When did automatic crossing gates arrive in Ada? Ask Lee Crouse
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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On Feb. 16, 1960 automated crossing gates were in operation at all three Ada rail crossings. The cost of the gates was $75,000.
On Wednesday Feb. 17, 1960, the watchman’s tower, which stood at Main Street for half a century was removed.
Old-timers recalled Vance Botkin as a watchman and more recently Ernest Nixon and James Curtis.
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