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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="Kootenay Central"]On curves the cable would rub on reinforced car ends<BR>inside the sides.[/quote]</P> <P mce_keep="true"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I had never thought about your point about the plow cable needing to be guided to follow the curvature of track.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I have a couple of photos showing a Lidgerwood Unloader on the M&StL RR about 1905.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They do not show the plow close up, but the cars are all flatcars.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And all their stake pockets are fitted with short, fat stakes about 2 feet high.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking that the stakes were to guide the plow, but that seemed sort of iffy with the gaps between them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But they would seem to be a good way to guide the cable.</SPAN></P>
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