"Pole and Paddle" semaphores

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If you refer to the train order signals used at stations and towers, they didn’t have anything to do with automatic block signals.  They were not preserved to salute railroading in years gone by – they had a different purpose entirely, which was to let trains know to pick up train orders at that particular point.  In years before ABS, they were used to block trains.

EdK:
About signals -- R. D. Painter once told me that the distance from the approach to the
home signal at Tug was only about 1600 feet.  Been by there several times, but it never
made an impression.   Since you spent time at Tug, do you remember ? Harry Bundy

 




 
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