by gp9rm4108
We ride joints on locomotives all the time. Riding a car to a joint is stupid and it hurts if you are going faster than you think you are.
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gp9rm4108 wrote:We ride joints on locomotives all the time. Riding a car to a joint is stupid and it hurts if you are going faster than you think you are.If it's going that fast, something is wrong. If you think you are going to be hurt, in the impending "controlled collision", just drop off, and turn away. Maybe you gotta stop him sooner, dismount, then finish the hook. That's a rule now, on most properties, for the very reason you mentioned.
wis bang wrote:I used to watch Hercules Cement from the truck yard. There would e strings of empty cement hopper cars spotted by one end of the plant. Guy used to walk up w/ a crowbar and make them roll, one at a time into the loading silo and after loading roll on to join the loaded cars at the other end of the plant. one man walking w/ one crowbar.Poor man's pinch bar. Used to be standard equipment along with a brake club on a local. Dutchman, too!