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I think this is overkill. I always thought the 5:59 rule was reasonable for commuter trains. Anything less than that is really not a significant delay. Almost nothing in daily is timed down to 2 minute precision. 2 Minutes is basically catching 2 15 codes (based on a 12 car train). It's just politi...

Could be they forgot to put the markers on, as Dutch said. * happens. Could be it had defective marker lights and rolled with the rearward facing headlight on in lieu. It’s allowed by CFR Actually come to think of it, I was following an M3 recently in the same condition, so that was probably the ca...

While it is possible the crew forgot it is probable, the FRA does allow the rear headlight to serve as the rear end marker on locomotives (including MU equipment). So should the markers fail this would be appropriate.

MN still has standard Norac signals in their rule book for their nortern diesel operations last I checked, so they still learn the standard signals we learn (unless they do partial qualification) as well as 'green means go'.

The RAS aspect system does have distinct aspects for Slow and Restricting, (298C and 298D). I imagine this choice was made because those two rules can have the same speed code - although I believe it is allowable to get up to 30 in the cab if the signal displays slow, that might be a recent change....

The RAS aspect system does have distinct aspects for Slow and Restricting, (298C and 298D). I imagine this choice was made because those two rules can have the same speed code - although I believe it is allowable to get up to 30 in the cab if the signal displays slow, that might be a recent change....