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Three Trains Running

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A train of words leaves from the square marked 1 and follows a track terminating in the diagram's southeast corner. Another train leaves from square 2 and terminates in the northwest corner. From that corner, marked 3, a third train departs on an inward journey that ends in the square marked 2; but unlike the others, this train happily switches tracks by shifting across a heavy line left, right, up, or down (never diagonally), thereby cross-checking some of the letters in tracks 1 and 2. When all three trains have run their tracks, letters in the circles, reading from top to bottom, will show what a puzzle like this offers. Answers include five capitalized words.

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