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Re: Does anybody even remember what kicking and dropping are?
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 06-29-2017 - 20:00
>A drop is a drop. A "Dutch" gives you a little pucker factor, getting away, over the switch and then going the other way before the cars catch up.
As I said, "dutch drop" isn't a strictly defined term. I never really heard the old heads in SF use it very much; jackass, yes, dutch, no.
>I think a lot of yards still Ace & Duce cuts if there are enough people in the field. Like the East end of Bayshore.
How hard you kicked them depended on which track they were going into and whether the tide was in or out. Ace and deuce? Is that all? Usually the pin puller didn't pull the pin until given a pin sign from the foreman or field man (Visitation had power operated switches, so the field man was never out in the field). You've never let 15 loaded rock cars go (gently) -- really made the ground shake when they made the joint.
As I said, "dutch drop" isn't a strictly defined term. I never really heard the old heads in SF use it very much; jackass, yes, dutch, no.
>I think a lot of yards still Ace & Duce cuts if there are enough people in the field. Like the East end of Bayshore.
How hard you kicked them depended on which track they were going into and whether the tide was in or out. Ace and deuce? Is that all? Usually the pin puller didn't pull the pin until given a pin sign from the foreman or field man (Visitation had power operated switches, so the field man was never out in the field). You've never let 15 loaded rock cars go (gently) -- really made the ground shake when they made the joint.
