Passing siding
From: "Ronald Bowdry" cherron@rose.net
If the trains were facing towards each other how did they get past each other? Did they go backwards?
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 8:03 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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One of the trains would wait on a siding while the other train passed. "The passing siding ... is a section of track parallel to a through line and connected to it at both ends by switches ... "
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