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In response to Doggy's post regarding the length of the freight trains on the sidetrack at Vaughan: <br /> <br />Casey Jones was aware that there were two freights on the sidetrack that were too long for the length of track. He was given orders to "saw by" the freights at Vaughan. That meant he would have to carefully run the train down the main line as one freight "sawed" south onto the main. When the southbound New Orleans Special cleared the north end of the switch, the southbound freight would have backed onto the main, permitting the northbound freight to "saw" north onto the switch. That would have cleared the mainline for the NOS. However, an air hose broke on one of the freights before any "sawing" could be done. When the NOS came around the curve just north of the Vaughan station, the fouled mainline was blocked from Casey Jones' view by the 382's boiler. I imagine the torpedos went off and Sim Webb spotted the caboose markers about the same time.
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