Gregg posted:Are you saying the NKP never ran sections with their freight ?
Correct.
So you're saying you would not find green class lights / flags on their freight Berks?
Nope. Not on the Nickel Plate. Passenger trains, yes, but not freights.
That may be the case and I have no idea where to find a timetable from that era. However Sections were a great way to get trains over the road with limited train orders and less running orders.
I really don't think that the NKP Dispatchers were all that worried about the quantity of train orders issued, on such a busy main line railroad.
When I started in 65 with Canadian National we used the same rule book as the Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central and the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo plus a number of other Canadian railways so we're not that different.
To be accurate, the original poster is referring to an NKP Berkshire, which was handling NKP freights from the 1940s thru 1958. Thus, your 1965 rule book may not be relevant.
