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Leo It was even more scarey for some one to do that that was not a train crew but a dispatcher on a road trip. Aurora was not bad as you were on a platform but other places it was Ballast. But most crew changes were done on the fly with only a couple minutes stops at best. Even the engineers telling the outbound how the motors were running. Steve in SC From: "qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, January 24, 2013 8:08:57 PM Subject: [CBQ] Emergency Waycars
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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