Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 02-06-2018 - 12:51
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> CTC goes by several abbreviations, and this has to
> do with copyright issues for the CTC acronym and
> one railroad trying to be different from its
> competitors. So if that CSX subdivision has "TC",
> standing for "traffic control" with CPs (control
> points), then it has what is generally referred to
> as "CTC". The Western Pacific used to refer to CTC
> as "TCS" or "traffic control system".
>
> It's never been definitely clarified whether the
> CSX train was on a defined siding or just some
> storage track and whether the track had a
> hand-throw switch or a power swtich which had been
> placed in hand-throw because of the signal
> suspension.
>
> The absence of signals on either side of the
> switch tends to idicate that the track was just a
> storage track (and that the switch was a
> hand-throw, most likely with an electric switch
> lock -- which would have been disabled on account
> of the signal suspension).
On the track chart, the track is called SILICA STG (stands for Silica Storage) and has handthrown switches at both ends.
NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Graham Buxton |
02-04-2018 - 18:26 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Geob |
02-04-2018 - 19:12 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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JOHN |
02-04-2018 - 19:53 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-04-2018 - 20:53 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Hoghead 1 |
02-04-2018 - 21:13 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-04-2018 - 21:16 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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RRACS |
02-06-2018 - 07:56 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Hot Water |
02-06-2018 - 07:59 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 08:34 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-06-2018 - 11:09 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 11:27 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-06-2018 - 11:35 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 11:45 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-06-2018 - 11:58 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Dr Zarkoff |
02-06-2018 - 12:36 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC) |
OPRRMS |
02-06-2018 - 12:51 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 14:09 |
Re: Amtrak in SC-Restricted Speed?
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BOB2 |
02-06-2018 - 14:57 |
Re: Amtrak in SC-Restricted Speed?
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OPRRMS |
02-06-2018 - 15:45 |
Re: Amtrak in SC-Restricted Speed?
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 16:23 |
Re: Amtrak in SC-Restricted Speed?
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OldPoleBurner |
02-07-2018 - 12:15 |
Re: Amtrak in SC-Restricted Speed?
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Dr Zarkoff |
02-07-2018 - 13:45 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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Dr Zarkoff |
02-06-2018 - 16:10 |
Re: 59 mph, in unsingalled territory OMG!
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BOB2 |
02-06-2018 - 17:14 |
Re: 59 mph, in unsingalled territory OMG!
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 18:48 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 17 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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BOB2 |
02-06-2018 - 19:36 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 17 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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tundraboomer |
02-06-2018 - 19:42 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 175 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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BOB2 |
02-06-2018 - 20:39 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 175 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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tundraboomer |
02-07-2018 - 06:14 |
Re: My poor logic, yeah right?
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BOB2 |
02-07-2018 - 08:35 |
Re: My poor logic, yeah right?
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OPRRMS |
02-07-2018 - 13:12 |
Re: My poor logic, yeah right?
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OPRRMS |
02-07-2018 - 13:32 |
Re: Yep that was in the rule book but I never saw it used....and it's still a bad practice.
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BOB2 |
02-07-2018 - 15:34 |
Re: Yep that was in the rule book but I never saw it used....and it's still a bad practice.
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OPRRMS |
02-07-2018 - 17:28 |
Re: Yep that was in the rule book but I never saw it used....and it's still a bad practice.
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OPRRMS |
02-07-2018 - 18:10 |
Re: My poor logic, yeah right?
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tundraboomer |
02-07-2018 - 17:27 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 17 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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OldPoleBurner |
02-07-2018 - 13:16 |
Re: 100 years, actually over 17 years and OMG we're still alllowing that kind of operation and these unnecessary deaths?
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Dr Zarkoff |
02-07-2018 - 13:51 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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BOB2 |
02-04-2018 - 21:16 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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OPRRMS |
02-04-2018 - 20:40 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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WILL |
02-04-2018 - 20:59 |
Re: NTSB says CSX switch 'lined & locked into siding' (re Amtrak in SC)
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RWS |
02-04-2018 - 21:53 |
Atk in SC
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Nudge |
02-07-2018 - 18:21 |
Re: Atk in SC
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OPRRMS |
02-07-2018 - 18:36 |
Re: Atk in SC
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tundraboomer |
02-07-2018 - 19:15 |
Re: Atk in SC
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Dr Zarkoff |
02-07-2018 - 21:38 |
Re: Atk in SC
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Finis |
02-07-2018 - 20:46 |
Re: Atk in SC
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Glen Icanberry |
02-09-2018 - 03:55 |
Re: Except that some of them feel it is safer to run at 59 when you turn them off, but only at restricted speed when they fail?
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BOB2 |
02-09-2018 - 07:47 |
Re: Except that some of them feel it is safer to run at 59 when you turn them off, but only at restricted speed when they fail?
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tundraboomer |
02-09-2018 - 08:14 |
Re: Except that some of them feel it is safer to run at 59 when you turn them off, but only at restricted speed when they fail?
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OPRRMS |
02-09-2018 - 10:50 |