[CBQ] Emergency Waycars

[qutlx1@aol.com]

John you have brought to mind a situation related to all waycars, at all crew change points. I'll use what I experienced to describe.

 

Once pool waycars came into being, the old process of having your occupied waycar tacked onto the back of a stopped train by the yard engine, went away. Now you stood at track side while watching your train pass by and then swining onto the rear platform at "slow" speed with grip in hand.

 

Looking back 35-40 years (am I really that old ?!) I can't imagine today standing next to a rolling train on uneven ballast at the Milw xing on the west end of Savanna yard, in the dead of night,with no yard lighting,and nothing but a latern for illumination, swinging aboard a waycar !  Not to mention that the Condr on the other side might well be in his 60s ! We did this 365 days a year,rain or shine,snow,ice,blowing wind,etc,etc,etc.

 

And no one got killed or cut up ?!

 

Leo

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