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Don't know about the lines down that way but from my scanner monitoring of NS lines in Pennsylvania they still call signals and, on the cab signaled Pittsburgh Line, cab signal aspect changes.

Is there any information (beyond wild speculation) about the cause of the B line derailment at CP Cody?

... BUT, what I find interesting about the NS signal card is that new installations are Southern legacy, so no NORAC. Looks like the railroad should have been named Southern Norfolk. Actually the NORAC signal aspects have been continued in ex-Conrail territories (with some modifications), just with...

PTC was not in service at the time of the wreck (Revenue Service Demonstration rumored to start in February) The line has long been cab signalled and continues to be so; in fact with the installation of PTC equipment NS has been also removing almost all automatic signals on cab signalled lines, and ...

Currently the only DPU trains(rear placement) are eastbound utility trains from Shire Oaks to various North Carolina power plants; the empty returns bunch road and DPU power together on the head end; the earlier experiments with manifest and 200 car crude oil trains have not been continued. As part ...

BuddR32 wrote:

LIRR uses the 100 HZ carrier in Zone C. ESA will be the 250 HZ carrier. Currently, the LI ASC equipment does NOT decode 250HZ

While CSX has been equipping some random previously non-cab signal units with cab signals and ACSES (SD40-2's in the 8000, 8100, and 8300-series, as well as re-equipping some ex-Conrail 8800's), keep your eyes peeled for CSXT 479 (currently hanging out around Philly). It is the first previously non...

I think somewhere on this forum that early 3 aspect system changed the 12 to 15. One question I've had for a while is did those 3 aspect systems decode the 120 "approach medium" code used in the 4 aspect PRR system? Did PRR use 120 codes between Harold and A? If so what was displayed on th...

Interesting discussion. Any "civilians" who want to see what LIRR Engineers and Conductors have to qualify on in regards to signals can get the signal rules (and more) on the NTSB web site's supporting documents for the January 2017 Brooklyn bumper block crash; these don't include the new ...

I got my senior Key card on Nov. 5 while passing through Philly (I live in Virginia but usually am in Philly half a dozen times a year and always use Septa, and I turned 65 in August). From what I've read in this forum, not to mention on the Septa website, I wasn't sure what to expect. The Septa we...

According to an NS press release interchange will not be accepted after 7:00 am (EST I presume) and all operations (Freight) will stop after 3:00 pm on the 24th ( includes road trains, yard switchers, and local trains servicing customers.) Interchange and operations will resume at 10:00 pm on Monday...

Sorry for the delay; I usually only check inhere on Sundays fcqjx - The difference between Stop and Stop and Proceed aspects is the absence (Stop) or presence (Stop and Proceed) of a number plate on the signal mast. It is not possible for a signal to display both - the number plate is either there o...

A fleeted or routed signal will not come in until something better than restricting can be displayed. A restricting has to be specifically called for once a train clears an interlocking and cannot be set up ahead of time. However, this may be different based on different operating software. This is...

I recall reporting for my first day of work from Rockville, MD, the first part of my journey via the B&O's RDC equipped commuter service to Union Station in Washington DC in late June 1973. The first sign of trouble was an eastbound freight passing through almost at train time. Many minutes late...