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Many train order offices on the Central Division never received the flashing light signals, keeping upper quadrant semaphores until the stations were closed. Signal heads (used, from somewhere??) were delivered to Conway, AR about 1970 to replace the semaphore, but one of the signal heads apparently disappeared and the semaphore remained in service until the train order office was relocated to a prefab building south of town in 1973. Flashing light train order signals were at Newport and Russellville by the late 1960s. Perhaps someone has a signal diagram for these units which would give the initial dates of use.
Bill Pollard
