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Re: Searchlight Failure?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 07-05-2015 - 14:03

Pdxrailtranist Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Was wondering if there has ever been a
> > documented
> > > case of a train crash due to the mechanical
> > > failure of the lens mechanism on a
> searchlight
> > > signal.
> >
> > The rear-end collision on the SP at Marne (City
> of
> > Industry/Pomona, Southern California area) back
> in
> > the Sixties comes to mind.
>
>
> Any more details? This would probably be an
> intermediate signal? This used to be my neck of
> the woods.

Stop-and-Proceed signal stayed green with a standing train in the block, which was then rear-ended by a following train.

The accident report is (or used to be) available on the ICC Special Collections web site, if you want to try to find it.

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Searchlight Failure? Pdxrailtransit 07-05-2015 - 12:48
  Re: Searchlight Failure? OPRRMS 07-05-2015 - 13:39
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Pdxrailtranist 07-05-2015 - 13:50
  Re: Searchlight Failure? OPRRMS 07-05-2015 - 14:03
  Re: Searchlight Failure? trainjunkie 07-05-2015 - 16:06
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Pdxrailtransit 07-05-2015 - 17:59
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Dr Zarkoff 07-05-2015 - 18:04
  Re: Searchlight Failure? theconductor 07-05-2015 - 19:41
  Re: Searchlight Failure? George Andrews 07-05-2015 - 20:11
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Chas 07-05-2015 - 20:46
  Re: Searchlight Failure? OPRRMS 07-05-2015 - 21:10
  Re: Searchlight Failure? BOB2 07-05-2015 - 21:19
  Re: Searchlight Failure? WebDigger 07-05-2015 - 22:49
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Nudge 07-06-2015 - 13:35
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Nudge 07-06-2015 - 18:47
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Dr Zarkoff 07-06-2015 - 19:13
  Re: Searchlight Failure? WAF 07-07-2015 - 15:56
  Re: Searchlight Failure? Craig Tambo 07-13-2015 - 09:27


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