Yes, Jerry. Those are a later rendition of the steps we dealt with. The new ones in your picture from the D&S are wood. I remember that the steps we had to deal with on the C&TS were steel, and thus much heavier. You couldn’t just release them and let them drop— you had to carefully let the chain out and slowly lower the steps. If you let them simply drop the steps would quickly drop with a bang. You were likely to injure someone below, snap the chain or loosen the mounts on the car.— all bad. You also had to make sure the passengers didn’t try to lower the steps themselves. I remember having to “discourage” several from doing so.
Bill M.