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July 2, 2019 at 5:46 pm
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Charles Duckworth
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Rear end devices were introduced to the railroads in 1982-83 but the implementation was by division and labor agreement. Generally the FREDs didn’t get fully used system wide until 1989-90 well after the UP merger. So if you’re modeling the MP prior to merger trains still had cabooses.
