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Re: The High Price of Precision Scheduled Railroading
Author: Reader
Date: 10-16-2023 - 22:47
BOB2 Wrote:
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> 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?
Apparently there was such an accumulation of rust on the rails that the stored cars "disappeared" from the CTC machinery as they lost continuity in creating a shunt.
Years ago the B&M had a bad collision because a RDC car had been using sand, shunting capability was lost, and the ABS system thought the track was unoccupied when, in reality, the opposite was true.
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> 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?
Apparently there was such an accumulation of rust on the rails that the stored cars "disappeared" from the CTC machinery as they lost continuity in creating a shunt.
Years ago the B&M had a bad collision because a RDC car had been using sand, shunting capability was lost, and the ABS system thought the track was unoccupied when, in reality, the opposite was true.
