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Wabash and Jackflash, if I told you what exactly went on, I would be lying. All that I know is that the helpers would attach to our crew, tone dial into (our Fred freq, thats what I was told), we would do a set and release, and away we would go. I never worked a helper on the Powder river, I won't see that for about 20 years, so I cannot tell you the nuts and bolts of it. I do know for a fact that it is called helper link and we would cut off on the fly. The helper crew would radio us on the head end and tell us that they were cut off. They never physically cut in air, went between or disconnected fred, we still showed pressure at the rear. Sorry guys, I wi***hat I could tell you more. <br />Ken
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