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Very carefully, that's for sure. I'm not a RR employee but that I know :-) <br /> <br />If you think it's dangerous now, think about how it was before they had <br />Westinghouse air-brakes, and the brakemen had to climb on top of <br />the cars, in all kinds of weather, while the train was in motion, to turn <br />the hand-brakes in order to get the train slowed sufficiently so it could <br />stop. They had to walk across the roofs of the cars. It was common <br />to consider a brakeman who'd LIVED more than two years on the job <br />as pretty darn lucky.
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