
07-17-2008, 09:56 AM
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Location: Shasta Lake,
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Thanks even more for changing the Avatar. And I do have a serious question about the trains and how they schedule them. I realize that you probably don't know the whole system, but on the freight and passenger trains that travel across country, how do they work it so they have no conflict of being on the same tracks at the same time. Also I talked to a railroad person here and he told me that here a West bound train is one going South from Washington or Oregon and one going North from San Francisco to those states is considered an East bound train. Is that just BS or is there something to it. I live abut 1/2 mile from the main line as it starts through the canyons and I had always considered any train going North as North bound and any going South as South Bound. From the way this person described it, there could be no East or West bound trains from here.
I know that on the highway system the Odd Numbers are from North to South and the Even Numbers are from East to West, or were at the start. They may have that all changed by now.
Ron 
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