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Thanks Jimmy, this helps some of us modelers or others who are just curious
about history, who have never worked for the railroad.

Your question about "where would the crew ride" without a caboose is
helpful because I would not have thought of that.
Some of Jim C's questions are interesting to me as generalities to
understand the hows and whys of how things worked.

Mike Rector

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

>
> On 12/4/2025 8:19 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> > However, Grant's information suggests that the run pulled past the
> > trailing points turnout and then backed the empties into the holding
> > track.  What was the motivation for this?  Hauling a caboose around
> > through all these gyrations would have seemingly meant additional
> > moves to drop it off and pick it back up, so I am assuming (and yes, I
> > know what assuming can do) that these runs were cabooseless.
>
> Jim,
> First, the trains were not cabooseless! Where would the crew ride?
> Second, these crews have been switching out these plants for years and
> they know how best to do it! Trust me, they are not going to do it the
> hard way! What we don't know is everything that is on their list that
> needs to be done AND what the physical situation of cars left over in
> the tracks may be. Not knowing any of this, it is inconceivable to guess
> just how a plant needs to be switched on any given day. Sure, there is a
> basic system of working each place, but, that can easily change
> depending on what other work needs to be done.
>
> Jimmy Lisle
>
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