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From: "Ronald" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 23:02:28 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Wig Wag signals in the 1920s
"Woodruff_Bio_Ry_Main_Eng_Apr_1920.jpg" - image/jpeg, 508x399 (24bit)

Bill and List,

By chance I came across this Woodruff biography tonight. It's good up to
April 1920.

Ron Dukarm


> The signal at Oakland Street in Dalton on the Buffalo Division was a wig
> wag. It was there well into the Sixties. My grandfather, a Dalton
> businessman and Erie customer, told me that he persuaded Robert Woodruff
> to install
> it. It was never clear to me what Woodruff's position was at the time,
> and my grandfather did not remember. Woodruff was Manager of the Hornell
> Region (including the Buffalo Division) from March 1920 to November 1922,
> then
> superintendent at Buffalo, then Eastern District General Manager based at
> Hornell until 1929 when he was promoted.
W D Burt


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