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(erielack) Pushers

In a message dated 1/25/00 11:32:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
"RAILDATA_@_aol.com" writes:

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 By Pennsylvania law  only 3500 locomotive horsepower  could be used on 
 pushers behind a caboose. Over that limit require placing the caboose behind 
 the pusher engines. 
  
The above would explain why when I watched the E-L cut off pushers at 
Tobyhanna,
sometimes the caboose was in front of the pushers, sometimes in back.
One time I saw them cut the pushers on the fly. (pretty cool!)
I also (THINK) I saw a train w/ caboose on the end of the train and one after 
the pushers too.

Lou

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