Re: What's this harp stand being used for?
Posted by Chris Walker on
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I know this is going to read like I'm grumpy, because there is no way to infer tone of voice here but it really is a Derail, like Rick said above. You don't really think that those Enginemen are going to run through a set Derail do you?
It should be obvious from the pictures that they are indeed switching the sidings and therefore the Derail is set for the "main". And yes, enlarging one of the series of photos shows the single headblock present, remember that that is all there is as Rick said.
The same, more clearly is here, but at Rico on the RGS, so just a link to the Bob Richardson picture http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/75642/rec/46
As there is/are no cars on the trestle, the track Derail has been left lined for the through movement, should it ever come. If any cars were left up on the trestle, then it would have been left in the open position.
Jeff, it was common on the C&S to use the Harps for this purpose, the arm in the centre or vertical position is easier to spot for the safe passage of traffic. Idaho Springs had one on the downgrade end of the long siding in the downtown. Note that in this wonderful view that the mainline is actually in the process of being switched and the siding has cars on it hence the Harp off on the diagonal, set in the protecting position.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77856/rv/singleitem
Another was on the downgrade Denver end of the short timberyard siding at the Newhouse tunnel, later Argo Mill.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77714/rv/singleitem/rec/6
A different non-switchstand operated Derail on the C&S, again in Idaho Springs on the Chamberlain-Dillingham Co's Scale siding, is shown quite clearly in Roper's http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/2014/10/case-of-missing-truss-rods.html
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-this-harp-stand-being-used-for-tp2224p2236.html
I know this is going to read like I'm grumpy, because there is no way to infer tone of voice here but it really is a Derail, like Rick said above. You don't really think that those Enginemen are going to run through a set Derail do you?
It should be obvious from the pictures that they are indeed switching the sidings and therefore the Derail is set for the "main". And yes, enlarging one of the series of photos shows the single headblock present, remember that that is all there is as Rick said.
The same, more clearly is here, but at Rico on the RGS, so just a link to the Bob Richardson picture http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/75642/rec/46
As there is/are no cars on the trestle, the track Derail has been left lined for the through movement, should it ever come. If any cars were left up on the trestle, then it would have been left in the open position.
Jeff, it was common on the C&S to use the Harps for this purpose, the arm in the centre or vertical position is easier to spot for the safe passage of traffic. Idaho Springs had one on the downgrade end of the long siding in the downtown. Note that in this wonderful view that the mainline is actually in the process of being switched and the siding has cars on it hence the Harp off on the diagonal, set in the protecting position.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77856/rv/singleitem
Another was on the downgrade Denver end of the short timberyard siding at the Newhouse tunnel, later Argo Mill.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77714/rv/singleitem/rec/6
A different non-switchstand operated Derail on the C&S, again in Idaho Springs on the Chamberlain-Dillingham Co's Scale siding, is shown quite clearly in Roper's http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/2014/10/case-of-missing-truss-rods.html
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