colorado hirailer posted:Another posting, "Caboose", reminded me of misspent? youth hanging out at a RR station and watching train orders passed up by a wooden hoop with a handle, which receiver quickly tossed back from train. Another style of "hoop" was a forked stick like a divining rod, but held by the long end, with a string fastened in a triangle around the fork; string with orders attached caught in elbow of trainman, and "hoop" retained by stationmaster. Anybody model order passers? I need to remember to model that...sounds like an "accessory" station where a guy runs out to a passing train as tripped by a contact.
Artista offers a man holding the "fork style" train order holder, positioned for "hooping up" a train order to an engine crew on the move.
