Pumping up the air!

[Brakie]

Why walk when you can ride? Now days, I probably couldn't get my foot up on the stirrup! But I was young and full of (fill in the blank) and thought nothing of it.

I tell students all the time while we dink around at 2mph while they preceede the move "Wheels are round, feet are flat. Why are you walking??" You can't get ran over by your train if you're safely riding the end of the cut.

For me it was second nature to swing on and off cars as we was switching.Heck,I even closed and locked a switch and ran to catch the caboose.Of course there was times when we had to walk ahead of our train when switching a industry..There was 2 reasons to do that-first there may be close clearances and secondly to insure there was nothing sitting to close to the track.