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Re: Does anybody even remember what kicking and dropping are?
Author: theconductor
Date: 06-29-2017 - 21:34
Nudge Wrote:
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> 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.
>
> I think a lot of yards still Ace & Duce cuts if
> there are enough people in the field. Like the
> East end of Bayshore. You just gave the pin puller
> a pin, no kick and the car went all by itself. At
> Brooklyn at the west end you would pull out a cut
> and sometimes had to put a little kick to them
> before you were stopped.
>
> I know I may have mentioned a drop at the Dairy
> switch on the east end of Brooklyn one night. I
> was stuck on a the midnight goat and an extra
> conductor/Foreman asked me how we got cars into
> the dairy. (They were behind the engine.) Well,
> its up hill on the main and then downhill into the
> spur. I told him we dropped them in but needed a
> little extra poop because of the grade. So.....,
> we backed up, he gave me a kick sign, and then a
> pin and a highball. I figured he knew what he was
> doing making a drop. Well, it turned out he didn't
> tell the other two guys on the ground so nobody
> rode a brake. Well, when they went over the switch
> and down to the cars that were there, there was
> load bang and a lot of dust. About an hour later
> the TM told us to go and tie up. Early quit. They
> didn't get the cars back on the rail until noon.
> You know, 2 nights later, we went on the ground at
> the diamond where the first jack pot happened and
> another early quit. This rated the Superintendent.
> He asked me what happened and I told him, just
> following signs.
>
>
> Nudge
I spotted the dairy countless times. Never did a drop though. Once drops were no longer allowed, we ran around the cars before leaving Brooklyn or at the PEP interchange.
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> 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.
>
> I think a lot of yards still Ace & Duce cuts if
> there are enough people in the field. Like the
> East end of Bayshore. You just gave the pin puller
> a pin, no kick and the car went all by itself. At
> Brooklyn at the west end you would pull out a cut
> and sometimes had to put a little kick to them
> before you were stopped.
>
> I know I may have mentioned a drop at the Dairy
> switch on the east end of Brooklyn one night. I
> was stuck on a the midnight goat and an extra
> conductor/Foreman asked me how we got cars into
> the dairy. (They were behind the engine.) Well,
> its up hill on the main and then downhill into the
> spur. I told him we dropped them in but needed a
> little extra poop because of the grade. So.....,
> we backed up, he gave me a kick sign, and then a
> pin and a highball. I figured he knew what he was
> doing making a drop. Well, it turned out he didn't
> tell the other two guys on the ground so nobody
> rode a brake. Well, when they went over the switch
> and down to the cars that were there, there was
> load bang and a lot of dust. About an hour later
> the TM told us to go and tie up. Early quit. They
> didn't get the cars back on the rail until noon.
> You know, 2 nights later, we went on the ground at
> the diamond where the first jack pot happened and
> another early quit. This rated the Superintendent.
> He asked me what happened and I told him, just
> following signs.
>
>
> Nudge
I spotted the dairy countless times. Never did a drop though. Once drops were no longer allowed, we ran around the cars before leaving Brooklyn or at the PEP interchange.
