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| Subject: | Re: [CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher | 
| From: | "Jonathan Harris via groups.io" <jonathanharris=earthlink.net@groups.io> | 
| Date: | Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:38:37 -0700 | 
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 Got mine a couple weeks ago, and yes it's a beautiful model and a much-needed and appreciated addition to the HO CB&Q roster. 
As for the practice of poling, well . . . it may have been banned in the '60s, but such bans were honored in the breach, as I saw it done on a shortline in 1967.  My hunch is that Class I railroad crews kept doing it too sometimes, when they thought they could get away with it. 
Also during the (earlier part of the) 1960s, I tried it out on our high-school model railroad club, using an appropriately shortened round toothpick. It may have been illegal, but it worked great. 
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