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There was a time in the late '50s when the SP spiked some switches on their coast line. I was working at Point Concieption and went down the road about 3 miles to a general store to get lunch. Had to stop at the SP tracks for safety reasons and to let a Fairmont speeder pass which was overloaded with track inspection personnel looking hard at the track. Picked up my lunch and on returning to the crossing had to stop for a special passenger train. On the open vestibule checking the California scenery was Nikita Kruschev, who waved to me. It was a good idea to spike remote switches to prevent a world incident.
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