Re: (erielack) Flying Switch, Need of a Translation.

[Dlw1el2_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 2/13/2006 8:15:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
robertgillis_@_verizon.net writes:

And lets  not forget Poling where a locomotive on an adjacent track 
pushed a car  with a pole.  The dimples on  the end beam of a car or  
locomotive were for the pole.  Prohibited many years ago.

bob  gillis



Bob
 
Not to proud to admit that poling was done many of time by myself and  others 
crews over the years but, only after flys & drops didn't go  exactly as 
wanted.   Say a car stopped rolling just before it gets in  the clear, and now your 
engine is trapped or the main is fouled.   Now  you start SCAVAGING  for 
anything that won't turn into tooth picks  instantaneously, which most things 
would.  That old metal ring around the  end of the wooden poles was there for a 
very good reason.  :)
 
Bob Bahrs


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