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Boy, Joerg, that GP7 really takes me back. One of those geeps passed my high school every day in the early 60s, out in the morning and back in the evening, with a “dodger” local although it dodged nothing really, it was the only train out on the branch. It ran down the middle of the street along the side of the school about 5 mph, with a flagman on the footboard. At each cross street the train would slow to a crawl for the flagman to walk out in front. The single tone EMD horn would bamp, the flagman would get back on after the intersection, and the train would get up to 5 mph again to the next intersection and then go down to a crawl again. The T&NO main line ran parallel a block away and in 1968 the MP worked out a trackage rights deal with them and ripped out the street running portion of the branch that passed our school. I’m glad I got to see that line, a picture of branchline railroading that does not exist any more.
