Rob Leese posted:For Gregg,
We would come out with everything including our HOLD cars. In our scenario there are hold cars that could be left inside, but we would bring them out to catch our kick cars. The real Lawton warehouse was just under 1000' feet long and each track inside held 16 fifty-footers. And we didn't want to make noisy joints inside the warehouse or have cars drifting where we could not see.
There are many questions left unanswered when I post these things. In the previous puzzle Big Jim alluded to the allowance of continuous shoving on a track to make multiple joints and call it 1 move (that is what we would have done as long as it was safe).
If anyone has an old switch list, please do us a service and scan it in.
Hey Rob thanks for the update.... I was never a believer in moving cars that didn't have to be moved but your explanation covers it.
Talking about switching.... Did you ever work a job that only the conductor would actually see the list... everything was done with hand signal and both brakeman were usually kept in the dark.
On the other hand 2 good brakeman could make a Conductors job the "life of Riley" All he had to do was the paper work and flag the odd crossing...It's fun thinking about it now.
