NW vs NS intermediate signals

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Something I will add to Abram's GCOR overview is that BNSF was the LAST 
Class 1 to use Stop and Proceed. The Stop and Proceed signal was 
officially retired and replaced with the Restricting signal at 
intermediates on September 1st, 2015

Nathan
> GCOR (the "General Code of Operating Rules") is the Rule Book used by almost all railroads west of the Mississippi, and has been around since the 1950s. It was the attempt to have one uniform set of practices for all roads, as there was much "running on the other guy's pike" in the West. But no railroad wanted to give up its signal system (or invest in a new signal system,) so each GCOR road adds massive supplements to the basic GCOR book, and some of the supplements are almost as big as the Rule Book itself ! Crews working on GCOR roads carry that piece of garbage in a fat three-ring notebook binder, and if they run over another railroad, they have to carry that road's Supplement, too. The problem, of course, has always been "Whose railroad are we on now, and how do they do it here?" GCOR roads also use the "No Stop on Stop & Proceed Signals" principle.
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> Here endeth the disquisition. I hope you can find the answers you need in the above verbiage.
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> -- abram burnett

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