QUOTE: Originally posted by joesap1 In the November issue of TRAINS there is an article about an unnamed railroad taking on a new shipping assignment of some pressed logs. I understood the gist of the article, but some of the railroad terms left me befuddled. What is a "junk train?" I don't have the article in front of me, but the reference to two types of switches in the story also left me confused. Can anyone explain the railroad venacular in this very informative piece?
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QUOTE: Is one of the dangerous ways to put a car into a facing-point switch where they get the car and locomotive up to a relatively high speed, uncouple the car, keep the locomotive accelerating, and switch the turnout between the time the locomotive passes and the car passes? Was this what was refered to as "dropping" a car?
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