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Hooping Up Orders

Here’s an eastbound Southern Pacific run-through train on the Baltimore & Ohio in southern Indiana (former Ohio & Mississippi). The crew is receiving orders from the dispatcher in an old-school way, by being “hooped up” via a loop of string and a “Y” shaped stick. The location is Michell, Indiana (the L&N, former Monon crosses the B&O in the background of these images). The lead locomotive is a General Electric U33C.