[CBQ] re: Dutch Drop

["andrewkoetz" <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>]

Another old practice in the steam era was to "pole" a car onto the main from a 
siding. If one looks at pictures of steam engines at the front or on the back 
of the tender. You will see 2 concave pieces ( for lack of the proper term) 
(They could have been called pole pockets?) one on each of the bottom corners 
of the tender and the front of the locomoive. These were also used and banned 
for the same reason as the Dutch Drop. Only the heafty piece of lumber would 
become splinters with a possible crewman recieving the splinters forcefully.



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