The NYTimes printed a quote from a RR official stating that there was no way to avoid push pull because they couldn't turn an engine at GCT. Isn't there a loop track?
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shlustig wrote:FYI, what we used to do was either loop trains inbound off Track 1 to Tks. 40 / 41 /42 or loop outbound from Tks. 38 / 39 / 40 / 41 / 42 to Tk.1.Trains with passengers are prohibited from operating around the loop.
RearOfSignal wrote:Can you please help us find that prohibition, and its age, since there have been emergencies and times of track work when it's happened.shlustig wrote:FYI, what we used to do was either loop trains inbound off Track 1 to Tks. 40 / 41 /42 or loop outbound from Tks. 38 / 39 / 40 / 41 / 42 to Tk.1.Trains with passengers are prohibited from operating around the loop.
JimBoylan wrote:It's somewhere in the ETT: GCT Special Instructions; not sure when it was added. Trains can go through the loop with passengers only with permission from some MNR official VP of Ops or something like that.RearOfSignal wrote:Can you please help us find that prohibition, and its age, since there have been emergencies and times of track work when it's happened.shlustig wrote:FYI, what we used to do was either loop trains inbound off Track 1 to Tks. 40 / 41 /42 or loop outbound from Tks. 38 / 39 / 40 / 41 / 42 to Tk.1.Trains with passengers are prohibited from operating around the loop.
theseaandalifesaver wrote:I don't understand why the push/pull situation keeps getting brought up in every single thread and article I'm reading about this. This is a method that'd been used by railroad for years simply to cut down time and costs of turning a train around to send it back out.Isn't it being brought up because the Shoreliner cab cars don't have the alerters that the locomotives do?
DutchRailnut wrote:And after all had nothing to do with what transpired.How can you say that?