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"ref": "2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61",
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"A somersault."
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"ref": "1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall",
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