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Thanks for the tips, CSX and Ed. If anything I've been playing it safe I usually end up a little short of a coupling and have to give the engineer another set of trucks, but it's better than slamming them together. Oh well, I have time to become comfortable. Speaking of bypassed knuckles, I saw one of the most crazy things. One of the yard jobs I was on, we were kicking cars into the yard from the lead and we let two go towards 1 track. Well, they stopped almost right away, so we knew there was a hand brake on one of the cars. My conductor walks up and takes the handbrake off, then instead of coupling again he just pushes the whole drawbar over. Then he gets the engine moving again and just shoves them in like that! I was a little taken back by that move, and I would definitely call it the king of "don't do as I do" moves.[}:)]
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