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I'm only a conductor with a limited experience, but the hoses you speak on connect locomotices together so that one locomtive can be switched to a leader and control the other locomotives it hooks up to. The hoses are used to allow the leader to control the braking on the trailing consist. There are three hoses on each side and as long as three of the six are hooked together it's all that is needed. There are numbers right above the hoses 1 through 3 on each side. As long as 1 hooks to 1 on another locomotive and so on, everything's ok. So, you may see two hoses hooked together on one side and one on the other, or in most cases the three hoses are all hooked together on the same side, it's just easier that way when you M.U. loco's. That's about all I know, as I have done this only about once, so hopefully someone else can jump in and finish what i started...... like CSXengineer!!
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