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Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway originated
one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J
with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we
had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live" segment of
broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking with
the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered to this
day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this program
from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to broadcast
"live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think of was
to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding the signal
to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?
Bill Sellers.