. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . screen. Q. Why are the markers in this posi-tion? A. The rules require that the redlights should be removed and green displayed when a train turns out to bepassed by another train running in thesame direction, but the red must beagain displayed before returning to themain track. Fig. 4.—The rear of a train carry-ing markers showing green to frontand side, red to rear. Q. What are the classification sig-nals? A. Signals placed on the front of anengine to indicate whether a train is anextra or
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . screen. Q. Why are the markers in this posi-tion? A. The rules require that the redlights should be removed and green displayed when a train turns out to bepassed by another train running in thesame direction, but the red must beagain displayed before returning to themain track. Fig. 4.—The rear of a train carry-ing markers showing green to frontand side, red to rear. Q. What are the classification sig-nals? A. Signals placed on the front of anengine to indicate whether a train is anextra or is followed by another trainrunning on same schedule and entitledto the same rights. Q. What are markers? A. Two green flags or green lightsdisplayed on the rear car, or on an en-gine if it be in rear of a car, to indi-cate that the train is complete. Q. In addition to the classificationsignals and markers, what signals mustbe displayed on the front and rear ofeacli train, running after sunset, orwhen obscured by fog or other causes? A. A headlight on front and two ormore red lights on the FIG. 6. SIGNAL ARM HORIZONTAL,BLOCK OCCUPIED; STOP. Q. What do the signals on this trainindicate? A. Indicate that it is a section of aregular train, and is followed by an-other section on the same schedule andhaving the same rights. The markerson the rear indicate that the section iscomplete. Figs, s and 6.—Electric SemaphoreBlock Signals on single track. Q. What does the signal indicate inits present oblique position? (Fig. 5.). A. Indicates that block is clear. Q. How is this position indicated atnight? A. By white light. Q. If signal is in this position (hori-zontal), what does it indicate?(Fig. 6.) A. That the block is occupied. Q. How is this position indicated atnight? A. By a red light. Q. I low would you be governed ap-proaching the block in the position in-dicated (horizontal 1 ? A. Stop the train before entering theblock, send a flagman ahead withdanger signals immediate
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