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From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: \"A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe\"
Message-ID: <1697@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 07:59:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 07:59:31 1986
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> 
> After doing model railroading, it's very scary to watch a train of a dozen
> or more long coaches *backing* out of South Station and around the (very
> tightly curved) reversing loop.

After seeing the Push-Pull commuter trains being pused (engine at
rear) into Northwestern Station in Chicago around a tight curve, it
wouldn't scare me.  (Somehow, the bigger the trains, the better
they stay on the tracks -- much fewer problems with Lionels than
with HOs).
-- 
				Ed Sachs
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
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