Re: [CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher

["William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>]

Reportedly NKP GP35 910 Built in June 1964 was the last factory 
delivered locomotive with poling pockets.
My part was pestering Craig Walker of Rapido for Phase I 44 tonners and 
CB&Q 9103 when the Rapido road show visited the main train shop in town 
in March 2024.
Bill Hirt

On 10/27/2025 2:38 PM, Jonathan Harris via groups.io wrote:
> Got mine a couple weeks ago, and yes it's a beautiful model and a 
> much-needed and appreciated addition to the HO CB&Q roster.
> As for the practice of poling, well . . . it may have been banned in 
> the '60s, but such bans were honored in the breach, as I saw it done 
> on a shortline in 1967.  My hunch is that Class I railroad crews kept 
> doing it too sometimes, when they thought they could get away with it.
> Also during the (earlier part of the) 1960s, I tried it out on our 
> high-school model railroad club, using an appropriately shortened 
> round toothpick. It may have been illegal, but it worked great.

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