I’ve been practicing train operations in TSW, but this tutorial made me even more confident in operating LIRR trains, especially those M9s in that new LIRR Commuter DLC.

@3985uprr

2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@atheman90

2 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr I agree. Might I ask where you got the signal?

Amazing knowledge of LIRR signals.💚👌

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

My attitude is if you can’t get into signals, you have no business pursuing the hobby nor getting on a railroad

Really useful for those who would like to be a engineer someday.

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

That’s just a small variety of them. There are the color light signals, as well as the reduced aspect signals plus other signage

@SparkWater

Жыл бұрын

A very small sample . You have A Zone and B zone , some yards have different signals, GCM interlocking signals and secondary track signals

@tfp_4215

Жыл бұрын

@@SparkWater I did here somewhere that they will be replacing the position light with colored signal

Thanks for the tutorial! Looking forward to more of the same and with the signage along the tracks. Enjoying the history of the rail line origins, abandoned stations and spurs. I Hope to see a trip to Montauk sometime too.

Very imformative!!!

I always enjoy watching your videos Tim my son, John who has special needs enjoys the LIRR. I always take him to see the trains at Great River!

@3985uprr

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear

Looking forward to you making a powerpoint with this someday Tim! :)

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

Not sure I’d go that far but it’s a start

Great job I love it 👏👏👍💯😃😁

Very cool!

These are positioning signals, I believe. I am an assistant conductor for SEPTA Regional Rail. I am still learning my signals.

We need more septa videos with conductor bill!

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

I will do more SV5 videos but it’s all dependent on whether he gets 5’s on his run

Flash cards flashback..lol

I'm an engineer from the Chicago area and those signals baffles me 😅 I have no idea

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

You use Norac indications and color light. I made mistake of calling out BNSF signals based on aspect associated with LIRR nomenclature. Doesn’t work that way b

You think by now they’d get rid of the semaphore based systems with the block gaps being reduced. Then again, they're simple and reliable.

Knowing what the signal is "saying" is only half the battle I guess. Then you gotta know what to do in response. Whew!

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t have enough time to put in the definitions.

I wanna be an engiineer but too nervous

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

I’m a bit too old to even think about it now

@SparkWater

Жыл бұрын

Go for it . But remember study study study. Don’t study nothing now ,because a lot of information is outdated. Especially Physical Characteristics and some signals and definitions. But go for it. You never know

@carlossanchez-kz4wh

Жыл бұрын

@@SparkWater How hard is it to get in?

@carlossanchez-kz4wh

Жыл бұрын

@@3985uprr My late mom said you're never too old for anything

I seriously could never memorize these 😭

Thank you for these signal tutorials! Do you have any with the position lightings and the blinking ones?

@3985uprr

6 ай бұрын

I don’t have that. this is a display that a friend of mine has in his basement. I should ask him to put the zone a signal indications in there. He’s smart enough about electronics to do that.

I'm sorry to say Tim...As someone who had to qualify on LIRR Book of Rules in the past (and you needed 100% to pass the Signal Test)...you would have failed based on when I took the test at least. The three horizontals (Stop Signal) was always marked an "X" if you just said "Stop." It's "Stop-Signal", and for some back when I originally qualified (1997), you would be marked wrong if you left out the hyphen! Great footage as always...Just giving much respect to those who have to endure certification on the LIRR (and recertification every three years).

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

I’m just thankful I wasn’t taking a test when I narrated this!!!😀😀. I know they have an exacting science for the rule tests.

Nobody knows his signals - especially LIRR signals - like Tim.

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t go that far.

The slow approach translates to me as approach at restricted speed, take diverging route.

@3985uprr

Жыл бұрын

Next signal likely restricting or stop

So what’s the formula to remember these easier. Because it seems the top one is the base word and the bottom is what defines the base word (ex approach, approach slow; clarr free, clear medium)

@3985uprr

2 ай бұрын

Kinda hard to explain, but the top kind of warn you to what’s ahead and the bottom kind of tells you what speed you should go to when you get there.

@B.o.o.L

Ай бұрын

@@3985uprr This is my second time that I got the opportunity and really want to pass this time. First was as locomotive engineer, this time is conductor. I was 23 and stupid my first try so I was going to music festivals and shit when I should have been studying. I still scored over 90 though then, but unfortunately need 100

Hopefully there's someone changing burned-out bulbs on a moment's notice LOL. Could be a big problem otherwise.

@JonathanRockway

Жыл бұрын

The aspects are designed to resist failure. For the symbols that form a line, you can still read the signal even if one light is burned out. (I imagine the policy is to treat it as a stop, though.) For the aspects that use a dot on the bottom, you'll notice that they carefully degrade. If the signal is supposed to show "stop and proceed" but the bottom center light is burned out, it degrades to "stop", which is less permissive than if the light wasn't burned out. They do the same thing with the colored aspects; if the flasher circuit on "stop and proceed" malfunctions, then the signal says "stop" instead. This was inherited from semaphore signals, where if the mechanical linkage broke, the signal would fall by gravity to "stop". The engineers are always one step ahead of the unreliability of mechanical devices.

Hello, question if you don’t mind? What would you recommend is the best way to tackle studying the Engineer and signaling for the test? I sent this video to my son. Thank you & God bless

@3985uprr

4 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Hi, how are you? May I ask you on the Engineer test. The definitions can you give any advice for that part of the test??

@3985uprr

3 ай бұрын

There’s a lot involved with that. I don’t have quite the expertise on that. You can look online for railroad terminology definitions.