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Re: Questions about train details
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:11:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Warren writes:
> Hello,
> I am currently building a train layout in my basement and some
> questions came up that I'm wondering if anybody knows the answers. The
> first question is about cabooses. I know that they usually carried a red
> light on the back to show the end of a train but did they have any other
> colored lights on the back such as green?
(US practice)
Back marker lights are typically always red I think. However for passenger
trains there are a number of light colors that may be used as "marker lights".
Which are which is escaping me. Green to denote "extra" (non scheduled) and
white for "second section" (when there were too many passengers for one train
so a second was laid on).
> I in looking at photos of actual large train stations in cites
> (Louisville's L&N in my photo) I noticed that most of the train tracks fork
> off parallel to each other and all come to a dead end at the back of the
> station. I might build my station in a similiar fashion but I can't for the
> life of me figure out how passenger trains turned around at the stations to
> leave on their next route. I don't see any turn tables in any pictures and
> just simply putting another engine on the end wouldn't work for streamlined
> cars that had the rounded ends.
Frank answered this correctly, but incompletely. Most stub end passenger
stations were arranged so that when (in the majority of cases) the train
wasn't slated to be broken up for servicing but intended to depart for the
next leg of the journey, the train would either back IN or back OUT a
(relatively) short distance. This was done by having the station be on a wye
spur or similar to allow backing in from both directions... (although not
always, there's always an exception to every example)
Most modern european main terminals are stub, but the trains are double ended
and they just reverse direction when leaving.
++Lar
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| (...) looking at photos of actual large train stations in cites (...) In the UK there were some odd practises, despite the railway regulations being proudly followed to the letter. One such case was at Dorchester South station. This was actually a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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