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When I worked on the CNR in the fifties (hence the "Oldtimer" moniker) they had car signs indicating number of cars in tens (e.g. "10 cars", "20 cars", etc , up to "100 cars") on every fourth pole starting from a passing track switch, so the crew didn't have to count poles to tell when the caboose ("van" up here) was nearing the switch. A little detail I haven't seen on any model railroad. On a model you'd have to fudge quite a bit, maybe a sign on every third pole, up to "20 cars"?.
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