Pumping up the air!

[Charlie B]

It is not a violation to bleed cars on the main or outside of yard limits, you are not allowed to cross a crossing without air. Many times crews will bleed air and drop a car in a siding or kick cars from the main to a siding, you just have to make sure you have something tied down to kick into. Turning cars loose with nothing to stop them can really cause some problems. I saw a conductor (an old timer) do this once, I have no idea what he was thinking. He was lucky it stopped after about a mile.
Charlie