02-11-2009, 20:10
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Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Herndon, VA
Posts: 3,176
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Re: Daves Game Hint
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Originally Posted by skimoose
Morse code was used heavily by the railroads, but there was another signaling system that was also employed by railroads which was expressed in dashes and ohs or dots. That was the system of train whistle (or in the diesel age air horn) blasts. This is not just the engineer having fun, the sequence of long and short blast has meaning.
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I still remember when I was finally 56-1/2" inches tall.
-dave
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