L&N 4099
OK folks, help me out here. I took this photo 32 years ago and I still dont know: what the heck does a green classification light indicate??
Date:
3/31/1979
Location:
Swansea, IL
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TS _Illinois
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L&N - and some Seabord Systems - in and around Southern Illinois
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Joseph Yarbrough
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Green. Indicated that, while the train displaying the lights was a regularly scheduled one, a second section was following behind it. This was done, for example, when ridership demand exceeded the capacity of a single passenger train. If there were too many passengers for a single section of, say, New York Central's 20th Century Limited, a second section was operated, and, if needed, a third, fourth, fifth, and even sixth. The engine of each section except the last would display green lights. While each section was a separate entity, the timetable's "train 25" would not be considered to have passed a given point until the last section of the train had gone by. For operational convenience, special trains that otherwise might have carried white "extra" signals were sometimes operated as advance or second sections of regular, but unrelated, trains.
11/22/2011 7:19:17 PM
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