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Runaround capability seems to be exactly the point. I looked at the switchback photos of the Peruvian railways shown in Farrington's book, and sure enough, they've got the same arrangement shown on Stampede Pass. Not just a pair of side-by-side stub-ended spurs at the tail tracks, but double ended sidings that have one of their turnouts beyond the fouling point of the "switchback" turnout. I suspect this was done to make runaround moves easier, if they ever were required. A pair of spurs can permit 2 trains to meet or pass on another without difficulty, but a runaround on such a trackage arrangement just ain't gonna happen without engines on both ends of the cut of cars to be run around.
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