Tom, As late as the 1970's, we would make a "fly by" of our entire train...a local freight, on the Lehigh Valley RR, where I was an engineer. Without a passing siding, it was the only way to run around our train to head back in the other direction. You would drop the cars by on the "main" as you had to depend on brakemen riding the cars to tie them down with hand brakes. The engine would run into a siding, as it could stop quickly. And....this was all done without radios as the LVRR never had radio equipped engines. I imagine this happens even more now, because there are no cabin cars left, so you can't shove a train without making the flagman hang on the side of a car! Keith
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sslivesteam- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 5:09 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SSLiveSteam] Shunting Steam in China > > 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 _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
