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- From: roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Roma)
- Subject: Re: Why long end of engine forward?
- Message-ID: <BxtvM9.GI@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <9718@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov16.172826.20701@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:27:31 GMT
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- ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff) writes:
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- >The reason N&W and Southern continuted buying high
- >hoods and running them long end first for so long
- >so simple to any Southerner: it's a tradition (this
- >explains everything without answering anything).
-
- >By the way, another tradition I'll miss is white
- >flags on Southern extras. This was railroad with
- >class.
-
- On parts of the Southern here in Illinois, train orders are still in use
- although they are copied via radio instead of being handed up by an operator.
- Thus, train order rules are still in effect, which includes the use of
- white or green flags or lights.
- --
- Jon Roma
- Computing and Communications Services Office,
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Internet: roma@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!roma
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