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Gilbert B Norman wrote:BNSF #1303 "due at Aurora 1001A has not left Union Station. Length of delay is unknown."

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What "knowledge and skill" does it take to run a second section? If you're thinking green flags and both running on the same timetable authority, those days are long past. I'm not aware of any place Amtrak trains run on timetable authority. It's either signal authority (CTC or double-track...

My next METRA travel plan is to ride the electric line to University Park, 95th St., & Blue Island. This, of course, will require some doubling back. A common station among all 3 lines is Kensington. Does this station have a ticket office? Is it a relatively safe place to wait during the day fo...

Very interesting incident on the MD-W west of Roselle this morning. The line is currently shut down west of Roselle. Without speculating as to how this happened, this morning's 2220, which originates just west of the Roselle West crossovers (flipping from a deadhead from Chicago), had the first 4-1/...

How does preemption work with motion sensing crossing protection? I get the part about giving the traffic light controller the signal befor the gates. When slowing while approaching a crossing, sometimes the gates will cycle. How could the preemption circuit hold the lights red, if the gates go bac...

I rode the Metra MD-W into the city this week for the first time in several months and was disappointed to see that the four sets of ex-Pennsy (due to the Panhandle heritage of the line) position light signals between Western Ave. (A-2) and CUS have been replaced with color light signals. The four w...

Does anyone have updates on the 205? Is it being recovered or scrapped on-site in Tennessee? If METRA files a claim,CSX pays,if the 205 was still METX lettered. If 205 was tagged as a Progress rail unit,then CSX pays Progress Rail Not sure the lettering matters as much as who the shipper was. The e...

Last as I knew, 217 is on the Milwaukee Districts and North Central.

The arrows at MO are mounted on the Manhattan end of the 138th Street bridge, a good 2,000' short of where the routes star diverging. Same is true of the arrows at JO- it's ~2,000' from the arrows to the start of the interlocking plant under the Bronx River Parkway bridge. More than adequate distan...

Maybe arrows are needed at south Alexandria on CSX. Remember an Amtrak going to Manassas got routed onto Richmond route. Signal indications could not tell engineer what route he was going on. But how much do the arrows really gain? I would not expect that the arrow can be read more than a few secon...

As for what the industry standard is, it's becoming apparent that there isn't one. That's crazy. You have to have significant hours in a sim to change planes as a pilot, how is it they don't have this for engineers? If it's "too costly" to do familiarization rides, a sim could accomplish ...

OTOH, having worked for an airline and occasionally had job need to see things that were considered "security sensitive", the warnings on them about unauthorized disclosure made it very clear that doing so could have major legal repercussions. Nothing I have ever seen on a railroad employe...

Do not know if this applied to PRR but some old heads at the N&W claimed N&W used three yellow position lights because some enginemen were partially color blind. As the last of color blinds retired on a district N&W would convert that district to colorized position lights eliminating th...

Is there a colored position signal ref anywhere? I'm in a bit of a time crunch here so I can't look just yet, and I bet some folks have a good vetted site already. I also wonder if there's something "better"... I'm assuming position and color combined is best. One claim of the Pennsylvani...

Why were they never upgraded to be the same throughout the entire line? Having different signals on the NEC sounds like it can be a nightmare. Are most of the physical signals the same from the pre-amtrak days? They weren't upgraded to be the same as that costs money and many are the same physical ...