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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Modelcar</i> <br /><br />....What am I missing.....Didn't it used to be against operations {regulations}, to push a passenger train....and wasn't that the practice before that was a regulation....Simply pushing several passenger cars with the engineer in the pushing engine...?? And then when push / pull operation came along were regulations changed to permit that to happen.....I can remember wondering how that was being done legally.... <br />I realize passenger trains were pushed upgrade with an engine{s}, on front too such as up around Horseshoe, etc....but I'm speaking of the condition I mention above. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I don't recal any regulations that prohibite the pushing of passenger trains. In fact at St Louis Union Station, arriving passenger trains were all shoved into the depot. The proceedure required the brakeman to operate a "tail hose" or "monkey tail" to acctuate the air brake functions. The conductor would also be present on the hind end to oversee this. There was a brake test proceedure as well. The brakeman would signal 3 on the air signal. Then another 3, andthe back up would commence. This was also done on some branch lines. <br /> <br />Mitch
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