Re: (rshsdepot) Looking for Historical Information - Highballs

["Ulster & Delaware RR HS - President" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>]

    They certainly lasted long after the Civil War in some places -- on some
rural (and even not-so-rural) New England lines right into the early diesel
era.   As Jay Underwood notes, you'd really have to find someone with
particularized local knowledge (they are out there somewhere) to be sure
what's right in your own locality.
Steve Delibert
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From: Jay Underwood <jp.underwood_@_ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Looking for Historical Information


> According to Lance Phillips' "Yonder Comes the Train," the highball
signals were first used in 1832, and were superseded by the time of the
Civil War by a variety of other signal types, depending upon the railroad.
You would have to consult someone with a
> knowledge of the Weldon Railroad snce most highballs had been replaced by
banner signals by the time of the Civil War,

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