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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 845475" data-attributes="member: 10543"><p>Along with cabooses, "hooping up" orders is yet another lost tradition. Until displaced by modern technology, train movements were controlled by written "Train Orders". These were exacting paper documents to be read by locomotive and caboose crews. Rather than stop trains to give them to crews, they were tied by string to a trackside "fork" (as held by the man in the pink shirt) and grabbed by crewmembers as they passed by. [Opelika, AL, May 1985, Kodachrome, Nikon SLR]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]428823[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sandpatch, post: 845475, member: 10543"] Along with cabooses, "hooping up" orders is yet another lost tradition. Until displaced by modern technology, train movements were controlled by written "Train Orders". These were exacting paper documents to be read by locomotive and caboose crews. Rather than stop trains to give them to crews, they were tied by string to a trackside "fork" (as held by the man in the pink shirt) and grabbed by crewmembers as they passed by. [Opelika, AL, May 1985, Kodachrome, Nikon SLR] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1985-05-25 004b Opelika AL - for upload.jpg"]428823[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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