Steve; Since a smaller and smaller percentage of our population grows up on farms, I wonder how many people have any idea about the length of a rod ??
Having grown up in a RR family and no recollection of ever NOT being a Railfan, I
like to hear the proper signals used. But as
a retired engineer friend told me last night,"If you'd take the radio's away from these guys running now, they wouldn't know what to do. And
what would happen if one of them lost his radio?
Would he know how to signal and would anyone be watching for that signal ??
Jim