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Re: New on Jan 4 NTSB update re: Amtrak 501-Not Much New?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 01-09-2018 - 22:00
Joe M. Wrote:
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> I did some quick sleuthing of my own, the speed
> board at ~2 miles north just past CP Dupont seems
> woefully inadequate. (See Google Map view here -
> roughly at the intersection of Wilmington Dr and
> the east driveway for the State Farm Insurance
> campus in Dupont, WA.)
>
> Would it really have hurt them to put in
> searchlight approach signal? The tiny speed board
> seems penny-wise and a pound foolish.
It's the standard speed board BNSF uses, as prescribed by the rules. If it were "woefully inadequate," trains all over the system would be falling off curves and the FRA wouldn't allow its use.
In regards to putting in a "searchlight approach signal," others have already addressed that.
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> I did some quick sleuthing of my own, the speed
> board at ~2 miles north just past CP Dupont seems
> woefully inadequate. (See Google Map view here -
> roughly at the intersection of Wilmington Dr and
> the east driveway for the State Farm Insurance
> campus in Dupont, WA.)
>
> Would it really have hurt them to put in
> searchlight approach signal? The tiny speed board
> seems penny-wise and a pound foolish.
It's the standard speed board BNSF uses, as prescribed by the rules. If it were "woefully inadequate," trains all over the system would be falling off curves and the FRA wouldn't allow its use.
In regards to putting in a "searchlight approach signal," others have already addressed that.
