Re: Freight trains - thought exercise (charter marketing)
| August 28, 2014 07:30AM |
The freight train could be a mixed train, just watch out for the slack action! A retired Milwaukee Road employee told me about his first days as a head brakeman in 1922. One day, they pulled their empty ore train into a siding for a meet. After a few minutes, he observed that the guys in the caboose had not left it to throw the mainline switch back. The engineer told him, "they will" as he let out a little slack. Sure enough after the slack ran out, one guy got out of the caboose and threw the switch!!
Andy
Andy
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