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Re: Track to return engine? In English?
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Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:38:10 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In addition to a name for a switch, a wye is also a triangular arrangment of
> trackage that allows a train or locomotive to reverse the way that it faces.
> Similar to a "3 point turn" with a car, you proceed down one branch, reverse
> to cross the "top of the triangle" then come down the other branch, and you
> are now facing hte other way. Wye switches are often used in making wye
> tracks, but it is not required to do so
None of the three wyes in this area use wye switches.
> Turning around is more important for steam engines than for diesels,
> especially multiple unit diesel which usually are arranged so that the end
> units face outward.
Some freight cars must also be turned before spotting them at their
respective industries. Boxcars are sometimes marked "unload this side
only" while some covered hoppers only have connections on one side for
unloading.
In a strange step backward, some newer locomotives have what are
called desktop control stands. That is the engineer sits facing foward
and all the controls are arranged in front of him. These units are not
designed to be run backwards at all, at least not over long distances.
Most locomotives still have conventional control stands that face
sideways so the engineer can easily run either way.
> Hence wyes are relatively uncommon. Much more prevalent is the runaround
> track which is basically a double ended siding. The engine "runs around" the
> train and couples to the other end, then proceeds back the way it came.
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> ++Lar
I've heard about some passenger trains in and around Chicago that run
in what is called push-pull operation. They have an engine on one end,
and when they get to the end of the line, and need to reverse, the
engineer goes to the rear of the train. The rear passenger car is
specially equipped with a small contol booth so the engineer can
operate the engine and push the train on the return trip.
As far as buffer stop goes, we call them bumper stops, or bumping
blocks. If you hit them hard enough though they will break.
Jeff Christner
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| Like mine.... www.geocities.com/so...tropas.htm Or in the real world: (URL) down) Sonnich Jeff Christner <regult@aol.com> wrote in message news:3a9af388.652789...net.com... (...) of (...) faces. (...) reverse (...) you (...) end (...) the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) In addition to a name for a switch, a wye is also a triangular arrangment of trackage that allows a train or locomotive to reverse the way that it faces. Similar to a "3 point turn" with a car, you proceed down one branch, reverse to cross (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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