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Old Oct 7, 2012 | 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Often1
You can also pull the emergency brake and hop off if the tracks run close to your ultimate destination.
In the 70's before Amtrak stopped in ALY (Albany OR), I used to give two short pulls on the line running up to the hoghead just before approaching the ALY station.The train would come to a complete stop before resuming travel northbound, allowing me to hop off.
It sure beat having to make my way back from Salem.
I am sure these moves helped to put Albany as a station stop later on.
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