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Re: Track Question
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:26:32 GMT
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:13:50 GMT, "Larry Pieniazek"
<lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
<snip>
> > It's like poleing, which is NOT illegal,
> > in spite of what some people think-it's just frowned on.
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> I'll take that action... I believe it's against the rules in most railroad
> rulebooks which is the closest to illegal you can get. Since most switchers
> no longer carry polehooks or poles, it's fairly moot. (I think a lot of
> modern cars don't even *have* poling pockets but I could be wrong).
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> ++Lar
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> > James
I did a quick search of my NS rulebooks and I couldn't find anything
against poleing. Although I'm sure since we don't carry poles, and
like Larry said, most newer cars don't have the pockets, it really
dosen't matter. I'm sure if poleing isn't mentioned by name as being
illegal, you'd have to break other rules to accomplish it. Chains,
carried by most of our units, work pretty well to do the same thing
over a short distance BTW. Or so I've heard...
This subject came up at work awhile back, and out of the 5 or so
people in the discussion, most with over 30 years on the RR, only one
person had actually seen poleing done.
Jeff Christner
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