I agree with Leo, Savanna yd. was ideal to switch cars. They'd roll nicely down
to a respectable joint and stay where you left 'em.
Also, Savanna yd. was the easiest yard in which to get your switch engine at
the wrong end of. Whatever a road crew needed done to their train the standard
response was always "yeah, we'll get to it as soon as we can get the engine
over there, it's blocked in XX track right now", or words to that effect. It
always took so long to get help that the road crew usually made the move(s)
themselves just to get out of town.
The only times I can recall the switch engine being immediately available is
when the Yardmaster needed it to shove your underpowered, overweight rear end
out of HIS yd. You'd get shoved just far enough to get your waycar out of Yd.
Limits so you would no longer be shown as delayed in the yard. Doubling into
Burke was "road delay".
"Smoke 'em down the westbound kid". Ah, for the good ol' days.
BTW, those little lights on the front ends of locomotives are Classification
lights. The light(s) on the last car of a train is (are) marker(s). This would
also apply to the rear unit of a light engine but a dim headlight is usually
used to serve the purpose of marking the rear of a complete train.
Karl
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