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From: Roger Clare roger DOT clare AT gmail DOT com
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:51:03 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Re: (erielack) RE:DL&W Mileposts
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Subject: Re: (erielack) RE:DL&W Mileposts
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:46:16 -0400
From: Roger Clare
Reply-To: roger.clare@gmail.com
To: 'EL Mail List'


Sorry, lost the attachment on first try-

Here's signal P38.9 at Far Hills, sometime between 1955 and 1963. MP 39
(no letter) is a blur opposite the freight station. Note no number
plate on the eastbound signal, and the location is puzzling to me...

Roger Clare
San Juan, PR



On 12/17/2011 9:27 PM, Gordon Davids wrote:
> .....
> The numbers placed on automatic signals by the Signal Department often
> indicate the mile in which the signal is located, but the digit after
> the decimal seldom defines the location within the mile. Typically a
> signal numbered 123.1 is the first westward signal west of Mile Post
> 123, and it might be located at, say, mileage 123.8. If there is more
> than one westward signal in that mile, the next signal would typically
> be numbered 123.3 regardless of its mile post location. Eastward
> signals would carry even decimals, consecutive within the mile.
.....




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