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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] Frozen Signals? I wish I knew. Maybe it's when a winter storm knocks the electricity out and the signals won't light. In April 2004 my wife and I rode VIA's Canadian through an Albertan blizzard. Heavy snow swirling around and smacking the dome car. It was an awesome ride and yet we maintained track speed up to 79mph and arrived early or on-time at every station from Vancouver to Winnipeg. I said to my wife "Now if we were on CSX in these conditions we would crawl at 10mph for a couple of hours, grind to a complete stop for a couple more, and then they would come on the PA and tell us the problem was 'frozen signals'." In December 2005 aboard the northbound Auto-Train (our only trip aboard the A-T) I awoke on a train that was stopped dead still just outside Rocky Mount, NC. The Carolinas had suffered an ice storm the day before and it looked quite cold outside. A couple of minutes later we got the PA announcement....."Folks, it's 7am and we're about 5 hours late. We're holding just outside Rocky Mount on account of FROZEN SIGNALS." Sigh. Apparantly signals don't freeze in Canada. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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