Re: UCOR rules scenario
- From: "crip1978" <vic@xxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:20:07 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Steve Lucas" <stevelucas3@...> wrote:
Roger--
The train would wait until Hell freezes over, or the foreman allows it to
proceed by removing the red flag between the rails. Better give a long and
three short whistles to send out the flagman per Rule 99 when you stop at the
flag and find no one around.
But if there's nobody around and a red flag is between the rails, either
give four short whistles to get someone to appear, and/or find a phone box to
call the dispatcher. Cabooses and baggage cars (even on The Canadian) had
portable telephones (drop phones) with a sectioned wood pole, clips, and wire
to connect the phone to the dispatcher's phone wires on the pole line if a
phone box was far away.
Actually, we gave the § 14(c) signal a good mile before stopping in such
situations -- so the flagman could bail-off and be in position to start
flagging sooner (and to save him all that walking). Once the train has
stopped, there isn't any point in giving this signal because § 99 tells him
what to do. (If any redundency was needed the Condr handled it.) Indeed we'd
whistle the recall signal when stopping if the stop was to only be momentary,
telling the flagman to NOT go back. He would have already dropped off a yellow
fusee as we slowed below 50% of normal speed (for the fastest train on the
line).
At an impassible track location, the MoW 4man wouldn't be installing torpedoes
on "either" side of the work location. They'd be installed on "each" or "both"
sides. Use of the word "either" suggests that someone had a discretion to
choose, which was NOT the case.
The drop phones mentioned were called Field Phones. (They weren't intended to
drop or be dropped!) I've used 'em many times to cy orders. Either for a
train I was on or for other trains, as, when a caboose / van with a hinged TO
signal on top was used as a TO ofc. BTW a hinged TO signal on top wasn't
nec'y; van would be like any bldg on the ROW w/o a TO signal. If there's no TO
signal available, we'd just protect the situation in other ways, like walking
out torpedoes the appropriate distance and displaying a red flag or fusee in
front of the temporary / new TO ofc.
VRP
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