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Avondaleguy, I have been told a story from somewhere that if an engineer happened to fall asleep waiting on a long hold signal the conductor in the caboose sometimes resorted to opening the train's air system in the Caboose causing a "Big Hole" that usually woke the Locomotive's crew in short order. It is my understanding that the Conductor was in charge of the entire train from the caboose and the Loco's crew just had to worry about firing the boiler and keeping on schedule etc. I suspect that on shorter trains they may simply have walked back and forth across the tops of the cars for coffee etc. (I am guessing on this one folks) Lee
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