End of the year quiz #3

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OK Ed, I'll bite.  What's a "trimmer signal"?
Jim Cochran

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:15 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

>   Seven looks like looking west at Vera, O.  Eight is at Portsmouth, and
> the funky signal is a trimmer signal for switch engines,  I dunno ‘bout 9.
>
> EdKing
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> P8 sure looks like the viaduct near our old home in Portsmouth, Ohio. We
> played around the side tracks, old passenger cars and thought we were
> railroad men. My dad, a US Railway Mail Clerk, would have “killed” us if he
> had only known. You often wonder how did we survive the crazy things we
> did.
>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:45 PM
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> *Subject:* End of the year quiz #3
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> Thanks for the responses to quiz #2.  Here are the next 3 shots:
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> p7.  Another elevated electrical case, but appears to be more in the hills
> than along the flood plain of a river.
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> p8.  I think this might be Portsmouth O., but take a look at that signal.
> Is it broke?  Is this a one-arm version of "restricting"?
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> p9.  Sort of industrial area/yardish looking.
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> Thanks,
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> Jim Cochran
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> Moderator:
>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20141218.p7.jpg
>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20141218.p8.jpg
>  http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20141218.p9.jpg
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