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By KEN THOMAS ...

The request to 'retire' the signal, which alerts train crews to changing or unsafe track conditions, has raised safety ...

details of the system of running railroad trains on telegraphic orders how it came to be adopted an important aid to rapid traveling. Share full article Aug. 27, 1877 ...