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Title: The boys' book of railroads
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Crump, Irving, 1887-1979
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is being done he cantlet a wheel stop anywhere on the line. Withlightning swiftness he proceeds to think himselfout of the tangle. His first move is to send out a call for thewrecking train. This is done by his assistant orstudent dispatcher, who proceeds to get in touchwith the wrecking boss. Meanwhile the dis-patcher secures for the wrecking train a cleartrack from the terminal to the wreck. This hedoes by flashing orders along the line to pointswhere he knows certain trains are proceeding.A quick summary of the chart shows him thateight miles this side of Warton there is a shortline that leaves the main line at an angle andreaches north for seventy miles, where it crossesanother roads tracks. These tracks reach south-westward and ninety miles above Warton crossthe main line again. He sees in this angle of tracks the possibilitiesof a big detour that will take the trains of hisline around the wreck and put them onto hismain line ninety miles above where the freightcars are piled up.
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