09-25-2009, 12:44 PM
Thought I'd start in this new forum with some questions I hadn't really given too much thought to in the past, concerning caboose/cabin/hack/etc. operating rules.
For example.....with a helper on the "back end" is the caboose always pulled, or is it pushed some times, and is there a precedent for when push or pull is preferred, and used ???
Is "pushing" only done with steel cabooses, or were wood cabooses also pushed?
How about the case where the train has two cabooses, one behind the lead engine, and one at the rear of the train? ( C&O mainline wayfreight did this, a backing move would be the equivalent of a helper pushing on the caboose )
For example.....with a helper on the "back end" is the caboose always pulled, or is it pushed some times, and is there a precedent for when push or pull is preferred, and used ???
Is "pushing" only done with steel cabooses, or were wood cabooses also pushed?
How about the case where the train has two cabooses, one behind the lead engine, and one at the rear of the train? ( C&O mainline wayfreight did this, a backing move would be the equivalent of a helper pushing on the caboose )
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The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!