three questions

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"3. Lastly, I have also noted pictures of a device that is supported over the rail bed, and has wires hanging down - like a horizontal comb. What is that device supposed to do?"

John,
It was a device to warn brakemen who were riding the tops of cars of a low overhead obstruction that could potentially knock them off the top of the car. The "Tell-Tale" wires you refer to were actually ropes.
Jimmy Lisle

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