[PRCo] Re: Cleveland Subway Tours

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Schneider Fred
<fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> I see no problem with facing point switches at 70 mph as long as they
> are interlocked with signals and cannot be thrown with a car
> approaching when it is closer than the service brake stopping
> distance.   But as you implied, it is one of those things you have to
> get used to when you go from streetcars and non-interlocked switches

and, hell, single point turnouts in some cases

> to a railroad or rapid transit environment where you are protected
> from a switch being thrown right in front of you or left in the wrong
> position.