RE: [CBQ] Helpers on Arenzville Hill

[GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com>]

Electric train staff was in use between Block 107 (between Hagener and 
Arenzville) and Concord from about 1912 to 1929, and the block instrument at 
Block 107 was equipped with a pusher staff attachment in addition to the 
regular staff machine.  The pusher staff was a separate staff from the ones 
used between Block 107 and Concord in regular service and could only be 
replaced in the pusher staff case at Block 107.  Whenever pushers would help a 
train into the block between Block 107 and Concord, its engineman would obtain 
the pusher staff from the operator at Block 107.  After cutting off from the 
train, and until the pusher returned to Block 107, possession of the pusher 
staff would hold the block as long as it was out of the pusher staff case, just 
like a regular staff would, until turned in at Block 107 by the engineman of 
the pusher, immediately upon his return there, so as the release the block 
promptly.
 
Glen Haug





                                          

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