I also have a copy of CP's AUG 26, 1951 UCOR, and Rule 17 states "The headlight
will be displayed to the front of every train by night." Nothing about daytime
there in my copy. Rule 17A would likely not be relevant since there is no need
to dim a non-existent light.
John
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Matt" <mattmaynard@...> wrote:
Hi Chuck,
Use of the headlight on Canadian Pacific was mandated by Rule 17 of the
Uniform Code of Operating Rules. "The headlight must be displayed to the
front of every train by day and by night. It must be extinguished when a
train turns out to meet another and has stopped clear of the main track, or
is standing to meet trains at the end of two or more tracks, or at the
junctions with switches properly lined for the approaching train. It should
be left extinguished until rear of the expected train has passed."
Rule 17A explains conditions when the headlight should be dimmed, such as
"when standing on yard tracks" or "when standing on the main track at meeting
points after the switch has been lined for the siding". Rule 17A concludes
with the exception "that the full power of the headlight must be used
approaching all public crossings at grade and until such crossings are
reached regardless of their location."
Rules 17B, 17C and 17D have instructions for lights to the rear, headlight
failures and oscillating white headlights. Rule 18 simply states "Yard
engines will display a headlight to the front and rear by night."
This is how the headlights were operated on the CPs Lyndonville Sub when I
worked there during the 1970s and 1980s. The rules quoted appeared as such
in the AUG 26, 1951 and the OCT 28, 1962 issues of Canadian Pacific's Uniform
Code of Operating Rules.
Matt Maynard
