November 05, 2009 10:26PM
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I have my father's photo of a flying switch through a 3-way stub switch on the standard gauge Virginia & Truckee in Carson City, Nevada, one day after Memorial Day Weekend 1949. The car being switched is a caboose which was dropped from the rear end of the only combine (a wooden one) the line still had. The combine was sufficient to serve as a caboose for the steam powered freight train headed from Carson City to Minden. The photo shows the rolling caboose with a man at the brakewheel, the moving combine, and the 3 way stub switch.
I was standing beside my father at the time and he & I climbed on board the rear platform of the combine as it rolled past us. We were the only passengers to Minden.
The switch had to have been able to align easily and quickly or there would have been quite a derailment just in front of us.
Hart Corbett
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