Rule 110 of the "Standard" rules appears to authorize the practice that prevails with some, under which the signals for freight trains running in sections are ordered on by the yard dispatcher or station agent. If the train Dispatcher is duly advised, there does not seem to be any serious objection to this, although there are reasons to be urged in favor of all orders affecting the movement of trains being issued from the central office. Certainly it would not be wise to delegate this authority as respects passenger trains, and this the "Standard" rules recognize.
The forms given for sections make the order to carry signals equivalent to an order to run as a section of a regular train. The order annulling a section implies that signals will be removed as the circumstances may require.
[Form G.]—For Arranging a Schedule for a Special Train.
(1.) Eng. —— will run as special —— train, leaving ---- on —— on the following schedule, and will have the right of track over all trains:
Leave ——.
——.
Arrive ——.
EXAMPLE.
(1.) Eng. 77 will run as special passenger train, leaving Turin on Thursday, Feb. 17th, on the following schedule, and will have the right of track over all trains:
Leave Turin 11.30 P. M.
Pekin 12.25 A. M.
Canton 1.47 A. M.
Arrive Rome 2.22 A. M.
Example (1) may be varied by specifying particular trains over which the special shall or shall not have right of track, and any train over which the special train is thus given the right of track must clear its time as many minutes as such train is required to clear the schedule time of a first-class train.