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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Sep 13 20:37:48 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by RonInBayside on Sat Sep 13 20:24:34 2008. Would posting a wayside signal there have made a difference?Well, adding a wayside signal would mean - at least to me as amateur observer - adjusting block lengths in the area such that one adds a block between, say, the end of the station nearest to the home signal and the home signal. If that work were done, then the movements into the home signal would be governed by the leaving signal at the station. The overall effect is to improve the interlocking design from the safety perspective. But there is a 'D.I.B.' sign that's supposed to be posted at the end of the station in the DIB rule case that seems to have been at issue (the sign is to remind, since the distant signal to the interlocking was located prior to the station). It would seem that if that were the case, the engineer disregarded the pertinent operating rule. If the railroad left out the sign, then I would figure that they violated the FRA rule in question. |
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