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[CBQ] Re: Question re; spring switches

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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Question re; spring switches
From: "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@opc.com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 18:15:21 -0000
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Thanks to everyone who responded. I would have to believe that a "flying" 
switch handle could do a lot of damage.
LarryG 

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, William Jackson <macon249@...> wrote:
>
> I would not worry much, Mike, your almost invisible, now. One of the 
> untouchables. I heard that story before, trying to think, who that was that 
> got smacked by the stand. There was several up there that should have been 
> smacked, Bo Bo, was my favorite, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!
> William Jackson
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On May 6, 2013, at 11:39 PM, "mdeckergwtcnet" <mdecker@...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Larry.......
> > 
> > Yes, they do. The one we had at the West end of the Gillette yard had a 
> > regular low level switch stand that you could use to line it if you needed 
> > to. The target was red and yellow instead of red and green. One of our 
> > brakemen got "swiped" by the handle one day when he stepped on the lock 
> > pedal, account there was a wheel holding the stand spring loaded in the 
> > other direction. He didn't get killed, but he had a sore jaw for a while.
> > 
> > We've also got "variable" or "rubber" switches which, when you "trail" 
> > through them, snap over to the direction of the track you are coming out 
> > of. Those switches stay put after you trail through them, they don't spring 
> > back. Oh, ya, I'm not supposed to know that they are there LOL
> > 
> > BNMike
> > 
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Larry Graus" <larry.graus@> wrote:
> > >
> > > For anyone that knows: Does a spring switch function as a spring switch 
> > > regardless of which way the points are thrown?
> > > 
> > > LarryG
> > >
> > 
> >
>




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