Train Rules and Train Dispatching; A Practical Guide for Train Dispatchers, Enginemen, Trainmen and All Who Have to Do with the Movement of Trains (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Work Trains. There is a great diversity, on different roads, in the methods of handling work trains. This is due not only to the ideas of the men who form the rules but to local conditions, and also to the relative importance of the trains concerned. Printed rules in regard to work trains are few. The Standard Code contains only Form H for single track and D-Form H for double track, authorizing the forms of train orders, and the few words of Rules 97 and D-97. In various codes, however, other rules appear with reference to their government. The Standard Code form provides for the time limit to be fixed in the order, but on some roads the book of rules establishes the limit, which is usually from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m., and work orders are in effect only between those hours, unless the order specifies others. In giving an order under a rule of this kind it is necessary to give the date on which it is to be used and is in the following form: Engine 292 will work extra Saturday, May 2d, between Berne and Turin. If it is desired to work at a time other than that specified by rule, the order reads: Engine 292 will work extra until 9 p, m., Saturday, May 2d, between Berne and Turin. Another provision, which is of considerable value, is found in some rules and requires the conductor of a work train, when he is done using his working orders, to send a message to the effect that he is "tied up," and this "tie-up" annuls his working order. This very often facilitates the work of the dispatcher. There are a number of methods for handling a work train with respect to its relationship to freight trains passing over the road. Of course the desired end is to give the work train the use of the track until the expected train is to pass over the portion so occupied, the work train to...