controlled by the "other" railroad, do I need MY Dispatcher's permission through THEIR interlocking IN ADDITION to their permission? The point is: What is "by the book" in, say, the GCOR can get you fired on NS, and neither book would be much help on CSX, etc., etc. The rails on this thread know their stuff for their home roads, but some of you guys are comparing apples and oranges. -- EVERYONE has something valuable to contribute. (Just wish some of you didn't package it in a 5-gallon pail of manure and then wonder why we can't find it.) -- And just so everyone knows where my pedigree is from to be making the statements I'm making, I am a Rules Examiner for Amtrak. I am qualified on (and teach classes on) GCOR (including BNSF, CP and UP special instructions), NORAC, CSX, CN/IC and NS (a.k.a."the little gray book"). That's enough for now. Fire away, flamethrowers! Harold P.S. Everyone (myself included) could stand to use the spell-checker on this contraption more often.
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