Template:Did you know nominations/Highland Branch


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:08, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Highland Branch

 * ... that locomotives completed a circuit on the Boston and Albany Railroad's Highland Branch? Source: American Railroad Journal, 1882
 * Reviewed: 1995 Williamsburg Bridge collision

Converted from a redirect by Mackensen (talk). Self-nominated at 12:46, 9 June 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Interesting, on good sources, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. - Please fix error messages: refs O'Connell and Poor (1894) are not (yet?) used. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review! Those sources were used in a previous iteration, but I found other sources which replaced them. I've tidied it up. Mackensen (talk) 14:44, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hi, I came by to promote this, but I just don't see what's hooky about it. Yoninah (talk) 23:39, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It's a minor play on words, but backed by the original description of the line in nineteenth century sources when electricity was still a relatively new thing. An electrical circuit is a network consisting of a closed loop, giving a return path for the current. The completion of this line allowed locomotives to travel in a loop, completing the circuit. That's all. Mackensen (talk) 01:51, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh. But since it's not readily understandable, no one's going to click on it. Yoninah (talk) 10:03, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I understood right away that having a circuit is different from the normal one line, with trains going back and forth. - It's what we have for a bus line here, and I like it for its fairness. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's anything obscure about the hook. Mackensen (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Fine. Restoring tick per Gerda's review. But someone else will have to promote this. Yoninah (talk) 13:03, 22 June 2018 (UTC)