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Push pole about 12 feet long and having a diamter of 5 inches. They were placed in receptacles called push pole pockets. The pole was placed between the locomotive and the freight car, and used to push the car on or off a siding or to another track. Used between 1870 and the mid 1960s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Railway_Museum" class="extiw" title="en:Saskatchewan Railway Museum">Saskatchewan Railway Museum</a> They were the cause of several accidents. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.saskrailmuseum.org/">Saskatchewan Railway Museum</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B05E0D6133EE13ABC4E51DFB066838B639EDE">1 KILLED, 20 HURT IN JERSEY WRECK; Freight Car Jumps Rails and Rips Sides of Passenger Cars at Stevens. FIRE FOLLOWS COLLISION Edward Lawrence of Bordentown, Brakeman, Crushed Between Freight Car and Coach. special to The New York Times. June 26, 1920, Saturday Page 4, 306 words</a>
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| current | 02:26, 14 January 2017 | | 3,872 × 2,592 (4.71 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Push pole about 12 feet long and having a diamter of 5 inches. They were placed in receptacles called push pole pockets. The pole was placed between the locomotive and the freight car, and used to push the car on or off a siding or to another track. Used between 1870 and the mid 1960s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Railway_Museum" class="extiw" title="en:Saskatchewan Railway Museum">Saskatchewan Railway Museum</a> They were the cause of several accidents. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.saskrailmuseum.org/">Saskatchewan Railway Museum</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B05E0D6133EE13ABC4E51DFB066838B639EDE">1 KILLED, 20 HURT IN JERSEY WRECK; Freight Car Jumps Rails and Rips Sides of Passenger Cars at Stevens. FIRE FOLLOWS COLLISION Edward Lawrence of Bordentown, Brakeman, Crushed Between Freight Car and Coach. special to The New York Times. June 26, 1920, Saturday Page 4, 306 words</a> |
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