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HogandTow

July 06, 2017 05:21PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 106

rubber switches aka "floppers", even though the BNSF kansas division no longer has any, the older guys know which ones they are! BNSF Denver Yard had two rigid switches the rest were rubber, oddly even though everyone knew which were rigid, they were run through pretty regularly.

Dale Grant, BNSF engineer, rubber gauger!

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Rubber Switch	Bill Hobbs	July 06, 2017 02:12PM
Re: Rubber Switch	jim pallow	July 06, 2017 03:12PM
Re: Rubber Switch	nedsn3	July 06, 2017 04:10PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Bill Hobbs	July 06, 2017 04:25PM
Re: Rubber Switch	MD Ramsey	July 06, 2017 04:54PM
Re: Rubber Switch	dougvv	July 06, 2017 05:08PM
Re: Rubber Switch	HogandTow	July 06, 2017 05:21PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Mark Petersen	July 06, 2017 08:18PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Dirk Ramsey	July 06, 2017 08:22PM
Re: Rubber Switch	jim pallow	July 07, 2017 03:20PM
Re: Rubber Switch	CharlieMcCandless	July 07, 2017 06:45PM
Re: Rubber Switch	alcofan	July 18, 2017 11:47AM
Re: Rubber Switch	CharlieMcCandless	July 18, 2017 02:39PM
Re: Rubber Switch	WilliamDiehl	July 08, 2017 10:37AM
Re: Rubber Switch	Rick Steele	July 13, 2017 10:22AM
Re: Rubber Switch	Tomstp	July 13, 2017 06:24PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Chris Walker	July 13, 2017 06:56PM
Re: Rubber Switch - What does one look like?	kcsivils	July 13, 2017 07:21PM
Re: Rubber Switch - What does one look like?	bcp	July 13, 2017 09:09PM
Re: Rubber Switch - What does one look like?	Brian Norden	July 14, 2017 08:27AM
Re: Rubber Switch - What does one look like?	bcp	July 14, 2017 09:46AM
Re: Rubber Switch - What does one look like?	Bill Hobbs	July 15, 2017 06:56PM
Re: Rubber Switch	jim pallow	July 14, 2017 04:53PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Dirk Ramsey	July 13, 2017 07:36PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Doug Jolley	July 15, 2017 08:04PM
Re: Rubber Switch	Rick Steele	July 18, 2017 04:41PM
Re: Rubber Switch	dougvv	July 18, 2017 06:06PM

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