12-06-2014, 04:19 PM
In the town I grew up in there was a warehouse that received boxcars on a pretty regular basis. They would normally run 2 engines double ended but there were a few times they would run both engines in the front. When they ran both together in the front, it was a pretty insane operation. They would uncouple from the cars to be delivered, reverse into the siding and couple to the empty cars, gun it forward then uncouple from those cars, go through the switch, throw the switch and gun it in reverse again, once cleared from the switch they would throw it again and let the boxcars coast through it then couple to them. They would then couple to the cars to be delivered and spot them on the siding. I found some photos of this siding, it's the first 20 photos. Also they often used 6 axle power. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThumbs.aspx?id=92176">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThu ... x?id=92176</a><!-- m -->