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> I wonder how they handled the caboose in that
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> JBWX
Maybe they dropped it through the crossovers to the storage track and down to the rear of the first cut.
I've got a recording made from the caboose of 486 helping a train up the hill. At the top they do something that I still cannot totally figure out. The train does not stop at the water plug. They go over the top and down the other side at least as far as the storage track crossovers, maybe all the way to the east end and the back in. I've never been able to make sense of the action. I do know that they had lots of guts to stomp over the top of the hill and drift down the other side. You would have to the have a very full glass of water coming up to the top to pull that off. On a normal day coming up to the top with nearly a full glass will result in a nearly empty glass stopped at the water plug. Normally you fill the boiler up to 3/4 of a glass before departing. When you tip over the top and start down grade, the water drops to about a 1/4 of a glass. To continue on east and start down the hill without getting your water up takes more guts that I would have.