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Hello fellow hobbiests Can anyone tell me if CN puts track diagrams and signal charts in thier current timetables? I'm looking for signal charts of the River Sub and other Winnipeg area subs for a CTC simulation. Regards Kutler

Tiny coloured dots availiable at stationary stores. I agree switchlists are a pain. They are seldom modelled correctly and don't work well with fast time. Have they considered the tiny coloured dots that librarys use to identify books with? They are about 1/4" yet large enough to scribe...

More 1. Track Warrants and Timetable and Train Order control systems can co-exist. Sometimes when TWs were being phased in (often over many years) trains operated using both (or more) systems. I.E. A train might originate in a yard where movements are authorized by rule 105 (other than main...

Please follow the thread The comment is based on a prior assertion that typical Track Warrant's were commonly simple. My response was based on experience issuing such authorities. Track Warrants are used to issue supplementary slow orders, give advance notice of condition of main track...

Bottling the Air? Brakie or someone with RT experience please: When a 100 car trains stops to set out a car. Then returns to it's train. It doesn't take 100 minutes to recharge the air. They brake test any cars they pick up before tying onto the train, right? Is the train crew bottling...

Pretty darned rare too, unless one is working a branch line on 3rd Trick:p

Now that's dramatic:shock: Maybe without the existence of intermediate block signals, or an Absolute Permissive Block System (since about1906). It must have been quite terrifying to management types to think how many times a yard crew with the protection of ABS stole an extra five minutes (or...

Complexity of Train Orders Although we used to have prescribed train order forms I've never seen a train order as complex as the TWC example found near the top of this thread. We used to combine two maybe three forms of train orders at most, never 18! Keep it Brief and Clear was the maxim of...

That's not always entirely true. Some railroads operated by fixed meets. Mine often annulled timefreights in one direction (usually inferior) running trains on wait orders in multiple sections and extras in the opposite direction only. The Train Dispatcher was ultimately responsible to...

I think there is room for comparison. My rulebook has expanded extraordinarily since the implementation of OCS (a version of TWC). The General Operating Instructions have also evolved from a small pocketbook to two encyclopedic volumes during the same period. Train dispatcher manual same ratio...

White Knuckle Railroading I know some former class I employees whom switched to a short line in the mid 80's who used cell phones to check up on each others location. With up to 100 miles of continuous yard limits he called it white knuckle railroading the idea that around every corner could...

And Track Warrants simplified Railroading?

Yes, that's pretty much what I'm hoping the brass strip will do too. Too bad you never get feedback from the 70's magazine ideas about success, pros/cons , etc.

A Bump Yard? The hump yard idea has really created some interesting comments. Most suggestions seem to be applicable to an automated hump yard. My idea however is to build a converted 'rider hump' which among other things doesn't always have a retarder system and is usually a bump instead of...

In some larger yards there are route indicator signals, while looking similar to dwarfs, are often controlled by someone, but don't usually convey authority to use track. CN Symington has extensive route indicated switches. I believe that colours used are green and yellow to indicate route. Not...