Yard limit boards were placed according to where protection was needed, from
what I can see in my engineering profiles, from 1200 to 2000 yards out,
depending upon circumstances. They might be close to a mile board, but not
necessarily always.
On the KV, we had yard limits protecting water tanks which were nowhere near
a station or station mileboard. In those instances, the YL boards seem to
have been around 1300 feet out from the tank. KV trains were neither long
or fast, so they
could get away with shorter limits, I presume.
Joe Smuin
-----Original Message-----
From: PBBowers
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 10:03 AM
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Yard limits, pre 1951.
At 06:15 AM 08/04/2012, you wrote:
FOR THE RECORD:
In the matter of how to correctly interpret yard limit symbols in
pre-1951 ETTs
at Taft and Three Valley, apparently a number of folks interpret the ETT and
the GTIR in effect at the time to indicate that yard limits extended
from the west
YL board at Taft to the east YL board at Three Valley.
In particular, someone stated in part:
... The 1942 ETT shows the letter "Z" to the left of Three Valley, and to the
right of Taft in the station column. So the only possible interpretation is
that yard limits DID extend from the yard limit board to the station or
station name sign. ... '
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