Clark, Sorry for the late response, I am catching up on old mail.
When I viewed this clip, I asked myself if I?was the only one to?observe what I just saw and had to respond. I believe the clip is showing something that constitutes a bit more than "shunting".? If I am not mistaken, this appears to be a flying switch?around an entire train!? I have seen circa 1950's historical footage of a flying switch being done to place a caboose on a siding, but this is the first time I recall seeing a flying switch on an entire?heavilly loaded?train done from what appears to be a siding?off a main line. Not only that, I do not ever recall seeing a locomotive after executing a flying switch, back up and couple onto the rear of the moving train on the fly.??Note - this is a heavily loaded train, continuing to move down the main line?and the entire thing is controlled with nothing but hand brakes.? In the US, I believe such a situation only occurred in the 1800's. It is one thing to miss a flying switch and derail a caboose.? Can you imagine the mess created if the switch is fowled by a rock?? Where would the crew of the stopped?locomotive run to get out of the way of the big pile-up (assuming the siding is open ended and of limited length)? Did I miss something here or is this really circa 1800's railroading being done today? Tom Burns -----Original Message----- From: Clark Lord <[email protected]> To: Small Scale Live Steam List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:40 am Subject: [SSLiveSteam] Shunting Steam in China Steam is alive and well in parts of China This video was taken last week. www.livesteaming.com/uploads/Video/xingyangclip03.wmv Clark Merry Christmas to all. _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20090123/63c4e14c/attachment.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
