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Subject: 
Re: Tapping into the Track's electricity
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:10:32 GMT
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"Doug Pegram" <DPegram@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:G7twMo.Cu5@lugnet.com...

On freight trains in the US(specifically the FEC RR and probably others)
they use an "End of Train" device that appears to onlookers as a small box
with a slow flashing strobe light, although how you would configure the
flash is beyond me.
Doug

FRED! Flashing Rear End Device. Maybe that's just a Canadian thing,
though... I prefer FRED to "EOT". :)

    Iain



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  Re: Tapping into the Track's electricity
 
(...) On freight trains in the US(specifically the FEC RR and probably others) they use an "End of Train" device that appears to onlookers as a small box with a slow flashing strobe light, although how you would configure the flash is beyond me. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)

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