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Why are U.S. Railroads resisting standardized signals?
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<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><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"><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"><FONT face=georgia,palatino>The call for a standardized national railroad signal system is a straw dog being used to advance a political agenda.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Making an analogy to the case for the national system of highway traffic control devices is weak because railroad trainmen do not circulate over the entire U.S. railroad system as highway users do on the national highway system.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And even at that, the national highway system varies state by state.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For that matter, systems vary from county to county, and motorists travel roads all around the world.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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