Signals

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On 3/13/2017 12:36 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> That metaphor, "to split the signals," was apparently the invention of David P. Morgan in the late 1950s.  It is by now completely threadbare and sounds so terribly railfan-ish.
Nothing like a railfan making up their own lingo. We always called it 
"knocking down a signal". As in..."Shenandoah dispatcher to number 52. 
What is your location?"..."We are about to knock down the signal at the 
south end of Lithia."

Jimmy Lisle