by train2
Passed through Hamlet, NC a few weeks back and some of the older Seaboard Coast Line signals have been replaced. Of particular interest, I noticed the southbound absolute signal guarding the diamond at the Hamlet station is now a single head without its numberplate. (it replaced a double headed signal if my memory is correct.) Now I know in signal rules the lack of the number plate makes it an absolute. But in reality how often do any of you see this done? Almost every other NEW installation at an interlocking/absolute is a two headed signal capable of displaying red over red.
In other words while possible under the rules, I have rarely if ever seen this done. The signal in question does lack any diverging routes so it works for the application, but for something as important as a diamond I wondered how other locations with new signals are being handled?
T2
In other words while possible under the rules, I have rarely if ever seen this done. The signal in question does lack any diverging routes so it works for the application, but for something as important as a diamond I wondered how other locations with new signals are being handled?
T2