. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . maybe standing between the office and pass-ing trains, it is dangerous; for it is not IS6 ENGINEERIXO Aliril. 1899. visible when passing it. so that the engi-neer must either get up out of his seathigh enough to see over everything, orelse depend on the head brakeman on topof the first box car to see it for him. Inmany cases this is the man of least rail-road experience on the train. He is notresponsible for passing order boards, andis not the man to depend on for informa-tion as to the posit
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . maybe standing between the office and pass-ing trains, it is dangerous; for it is not IS6 ENGINEERIXO Aliril. 1899. visible when passing it. so that the engi-neer must either get up out of his seathigh enough to see over everything, orelse depend on the head brakeman on topof the first box car to see it for him. Inmany cases this is the man of least rail-road experience on the train. He is notresponsible for passing order boards, andis not the man to depend on for informa-tion as to the position of signals. Engineers are strongly in favor of hav- signals around a depot, takes time andknowledge of all the white lights thatmay come in line with it. In case thislight has gone out, and he mistakes an-other white light for the one that shouldbe burning on the order board, there is apossibility of his running by the orderboard, as his attention may be called tosomething else when passing it. A greenliglit can be more easily distinguishedfrom other white lights close in range, as. CONSOLIDATION—E. F. OESte DE MIN.\S, BRAZIL, task of reducing the many patterns to »standard system is no doubt one part of some roads we see onetype of target; on another division an-other type without one point of similarity-—even the colors vary from rusty iron toscarlet. To make it easy and safe fur the en-gineers, all the main-track switchesshould have the same type of targets, anilbe considerably higher than the targetsgn inside switches, so that an engineerrunning on the main track would not needtn look for the low targets, and have timeto look for the indications of all highones. The arrangement of targets should bewith a view to giving him less to lookout for that does not concern him; andthe position of targets or signals not af-fecting the movements of his train cer-tainly does not. The favorite target is around, white disk showing its full shapeto a man approaching
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