Re: (erielack) Aurora and Garretsville, OHIO

[Smtimko_@_aol.com]

Obviously my diagram did not reproduce correctly.
 
Sorry
 
smt
 
 
In a message dated 10/18/2012 4:28:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Smtimko_@_aol.com writes:


In a  message dated 10/18/2012 12:28:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,   
qc_@_comcast.net writes:

Does  anyone have more detail on the  head-on?  How did the trick 
dispatcher 
loose track of the two  trains?  This portion of track was signaled?   Also 
any  details of who the dispatcher and CTD were?
Bruce   Breeman
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Bruce

The track was signalled---APB  signal system.  Extra trains  required train 
order.   Passenger Trains were scheduled by Timetable.

EB ore train had a Run  Extra order for the entire track.  Signals  would 
protect him  from local ahead working eastbound.

Local had an order that stated  "Work Extra betwen XR and  Mahoning, not 
protecting against extra  trains."

The local crew came to the phone, were on short time and the  DS told them  
to "Head West" using their work order.  The single  track, APB arrangement  
was relatively new---about a year.   Neither the local crew non the DS  
understood the order and the  consequences on exactly how the signal system 
 
worked.  The DS  (and the crew) thought that the presence of the local 
would  hold 
the  headblock in Stop position at HM---thus holding the ore train in the   
double track between HM and KS.  That was not the case.  The  ore  train 
and 
the local were on proceed signals as they apparently  both passed  opposing 
signals at the same time, of course when the  local proceeded west, it  
tumbled 
all of the EB signals but the ore  train was past the signal by  then.

RB        
HM          KS         XR
east_____________________local >_X__<____ore   
train______________________________________west
_____SN____________/    \  ___/     
\_______/   N.  Randall____   


SMT




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