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Let me draw you a mental picture of the yard at my home terminal. The mainline runs North/South and the yard is situated on either side of the mainline. Brewer Yard, from west to east, has six yard tracks, a runner, main line, and three more yard tracks. The mainline is signaled, but of course it is in Yard Limits. The Runner is the old #2 main and is signaled only at either end to grant access/exit. The Runner track is controlled by the Yardmaster, and trains can run at Controlled speed at a max speed of 25mph. Yesterday an engineer walked in and said that the yardmaster gave him permission to use the runner track when another train already had permission to use the runner though the same location. He believed that the yardmaster could get in trouble for doing this. My question is, if these two trains were to collide; wouldn't it be the crew's fault and not the yardmaster's fault because trains have to run at controlled speed??? I know Mark, CSXengineer, Ed, Mud, Valley, LC, and others probably will be able to answer this question. <br /> Question 2.... When we recrew trains at Brewer yard the roundhouse is the crew change point. Northbound trains pass an absolute signal at Vine st, which is about 1,000 ft south of the roundhouse. So, when the new northbound crew is ready to depart then can see the next signal at the north end of the yard, but since we did not see the last signal we have to run at restricted speed because we do not know what the last signal indication was and there are switches in between the signals that have no electric locks. Am I right?
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