by Jersey_Mike
Head-end View wrote:The mid-day news today announced that Metro-North has reduced the cab-signal code on the approach to the Spuyten Duyvil curve. My question is: if it was so simple to do, that they did it in just a few days, why wasn't it set up this way originally to enforce the radical speed reduction at this location?I mentioned this before, but since Metro-North decided to eliminate wayside signals in the 1980's, relying on the cab signals for MAS warnings would make it impossible for the Engineer to tell if a particular code drop was due to congestion or the curve. Each situation involves a different method of handling the train (preparing to stop vs preparing to slow down) and it would be worthwhile to eliminate the confusion. Amtrak did not suffer from this problem when it installed the code change points on the NEC because the wayside signals continue to display their normal compliment of indications which reflect the true state of the track ahead.