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Re: [CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher

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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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