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hotrod0808

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1. Once upon a time

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 3, 2019, 07:28 AM

Sep 2019

I was the tower operator at Fostoria. It was my job to line switches and signals. It was also my job to warn others of occupied tracks. That job is long abolished, and that location is watched by someone hundreds of miles away with hundreds of other miles of track to watch. This was bound to happen.

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