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From: [email protected]
. . . . . . . . . .If my memory serves me correctly,they [
telephone/telegraph poles] were spaced about 80' apart. I can remember old
head engineers using them to calculate train length. Of course back then
most cars were 40 footers and every pole was 2 car lengths.
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This sound like a rather inexact technology. A car's effective length in a
train is not its inside length; it's from inside pulling face of coupler on
one end to the same point on the other end, probably about 45 feet for a "40
foot" boxcar.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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