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From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: CNW Left Handed Running
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 09:28:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 09:28:53 1986
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Maybe we're looking for a *logical* reason when there isn't one.
Not all railroads ran right hand, does there necessarily have to
have been a good, logical reason to choose left hand vs. right
hand running?  For example, when Chicago's Elevated lines were
built, there were four different companies which built lines.
Two of them (the South Side and the Metropolitan) used right
hand running, the other two (the Lake St. and Northwestern) used
left hand running.  Before the unification of these lines (around
1913 I believe), the Union Loop (used by all four lines) ran left
hand.  After the lines were unified under a single management,
the Lake St. and Northwestern lines were converted to right hand
running, and the Union Loop was made one-way.
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				Ed Sachs
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
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