RE: (erielack) Pushers

["Gripp, William \[NCSUS\]" <"WGRIPP_@_NCSUS.JNJ.COM">]

I heard that the PA law was relative to the tonnage of the train.  Trains
above a specified weight had to have the pushers cut in front of the
caboose.  This was the result of cabooses being collapsed by pushers of very
heavy trains.

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	From:  "VSX9000_@_aol.com" [SMTP:VSX9000@aol.com]
	Sent:  Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:49 PM
	To:  "erielack_@_internexus.net"
	Subject:  (erielack) Pushers

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

	<< 
	 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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