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Re: The High Price of Precision Scheduled Railroading
Author: BOB2
Date: 10-16-2023 - 22:09
Cbk Wrote:
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> Could the helper crew have entered the siding at
> restricted speed on their own accord based on what
> they thought they saw, or would that have been an
> issue with the dispatcher?
I don't usually comment on DB's excellent posts, so I don't attract the mentally ill troll, but in this case, I'll chance it...
The helpers were cut in at Myoma and would not have "seen" the cars in the siding, or rarely even been way out east to Bertram, and were apparently running on signal indication. But, yes, if they had known that, it would seem like the helper crew would have done that. But, the helper crew apparently didn't.
How they could be entering a siding full of cars on a signal indication, other than one that would require the crew to operate at restricted speed, is the real question for me here. What signal indication did they enter the siding under?
The theory that "losing" the "post it" note, (or of any other insufficient operational practice that failed to keep track of this), which might have showed the siding full of cars, doesn't sound like very "precise" railroading to me...
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> Could the helper crew have entered the siding at
> restricted speed on their own accord based on what
> they thought they saw, or would that have been an
> issue with the dispatcher?
I don't usually comment on DB's excellent posts, so I don't attract the mentally ill troll, but in this case, I'll chance it...
The helpers were cut in at Myoma and would not have "seen" the cars in the siding, or rarely even been way out east to Bertram, and were apparently running on signal indication. But, yes, if they had known that, it would seem like the helper crew would have done that. But, the helper crew apparently didn't.
How they could be entering a siding full of cars on a signal indication, other than one that would require the crew to operate at restricted speed, is the real question for me here. What signal indication did they enter the siding under?
The theory that "losing" the "post it" note, (or of any other insufficient operational practice that failed to keep track of this), which might have showed the siding full of cars, doesn't sound like very "precise" railroading to me...
