Old 97
Hogger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vd-cEcJCJk&feature=related
The video is under 5 minutes. Pretty neat to see.
The video is under 5 minutes. Pretty neat to see.
Boy that's some tight switching. I foresee ladders being snagged on a bunch of layouts as people attempt to duplicate it on their home pikes.
The engineer needed to tell his brakeman to 'lean to the right'.
Not sure on the commodity of the cars, but customers often specify cars to be spotted in certain order, so there was most likely a need to do that "close clearance" move. With today's railroading rules, leaving cars "foul" is forbidden.